75: What Drives Nonprofit Giving? Insider Tips to Optimize Your Fundraising - Interview with Tim Kachuriak, NextAfter

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What drives people to give? And what stops people from giving?

That's what Tim Kachuriak and his team at NextAfter have made their mission to discover. 

They've put a nonprofit spin on behavioral science by turning the nonprofit donation landscape into their research lab, and it's fascinating.

Since fundraising is one of the biggest efforts in nonprofit work, I sat down with Tim to find out his top tips to help you optimize your fundraising.

Key Takeaways:

• How Tim learned to leverage his network and get comfortable talking to people
• Invite people to be a part of the cause
• How they run experiments, conduct mystery donor studies, and map the journey from the donor's perspective
• What motivates people to give
• Tactical and strategic tips for emails and creating your unique value proposition
• 4-part framework: Appeal, Exclusivity, Credibility, Clarity
• Speak the donor's language, not your organization-speak

Two Types of Research:

1. Forensic research - The team collects large amounts of data to look for patterns
2. Applied research - The live samples are treated as a lab to figure out what works

Related Resources:

• Nonprofit Innovation & Optimization Summit
• The Brainy Business Podcast with Melina Palmer
• Book: Neuro Web Design: What Makes them Click?

Meet Tim Kachuriak: Tim Kachuriak is the founder and Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer for NextAfter, a fundraising research lab and consulting firm that works with businesses, nonprofits, and NGOs to help them grow their resource capacity.   A nonprofit thought leader, Kachuriak is the author of the book Optimize Your Fundraising, lead researcher and co-author of the Online Fundraising Scorecard, Why Should I Give to You? (The Nonprofit Value Proposition Index Study), and The Midlevel Donor Crisis.    Kachuriak has trained organizations in fundraising optimization around the world and is a frequent speaker at international nonprofit conferences. Connect with Tim:

• Website: NextAfter
• Twitter: twitter.com/NextAfter

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