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If you’re looking to boost donor engagement, improve fundraising results, and build more meaningful donor relationships, you’re in the right place. At Nonprofit Mensa, we help hospital foundations and healthcare nonprofits create donor messaging that drives action, increases retention, and grows revenue.

This blog is your tactical playbook for hospital fundraising campaigns, nonprofit donor retention strategies, and donor engagement tactics that are already working at hospital foundations across the country.

New Donor Retention Trends Show Urgent Need to Engage Small Donors

Start rebuilding your small-donor pipeline now to stop the steady trickle that’s draining your donor base. That's the top recommendation from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project's Q1 2025 Quarterly Fundraising Report, which tracks year-over-year donor retention trends.

Economic Downturn? Time to Double Down on Donor Stewardship

Budget cuts are coming. But cutting donor stewardship could be the costliest mistake your development team makes.

4 Donor Survey Questions That Reveal Hidden Opportunities

Which donors are ready to give more? Use these questions to uncover major gift prospects and get strategies to engage them before the busy year-end fundraising season gets underway.

How to Turn Golf Tournament Attendees into Loyal Donors

Golf tournament attendees are high-value donor prospects. Learn how to cultivate and engage them effectively with this donor strategy guide from Nonprofit Mensa.

Avoid These 7 Mistakes When Writing Donor Thank-You Emails

90% of donors say that a thank-you letter influences whether they’ll give again. So why do so many healthcare nonprofits use automated receipts or generic email templates to thank donors?

Donor Stewardship: Use Storytelling to Show Donor Impact

Learn how to turn generic donor impact statements into short, compelling stories that help donors visualize their impact.

26 Ways to Engage Gen Z Donors

Twentysomethings prefer donating through Apple Pay, Venmo, and other digital methods, love to receive snail mail, and are ready to share your mission with hundreds, or even thousands, of friends on TikTok and Instagram. Here's how to engage them.

The Latest Donor Retention Trends Make the Case for Stewardship

Although donor retention is slipping and most first-time givers never come back, the latest FEP data reveal where to focus your efforts. Organizations that act now, before more healthcare donors fade away, can stabilize donor retention, rebuild momentum, and grow nonprofit revenue.

How to Lose a Donor in 10 Days

With a nod to the classic Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey rom-com, here’s a rundown of how healthcare nonprofit foundations unwittingly drive donors away and how to avoid making the same mistakes.

What Baby Photos Can Teach Us About Donor Engagement

We unpacked a behavioral psychology experiment and what it reveals about donor behavior. If you're struggling to boost donor engagement and retention, this strategy belongs in your toolkit.

See How Top-Performing Hospitals Engage
Mid-Level Donors
April 28, 2025

We poured through a huge stack of articles, white papers, and case studies to build the ultimate list of proven strategies that help healthcare foundations turn mid-level givers into loyal donors. Here's what sets the winners apart.

Here's Your 90-Day Grateful Patient Donor Engagement Strategy

This step-by-step outreach plan helps your healthcare nonprofit increase donor engagement and drive first-time giving through proven grateful patient fundraising strategies.

One Sentence That Can Transform Your Donor Engagement Strategy

April 14, 2025

See how a simple behavioral science technique in fundraising can transform donor messaging from dry and generic to powerful stories that build emotional connection, inspire loyalty, and increase giving.

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