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Does Your Fundraising Strategy Include These 4 Key Factors?

Let’s take a minute to consider your fundraising strategy. Is your nonprofit struggling to meet your fundraising goals? Are you struggling to stay relevant in an increasingly digital world, or maybe wondering how to develop your donor relationships in a world that’s increasingly cluttered with communications?

You’re not alone! Each year, nonprofits need to re-evaluate their fundraising strategy…

Selecting a CMS for Your Nonprofit Website: 5 Considerations

As a nonprofit, much of your focus revolves around fundraising. After all, you can’t successfully run your programs and work toward your mission without sufficient funds.

Your nonprofit website is a key component in this process. Without an effective fundraising website, you won’t bring in nearly as many donations as you could.

Choosing the right content management system (CMS) for your website…

How Running Shoes Can Help Nonprofits Meet Fundraising Goals

Nonprofits often need to be creative with their approaches to fundraising, which means finding new but proven revenue-generating strategies. Believe it or not, athletic shoes may be just the right unique twist your organization needs!

Fundraising is vital for all organizations, so take a creative approach to generate any and all revenue possibilities. Ready to find out how athletic footwear can…

Make Your A-Thon Fundraiser Pop: 6 Creative Twists

If you’ve spent any significant amount of time fundraising, there’s a high chance you’ve encountered the walk-a-thon fundraiser. A staple for nonprofit and educational organizations alike, these fundraisers are easy, fun, and effective.

Walk-a-thons are a subset of a larger fundraising type, the event-a-thon. These fundraisers pair a physical event with digital fundraising methodsto empower…

Major Fundraising Campaigns: A Complete Guide to Get Started

Planning a major fundraising campaign, whether a capital campaign or your year-end giving campaign, can be an overwhelming process.

From setting goals to thoroughly examining your current fundraising processes, planning for one of these campaigns takes time and careful consideration. And, that’s before considering what’s trending in fundraising, which could certainly affect your strategy.

If you…

How to Develop Your Donor Relationships: 4 Best Practices

If you help run a nonprofit or another charitable organization, you know how important your donors are. Donors are not only essential to drive specific campaigns to success, but for general support as well. Having active, positive relationships with your donors ensures you have a better chance of bringing awareness to your nonprofit’s mission and gather resources in order to help your community.

Sample Fundraising Letter for Your #GivingTuesday Appeal

Following is a sample donation request letter (ideal for email) for raising funds on #GivingTuesday. Feel free to copy it and modify it for your fundraising needs. For any other use, please contact us. (More fundraising letters and templates…)

This sample fundraising request is for raising funds on #GivingTuesday for a food bank from a student, but can be easily modified to your specific needs.

How Mobile Bidding Can Benefit Your Next Charity Auction

Mobile bidding is a paperless bidding method that allows auction guests to bid directly from their phones, making giving easy and raising more revenue for your cause. But it’s more than just an easy bidding process—mobile bidding can streamline your entire event from start to finish.

Mobile bidding is growing in popularity and an increasing number of companies are offering it. Philanthropic…

Sample Fundraising Letter for Medical Expenses

Following is a sample fundraising letter to be used for raising funds for medical expenses. You can use this appeal for direct or email requests, but also for any of the online fundraising sites. (See most popular fundraising sites and services here.)

Feel free to copy, modify and paste as needed. For any other use please contact us.

Also read Maintaining Respect and Compassion When Raising Funds…

The Plastics Crisis: What It Is and What Your Organization Can Do About It

The plastics crisis is an environmental disaster that affects us all, and we all should be pitching in to do something about it! The problem is plastic is so ubiquitous that we do not think about how much we are using. And resultantly, how much we are wasting.

Tomorrow, wake up and actively count how many plastic things you use in a day. How many water bottles? How many containers of food are you…

Digital Fundraising Strategies For Your Next Fundraiser

Integrating digital fundraising strategies is crucial for just about any fundraiser when it comes to streamlining any part of the fundraising process, including marketing and uncovering new opportunities.

When you’re working to take your organization’s fundraiser to the next level, remind your team of some key strategies for planning digital campaigns:

Streamline your nonprofit’s fundraising tech.

Cause Awareness Days, Months and Weeks for 2020

Are you ready to plan for the upcoming fundraising year? Check out the list of awareness dates and holidays to make sure you don’t miss any fundraising opportunities!

Most global cause awareness days and months stay the same in 2020, as they were in 2019. We found a few new ones to add to the list though! Check out the bold bullets for some fresh ideas.

And we added in some weeks this time…

Streamline Your Volunteer Management: 6 Registration Tips

Managing your volunteers comes with several challenges. You need to keep track of who’s doing what, assign appropriate projects to the right people, and monitor several other moving parts. Part of  your volunteer management is also about making sure your staff and your volunteers are in alignment. This can make your volunteer management process a bit difficult to navigate.

However, at the core of…

Top 4 Traits to Look for When Hiring a Fundraiser

Hiring a fundraiser is hard work. It’s probably the most difficult position to fill in your organization, even more than a Director sometimes! Good fundraisers have similar traits, however. The subject has been researched by a number of scholars and professionals. As a fundraiser myself, I can confirm that these studies are very accurate and self identify with many of these traits. Yet new…

Where to Look for Fundraiser Professional Support

Fundraising professionals are generally the most in need of professional support within the nonprofit team. But, with hard pressed budgets and pushes from donors to spend their money directly on programs, they are often the least likely to get support.

If you are a nonprofit executive, think about ensuring that just a bit of  budget money goes to professional support for your fundraisers. If you…

6 Tricks to Find the Right Donor Prospects (or New Prospects) for Your Cause

Finding the right donor prospects is probably harder than actually asking for donations! You have a wonderful, unique project. Everyone else in your field is getting grants and donations (it seems).

But you have searched and searched, and you just cannot find the right donors or grants. The time has come to breathe, reset, and try some new tricks. Here are a few tips to refocus and find the right…

How Viral Videos Have Changed the Way Nonprofits Reach People

Can a viral campaign make a positive influence on your nonprofit organization? By understanding how viral videos operate, you will be better equipped to decide if they are the right marketing product for your group.

Have you heard of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge? The popular YouTube sensation hit social media in 2014 and raised over 1150 million dollars for charity. That level of interest in…