Get Fully Funded

APRIL 24, 2025

Donor-advised funds, or DAFs, have been in the news for a while now. DAFs incentivize wealthy donors to give more without creating their own foundations, providing new opportunities for nonprofits to receive large donations. Should your nonprofit still target DAF holders and accept donations from them? of all U.S.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 29, 2025

Blog Summary: The article provides a comprehensive guide for schools looking to raise funds in 2025. In 2025, with the rise of digital tools and creative fundraising strategies, schools have more options than ever to maximize profits while keeping campaigns engaging and hassle-free. According to industry insights, U.S.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By analyzing what worked and what didnt, you can refine your strategies for 2025 to maximize engagement, revenue, and donor retention. Refine Strategies Apply data to optimize your fundraising campaigns for 2025. Average Donation Per Attendee Divide the total revenue by the number of attendees to find the average donation per person.

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Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 30, 2025

You can quickly maximize donations by adopting donor-centric management practices. Additional donations will fund new projects, such as updating ESG compliance, website improvements, and more. Start integrating donor-centric management practices to perpetually increase donations. Meet your fundraising goals for 2025!

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Gail Perry Group

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While the TCJA didnt change charitable giving deduction limits - you could still deduct up to 60% of your adjusted gross income for cash donations - it reduced most tax rates and doubled the standard deduction to $12,000 for individual filers and $24,000 for couples. As 2025 draws near, some of TCJA's provisions are set to expire.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2024

8 Common Donation Page Mistakes (and Simple Solutions!) A poorly designed donation page will make you miss out on supporters’ donations. 8 Common Donation Page Mistakes (and Simple Solutions!) 7 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Build a Strong Financial Foundation in 2025 10. Here are the five steps to get you started!

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Planned Giving

APRIL 29, 2025

When Good Intentions Meet Bad Options A few weeks ago, I was approached by a charity with a donor who, at the end of 2025, had just retired from farming. I offered to help him set up a Charitable Gift Annuity (CGA) funded with 45,000 bushels of corn. per bushel, that translated into approximately $202,000 of funding for the CGA.

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Strategic Grants

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is returning on14 February to 2 March 2025. The 2025 Festival theme Free to be is a celebration of the strides toward true LGBTQIA+ equality while also acting as a global reminder that our fight is far from over, and that we are not truly free until we are all free to be. Find out more.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Nonprofits are always looking to raise more funds and connect with both new and established supporters, all with the goal of advancing their missions. Here are four key steps nonprofits need to take to push their missions forward in 2025. To help nonprofits achieve this, they continue to innovate and evolve.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

Individual donations dropped by 2.4%, with their share of total giving slightly decreasing from 67.4% In contrast, the Giving USA Foundation’s annual report highlights that donations rose to $557.16 Donation Sources: Individuals: Donated $374.4 Corporations: Donated $36.55 Charitable giving in the U.S.

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GiveSmart

OCTOBER 31, 2024

GiveSmart and MIP Fund Accounting received 2025 Buyer’s Choice Awards from TrustRadius. We’re honored that TrustRadius recognized our nonprofit suite of MIP Fund Accounting and GiveSmart,” said Momentive Software Chief Marketing Officer Susan Gilmartin. More and more, nonprofits are seeking out vendors they can trust.

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Grant Writer Team

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A nonprofit’s website established credibility, helps improve its reach, increase donations, and amplify its impact. Users visit a nonprofit’s website to learn their mission, donate to the cause, and/or to learn the virtual volunteering opportunities are offered. However, a website is more than just a digital space.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Nonprofit organizations will need to get serious about fundraising particularly donor retention in 2025. My predictions and recommendations for fundraising in 2025: Predictions AI and Social Media AI In last years predictions post I wrote As AI writing apps proliferate, donor communications will become even worse than they already are.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

Since contributions tend to pour in when hardships hit close to home, appeals for the emergency fund will be immediate. Big Sunday , a service organization based in Los Angeles, provided a list of resources during the wildfires in 2025, including evacuation sites, air quality maps, and insurance tips. Recovery campaigns will follow.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

The real takeaway here is to be able to articulate why the operating reserve fund exists for your organization and clearly understand the purpose, rather than getting hung up on the aggregate number. The more dependable and regular your funding is, the less risk you have and the lower your reserves can be.

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Strategic Grants

JANUARY 27, 2025

Catch up on whats happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SGs busy research team. This approach promotes equity by shifting decision-making power from funders to the communities and individuals with lived experience who will benefit from the funding.

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Grant Writer Team

MAY 1, 2025

Are you ready to leverage grant funding opportunities? However, if you apply a mission-forward strategy to your grant research, you will secure viable funding. Above all, it is key to apply for grants frequently to secure funding. Above all, it is key to apply for grants frequently to secure funding.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 16, 2025

The finance team shoulders immense responsibility to make sure funds are well-stewarded, often while being understaffed and under-resourced. A well-thought-out system can do the following automatically: Track Funding Sources Nonprofits often receive funding from diverse sources , such as grants, donations, sponsorships, and events.

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GrantNews

APRIL 22, 2025

GrantWatch has done the work of gathering a collection of funding opportunities with deadlines in the next 710 days. GrantWatch wants to be part of your success with a special list of over 300 grants and other funding opportunities with deadlines of April 30, 2025. Last Chance April Grants and In-Kind Donations 1.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The donations total came from 12,816 donors, with 9,444 public school teachers benefitting. There are several factors that spur consumer holiday shopping, such as deep discounts or anticipated price hikes in 2025. Early indicators are funds are reaching lofty levels. million via 15,500 donations. As of 3:00 p.m.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. Second, thanks to everyone who joined us last Thursday for our 2025 Social Impact & Partnership Trends webinar. For every shake sold, McDonalds will donate 25 cents to RMHC. Speaking of trends for 2025, is this a new one?

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 11, 2024

Do you feel like you’ve been hearing about donor-advised funds (DAFs) a lot lately? The total amount of donor contributions to DAFs also grew by 9%, meaning that the rising popularity of donor-advised funds is not slowing down. The primary purpose of opening a donor-advised fund is to create an avenue for continuous, life-long giving.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2025

The two largest donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsors in the United States, Fidelity Charitable and DAFGiving360 (formerly Schwab Charitable), both reported 25% year-over-year growth in grant dollars in 2024. DAF donors frequently still end up using a credit card for donations seen as more inspiration-based, time sensitive, or socially driven.

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GrantNews

OCTOBER 23, 2024

For example, nonprofits providing transparent data showing real numbers build trust and create urgency among their supporters, which increases donations. Because of this, donor-centric management is a current nonprofit trend that is sure to carry strongly into 2025. Petitioning For Large Donations – Did you know?

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Candid

APRIL 15, 2025

In terms of subsectors, human services and environmental organizations saw a large percentage of their 2024 online donations at year-end, in response to Hurricane Helene and other natural disasters. According to the report, this is in line with trends over the past decade, including the 2016 and 2020 election cycles.

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Tom Ahern

JANUARY 30, 2025

File under: An "A-level" check list according to AI Top 10 fundraising writing best practices (circa 2025 and remarkably useful) What are the top 10 fundraising writing best practices? Include Social Proof Why: Highlighting peer donations (Join 1,000 others whove given) triggers social conformity. Explain your reasoning. Cite experts."

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CauseVox

JUNE 29, 2022

Your donation page is an essential component of your digital fundraising. It doesn’t matter how many people you get to click through your emails or social media posts; if your donation page doesn’t convert, you won’t see any payoff from that hard work. Sometimes you see donation page examples that makes you swoon.

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HSF House

APRIL 10, 2025

This award serves as a grant that will fund my Honors in the Major Thesis project. With this funding, I will be able to conduct a vignette survey through a highly respected online survey platform, significantly elevating the reliability of my participant pool and data. Ford Undergraduate Research Award for $2,000.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

Our main goal for 2025 at the Shirley-Eustis House Association is to build a broader network of businesses, institutions, and well-connected individuals who know about us and what were doing. Paul Marengo from the The Cherry Fund Securing funding for vital international projects.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are three areas where nonprofits must focus in 2025, based on the latest Fundraising Effectiveness Project data.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2025

After seeing thousands of organizations raise millions of dollars with peer to peer fundraising campaigns, we have put together this quick guide to show you how you can engage with your community to run a winning peer to peer fundraising campaign in 2025. Easy donation form with mobile payments.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

There is a “stick in the ground” to have a single sign-in for the platform by late 2024 or early spring 2025, he said. The firm released an online donation product, along with a CRM and communication tool, in 2014 and unveiled Advanced Accounting in 2016, the same year the firm secured $4 million in Series A funding from San Joaquin Capital.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 2, 2024

And this surge is expected to continue rising, as the same research projects QR code scanners will reach 100 million by 2025. Let’s explore four ways your nonprofit can increase donations by implementing QR codes into its fundraising initiatives. Or, your supporters plan to donate but put it off because your donation form is lengthy.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

If you want to raise enough money to fully fund your programs, you need to use more than one tool. to no kill status by 2025: 2. Good stories show a dramatic difference in the ‘before’ and ‘after,’ and move people to ask questions, make a donation, or get involved. Can a visitor make a donation on my website in 2 clicks?

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

GivingTuesday should be part of a year-round fundraising plan: Try focusing on an untapped group of potential donors or a specific program or project; offer multiple entry points and options for engagement, beyond financial contributions; and promote a monthly giving program that makes it easy for people to set up recurring donations.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Similar to investing in mutual funds, donors can create a giving portfolio of specific cause funds, knowing their contributions go to organizations making a real difference. Each Causeway fund includes a mix of charities using proven strategies, from direct services to policy reform, all chosen for maximum impact.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

Below, we cover everything from different types of fundraising to upcoming trends for 2025. Table of Contents Types of Donations to Meet Fundraising Goals Consideration for Higher Education: Fundraising vs. Advancement What Makes Fundraising So Challenging? Successful organizations often use custom donation forms.

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