CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

Picture this: a sunny day, a beautifully manicured golf course, and a group of enthusiastic golfers ready to tee offall while raising funds to support your nonprofit’s mission. Establish a Budget and Pricing Strategy Money matters. Sounds pretty great, right? These small games can up the ante and add up to big dollars.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds.

Donation

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. According to Jitasa , grant management is an ongoing process that begins before funding is even secured.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Quantify results: Use metrics like satisfaction scores, participation rates, and budget comparisons to identify patterns. Cost efficiency: Analyze the return on investment (ROI) by dividing net profit by total expenses, which helps determine how effectively funds were utilized. contributed most significantly to the totalrevenue.

Fundraising

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Determining the auction budget. To set an accurate budget for this event, assess past event budgets for similar experiences. To set an accurate budget for this event, assess past event budgets for similar experiences. Let’s say your auction will fund increased educational opportunities for students in need.

Procurement

Community Boost

JUNE 27, 2025

You don’t raise more funds just by looking at a dashboard. You raise more funds when you know when to: Follow up with a lapsed donor Thank someone who just gave for the first time Reconnect with a recurring donor who missed a gift The challenge? That’s what leads to more retained donors , more giving, and less burnout for your team.

Burnout

NonProfit PRO

JULY 21, 2025

Despite widespread concerns for potential federal budget cuts and funding instability, 63% of nonprofit professionals remain optimistic about their organizations future. This opens the door to competitive differentiation for those who are willing to invest in a proactive approach to retaining individual donors. rail-container).hide();

Retail

Blackbaud

APRIL 28, 2025

Higher education institutions today face mounting pressures to attract and retain students in an increasingly competitive landscape. With shrinking budgets and growing demands for accountability, schools must find innovative ways to support their students while achieving institutional goals.

Award

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

However, in organizations with operating budgets of $5 million or more, the salary gap between the executives and their staffs widens as organizational size increases. Workforce Retention Reflects Sector Commitment Despite funding and staffing challenges, the fundraising workforce remains resilient. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The bill aims to ameliorate the complex nature of the grant application process, as well as the lack of transparency and accountability around funding decision processes, which are currently opaque at best. The GREAT Act requires that federal grant recipients establish and use data standards for information reported to funding agencies.

Federal Grants

Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 22, 2025

They provide essential funds for extracurricular activities , classroom supplies, technology upgrades, and facility improvements. The Role of Fundraising inSchools Public schools often face budget constraints in the USA, making fundraisers critical for bridging financial gaps. Read-a-Thons: Encourage literacy while raising funds.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Well discuss what activities work well in fall, winter, spring, and summer, plus ways to keep funds rolling all year. Impact: Reuses uniforms, saves parents money, and contributes to school funds in a simple, eco-friendly way. Families pay for admission, and your school retains some ticketsales.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

The federal grant funding update for Q2 2025 reveals intensified volatility across the nonprofit landscape. As courts continue to challenge aggressive federal funding cutbacks from the Trump administration, nonprofit organizations are grappling with cascading operational disruptions and financial instability.

Federal Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 3, 2022

At our most recent Grant Writing Made Easy workshop, we did a deep dive into nonprofit program budgets. Of all the topics I teach inside the course, the budget is the one that students have the most anxiety and confusion around. (By Revenue: All the funding coming in that you’re allocating to the program.

Budget

Blackbaud

APRIL 10, 2024

You know how important it is to manage your funds according to their purpose and source. Or do you have to rely on manual workarounds, spreadsheets, and guesswork to track and report on your restricted funds? Without fund accounting software, tracking at that level of detail must be done manually outside the system.

Funding

Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

And a budget for it. Retain staff. Make it a practice to routinely scope out new sources of foundation funding. One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. Important: Invest in donor stewardship and reliable data. Include new donor acquisition in your plan.

Letter Of Inquiry

Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 29, 2024

Let’s explore some forward-thinking and (perhaps surprisingly) accessible ways for small nonprofits to drive sustained success and reduce the need for constant cost-cutting and budget anxiety. Key types of non-cash gifts that should be on nonprofits’ radar include: Grants from donor-advised funds (DAFs). Gifts of stock.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? Look at it this way: If you’re not spending at least 15% of your budget on fundraising, you may be standing in the way of your own success. You may find yourself spending money on the tech tools.

Fundraising

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Other categories could include donors who contributed to fundraising events, funded a specific project or program, or contributed to a capital campaign. Ask them to create video snippets that address each donor by name and reference the specific fund, campaign, or event they’ve contributed to.

Nonprofit

GiveSmart

MARCH 21, 2024

If you’re planning a fundraiser, you’ll need a good budget. A fundraising budget plan is essential to maximizing your profit margins and collecting more funds for your cause. Large, lavish in-person events will naturally need bigger budgets than intimate ones or virtual or hybrid events.

Budget

Pamela Grow

APRIL 29, 2023

The struggle to retain donors is widespread, with the lowest recorded donor retention rate at 42.6%. After all, unrestricted funding is what enables leaders to lead best. Sustainer programs provide predictable cash flow that helps with budgeting and planning for the future. Aim to be your donor’s favorite charity.

Nonprofit

Grant Writer Team

OCTOBER 26, 2023

However, do you know the A to Z grant terminology needed to convince a prospective donor to fund your project over some other worthy cause? Budget: Be clear in advance. There MUST be a budget for writing your grant proposal. Stay within that budget. This award letter includes the funding amount and terms and conditions.

Grant

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

We’ll start by discussing the “why” of these changes, why the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decided to make them now, and how they align with larger changes happening in the federal government. As overhead and administrative costs grow, organizations often scramble to find ways to recoup this funding. Plus, there’s more….

UEI

Qgiv

MARCH 19, 2024

Donor recognition is one of the best ways to help you retain your donors, but a simple thank-you letter may not always feel like enough. There are many donor appreciation event ideas that you can take advantage of no matter what your budget is. Here are some ideas for small, medium, and large budgets. Exclusive access.

Budget

Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grant funding is an essential part of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. While many nonprofits rely on grant funding for a significant portion of revenue, how nonprofits fill their grant writing needs varies significantly from organization to organization. Read our article to learn more. Can you hire a seasonal grant writer?

Grant

Candid

AUGUST 5, 2024

Many nonprofit organizations believe market research is beyond their reach due to lack of staff, budget, and time. But without the solid data market research can provide, nonprofits may make decisions based on assumptions that lead to misaligned strategies and missed opportunities for retaining donors and volunteers and attracting new ones.

Demographics

Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely on outside funding to operate. This funding can come in the form of donations, federal dollars, private funders, gifts, fundraising events, and grants. Gone are the days when organizations could rely on private donations for consistent, sufficient funding. We recently won a $1.5 million grant.

Consulting

Grant Writer Team

JUNE 20, 2024

It’s important to note that grant funds cannot be used to pay the grant writer, so you must cover this expense upfront before submitting the proposal. If a grant writer proposes to write the grant in exchange for a percentage of the grant funds, you should avoid them immediately. Is there a Retainer?

Grant

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As your finance team is preparing for year-end, with prepping reports and making sure your budget is on track, your donor development and fundraising teams are hard at work, too. Segment Your Donors Organizations are only retaining about four out of 10 donors annually. Don’t miss these tips for ending the year strong.

Finance

Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

If the mission of your nonprofit addresses race, health, or wealth disparities, you likely need additional funding to meet increased demand. One way to get more funding is to start or grow your major gifts program to channel resources toward an equitable recovery for all. So, what can we do to close these gaps? Show gratitude.

CRM

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

If your nonprofit is already up and running, a nonprofit business plan helps you decide if the funding and opportunities for growth exist for your new or young nonprofit. Listing previous successes and accomplishments in this section can be convincing for potential partners and reassure them that you will use their funding efficiently.

Nonprofit

amplifi

JULY 25, 2024

Varying your outreach is critical to growing relationships with donors and retaining them over time. If your appeals and other communications contain anything about meeting your budget, you have some work ahead of you. So, telling them that your annual fund is 20 percent behind last year isn’t going to inspire giving.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Recurring giving is the secret weapon of online fundraising because it helps you retain more donors and raise more money over time. This giving strategy is a great way to retain donors. It’s easy for donors to set up, easy for you to manage and it’s a great way to plan your budget.

Retainer

Grant Writing Made Easy

APRIL 23, 2023

Calculate how much you are making per hour for different clients, especially if you are working on a flat rate or retainer that isn’t based on an hourly rate. If you find that you are not making enough, consider raising your prices or reducing the number of grants you write for the same monthly/quarterly retainer rate.

Grant Writing

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In her previous role as Foundation Manager for the VRMC Foundation, she managed the annual giving programs, assisted and oversaw the annual budget and marketing plans, and managed a major gift donor portfolio of over 150 donors. If not, it’s time to strategize how you’ll retain year-end donors for the long term. What’s your next move?

Retainer

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After all, many nonprofits and charities raise upwards of 30% or more of their annual operating budget during these few short months. Retains Existing Donors Thanking donors is actually an excellent donor retention strategy. If you have a small budget, consider a digital donor wall. Don’t ask them for donations.

Award

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Budget for expenses.

Fundraising