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8 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising With a CRM for Nonprofits

CauseVox

JUNE 3, 2025

But heres the good news: a CRM for nonprofits (Customer Relationship Management system) isnt just a digital rolodex, its a dynamic tool designed to help you build, nurture, and grow relationships with your supporters. From personalized communication to campaign insights and automation, your CRM can help you raise more and stress less.

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CRM Fundraising Nonprofit Management

There’s a Crisis in Nonprofit Fundraising — And It’s Time We Faced It Head-On

Pamela Grow

MAY 29, 2025

Weve all seen it: mid-level roles that expect CDO-level strategy, major gifts portfolios, team management, event planning, marketing knowledge, and oh, can you also design a new CRM integration before Friday? The Real Cost of Burnout This isn’t just about poor retention. No wonder people are leaving in droves.

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IT Fundraising Burnout Nonprofit

Donor Segmentation: What It Is, And Why It Matters

CauseVox

JUNE 24, 2025

That means more support, more donations, and less burnout for your donors (and you!) Your CRM or email platform probably allows tagging or filtering lists. That’s where a nonprofit CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system becomes essential. Visualize and manage every stage of your donor pipelines with CauseVox’s CRM.

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IT CRM Burnout Donation

Donor Segmentation: What It Is, And Why It Matters

CauseVox

JUNE 23, 2025

That means more support, more donations, and less burnout for your donors (and you!) Your CRM or email platform probably allows tagging or filtering lists. That’s where a nonprofit CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system becomes essential. Visualize and manage every stage of your donor pipelines with CauseVox’s CRM.

IT

IT CRM Burnout Donation

How to Turn Donor Data Into Clear Next Steps (Not Another Dashboard)

Community Boost

JUNE 27, 2025

If you’ve ever opened a CRM or spreadsheet and been met with a wall of charts, graphs, and stats, only to walk away still wondering what exactly you should do today , you’re not alone. Most donor management systems are great at reporting. Your nonprofit doesn’t need another dashboard. You need clarity. You need direction.

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Burnout CRM Retainer Metrics

5 Accounting Workflows Your Nonprofit Can Begin Automating Today

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

Avoid burnout with more time to focus on meaningful work According to the 2024 Accounts Payable Career Satisfaction report by the Institute of Finance Management (IOFM), 78% of Accounts Payable professionals believe that automation will have a positive long-term impact on their role. It’s streamlined, efficient, and hassle-free.

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Finance AI Software Nonprofit

10 Tips for Managing Crisis Volunteers in Natural Disasters

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you don’t have a volunteer management strategy in place, an influx of self-deployed crisis volunteers can increase rather than reduce the chaos. 10 Tips for Managing Crisis Volunteers Before the next crisis, put these volunteer management strategies in motion so you can help your helpers meet your community’s needs.

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Adopting a New CRM? 4 Change Management Tips for Small Nonprofits

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How can my scrappy smaller organization, with all the tasks my team is already juggling, adopt a new fundraising CRM and learn to use it with the least amount of disruption?” The short answer: change management. What Is Change Management? What don’t they know? When that happens, the change might not be adopted.

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CRM Management Nonprofit Software

5 Ways to Level Up Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Program

The Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the challenges of managing a robust volunteer program. From hurdles like volunteer recruitment and burnout to all too common mistakes like disorganized training, its not easy to run an effective program, even if you have the best intentions. Invest in volunteer management software.

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Software CRM Training Management

Are You Still Saying, “There Has to Be a Better Way?” in Your Finance Operations?

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

This often forces people to skip breaks and sacrifice work–life balance, leading straight to burnout. Integration Gaps When your CRM, fundraising, and operations systems don’t feed directly into the general ledger , you’re forced to play data ferryman. One sick day or vacation can send the whole office into a spin.

Finance

Finance Burnout CRM Training

Volunteer Management & Retention Best Practices for Nonprofits

Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. Having a successful volunteer management strategy will help you increase your volunteer retention rate, which ultimately creates more efficient volunteer staff.

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Management Retainer Nonprofit Training

Four Staff Recruitment Strategies to Decrease Nonprofit Turnover

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. For example, a nonprofit looking to hire a volunteer manager might list 2-5 years of leadership experience in addition to a certain amount of hours spent volunteering and an undergraduate degree. Necessary experience.

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Nonprofit Retainer Training Burnout

Four Staff Recruitment Strategies to Decrease Nonprofit Turnover

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. For example, a nonprofit looking to hire a volunteer manager might list 2-5 years of leadership experience in addition to a certain amount of hours spent volunteering and an undergraduate degree. Necessary experience.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Retainer Training Burnout

Leveraging AI in Major Gift Fundraising: A Game-Changer in Philanthropy

Blackbaud

MARCH 11, 2024

The Benefits of AI to Major Gift Fundraisers Fundraising is an industry that faces high stress and burnout. AI tools help minimize those tasks by prioritizing and identifying donors, drafting email communications, and syncing data to your CRM. You don’t want to be copying and pasting information from another tool to your CRM.

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AI Fundraising CRM Template

How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. Technology adoption: More nonprofits are using technology to manage their operations , communicate with their stakeholders, and deliver their services. Limit mid-cycle reporting to a phone call with the program manager.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Simple, streamlined fundraising Donor management Reduce your stress and raise more money. Learn more Innovative fundraising and donor data management Go beyond a CRM Don’t just store contact information: Manage large quantities of data and make it actionable through powerful visualization, pipeline capabilities, and more.

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Fundraising CRM Software Management

5 Ways to Level Up Your Volunteer Program

The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the challenges of managing a robust volunteer program. Hurdles like volunteer recruitment , volunteer burnout, and disorganized training can make your program less effective. Invest in volunteer management software. Invest in volunteer management software.

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8 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising With a CRM for Nonprofits

There’s a Crisis in Nonprofit Fundraising — And It’s Time We Faced It Head-On

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