Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Grant writing is a critical component of nonprofit fundraising, but it often comes with its own set of challenges. Solution To manage time constraints effectively: Develop a Grant Calendar : Create a detailed calendar with deadlines, submission requirements, and timelines for each grant application. Meeting Deadlines 6.1

Grant Writing

GrantNews

JUNE 12, 2025

Then, categorize expenses by program, admin, and fundraising to show how funds are directly supporting your cause. Investing in grant databases, donor management software, or a grant writer can create a higher return by building time for your team to focus on mission-critical tasks. Utilize budgeting tools to monitor spending patterns.

Funding

Big Fundraising Ideas

JANUARY 21, 2025

Winning Online Fundraising Strategies for High School Basketball Teams Blog Summary: The article highlights online fundraising strategies for high school basketball teams, focusing on social media campaigns, crowdfunding, virtual events, and selling digital products.

Fundraising

DoJiggy

APRIL 8, 2025

Lacrosse teams rely on fundraising to cover the costs of equipment, travel, uniforms, tournament fees, and other expenses. Whether youre part of a school team, a youth league, or a lacrosse club, organizing a lacrosse fundraiser can make a significant financial impact while bringing your community together.

Fundraising

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

Daily Habit Implementation Ideas : Block 15 minutes on your calendar every morning Keep a running list of potential legacy donors to contact Set a goal of one personal outreach per day Create a simple “planned giving dashboard” to track progress This mental shift will organically increase your results over time.

Policy

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Retail

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Implementing fund accounting software with subfund capabilities can help your team avoid common nonprofit audit mistakes by streamlining grants management, documentation management, and other key processes. Financial software can help you with automations, audit trails, document management, and more to streamline this process.

Finance

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Primary School Fundraising Ideas: A Seasonal and Year-Round Guide Blog Summary: Looking for fun ways to raise money for your primary school throughout the year? Youll get practical tips, references to helpful resources, and fresh ideas to maximize your primary school fundraising ideas.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JUNE 11, 2025

In this post, I’d like to share what I have learned about successful races as both a participant and as a product marketer for Blackbaud, whose fundraising software is used by hundreds of running events across the country. In a recent survey, Blackbaud asked event participants, “Why didn’t you fundraise?”

Fundraising

GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

From April 27 to April 29, thousands of fundraisers from around the globe are following the road to Seattle for Elevating Impact: Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) ICON 2025. 1:1 Time with Fundraising Experts Where to Find GiveSmart by Momentive at AFP Icon Visit our fundraising experts at AFP EXCHANGE Booth #910.

Federal Grants

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. So one of the things you can do when you are on your Instrumentl account is set up a very specific project for the programs and initiatives that you're fundraising for. instrumentl.com/teresa. Will: Yeah. All right, so mistake number five is biting off more than you can chew.

Instrumentl

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This year, GivingTuesday, which is held the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, will be on the latest possible calendar date — December 3. It has impacted fundraising over the last couple of years. That’s right when folks are facing the financial demands of the holiday travel, gift and entertainment season.

Pass-Through

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Mark your calendars! with global thought leadership to offer insights into education, fundraising, technology, and more. At bbcon, these schools explore deeper ways to use our software. Or does it seem like they were built by software engineers with no input from people with real-world school accounting experience?

Education

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I have been the primary fundraiser for our organization for the last 30 years. I have no training in marketing or fundraising. My goal in taking your classes was to be a better fundraiser for sure. When I first met you, we were putting out an 8 page newsletter twice a year as our primary fundraising. That is key.

Donation

Wild Apricot

JUNE 24, 2025

Marketing automation is a way to handle repetitive marketing tasks using software. When someone signs up, they will automatically receive a confirmation email with details, followed by a calendar invite or prep materials. What Is Marketing Automation? Integration makes everything run smoother.

CRM

GiveSmart

APRIL 1, 2025

No matter a nonprofits yearly fundraising budget, organizations recently shared that events make up nearly half of their annual revenue. 1 With grant funding under threat and siege , many organizations acknowledge increasing revenue streams via fundraising events will be necessary to maintain programs and support missions.

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. For years, I have used a Google spreadsheet and a calendar, and that works fine as long as I don't have too many complicated projects coming and going. That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This guide covers what you need to know to expertly manage volunteers through the following sections: Volunteer management: FAQs Volunteer management best practices How volunteer management software can help Volunteer management: FAQs What is volunteer management? You can also create a volunteer management calendar to help you stay organized.

Management

NonProfit PRO

JULY 28, 2025

Native live streaming, external calendar syncing, and new integrations with Microsoft 365 and Teams further simplify board workflows across dispersed teams. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. window.dfp_npp_interstitial = googletag.defineSlot("/124057991/npp_interstitial", [[640,480]], "napco-ad-npp_interstitial").addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Government

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Need to create your 2021 fundraising plan? Register for the course, “How To Create A Fundraising Plan For 2021” for only $115. “If And as far as fundraising planning goes, your fundraising plans were thrown off. Creating a Fundraising Plan. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting.

Calendar

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

From planning peer-to-peer fundraisers to properly marketing your online campaigns, there’s an endless number of items on your to-do lists. That’s why it’s essential to carefully choose the right software solutions to support your operations–the right tool can drive a high ROI for your fundraising efforts.

Software

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 3, 2023

Your nonprofit probably spends a great deal of time on fundraising. So, how can you raise more dollars without adding yet another campaign or event to the calendar? Let’s look at four effective ways to optimize your fundraising results.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

JANUARY 11, 2024

Strategic Fundraising Calendar: Mapping Out a Successful Year for Your Nonprofit In the dynamic world of nonprofit fundraising, success often hinges on meticulous planning and execution. Enter Greater Giving’s guide on building a Strategic Fundraising Calendar —your key to unlocking a prosperous 2024.

Calendar

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a road map designed to help you raise the money you need to achieve your goals. It doesnt matter if you are running a multi-million dollar nonprofit organization or are a small start-up: the key to financial success is a well-thought-out fundraising plan. What is a Nonprofit Fundraising Plan?

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. out of scope).

Software

Pamela Grow

JULY 24, 2024

When you combine the associated expenses with the costs of operating your organization day-to-day, you determine that you’ll need to add new fundraisers to your calendar to fund all of these initiatives. Fortunately, there is an answer—passive fundraising! What is passive fundraising? Let’s dive in! Thanking participants.

Fundraising

Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2021

Qgiv is ranked as fundraising software with the best results overall among G2 ’s Spring 2021 fundraising technology leaders! Thanks to our clients, we received multiple awards in G2’s fundraising software category. Great platform with even greater service.” “No The interface is great — very intuitive.

Fundraising

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Increasing your nonprofit’s fundraising capacity is essential to compete in today’s fundraising environment. According to the 2024 Digital Fundraising Benchmark Report , new donors acquired online gave 19.4% This shows the value of dedicating more resources to growing your online fundraising efforts. Event fundraising.

Fundraising

Candid

JULY 26, 2022

rent, employee salaries, software licensing, energy bills) compared to the amount dedicated to mission-specific spending (i.e. keeping the lights on”), and invest in fundraising innovations that can result in raising more funding toward the mission. Our first tip is to set your organization up for overall fundraising stability.

Fundraising

Qgiv

AUGUST 26, 2021

Virtual events are here to stay, and for nonprofits that means more opportunities to fundraise without breaking the bank and a sweat. Even though people are looking forward to reconnecting at traditional galas and parties, having a virtual fundraising event in the arsenal certainly doesn’t hurt. Check out these additional resources: .

Calendar

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There are many ways you can use text-to-give to improve your fundraising strategy. Use Text-to-Give in Fundraising Events. Incorporate Text-to-Give in Ambassador Fundraising. For example, if you’re running a virtual fundraising event for shelter animals, you could make your keyword SAVEDOGS. Integrations.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising season is upon us and it’s time to set some big year-end fundraising goals and go after them! We call it Fundraising Season and the key to maximizing your revenue potential during this special time of year is to have and execute a plan. So, what does an integrated year-end fundraising campaign look like?

Fundraising

CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s face it: consistent funding is the lifeblood of nonprofit work – without it, we cannot create the impact we want in our communities; and from individual giving to foundation grants and everything in between, there are so many different ways to go about fundraising.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When you work in fundraising, the last thing you may think you can do is take time off from work. Fundraising has a round-the-clock urgency, the feeling that you always need to be planning the next campaign, sending a report to a funder, or whipping up social media graphics. How Many Days Should a Fundraiser Take Off?

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