Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Suggestions for Actionable Improvements Strengthen communication: Use tools like shared calendars and group chats to keep everyone informed. Originally published at [link]. Timeline delays: Review any planning or execution delays and their impact on the eventssuccess. Clay is an owner and partner at Big Fundraising Ideas.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Do you publish a regular newsletter? Download your free 2025 Fundraising Calendar for the tools and strategies to see your mission through any crisis! Impact & stewardship Make 2025 the year of focusing on the thank+report part of your fundraising systems. Potential major donors? How will your nonprofit stay abreast of trends?

AI

Big Fundraising Ideas

JANUARY 21, 2025

Create and market items like team calendars featuring player photos, workout guides curated by coaches, or recipe e-books with contributions from theteam. Through a combination of virtual events, such as live-streamed games with donation links and selling digital team calendars, they raised $15,000. Originally published at [link].

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

The report, published by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy and GivingTuesday , aggregates data from a dozen donor databases, providing estimates that account for late data. Total giving grew 3.6% year over year.

Retail

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Plan NextSteps Review your schools fundraising calendar for the upcoming semester or year. Originally published at [link]. A sponsor might say, We were pleased with how the school featured our brand during their fall festival. The positive community response encouraged us to partner with themagain.

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Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

Share on the calendar, assign event teams, and stay aware of signups and attendance. The simple to use, customizable event builder allows you to create, publish, and share events exactly how you want — no coding or tech savvy required. Google Calendar Best for: Integrating with Google Suite 25.

Software

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: March 2, 2022 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top Want to go from Rejected to Accepted? Look no further! ​In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you 9 reasons your grants are getting rejected, and how to fix them.

Instrumentl

Wild Apricot

JUNE 24, 2025

When someone signs up, they will automatically receive a confirmation email with details, followed by a calendar invite or prep materials. You can plan out a week or month of content, set it to publish at the right times and track which posts get the most engagement.

CRM

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Fall events capture back-to-school excitement, winter allows for holiday-themed gatherings, spring brings fresh starts and outdoor opportunities, and summer is great for fairs and sports events-plan according to your school calendar and local community interests. Originally published at [link].

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Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Mark your calendars! By the end of this course, you will be able to design and publish dynamic communications that capture attention and deliver your message effectively. Finally, they will review the ways to publish these auto-refreshing reporting tools to the online PowerBI portal for distribution to members of the school community.

Education

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: September 8, 2021 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you how to simplify, streamline, and support your team. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

Pamela Grow

MARCH 10, 2021

How often should you publish? Create a communications calendar for the year, one that includes the dates for your fundraising appeals, your monthly giving asks, your annual report, print newsletters, and more. Download our Annual Fundraising & Marketing Calendar to stay on top of important dates. Consistency.

Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In this webinar, Frank will show you how to use all the features of Wild Apricot to publish and promote your events, including Adding new events Capping event registrations Customizing the event registration form Setting up event pricing Multiple Event Calendars Customizing confirmation emails Working Event Attendee.( read more ).

Management

GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While #GivingTuesday and end-of-year appeals might feel far away, the busiest time of the giving calendar is just around the corner. Donors are paying attention, and many are looking at their spending for the rest of the calendar year. Now is the time to finalize your strategy, make your plans, and create your messaging templates.

Calendar

Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Tools for Scheduling and Publishing Posts. Buffer is a publishing tool that lets you schedule and analyze your social media posts. Loomly is another publishing tool that lets you draft and schedule social media posts. Hootsuite offers drafting, scheduling, and publishing of social media posts. Sprout Social. No problem!

Media

CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

Building Out Your Content Calendar Consistency is the bedrock of successful social media outreach, and a well-planned fundraising calendar is the key to achieving it. Maria’s content calendar template. Start with a Year Overview One of the best tips Maria provides is to break your calendar down into a year overview.

Media

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Don’t let this term scare you.

Media

Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many organizations publish a calendar of events open to the public on their websites, social channels, or in their newsletters. Candid publishes RFPs as a free service for U.S.-based Make sure to personalize all your communications and interact with their content in a genuine way. Was there something I did wrong in my proposal?”

Proposal

CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. Here’s an example of what a year-end fundraising communications calendar can look like before Dec 1: Want this template to create your own year-end fundraising plan?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

Maybe you can now easily share files and calendars with Office 365, or you use web conferencing software to collaborate across multiple locations. The winning stories will be published on the TechSoup blog. Whatever it is, we want to know about it! Click Here to Share Your Story! Why Should You Share Your Story? For More Details.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

Many organizations publish a calendar of events on their websites, social channels, or in their newsletters. Attend funders’ conferences and special events for nonprofits Another fantastic way to connect with nonprofit funders is to attend public events they host.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So, consider creating a communications calendar from GivingTuesday through December 31 st and using email, snail mail, social media, telephone calls, and even SMS messages to connect with donors and remind them to give. Engage all your stakeholders during the year-end giving season.

Fundraising

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

You publish a regular newsletter? Impact & stewardship Make 2024 the year of focusing on the “thank+report” part of your fundraising systems. Consider how you can reach out personally to include your supporters as the partners they are. Potential major donors?

AI

GrantNews

JULY 10, 2024

The website also boasts GrantNews , and fresh, engaging articles publish every day. Stay Organized and Meet Deadlines Use a calendar to track milestones. Utilize Available Resources GrantWatch offers various tools like 990 reports, upcoming grants, and a grants calendar to aid your grant-seeking efforts.

Grant Writing

Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Include your ad campaigns in your content calendar to maximize their return on investment. With all the details ironed out, all that’s left is to upload your image or video with your text copy and publish your Facebook Ad. Before you publish any ads, establish your budget for Facebook Ads.

Demographics

Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Their findings were published in the Fall 2020 Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, showing a gap in available information as well as initial research indicating more than three in four grant professionals experience physical symptoms, socio-emotional symptoms, or both, of burnout. However, sometimes it is a great fit.

Burnout

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

It secures funding for children’s services and programs, influences policy at the local and state level, helps families get services, and collects and publishes data on the health, safety and well-being of Solano County children. The database system also maintains security and confidentiality of clients.

Management

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Do you publish a regular newsletter? Download your free 2025 Fundraising Calendar for the tools and strategies to see your mission through any crisis! Impact & stewardship Make 2025 the year of focusing on the thank+report part of your fundraising systems. Potential major donors? If you want change, be the change.

AI

Candid

JANUARY 3, 2024

Calendar year Let’s start with the easy one. The calendar year is the one you’re used to thinking about, the one your Outlook and Google calendars use. It starts on January 1 and ends on December 31 (assuming a Gregorian calendar). The majority of nonprofits (64%) align their fiscal year with the calendar year.

IT

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

TechSoup has partnered with the British newspaper, The Guardian , to co-publish an in-depth Technology for Good. Each has a somewhat different roster of publishers lists. Free on iOS) app breathes new life into the stale concept of a mobile calendar. This alone makes it a standout from the sea of other calendar apps out there.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

This strategy helps educate them that you have a lot on tap already and that you won’t be dropping everything to sell poinsettias, publish a cookbook, enter a national contest, or write a letter to a celebrity asking for money (or whatever else they’ve come up with). Another way to structure a plan is in a calendar format.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Calendar API integration: $2000. This blog post was originally published on Elevated Third's blog. Managing and reconciling event information across all website platforms can be cumbersome and require tons of time by a content manager. Staff cost: $40/hour. Manual ticketing effort for event: 120 hours. Saving $1,200 every year?

Indirect

Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

" One resource is the State of Grantseeking™ Report that GrantStation publishes every six months. Over the next few weeks, GrantStation will publish detailed reports based on these variations, and will add them to TrendTrack for free download as soon as they are ready. Mark your calendar now for May 16 and 17 (next week!).

Grantstation

Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

However, there are some alternative calendar tools. You can also block out appointments in Google Calendar itself. It was originally published on the Charity Digital News blog. Nonprofits can also access Gmail for Business through Google for Nonprofits , or Outlook 365 through Office 365 Nonprofit. We all miss Sunrise!

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 15, 2020

Last week, I was anxious and sad so I opened up a few spots on my calendar to talk to readers. My fellow newsletter creator, Andrew Kamphey , who publishes the fabulous Influence Weekly , is launching a new newsletter on Substack. Request to join the 'Read With Purpose' Facebook group here. It was so inspiring I want to do it again!

Calendar

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

From the time we added this topic to our content calendar to the time of publishing, COVID-19 case numbers began to steadily increase as the holidays approached, which gave us a clear answer to the question in this blog’s title: Yes. Virtual fundraising is still needed.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

events of the calendar, Silicon Valley style. In June, the Stanford Social Innovation Review published a two-part piece by TechSoup Global Founder and Chief Instigator, Daniel Ben-Horin. I had a chance this week to preside over TechSoup’s booth at the latest Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP) in San Francisco.

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