The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 17, 2025

Utilize Budgeting Tools: Consider using budgeting templates or software designed for nonprofits. Leverage Volunteer Management Tools : Use software to organize volunteer schedules, track progress, and communicate effectively. These tools can help you track expenses, identify cost-saving opportunities, and stay within budget.

Budget

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Working with your program and development teams, your finance staff identifies funding gaps, supplies important budget numbers, sets up projects in your accounting software, establishes spending approvals, and creates reporting schedules. Here are the key roles for your finance office throughout the government grant lifecycle.

Government

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Send Regular Communications: Consider creating a donor stewardship calendar to map out regular touchpoints, such as newsletters, mission updates, and impact stories. Track these metrics using your nonprofit constituent relationship management system (CRM) and fundraising software.

Metrics

Blackbaud

JANUARY 10, 2025

In addition to crafting the Investment Policy Statement and Spending Policy, the Investment Committee should set a fiduciary calendar, so everyone knows when to expect updates on investments, reviews of operating reserves , and similar topics.

Award

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

Wild Apricot

JULY 16, 2025

Set a weekly reminder on your calendar to hold you accountable and ensure it’s a part of your marketing maintenance. Start by registering for WildApricot’s 60-day free trial – and learn how to save time and boost donations with our all-in one membership management software.

Media

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

Customer/Client Relationship Management software was developed in the for-profit world. This is because when you use CRM software: Youre Not Guessing When you start using data to drive your fundraising, youll do less guessing about what your donors care about, and which fundraising techniques will work. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

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. Design software (e.g.,

Fundraising

DoJiggy

APRIL 8, 2025

DoJiggys auction software makes running an online auction easy and free. Team Calendar Sale Create and sell a team calendar featuring action shots, player spotlights, and upcoming game schedules. Items like private coaching sessions, curated gift baskets, and restaurant gift cards can generate high bids.

Fundraising

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Customer/Client Relationship Management software was developed in the for-profit world. This is because when you use CRM software: Youre Not Guessing When you start using data to drive your fundraising, youll do less guessing about what your donors care about, and which fundraising techniques will work. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

In other words, the very constituents most nonprofits court through email acquisition, social media campaigns and peer-to-peer events departed in large numbers during the first quarter — an issue that researchers noted is common at the onset of each calendar year. year over year. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

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. These are the kinds of events I remember and mark my calendar for every year. Ready to Raise More?

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

In other words, these are folks who are potentially good fit funders for you to shortlist and start thinking about your six to 12-month relationship building strategy as you are starting to build out the empty spots near grants calendar where you may have more opportunities to build longer term relationships.

Instrumentl

GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

Book a 1:1 Meeting with GiveSmart at AFP ICON in Seattle Momentive Software staff are thrilled to meet you at AFP Exchange. The unmatched networking opportunities with peers, industry leaders, and vendor partners are reason enough to add this event in the Emerald City to your calendar. Hearing from NASA astronaut Jos M.

Federal Grants

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. That’s right when folks are facing the financial demands of the holiday travel, gift and entertainment season. Bannon hopes urgency will spur donations.

Pass-Through

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Mark your calendars! 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? bbcon is coming to Philadelphia October 6–8! How do you set your team up for success?

Education

GiveSmart

APRIL 1, 2025

Many of these ideas could be committee-run or added to your existing fundraising calendar. Calendar Calendars are one of the most straightforward annual fundraising event ideas your organization can implement, even with a small budget. Tip 3 out of 4 people who receive promotional calendars remember the message or mission.

Fundraising

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?

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. Maintaining a spreadsheet or using simple accounting software is a good start.

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

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. And then I also linked to my Google calendar to make sure that I have the reminders and the timelines and everything set up.

Instrumentl

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We had our own in-house donor base software program that was actually ahead of its time and worked well for us. But it was becoming obsolete with software limitations. When I first met you, we were putting out an 8 page newsletter twice a year as our primary fundraising.

Donation

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. Great governance powers great missions," said Jeff Middlesworth, CEO of Boardable. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Government

Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

August may be “Make a Will Month,” but let’s be honest—your legacy deserves more than a single square on the calendar. That’s why we’re turning it into Make a Will Year. Because planning your future shouldn’t be seasonal. It should be intentional, personal, and lasting. Usage rights granted to all nonprofits.

Template

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Fundraising Calendar for 2021. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template. Download your fundraising calendar + goals template below: Fundraising Plan & Goals Worksheet.

Calendar

AmpliFund

APRIL 30, 2024

I also highly recommend you view the recording where I take you into our software and explain each section in further detail. Here are 3 ways grant management software supports compliance: 1. You check your email, sort through spreadsheets, rifle through Word documents, but no luck. Sounds pretty scary (and way too familiar), right?

Grant Management Software

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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. Luckily, there are many nonprofit software solutions designed to meet the unique needs of your organization and help keep you and your staff from getting overwhelmed!

Software

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. Are there budget requirements?

Software

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

Blackbaud

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. It provides the ultimate tool to bring all your school software into one system and allows everything to talk to each other. Stale” calendars or no calendars? “No

Calendar

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 7, 2023

With critical funding and a need to boost your services, the time to onboard innovative, effective case management software is now. Explore a calendar that gives you a roadmap for implementing our technology.

Calendar

Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

But at Idealware , we’ve noticed that very little has been said about how software can fit into and support a nonprofit’s program evaluation strategy. With the launch of our new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , we hope to start that conversation in earnest. So what did we find?

Software

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2009

This week, we decided to revisit an older article, Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Website. Idealware's excellent report on the big four open-source CMSes (Drupal, Plone, Wordpress, and Joomla) noted that only Plone offers a calendar function out-of-the-box, but the other three support additional calendar modules.

Calendar

Qgiv

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here are 5 reasons why you should keep virtual fundraising events on your calendar: . Yet, having a virtual event on calendar, you’re able to secure vendors and create video conference lines in a matter of minutes. 10 Types of Fundraising Event Software for Virtual Events. Check out these additional resources: .

Calendar

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 3, 2023

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

Fundraising

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