CauseVox

JULY 1, 2025

That’s when it hit us: they didn’t need just a fundraising platform, they needed CRM software for nonprofits. While a fundraising platform helps you raise money by hosting donation pages, peer-to-peer campaigns, events, and more, a CRM software for nonprofits helps you manage donor relationships. Sound familiar?

CRM

Blackbaud

APRIL 18, 2025

Maybe this shouldnt come as a surprise: Our post-pandemic world is full of social, governmental, and economic concerns that have an impact on our outreach and fundraising work. Take Sarah, a fundraiser friend of mine who works for a nonprofit that provides critical services to adults with developmental disabilities. Whomp whomp.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

APRIL 24, 2025

Its a normal part of life, work, and fundraising. While some mistakes are unavoidable, there are a few common fundraising pitfalls that we see organizations regularly make. If you can avoid these or adjust the following issues in your current fundraising programs, it will set your programs and your organization up for success.

Fundraising

CauseVox

MARCH 24, 2025

If youre looking for a fresh, fun, and engaging way to raise money for your nonprofit, a challenge fundraiser might be just what you need. Its a simple concept: supporters commit to a challengelike running a certain number of miles, doing daily acts of kindness, or giving up coffee for a monthwhile fundraising for your cause.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 10, 2025

This seamless flow of information is truly incredible, particularly when the data exchange is between finance and fundraising. When you unite your fundraising and finance systems, efficiency is simply the first win of many. And they’re savvy investors. That builds trust. Remember the donor who wanted an accountability summary?

Finance

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

But when that data gets organized into effective fundraising reports, it becomes more than just usable; done right, fundraising reports can be a goldmine of insights that help you raise more, engage smarter, and steward better. Why Fundraising Reports Matter: Turning Data Into Strategy Your data is trying to tell you something.

Utilities

Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2025

If you’re a fundraiser, this might sound familiar: An experienced development team at a mid-sized university foundation is doing everything right to hit their goals for prospect meetings. The Changing Landscape of Donor Engagement The fundraising landscape has transformed dramatically over the past decade. What’s the problem?

Fundraising

CauseVox

APRIL 28, 2025

Start With What (and Who) You Already Have: Peer-to-Peer Fundraising One of the most effectiveand often underutilizedways to find new donors is by tapping into your greatest asset: your existing supporters. Download our free Ultimate Guide to Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: 2. Heres why it works: people give to people.

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Does your nonprofit want to increase engagement with your marketing and fundraising efforts? This guide explores tips to increase both marketing and fundraising qualified lead generation. On the other hand, fundraising-qualified leads have been closely involved with your organization and demonstrated their interest in donating.

Nonprofit

CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

A golf tournament fundraiser is not only a fantastic day out but also a powerful fundraising event that can drive significant donations, strengthen community connections, and build long-lasting partnerships with local businesses. Download the Free Complete Guide to Nonprofit Fundraising Events : 1.

Fundraising

CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

But heres the good news: 2025 can be the perfect year to strengthen your donor retention with clear goals , a well-thought-out fundraising calendar , a killer fundraising campaign and a refined donor retention strategy to help you keep your supporters year-round. Download CauseVoxs Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook: 3.

Retainer

Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Bonus Tip: Explore and incorporate available tools in your fundraising CRM to help track your applications, related actions, contacts, timeline, accounting considerations, and attachments. Bonus Tip: Capture all completed applications and accompanying documentation in both your fundraising and accounting systems as attachments.

Grant

Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

Fine-tune your fundraising efforts to ensure they resonate with supporters. In addition, help grantees strengthen their fundraising strategies. Start with flexible applications that feed directly into your CRM. If your foundation accepts donations, consider how a potential recession may affect donor behavior.

Government

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

If you’ve been in fundraising for a while, you start to recognize the names, the gala captain who always brought friends, the monthly donor who replied to every newsletter, or the runner who raised big because a loved one was helped by your program. Now, here’s where your CRM can do the heavy lifting. Your stomach sinks. 570 have not.

CRM

GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The end of the calendar year is around the corner—the single biggest fundraising opportunity of the year! This guide will show you how to create a year-end fundraising campaign that will effectively reach the hearts and wallets of donors during this spike in end-of-year donations.

Donation

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.

CRM

CauseVox

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A free fundraising platform takes care of all that for you, so you can focus on what matters most: connecting with donors and raising funds. When choosing a platform, its important to consider key features like transaction fees, customization options, and integrations with your CRM or email marketing tools. Ready to get started?

Donation

CauseVox

MAY 22, 2025

Theres a better way and it starts with a nonprofit CRM. Nonprofit CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems are designed to help you organize your supporter data, streamline your fundraising, and build lasting, meaningful relationships with your community. Download the Free Guide Today!

CRM

CauseVox

APRIL 18, 2025

This model of convenience and consistency isn’t just limited to consumer goods; its actually been part of nonprofit fundraising for decades in the form of monthly giving, and it fits right into this subscription culture. And don’t forget to plan your follow-up strategy, utilizing your nonprofits CRM as a tool to keep you on track.

Donation

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

Yet, as fundraisers, we all too often forget to spend the time to make our thank yous count. Download Our Free Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook: 1) Immediate Email Confirmation Let’s start with the lowest hanging fruit. Well Aware posted a video of their fundraising gala thanking attendees and showcasing donors’ impact.

CRM

Bonterra

JULY 9, 2025

In today’s landscape, the most effective organizations use advocacy software that connects fundraising, outreach, and donor data in one place, making it easier to convert one-time advocates into lifelong supporters. Advocacy helps elevate community voices while expanding the reach and impact of your organization.

Lobbying

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.

CRM

Fundly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Whether youre raising money to fund a nonprofit initiative, support students at your school, or cover a personal expense, an online fundraiser can be an effective way to reach your goal. But first, you need to find the right fundraising website to support your campaign. Peer-to-peer fundraising. Event management.

Funding

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Leverage CRM Data for Personalization By using data from your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, you can tailor your impact report to appeal to each of the audience segments you identify. Importing CRM data into a digital report builder, like Storyraise , is simple and quick.

CRM

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

For finance teams in donor-focused and grant-funded organizations, working hand-in-hand with fundraising partners is critical to crafting reports that truly engage and tell a story. Finance and fundraising teams must collaborate closely to ensure data pulled from the CRM aligns with financial records.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

These unrestricted gifts are necessary to pay fundraisers’ salaries, overhead, bills, and the supplies for your tried-and-true programs. How Is Annual Giving Different from Other Fundraising Types? Let’s take a look at annual giving compared to other fundraising types like major gifts or planned gifts.

Donation

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

But is all that time and effort actually improving fundraising outcomes? Many organizations still struggle to turn donor information into actionable insights that lead to smarter, data-driven fundraising success. Your rival school launched a seemingly-successful digital fundraising campaign before the big game. Sound familiar?

Software

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

Planned Events or Milestones Incorporate known or planned activities that could impact your finances, such as a new program launch, a major fundraising campaign, or a necessary repair. It’s especially helpful for organizations facing uncertainties, like variable fundraising results or changes in government policy.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

Grant and Donor Reporting Integrating your fundraising software with your accounting system enables the system to automatically pull relevant data, making it easy for your team to track dollars from start to finish. To automate this process, first evaluate your current CRM software and ensure that it integrates with your accounting software.

Finance

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

While establishing relationships that can lead to planned gifts can take time, there are ways nonprofits can effectively raise more funds through this type of fundraising. Use your CRM to identify loyal, long-term donors, particularly those over the age of 55. Incorporate planned giving into fundraising appeals.

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 10, 2025

Sharing with donors how their gifts contributed to a recent successful fundraising event or helped provide more meals to those in need will go a long way toward continued support—and that all starts with clear reporting in the finance office. Consider another example: A life insurance policy payout as part of a planned legacy gift.

Finance

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. DonorPerfect, project manager, custom CRM with air table. And the last thing I'll go over is just downloading reports. If you want to bring grant prospecting, tracking, and management to one place, we can help you do that. A lot of spreadsheets, monday.com. Keep typing.

Instrumentl

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

Free Resource The Ultimate Guide for Nonprofit CFOs Download now Process Pitfalls that Sabotage Efficiency Even the most brilliant team can’t outpace broken processes. Integration Gaps When your CRM, fundraising, and operations systems don’t feed directly into the general ledger , you’re forced to play data ferryman.

Finance

Blackbaud

APRIL 25, 2024

Choosing a new fundraising CRM is exciting–but also needs careful consideration. If you are unclear about your needs, abilities, and opportunities, you will quickly find it difficult to vet vendors and evaluate CRMs, not to mention bringing internal stakeholders onboard or getting sign-off at key stages.

CRM

Blackbaud

AUGUST 12, 2024

Where does your constituent relationship management software (CRM) fit into that culture? The Power of a CRM-Centric Culture Reflecting on my 20-plus years of working with nonprofit organizations, I can point to one pivotal era that underscored the importance of a CRM-centric culture: the pandemic.

CRM

Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We conducted our annual Status of Fundraising research in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia/New Zealand (ANZ). Digital Maturity A digitally mature nonprofit is one where digital is integrated across all areas, including fundraising, supporter experience, internal processes, and more.

AI

CauseVox

OCTOBER 8, 2024

With this year’s GivingTuesday quickly approaching on Dec 3, 2024 , choosing the right fundraising platform is more important than ever. In this article, we’ll cover the must-have features to look for your GivingTuesday fundraising platform, so you’re set up for success. Minimal Fields: Only ask for what you absolutely need.

Fundraising