Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

Grantees facing increased demand may require additional funding, but its vital to assess whether your foundation can provide more without compromising long-term goals. Start with flexible applications that feed directly into your CRM. Finally, know your own organizations limits.

Government

GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Once the end-of-year giving campaign goes public, the remaining fundraising goal will be met by following best practices and promoting across all channels. Year-End Fundraising Campaign Goal Planning Set specific goals for year-end fundraising and donor engagement. Donating should be quick and easy!

Donation

Blackbaud

MARCH 10, 2025

Sharing data in an integrated financial and CRM ecosystem aligns functional teams and reduces time-intensive manual extracting and inputting of data, allowing you to put more of your time, energy, and resources into furthering your mission. Budgeting: If you can track goals and budgets in your software, are you doing so?

Finance

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

A CRM for nonprofits makes it simple by pulling gift history, email engagement, event attendance, and more into one place so you can spot when someone is slipping and jump in early–for their sake and yours! Now, here’s where your CRM can do the heavy lifting. Use your CRM filters to weed out bounced emails and unsubscribed contacts.

CRM

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Incorporate your unique knowledge into valuable website content such as: Downloadable resources Blog posts Toolkits Quizzes Multimedia stories Make some of this content freely available on your website and turn other content into gated resources that require an email address to unlock.

Nonprofit

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. Use your CRM to track prospect interactions and identify optimal times for outreach. And that’s a goal worth investing in.

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

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM? Companies use a CRM to track their customers behavior, manage communication, and make offers that the customer is likely to be interested in. What Are The Benefits of a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

CauseVox

APRIL 18, 2025

To start, clearly define your campaign goal. For example: Launch the campaign with a time-bound goal (e.g., “Help us reach 50 new monthly donors by the end of the month”). And don’t forget to plan your follow-up strategy, utilizing your nonprofits CRM as a tool to keep you on track. Introduce a match (e.g.,

Donation

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Here are six best practices for creating an effective digital impact report that truly reflects your organization’s mission and accomplishments, with a goal of increasing donor engagement. Importing CRM data into a digital report builder, like Storyraise , is simple and quick.

CRM

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

Download Our Free Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook: 1) Immediate Email Confirmation Let’s start with the lowest hanging fruit. Your main goal in all of your thank you notes should be to keep your donors engaged and interested in donating again.” Use your CRM to track this data and set reminders so you never miss a milestone.

CRM

CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

Download the Free Complete Guide to Nonprofit Fundraising Events : 1. Planning the Golf Tournament Fundraiser Set Clear Goals Before you hit the green, start by setting crystal-clear goals. Online platforms like CauseVox make it easier than ever to organize, manage, and maximize your events fundraising potential.

Fundraising

Bonterra

JULY 9, 2025

Download our free guide, From Moments to Movements, to learn how nonprofits are unifying advocacy and fundraising to mobilize more supporters and keep them giving. Done right, petitions can drive legislative change and also help grow your list of active, invested supporters. Ready to see what unified advocacy can do?

Lobbying

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. By downloading the GoFundMe app, you can set up a fundraiser, upload images, and track donations through your phone. Social sharing buttons.

Funding

Blackbaud

APRIL 23, 2025

The type of grant reviews your funding organization uses will depend on the number of applications you receive, your technology, and the goals of your grant program. This includes validating IRS status, checking for required attachments, and ensuring the information provided aligns with your programs goals.

Grants

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM? Companies use a CRM to track their customers behavior, manage communication, and make offers that the customer is likely to be interested in. What Are The Benefits of a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year.

Donation

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

Finance and fundraising teams must collaborate closely to ensure data pulled from the CRM aligns with financial records. Cost Per Outcome Cost per outcome ties your expenses to a specific goal, making it easier to identify funding needs. Integrated fund accounting and fundraising systems also improve accuracy.

Finance

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

It’s best for nonprofits with diverse service areas or mission-driven goals. It also integrates with the leading fundraising CRM, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® , so data flows smoothly, reducing errors, and improving report accuracy. Curious about how this technology can support your nonprofit’s financial planning?

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

Download now A Four-Step Framework for Analytics Excellence Step 1: Streamline Your Data Collection Workflow Start by cleaning up the database and your data entry practices. Focus on capturing high-quality data that truly matters for your goals. Free White Paper What is your nonprofit’s level of data analytics maturity?

Software

Blackbaud

JANUARY 28, 2025

Understanding your teams processes, challenges, and goals will help you make the best decision. It should allow you to send ad hoc emails from within the system and synchronize data with your donor management CRM and fund accounting systems. Know whats important for your institution. Ask for opinions and referrals.

Award

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

In doing so, you’ll help everyone rediscover the purpose behind your organization’s goals. To automate this process, first evaluate your current CRM software and ensure that it integrates with your accounting software. Free Resource How to Get Started with Automation at Your Nonprofit Finance Office Download Now 3.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 10, 2025

For example, a donation restricted to funding scholarships could still be immediately recognized as revenue if no conditions exist, but if there were conditions that also had to be met, like reaching a certain fundraising goal, then recognition would be delayed until those conditions are fulfilled.

Finance

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Our goal is to tackle a problem grant professionals often have to solve, while also sharing different ways Instrumentl’s platform can help grant writers win more grants. Do you have the reporting, the goal setting, and to keep track of those benchmarks that you need to be reporting on? That's the goal. Microsoft Planner.

Instrumentl

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

CauseVox

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Download the Ultimate Guide to GivingTuesday and Year-End Fundraising: Ease of Use Choosing a platform that’s easy for both your team and your donors to use will make your GivingTuesday campaign run smoothly and encourage more people to give. One of the most important integrations to consider is with your CRM.

Fundraising

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. A strategic fundraising plan is intended to keep you on track toward your fundraising goals by using your organizations resources as effectively and efficiently as possible while keeping aligned with your overall mission and vision.

Fundraising

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of it as your roadmap to success, guiding your organization not only in compensating for any lost funds but also in meeting your current goals and reaching your long-term destination. To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission.

Calendar

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To successfully implement changes to your grantmaking application, you need to communicate the benefits of data-driven and user-centered design to your leadership, tie the benefits to your organization’s overall goals, and involve your leadership in the decision-making process. For example: Does your application represent your mission?

Applicant

Blackbaud

AUGUST 7, 2024

Avoiding Roadblocks Coalescing every member of your organization around the same goals and expectations can help you avoid several common roadblocks before they get in the way of your implementation. Getting everyone on the same page in terms of goals and mindset will help avoid surprises later in the process.

Funding

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

How to Spot Responsible AI: Three Questions to Start With —Free download Take a look at the questions posed earlier, first related to McNamara’s goals and then to your own. This is your goal and it is almost always a number. You’ve turned your trained AI models loose on a CRM full of potential converters. A 10% increase?

AI

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

First, you are likely to have Giving Tuesday goal updates as the day goes on and keeping your Giving Tuesday donors engaged in the momentum helps you reach your goal. Goal tracking – A dd a donation thermometer to your Giving Tuesday page so donors can watch your fundraising progress and see live updates throughout the day.

CRM

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We also hosted dozens of webinars each year to help our technology vendor clients meet their own lead generation goals. This painful process involved waiting for our webinar vendor to finalize the attendance report, downloading it as a.csv file, manually " de-duping " the data, and then uploading the clean data into our CRM.

CRM

CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

Download the free fundraising plan today! Once you have your plan and calendar in place, it’s time to set out your goals. What is your attendee goal? For example, Parkinson’s Nebraska exceeded their fundraising goal by asking their supporters to participate in a fun and engaging challenge to walk the total distance of Nebraska.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

Table of Contents Types of Donations to Meet Fundraising Goals Consideration for Higher Education: Fundraising vs. Advancement What Makes Fundraising So Challenging? How Blackbaud Can Help Your Fundraising Efforts Types of Donations to Meet Fundraising Goals Organizations rely on fundraising to earn financial support.

Fundraising

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These campaigns run for a fixed period of time and have an overall fundraising or impact goal. Fundraisers participate by setting a personal fundraising goal towards the overall goal and share their personal fundraising pages with their friends and family. Individual fundraisers join together to work towards a goal.

Fundraising

Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Review your overall annual goal. Set a SMART goal for your campaign. Here are some questions your team can ask to help you reflect on last year’s results: What was our goal last year, and did we meet it? Review your overall annual goal. Is it time to set a stretch goal? Are you under your fundraising goal?

Media