Bonterra

JULY 9, 2025

Advocacy includes a wide range of activities that raise awareness or encourage people to act, from writing blog posts and mobilizing volunteers to educating lawmakers. Rallies, info sessions, appreciation nights, and peer-to-peer fundraisers are all powerful ways to educate, inspire, and activate.

Lobbying

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

Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This way, readers understand what youre fighting for and the goals you want to accomplish. Be as specific as possible, including details like dates, fundraising goals, and the impact donors will make if they give]. If you have the means, would you be willing to donate [specific amount] to help us reach that goal?

Template

GrantNews

MARCH 27, 2025

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Manage customer interactions, sales pipelines, and business relationships efficiently. Grants to eligible nonprofits for programs promoting entrepreneurial innovation and education. Team Communication and Collaboration: Enhance teamwork with real-time messaging, file sharing, and video calls.

Mentor

CauseVox

APRIL 18, 2025

It helps educate, inspire, and motivate donors to make that recurring commitment. 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”). Do you want to reach a specific number of monthly donors?

Donation

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Use CTAs to encourage supporters to take actions that align with your goals, such as donating, volunteering, or joining your grassroots advocacy campaign. Ensure your nonprofits CRM or marketing platform is equipped to track performance metrics relevant to your goals. Strategically craft your CTA language.

CRM

Blackbaud

JANUARY 10, 2025

Provide Guidance on Board Responsibilities Larger, more established grantees may have a regular cadence of education for their Board, but that might not be true for smaller or newer organizations. Give them the resources so their Boards can analyze the organizations finances thoughtfully and ask respectful, educated questions.

Award

Get Fully Funded

JULY 30, 2025

To start analyzing your data, use your CRM to collect and store fundraising information, then look for patterns that emerge using analytic platforms or AI tools. Create a plan, set measurable goals, and revisit performance regularly as you adopt new fundraising strategies. The results could reshape your approach to financial growth!

Funding

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

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. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds.

Donation

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

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. Some ideas that work include framed photos, custom printed coffee mugs, totes, books, or educational materials.

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2025

Research tools and the native capabilities of your fundraising CRM can help you understand the giving patterns of all your supporters and prospects, not just those considered for major gifts. For annual, recurring, and midlevel gifts, the goal is to match the cultivation plan to their interests and past involvement.

Fundraising

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. Keep it All (KiA) fundraising platforms, however, allow you to withdraw however much you raise, regardless of whether you hit your goal.

Funding

Community Boost

APRIL 17, 2025

In addition, consider informational sessions like town halls or panel discussions to educate your audience on key issues and volunteer appreciation events to create space for celebrating your supporters. Having clear goals helps you focus your efforts and see real progress. Get event inspiration from nonprofit peers doing the work.)

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

Finance and fundraising teams must collaborate closely to ensure data pulled from the CRM aligns with financial records. For example, you might showcase how a donor-funded program indirectly benefited an underserved community by improving access to education, healthcare, or economic opportunities.

Finance

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This committee will be responsible for: Setting goals for the auction. Set both revenue and performance goals. Let’s say your auction will fund increased educational opportunities for students in need. To determine these target metrics, review past event results. Choose auction items that relate to your event theme.

Procurement

Blackbaud

APRIL 28, 2025

Higher education institutions today face mounting pressures to attract and retain students in an increasingly competitive landscape. With shrinking budgets and growing demands for accountability, schools must find innovative ways to support their students while achieving institutional goals.

Award

DoJiggy

APRIL 1, 2025

However, keeping these programs running requires funding for supplies, special events, and educational opportunities. In this guide, well explore the top 4H fundraising ideas to raise money and align with 4Hs mission of education, sustainability, and community involvement. Creates an interactive, educational experience.

Fundraising

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

Recommended Resource : A donor-friendly video or pocket guide can be incredibly effective for internal training and donor education. 13 Host Educational Events and Seminars advanced Host engaging donor events with light estate planning themes. 2 Engage Your Board of Directors ESSENTIAL Your board’s support is essential.

Policies

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

Bonterra EveryAction Best for: All-in-one nonprofit CRM Bonterra EveryAction is an all-in-one nonprofit CRM that combines AI and automation to streamline events end to end. Event management dashboard: Set goals, track progress, and manage tickets sold. Reviews Ease of use 4.2 Customer service 4.2 Pricing: Contact for pricing 2.

Software

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

Only if your goal is never again. 39 We just need a better CRM. CRMs dont fix bad habits. Yes, if your goal is to be ignored in bulk. 80 Were not fundraisingjust educating. Delusion No. 16 The donor already knows our needs. And yet somehow, still hasnt written the check. Delusion No. Delusion No. Delusion No.

SAM

Blackbaud

JANUARY 28, 2025

Understanding your teams processes, challenges, and goals will help you make the best decision. Select an organization with proven experience in higher education that is invested in your long-term success. Know whats important for your institution. Ask for opinions and referrals. An award management system is a years-long investment.

Award

Gail Perry Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Look for an educational training program that helps your fundraising team gain the skills, methodologies and confidence they need to succeed. Set clear, actionable goals for fundraisers. Consider using built-in CRM tools for tracking or scheduling and offer clear expectations around donor cultivation.

Metrics

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

The Value of Nonprofit Accounting Automation in Your Finance Office Whether you work at a nonprofit, foundation, or educational institution, accounting automation can help you work smarter and get insights faster, so you can get back to the strategic work that helps your organization drive impact.

Finance

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl Partner Webinars are collaborations between Instrumentl and its community partners to provide free educational workshops for grant professionals. 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.

Instrumentl

Bonterra

JUNE 27, 2025

Make it easier for your team to manage your organization with one of the best nonprofit constituent relationship management (CRM) systems designed for organizations like yours. Limit its documented goals to one or more charitable purposes. Generally, all nonprofits must: Serve the public good.

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Define your segmentation goals. Any strong strategy starts with goal-setting. Based on your goals, choose the segmentation criteria you’ll rely on to group your supporters. Then, group them accordingly in your constituent relationship management system (CRM), and use the channels they indicate to promote recurring giving.

Demographics

Blackbaud

MARCH 4, 2024

This highlights the importance of making the most of higher education advancement technology with effective collaboration across advancement leaders, CIOs, CTOs and CITOs. The goal is to make it easier to act upon the vast amounts of data these institutions have. The popularity of these tools is not surprising.

Education

Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2024

But you and I know it’s critical to maintain a robust and up-to-date CRM. Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. We work hard to transform basic input into high-quality data.

Goals

Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2024

Convert More Donors with a Better Donation Form The goal for nonprofit organizations and higher education advancement teams is always to raise more money online. Centralizing data from external applications back to your CRM allows you to track your data in a way that makes sense for you.

CRM

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By extending the power of its Blackbaud CRM platform with Power BI, the team now sees more focused information about their major giving prospects. How Nonprofits Are Using Power BI Nonprofit organizations and educational institutions often work with data from multiple sources. Their collective annual goal is $112.5

CRM

CauseVox

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Seeing contributions add up in real time creates excitement and a sense of momentum, almost like watching a goal come to life. CRM Integration The ability to integrate with tools you already use can streamline your workflow and improve efficiency. One of the most important integrations to consider is with your CRM.

Fundraising

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. All fundraisers know that their main goal is to raise money, but not all of them think about sustainability or scalability. Use a CRM to help w ith donor research .

Fundraising

Qgiv

APRIL 11, 2023

When you have fundraising goals, it can be difficult to pause the action and focus on reading donor signals. Staying organized with different forms of data typically requires a good nonprofit CRM. If your goal is centered on fundraising, look at a combination of wealth scores and their overall engagement with your organization.

Indirect

Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2024

That can include actual fundraising solutions, such as donation forms and event registration, or tools that help you manage and contact your donors, such as CRM or marketing software. Top fundraising software providers Here’s a list of top fundraising, CRM, and marketing tools to support your nonprofit’s revenue-generation efforts.

Software

Not Your Father's Charity

MAY 25, 2022

In short, they’re more challenging to reach and often require more time, education, and resources. And they ensure your nonprofit’s programs and activities reflect your mission, values, and goals. For instance, these donors provide valuable assets that support your mission and goals. Why Raise Funds from Nonprofit Major Donors?

Funding

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