Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 28, 2025

A robust donor database or constituent relationship management (CRM) system is one of the best tools you have at your disposal to boost engagement at your nonprofit. Create Thorough Donor Profiles Donor profiles are essential relationship-building tools that are built into nearly every nonprofit CRM. Lets dive in!

CRM

DonorSnap

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Pledge tracking is an important aspect of fundraising, and using a nonprofit CRM can simplify the process. If you are curious how a nonprofit CRM can help your organization track pledges you are in the right place. How Can You Thank Pledge Donors with a Nonprofit CRM? How Can DonorSnap Help Track and Manage Pledges?

CRM

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer platforms: Enable nonprofits to share their mission, set goals, and encourage donations through community-driven campaigns on third-party sites or supporters’ social media. Set a collective goal and encourage friendly competition by featuring a leaderboard or highlighting top donor pages.

Fundraising

Planned Giving

JANUARY 25, 2025

Getting Ready to Implement Moves Management Set Clear Goals Before implementing moves management, establish well-defined revenue targetsboth short-term and long-term. Moves management thrives when everyone understands the goals and commits to the necessary tasks, such as logging donor interactions or scheduling regular check-ins.

Management

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

But you do have evidence in your fundraising CRM. Qualifying has one goal: to turn your pool of rage donors into a curated list of potential long-term supporters. Unless the donors send a note of outrage in the comments section of your donation form, you might not have definitive proof that theirs is a rage gift.

CRM

CauseVox

MARCH 24, 2025

Set Clear, SMART Goals Before launching your challenge fundraiser, take a moment to define your goalsbecause a challenge without a goal is just an activity! Consider your fundraising goal. Also think through your participant goal. How much do you aim to raise? How many people do you want involved?

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Engage program managers and finance teams to ensure the project is feasible and aligns with organizational goals. They also show funders that you understand their goals and how your project aligns with them. Ensure your application clearly articulates the need, goals, methodology, and expected outcomes.

Grant

Blackbaud

APRIL 24, 2025

Fix: Take a step back to review your workflows and choose tools that seamlessly integrate with your CRM. Data synchronization: To avoid copying and pasting information from one system to another, look for tools that seamlessly sync data to your CRM in real time. Stage 1: Review your tools and CRM systems. Plus, it costs $1.25

Fundraising

Center for Major Gifts

JANUARY 25, 2025

Moves management works best when everyone understands the goals and commits to the necessary tasks, whether logging donor interactions or scheduling regular check-ins. Building a Solid Data Foundation An accurate, up-to-date CRM is essential for tracking each interaction, so begin by cleaning up donor records. email opens).

Management

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

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Fundraisers have the opportunity to offer several ways people can support the work and the organization’s goals. Using a CRM database can help you identify donor patterns to make smart engagement decisions or make a process easier for donors setting up recurring gifts. Volunteering time and donating needed items are just as important.

Demographics

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

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

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

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

JANUARY 13, 2025

Sure, you have a CRM full of small and mid-level donors, and a few programs that bring in a little recurring revenue. This alignment prevents mission creep and maintains the integrity of your nonprofit’s goals. The goal is long-term sustainability with minimal additional resources. You see the writing on the wall.

Finance

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

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Many organizations are experts at driving traffic to their online donation forms, but plenty struggle to actually secure donations and reach their fundraising goals. Gather relevant information to add to your CRM. Store their responses in your nonprofits CRM database to provide a better experience for donors.

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

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

DoJiggy

JULY 1, 2025

Integrations and Data: Consider how well the platform integrates with your CRM and other tools. P2P Crowdfunding Auctions Golf Tournaments Online Stores Ticketing Sweepstakes Donations Raffle Fundraising Create a free account and see how we can help your organization smash your fundraising goals!

Fundraising

Center for Major Gifts

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Identifying Ideal Multi-Year Donor Prospects Start by analyzing donor data in your CRM, focusing on previous gift amounts, donation frequency, and known philanthropic interests. Emphasize how their multi-year pledge can drive sustainable progress toward common goals.

Proposal

DoJiggy

JUNE 16, 2025

Update addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and other details to keep your CRM accurate and up-to-date. Learn More about Donor Profiles How to Use DoJiggy Donor Profiles DoJiggy’s donor profiles provide a basic CRM of your constituent data. This section provides a unified view of a donor’s giving history.

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. Thats tons of money that is being missed out on. Lets make this happen.

Retainer

GiveSmart

MARCH 12, 2025

These data points are great for setting campaign goals and evaluating the success of your nonprofit at a high level. These data points can help your organization evaluate progress towards goals and identify areas you need to improve. This is often quantitative data, such as the number of people helped, meals served, and schools built.

Fundraising

GiveSmart

JANUARY 22, 2025

Check out The Essential Fundraising Event Checklist: Implementation for to-dos and action items to make your next event a goal-getting success! This blog is a guest post from GiveSmart Fundraise and Donor CRM integration partner, Double the Donation. Plan and host your upcoming events with confidence! Best of luck, and happy hosting!

Fundraising

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

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

That way, you can add interested individuals to your constituent management system (CRM) and serve them additional marketing content to increase their engagement. Leverage retargeting campaigns. In a retargeting campaign, youll track website visitors who engaged with your content in some way (visiting your website, reading a blog post, etc.)

Nonprofit

CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

Planning the Golf Tournament Fundraiser Set Clear Goals Before you hit the green, start by setting crystal-clear goals. Home Page The home page (as displayed in the Scouting for America example above) should showcase key details like date, location, and fundraising goals. Ask yourself: What is our fundraising target?

Fundraising

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

Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 22, 2025

The goal is to be conversational, not reciting a prepared speech. Logging each conversationor voicemailin a CRM system lets you track whether donors respond positively, ask follow-up questions, or pledge to give again. While it helps to have a loose script for guidance, avoid reading it word for word.

CRM

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Effective grant management goes beyond tracking funds in your CRM its also about budgeting effectively, prioritizing programs that need financial support, and delivering timely reports to grantmakers. Many grantmakers request a proposed budget along with grant applications to show youre thinking about these goals from the start.

Finance

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. That’s where your CRM really shines. A nonprofit CRM can help you build a thoughtful, consistent approach to donor engagement.

CRM

Bonterra

JULY 29, 2025

Whether it’s aligning fundraising, donor management, and marketing platforms, or ensuring seamless data flow into your CRM (think Salesforce or Blackbaud), unified tech ecosystems reduce error, optimize staff time, and fuel advanced analytics for better decision-making. Actionable step: Map your fundraising tech stack.

CRM

Bonterra

JULY 9, 2025

Done right, petitions can drive legislative change and also help grow your list of active, invested supporters. Advocacy that builds long-term support The most successful nonprofits don’t just activate supporters, they keep them engaged across every touchpoint.

Lobbying

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

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.

Grant