Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Online Fundraising Tools and Software There are many tools available to make fundraising more effective and efficient for nonprofits. 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.

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

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

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

and Canada Hub at Giving Tuesday , and Cara Dickerson, vice president, Customer Success at Momentive Software , annual awareness around GivingTuesday results in people having the inspiration to be generous and personal reason to give. According to Celeste Flores, director of the U.S.

Demographics

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

That’s where fundraising event management software for nonprofits can help. Nonprofit event management software streamlines event planning, logistics, and execution, letting you focus on furthering your mission or successfully raising funds through your event , instead of manual event tasks.

Software

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

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? Customer/Client Relationship Management software was developed in the for-profit world. Easily track your donor pipeline CauseVoxs CRM Is it Any Better Than This Spreadsheet I Made?

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. That’s why the right nonprofit advocacy software should do more than send emails or host petitions.

Lobbying

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. Youll need the right fundraising software to accomplish these steps successfully. Gather relevant information to add to your CRM. Personalize the thank-you process.

Donation

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

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

Focus on capturing high-quality data that truly matters for your goals. If you manage constituent data outside your primary fundraising CRM, Blackbaud’s Persistent Key service can help you identify duplicate records and consolidate household or individual records for a more efficient multi-channel engagement strategy.

Software

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

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? Customer/Client Relationship Management software was developed in the for-profit world. Easily track your donor pipeline CauseVoxs CRM Is it Any Better Than This Spreadsheet I Made?

CRM

Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2025

For instance, your data about volunteers might be housed in your volunteer management software and not get transferred to your CRM, preventing you from easily checking which donors also volunteer. For instance, leverage software that allows you to create access levels. Documenting internal processes.

Management

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

These days, modern fundraising software (like CauseVox) sends an automatic thank you once a donation is processed, and you can customize the content of that email to fit your needs! Your main goal in all of your thank you notes should be to keep your donors engaged and interested in donating again.” That’s where your CRM really shines.

CRM

Bonterra

JULY 30, 2025

Yet, many nonprofits grapple with declining event revenue, inefficient software, and the complexity of managing multiple platforms. DonorDrive isn’t just another software, it’s an enabler for nonprofits aiming to create meaningful impact. Proven results to back the bold claims The numbers tell a powerful story.

Fundraising

GrantNews

MARCH 27, 2025

Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Manage customer interactions, sales pipelines, and business relationships efficiently. Accounting and Bookkeeping: Elect software that tracks expenses, generates reports, and simplifies financial management. Grants to Advance Diversity in Entrepreneurship and Investment!

Mentor

Community Boost

APRIL 17, 2025

Using tools like CRM systems for donors, social media analytics for online engagement, and software for managing volunteers makes tracking these metrics easier and gives you valuable data-driven insights. Having clear goals helps you focus your efforts and see real progress.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

JANUARY 10, 2025

Encourage them to update it on an annual basis based on the current market and the goals of the organization. Provide templates to help them create an IPS and Spending Policy that encompasses the broad categories of funds they expect to have. They are likely not experts in investment management.

Award

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This committee will be responsible for: Setting goals for the auction. Set both revenue and performance goals. In fact, with the help of Qgiv + Bloomerang, one organization raised 130% of its gala fundraising goal after switching from Greater Giving! To determine these target metrics, review past event results.

Procurement

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

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

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 20, 2025

Building capacity by hiring more staff or investing in fundraising software. Investigate grant opportunities beforehand to understand whether the funders vision and goals align with your organizations. Carefully review every grant opportunity to ensure its reasonable and relevant to your organizations needs and goals.

Grant Writing

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 24, 2025

Once your team understands how mobile giving works, you can start brainstorming how it can help support your nonprofit’s specific goals. Integrations: Ensure your SMS platform integrates seamlessly with your CRM, donation tools, and email system. How do you build a text contact list? Reporting : Data is key to refining your strategy.

Fundraising

Center for Major Gifts

JANUARY 22, 2025

First, centralize your data in a single donor management system or CRM, ensuring you have one source of truth for all donor information. Donor Research Software For deeper insights, specialized donor research platformslike iWave, WealthEngine, or DonorSearchoffer tools that extend well beyond basic CRM analytics.

Metrics

Blackbaud

APRIL 28, 2025

With shrinking budgets and growing demands for accountability, schools must find innovative ways to support their students while achieving institutional goals. Developing a cohesive system makes awarding faster, easier, and more focused on student needs with everyone working toward the same goals.

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.

Policies

Blackbaud

JANUARY 28, 2025

A scholarship award management system is software designed to organize and streamline the processes and workflows of a college or foundations scholarship program and to make scholarships more accessible to students. How do you choose scholarship software? Thats why modern scholarship offices rely on award management systems.

Award

Wild Apricot

JUNE 24, 2025

Marketing automation is a way to handle repetitive marketing tasks using software. Nonprofits utilize it differently depending on their goals, audience and tools. Before choosing a platform, it’s important to understand which features truly matter for your goals. What Is Marketing Automation?

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 8, 2025

Today’s software platforms have a number of built-in tools that remove much of that manual work, if you know how to use them. Workflows can be analog or done through software. Application Programming Interface (API) An API is a set of protocols that creates a handshake between two different software platforms.

AI

DoJiggy

APRIL 1, 2025

Try Our Donor-Friendly Auction Software Learn More Sign Up for Free 3. Local businesses gain positive visibility and enhanced brand image, aligning with corporate social responsibility goals. Manage sponsorships and donor outreach with built-in marketing and CRM tools.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

As your fund accounting software has evolved, so have the opportunities to incorporate automation into your processes—and get rid of some of that paper and manual decision-making. In doing so, you’ll help everyone rediscover the purpose behind your organization’s goals.

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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How can my scrappy smaller organization, with all the tasks my team is already juggling, adopt a new fundraising CRM and learn to use it with the least amount of disruption?” Talk about the problem or the gap the new software will solve. And how will the change to a new fundraising CRM impact them ? But we’re growing fast.

CRM

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. Get started with nonprofit software designed to help your organization grow your donor base, build stronger relationships, and ultimately make a bigger impact.

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