Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

have been cast, nonprofit organizations should be prepared for a new wave of donations from voters whose candidate (or candidates) did not win. Post-election rage giving: +57.55% increase in gifts to nonprofits associated with the opposite political ideology of the winning presidential candidate -2.9%

CRM

Bonterra

JULY 9, 2025

Nonprofit advocacy is one of the most effective ways to drive mission-forward impact. In this post, we’ll answer key questions about nonprofit advocacy and share five tested strategies to help you create more meaningful, action-driven campaigns. Nonprofit advocacy: Frequently asked questions Why is nonprofit advocacy important?

Lobbying

Planned Giving

JANUARY 25, 2025

Many nonprofits struggle to convert supportive but sporadic donors into committed major givers. By mapping out every stage of the donor journey, nonprofits can anticipate needs, personalize outreach, and ensure no valuable donor falls through the cracks. Pro Tip Tweet Track Progress Document every interaction in your CRM.

Management

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

Nonprofits are collecting more data than ever before, but many teams feel stuck when it comes to making that data actually work for them. Manage and track important donor information with ease using CauseVox’s CRM designed for nonprofits This kind of clarity is what turns good fundraising into great fundraising. The good news?

Utilities

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nonprofit events are a powerful way to showcase your mission and raise critical funds. To ensure your nonprofit can cultivate lasting relationships, here are a few best practices for long-term donor follow-up: Segment Your Donor Base: Segmenting your donor base ensures your outreach feels relevant and personal.

Metrics

Center for Major Gifts

JANUARY 25, 2025

Many nonprofits struggle to convert supportive but sporadic donors into committed major givers. By mapping out every stage of the donor journey, nonprofits can anticipate needs, personalize outreach, and ensure no valuable donor falls through the cracks. Tracking Progress Throughout cultivation, document every interaction in your CRM.

Management

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

Many nonprofits keep fewer than half their donors year to year. 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.

CRM

Community Boost

APRIL 17, 2025

Community engagement is how a nonprofit can grow, rally support, and create lasting change. When nonprofits do engagement right, they build trust and garner support well beyond a single donation. When nonprofits do engagement right, they build trust and garner support well beyond a single donation. What is Community Engagement?

Nonprofit

CauseVox

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A donation page is like your nonprofits digital giving hubits the place where supporters can easily contribute and feel connected to your mission. When choosing a platform, its important to consider key features like transaction fees, customization options, and integrations with your CRM or email marketing tools.

Donation

Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Technology Association of Grantmakers 2024 State of Philanthropy Tech Survey highlights both progress and ongoing challenges in how funders are supporting nonprofit technology needs. If these trends continue, we risk exacerbating existing inequities and undermining the capacity of nonprofits to fulfill their missions effectively.

Funding

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofits have a conversion problem. The data speaks for itselfaccording to the M+R Benchmarks 2024 report : Of desktop users who made their way to a nonprofits main donation page, only 16% completed a gift. Retaining donors is equally challengingthe average nonprofit donor retention rate is consistently around 45%.

Donation

GiveSmart

MARCH 12, 2025

Your nonprofit’s fundraising success depends on various factors, some outside of your organizations control. There are just things outside nonprofits ‘ control, from weather to current events and grant fluctuations to tax code changes. Donating should be convenient and easy for the people supporting your nonprofit.

Fundraising

Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 22, 2025

Imagine a nonprofit that calls every donorregardless of gift sizewithin a day or two of receiving their contribution. Nonprofits have reported that donors who receive prompt, personal phone calls often give again more readily than those who receive only automated messages or standard form letters. Donor Thank You Calls Work!

CRM

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A few key places to consider include: Your Website Nonprofit web design agencies encourage you to place your donation button CTA at the top of your website in the menu or header area. For example, an environmentally-focused nonprofit might send an email with the subject line [supporter name], act now to save local forests.

CRM

Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2025

Strong data management is a necessity for nonprofits juggling multiple programs, fundraisers , and outreach campaigns. Data should inform all of your nonprofit’s decisions, whether you’re determining which programs to focus on, how to scale your nonprofit, or which major giving prospects are the most promising.

Management

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

If your community outreach programs are grant-funded, your funder likely requires you to report key metrics like the number of individuals served or how you were able to expand your programs into new areas. Finance and fundraising teams must collaborate closely to ensure data pulled from the CRM aligns with financial records.

Finance

Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

According to the Global Trends in Giving report , 33% of nonprofit supporters in the United States and Canada say email is the communication tool that inspires them most to give. By personalizing your donation letters, your nonprofit can increase fundraising revenue and develop long-lasting supporter relationships.

Template

Center for Major Gifts

JANUARY 22, 2025

In todays hyper-competitive nonprofit environment, data-driven research can mean the difference between finding your next six-figure donor and wasting precious resources chasing the wrong leads. First, centralize your data in a single donor management system or CRM, ensuring you have one source of truth for all donor information.

Metrics

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

In today’s data-rich world, nonprofits are sitting on a goldmine of information. Where Most Nonprofits Get Stuck with Data Analytics Before diving into the solutions, let’s acknowledge the common roadblocks many fundraising programs face: The Spreadsheet Trap : There is such a thing as too much data!

Software

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To determine these target metrics, review past event results. For example, the nonprofit Feeding South Florida ran into issues using multiple fundraising platforms, including Eventbrite, Blackbaud, 32 Auctions, Classy, and others, making fundraising more complicated than necessary. Set both revenue and performance goals.

Procurement

Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2025

A donor cultivation cycle is a systematic process that helps nonprofits build lifelong relationships with their donors through five key stages: identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Despite the length of time it takes to acquire a donor, many nonprofits struggle with donor retention.

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. Fundly Fundly is designed for all types of campaigns, from nonprofit disaster relief to sports team fundraising.

Funding

Community Boost

JUNE 27, 2025

If you’ve ever opened a CRM or spreadsheet and been met with a wall of charts, graphs, and stats, only to walk away still wondering what exactly you should do today , you’re not alone. Your nonprofit doesn’t need another dashboard. Reporting is descriptive , but what nonprofits really need is prescriptive insight.

Burnout

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Major donations and planned gifts often get the limelight, but without annual gifts, the day-to-day functions of your nonprofit could come to a halt. The examples below show how annual giving funds enable different nonprofit sectors to serve their missions. How can we leverage technology and data to personalize annual giving appeals?

Donation

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Evolution of Philanthropic Expectations: A Wake-Up Call for Nonprofits For decades, many nonprofits have operated with a reactive approach to fundraisingchasing grants, hosting emergency campaigns, and depending on one-time donations. This paradigm shift requires nonprofits to reevaluate their entire operational model.

Funding

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 19, 2025

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AI

Gail Perry Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We hear nonprofit leaders complain about this often. One that aligns your nonprofits mission with their donors purpose. Here's what you can do: You can facilitate a shift to proactive fundraising by setting metrics around regular, personal contacts. Are you worried that you are not getting the most out of your major gift team?

Metrics

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

39 We just need a better CRM. CRMs dont fix bad habits. 43 We dont need to track metrics. So is every nonprofit. 63 Were not like other nonprofits. 92 Were nonprofit. Delusion No. 37 Well get to that next quarter. Next quarter becomes next year becomes never. Delusion No. 38 We already thanked them.

SAM

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

When your nonprofit aims to maximize donor outreach , you’re likely hoping to reach new supporters or secure recurring donations. Planned giving is a strategic approach that can benefit your nonprofit both immediately and in the long term. If your nonprofit wants to learn how to acquire planned gifts , you’ve come to the right place.

CRM

NonProfit PRO

JULY 24, 2025

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Retail

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

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Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

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Software

Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Recent nonprofit trends show that giving is on the decline, decreasing by 2.1% Chances are, your nonprofit offers many different services, covers several different sub-causes, or runs various projects at once. between 2022 and 2023. Based on your goals, choose the segmentation criteria you’ll rely on to group your supporters.

Demographics

Ann Green's Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data can help inform your nonprofit’s approach to text-to-give and drive greater fundraising results. By Mike Snusz In order for your nonprofit to effectively reach supporters via a text donation campaign, you will need to simulate an authentic, one-on-one communication experience. Monthly donors. Recurring annual donors. Major donors.

Donation

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Donor motivations are the “why” that drives their support of your nonprofit. By Ryan Carpenter For the last several years, nonprofits have struggled to make ends meet due to falling revenue, rising inflation, and an increase in community needs. Learn how to uncover those motivations and inspire more support in this guide.

Ethics

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To take advantage of this trend toward recurring giving, your nonprofit will need to look inward at its donor data. Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. Monthly giving is an essential revenue source for nonprofit organizations.

Metrics

Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Data analytics for nonprofits is just as valuable … and even more crucial. So why, exactly, is data so important to nonprofits? Donor data can help you understand you donors and reach new ones, set goals and track successes and ways to grow, and—most importantly—data can keep your nonprofit on track to fulfill your mission!

Metrics