Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

A structured onboarding process and the use of assigned mentors to guide, support, and encourage new members can be a very successful approach. ” On the topic of keeping your board informed, NEVER make assumptions about your board’s knowledge, skills, or experience.

Management

Wild Apricot

JULY 24, 2025

If people stay on your pages, explore more content or take action (like donating or signing up), it’s a strong signal to search engines that your site is beneficial and trustworthy. AI-Readiness Clear, structured, factual content helps your organization show up in AI-generated summaries and answer boxes.

AI

GrantNews

AUGUST 27, 2024

The mentee and mentor connection is the most valuable professional relationship you can have. There is an array of mutual benefits of mentoring for both the mentee and the mentor. Traditional workplace mentoring relationships involve senior employees helping guide junior colleagues.

Mentor

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was the scenario for Mentor New York, a nonprofit that works with companies, schools and organizations to provide mentoring for organizations that serve more than 80,000 young people in New York. Like most nonprofits, Mentor New York had to pivot during the pandemic to virtual events and engagement for its supporters.

Mentor

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Once you have your message and your elevator pitch honed and ready to go, you’ll feel confident that you have the tools to convince people to give. In short, a strong message for fundraising gets you donations. . Choose each word carefully to get the result you want: donations. Here’s more about that…. Easy to understand.

Donation

CauseVox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Building a culture of giving is paramount, and one way to achieve this is by providing donors with opportunities to honor someone special through a tribute donation. Encouraging tribute donations on Giving Tuesday and through the giving season isn’t just a good idea; it’s a game-changing strategy.

Donation

GrantNews

AUGUST 20, 2024

Successful applicants will receive coaching and mentoring, deals and perks from a variety of companies, opportunities to pitch to investors, and program support follow-up. Participants will have access to mentoring, industry speakers, networking opportunities, a pitch night, and an assortment of vendor perks.

Retail

GrantNews

JANUARY 12, 2024

Research shows that 52% of small business owners donate to charity, with 42% of that portion donating up to $1000. Along with their charitable donations, independent businesses also produce 16 times more patents per employee in comparison to large patenting firms, according to the Small Business Administration.

Mentor

Candid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Giving Season is here, and there are so many ways to give back to your community beyond donating money. This collection of stories illustrates how philanthropy is about more than donating money; it’s a lifestyle of caring for your community. How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us by Lucy Bernholz.

Burnout

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I asked Tal what the main data issues are that indicate to him that a nonprofit is ready to migrate to a cloud-based database. A common symptom of that is the case of someone in your organization calling a donor to ask for a donation, only to find out that someone else has already contacted them. You Have Multiple Databases.

Readiness

Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

When an unpredictable, sudden change in planning sweeps you up and carries you away, it’s important to stay flexible and ready to act. Their resiliency paid off with a boost in donations and valuable insight into how to take future fundraisers to the next level as a hybrid event. Could they carry on with this winning theme?

Mentor

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . Just remember, your job is to write a fundraising email that will get opened, get read, and get the action you are seeking: a donation. . Make your donate button huge!

Fundraising

CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

Only you know whether your community is ready to gather in-person for an event, but here are some things to consider: Virtual events let you raise more with less effort: Hosting a virtual event allows you to lower your costs and appeal to a wider audience. For example, do you want them to make a donation? Register for an event?

Fundraising

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

If you’re ready to learn more about how peer-to-peer fundraising can work for your organization, read on! Crowdfunding involves funding a project or campaign by collecting smaller donations from multiple donors. Then, watch your donors race to donate and beat the clock! Imagine a donor was going to donate $15.

Fundraising

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was incredibly easy to set up a fundraiser or make a donation. They tailored the prizes for their event to the theme of the event: in this case they had prizes donated from Patagonia, which makes a ton of outdoor gear. It was their passion that inspired their family and friends to donate. Forward Together With Casa.

Award

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Pro , which is available for donation to eligible organizations through TechSoup. When you need to share this information and create processes to be followed, you are ready to graduate to a CRM system. As my mentor Ed Kless has stated "today's problems were yesterday's solution." I have been an ACT!

CRM

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Now, if you’re not quite ready to go after grants, that’s ok! Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations. If you feel you are ready for grants, by all means, get going!!

Grants

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This adds a layer of trust for donors and encourages them to donate knowing they’re helping a peer support a cause they’re connected to. Providing them with the right tools and training will make them feel motivated and ready to start! Offering incentives increases participation , donations, and volunteer retention.

Fundraising

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Nonprofits receive 50% of their annual donations between October and December. billion was donated to US based nonprofits, a 25% increase from 2019. Then one day, community members began mentoring, tutoring, and providing guidance. Keep in mind, the average donation during a matching campaign is 51% higher than without!

Goals

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They expanded classes to Baltimore in 2019 after winning CAD $1 million in the TD Ready Challenge. You can volunteer as a career assistant, workshop presenter, tutor, a success coach/mentor, or a Board member. You can learn more about Byte Back or support their mission through donating or volunteering by visiting their website.

Training

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Are you ready to do your case studies the right way? eBay aims to raise $50,000 for SCORE Mentors with a 'Holiday Jargon Jar' consumers can donate to on Twitter. Impact Measurement + Case Study = More Partnerships The total investment for this package is $3,400. That's a 20% off the normal cost of $4,250. Want a better price?

Retail

DoJiggy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Successful alumni can serve as mentors, guest speakers, and advocates for your school. Conclusion Ready to increase private school enrollment like never before? Collaborate with Alumni for Mentorship and Networking Programs Your school’s alumni network is a valuable resource for attracting new students.

AI

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you cannot find five or six people who are as excited to plan a special event as you are, then your organization might not be ready for a special event. If every committee member is ready to get out there to ask local businesses to sponsor your event, your chances of success are greater. This will save you some headache later.

Policy

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Every donation helps make your mission possible. And every donation – from $5 to $5,000 – counts. When you set up a thank you note automation, you can rest easy knowing that any time of day or night, any day of the week, all donations are receiving a prompt response. 5) Thank Your Donors Automatically.

Calendar

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

of donors prefer going online to make a donation People receive 121 emails per day on average 76% of people trust ads they receive in the mail 56% of donors regularly attend fundraising events Text fundraising has grown 205% over the last year. Many nonprofits have experienced drastic changes in the digital fundraising landscape.

Fundraising

Tom Ahern

AUGUST 7, 2023

Simone was my partner, wife, mentor, best friend, tease and moral compass for 37 years. Katonah is NOT loudly and clearly asking for more donations. On May 2nd, 2021, Simone Joyaux died; her brain exploded, thanks to CAA. It's a build-up of amyloid plaque, weakening the brain's blood vessels. CAA is not uncommon over a certain age.

Pass-Through