CauseVox

JUNE 3, 2025

For nonprofit professionals, staying on top of fundraising often feels like spinning plates while walking a tightrope. With the right CRM for nonprofits, you can go beyond donor management and actually level up your entire fundraising strategy. Download our Free Complete Guide to CRMs for Nonprofits: 1. Sound familiar?

CRM

CauseVox

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A free fundraising platform takes care of all that for you, so you can focus on what matters most: connecting with donors and raising funds. In this article, we’ll go over the basic steps to create a donation page for free; we also recommend you download our free guide below to get a more detailed overview. Ready to get started?

Donation

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

But when that data gets organized into effective fundraising reports, it becomes more than just usable; done right, fundraising reports can be a goldmine of insights that help you raise more, engage smarter, and steward better. Why Fundraising Reports Matter: Turning Data Into Strategy Your data is trying to tell you something.

Utilities

Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Bonus Tip: Explore and incorporate available tools in your fundraising CRM to help track your applications, related actions, contacts, timeline, accounting considerations, and attachments. Bonus Tip: Capture all completed applications and accompanying documentation in both your fundraising and accounting systems as attachments.

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CauseVox

JULY 1, 2025

That’s when it hit us: they didn’t need just a fundraising platform, they needed CRM software for nonprofits. While a fundraising platform helps you raise money by hosting donation pages, peer-to-peer campaigns, events, and more, a CRM software for nonprofits helps you manage donor relationships. What Is a Fundraising Platform?

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Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

But is all that time and effort actually improving fundraising outcomes? Many organizations still struggle to turn donor information into actionable insights that lead to smarter, data-driven fundraising success. Inconsistent data entry and lack of standardized metrics slow down progress. Should you do a 5K? Sound familiar?

Software

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. Advocacy helps elevate community voices while expanding the reach and impact of your organization.

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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. But first, you need to find the right fundraising website to support your campaign. Peer-to-peer fundraising. Event management.

Funding

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

For finance teams in donor-focused and grant-funded organizations, working hand-in-hand with fundraising partners is critical to crafting reports that truly engage and tell a story. Finance and fundraising teams must collaborate closely to ensure data pulled from the CRM aligns with financial records.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

These unrestricted gifts are necessary to pay fundraisers’ salaries, overhead, bills, and the supplies for your tried-and-true programs. How Is Annual Giving Different from Other Fundraising Types? Let’s take a look at annual giving compared to other fundraising types like major gifts or planned gifts.

Donation

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

Financial metrics like donor retention rate, average gift size, and grant application success rates provide a sense of how reliable your funding streams are. Compare your financial metrics, such as overhead costs and revenue diversity, against industry benchmarks to ensure you’re aligned with similar organizations.

Finance

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

If you’ve been in fundraising for a while, you start to recognize the names, the gala captain who always brought friends, the monthly donor who replied to every newsletter, or the runner who raised big because a loved one was helped by your program. Then one day, you notice they haven’t given this year. Your stomach sinks. Where did they go?

CRM

DoJiggy

JULY 15, 2025

A capital campaign website is a focused fundraising site designed to support a specific, big-picture goal, typically the construction of a new facility or major renovations to an existing one. Another advantage of a dedicated fundraising website for your campaign is that the back-end reporting is specific to the capital campaign.

Metrics

NonProfit PRO

JULY 9, 2025

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And once you’ve shared your report with stakeholders, be sure to track engagement metrics afterwards to see how well your report performed and in which ways it could be strengthened in the future. Additionally, you can increase efficacy and accessibility, ensuring that all readers have a dynamic experience.

CRM

CauseVox

MARCH 4, 2025

When nonprofits run online fundraising campaigns, it’s easy to only focus on the big picturehitting that overall fundraising goal. By using CauseVoxs free, easy to use fundraising platform you can set up customizable donation tiers , showing donors exactly what their gift accomplishes. The good news?

Donation

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

While establishing relationships that can lead to planned gifts can take time, there are ways nonprofits can effectively raise more funds through this type of fundraising. Incorporate planned giving into fundraising appeals. Measure email opens and clicks, content downloads, webpage visits, and even RSVPs to planned-giving events.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. And the last thing I'll go over is just downloading reports. We focus specifically on the institutional fundraising side of things, so everything around grants themselves in the grant-seeking process, as opposed to individual donors. What kind of program?

Instrumentl

Blackbaud

MAY 21, 2025

An online donation form is one of the most powerful tools to support your fundraising efforts. Before testing, know your baseline metrics average gift amounts and your forms conversion rate. Whether you have one donation form or hundreds, you want each to encourage the highest conversion rate and gift amounts for your mission.

Donation

NonProfit PRO

MAY 27, 2022

But the process of identifying the right metrics and reports to measure and communicate is more complex… especially when it comes to finding metrics to drive grant performance. Download to see the list. If you’re keeping track of something, then you’re probably doing it… right?

Metrics

Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s not enough to know that your fundraising strategies are successful. These insights can only be gained by calculating fundraising Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This article will unpack 10 essential KPIs for measuring fundraising success. This article will unpack 10 essential KPIs for measuring fundraising success.

Fundraising

Pamela Grow

JULY 24, 2024

When you combine the associated expenses with the costs of operating your organization day-to-day, you determine that you’ll need to add new fundraisers to your calendar to fund all of these initiatives. Fortunately, there is an answer—passive fundraising! What is passive fundraising? Let’s dive in! Thanking participants.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 13, 2024

This report compares peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising data from 2020, 2021, and 2022. As peer-to-peer fundraisers are all too aware, those were particularly disruptive years for the industry given the impact of COVID-19 on in-person events. What does the future of peer-to-peer fundraising look like?

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re unsure about which data metrics to keep an eye on, then you’re in the right place. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about website data metrics, including: . Why Are Website Data Metrics Important? Top Website Data Metrics to Track. Why Are Website Data Metrics Important? .

Metrics

NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This resource contains five key tactics designed to help you raise more at year-end by knowing what metrics matter; craft compelling campaigns by learning what messages will resonate most with your target audiences; save your team precious time at year-end through automation. Download today to get your free year-end fundraising guide.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 8, 2024

To encourage you to download and read the full report , we are sharing a few highlights we think you will find particularly compelling. When looking at online benchmarks and digital revenue, we saw that any growth or ground held was due to increases in sustainer metrics.

Metrics

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Need to create your 2021 fundraising plan? Register for the course, “How To Create A Fundraising Plan For 2021” for only $115. “If And as far as fundraising planning goes, your fundraising plans were thrown off. Creating a Fundraising Plan. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting.

Calendar

Blackbaud

MARCH 15, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data. If you are not sure which metrics are essential or how to convert your data into something stakeholders can grasp and absorb, start simply by setting clear goals.

Strategic Plan

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Fundraising during Covid has been disruptive for everyone – every single sector has been impacted but particularly those that work in event fundraising. Due to social isolation policies, many nonprofits have had to cancel or reimagine their future fundraising events (depending on their location). Crowdfunding.

Fundraising

Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. We also downloaded their IRS Form 990s?from It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission.

Donation

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We understand that a big contributor to a successful GivingTuesday is your fundraising campaign site. Download your Year-End & GivingTuesday Fundraising Toolkit: It may seem like you don’t need to do much to create a site for a 24-hour fundraising campaign, but don’t be so quick to push it down on the priority list.

Media

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In this three-part toolkit, we include a guide and a master list of metrics you should really care about to determine the success of your organization, as well as a dashboard to track your data and measure your trends. Download the FREE Guide. Are your email campaigns being effective?

Metrics

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Online fundraising sites are powerful tools to help you fundraise. Take your fundraising game to the next level with a dedicated fundraising website. Fundraising websites are powerful tools to help you raise more money; it’s the rallying point for all of your planning and messaging. 1) Visual Storytelling.

Fundraising

CauseVox

AUGUST 2, 2024

generation so your organization can ensure future fundraising success. Short, impactful videos are a fantastic fundraising tool to use across social media, your website, and your fundraising pages. Move For Freedom used a short, powerful video on their fundraising page.

Media

Blackbaud

MARCH 19, 2024

However, our recent Status of Fundraising research found an interesting link between income performance and innovating and trying new or different kinds of fundraising activity – it was one of the main drivers of income growth. Focus on Your Metrics Metrics will help you translate your data into action. Click here.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

You can get a downloadable project charter template on our resource center. For example, you will be reviewing your expense management processes as part of this project, but any fundraising management topics will be reserved for a later initiative. Goals and Metrics What does success look like? out of scope).

Software

CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

Online fundraising sites are powerful tools to help you fundraise. With a dedicated fundraising website, you can enhance your campaign, providing a central hub to help you raise more money; it’s the rallying point for all of your planning and messaging. 1) Visual Storytelling The best weapon against apathy is a compelling story.

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