Millionaire Grant Lady

AUGUST 7, 2025

Enter: The Grant Calendar A grant calendar is your roadmap to more strategic, less chaotic fundraising. Want a ready-to-use template? Grant Calendar Template (Free Download) Here’s a simple, effective grant calendar template for busy nonprofit leaders. Ready to stop scrambling and start winning?

Grant Calendar

Pamela Grow

JUNE 19, 2025

You can find the complete guide and downloadable Excel template and view the MotivateMonday recording here. Here’s what I recommend: Step 1: Choose Your Platform Download Allison’s Excel storybanking tool above. Your Story Action Plan Ready to stop the last-minute story scramble?

Template

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

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

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. Download CauseVoxs Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook: 3.

Retainer

Community Boost

JULY 25, 2025

With so much at stake, major gift fundraising can cause major stress. Many fundraisers wonder, “Am I asking at the right time? If you’re like most nonprofit fundraisers, your days are packed with meetings, reports, and campaign deadlines. Am I asking in the right way?”

Fundraising

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

Blackbaud

JANUARY 24, 2025

Is your nonprofit or school getting the most from its fundraising CRM? See campaign performance, donor and gift details, and fundraising event performance in your CRM. You can then easily follow up with them afterward, include them in email campaigns, or see how your events are helping your fundraising efforts.

CRM

Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Key best practice: Early cross-department collaboration helps ensure project readiness and strengthens grant proposals by demonstrating organizational capacity. Bonus Tip: Capture all completed applications and accompanying documentation in both your fundraising and accounting systems as attachments.

Grant

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?

CRM

CauseVox

AUGUST 4, 2025

Download our free Complete Guide to CRMs for Nonprofits : Why SOPs Matter for Your CRM Your nonprofit’s CRM is only as powerful as your team’s process for using it. Plus, when your CRM is tidy and standardized, you can actually use it to drive fundraising results. Trust us, your future self (and your fundraising goals) will thank you.

CRM

CauseVox

APRIL 18, 2025

This model of convenience and consistency isn’t just limited to consumer goods; its actually been part of nonprofit fundraising for decades in the form of monthly giving, and it fits right into this subscription culture. Are you ready to make your monthly giving program a must-have for donors, much like their favorite streaming service?

Donation

Wild Apricot

JULY 15, 2025

Your important messages – whether it’s about fundraising, new volunteer opportunities, upcoming events or new member activities – should all be sent via email. Ready to get started? Offering a digital download that people can print out on their own is a great way to give options to those who prefer physical resources.

IT

Blackbaud

MARCH 20, 2025

That translates into increased donations and fundraising success, she said. Here are the top 5 CRM tech trends Leggett says enterprise fundraising organizations should pay close attention to in the coming year. Migrating to a Cloud-Based CRM Moving to a cloud-based CRM platform is a trend thats gaining momentum.

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. Ready to see what unified advocacy can do? Are there guidelines for nonprofit advocacy?

Lobbying

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now. Nonprofit organizations will need to be a whole lot more serious about fundraising particularly donor retention in 2025. Donor communications provide the very engine behind your fundraising program. Fundraising isnt wrong. Only 13.8% Only 13.8%

AI

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

Yet, as fundraisers, we all too often forget to spend the time to make our thank yous count. Download Our Free Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook: 1) Immediate Email Confirmation Let’s start with the lowest hanging fruit. Well Aware posted a video of their fundraising gala thanking attendees and showcasing donors’ impact.

CRM

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. Ready to reconnect with lapsed donors? Your stomach sinks. Where did they go?

CRM

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

Planned Events or Milestones Incorporate known or planned activities that could impact your finances, such as a new program launch, a major fundraising campaign, or a necessary repair. It’s especially helpful for organizations facing uncertainties, like variable fundraising results or changes in government policy.

Finance

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Why Thank-You Videos are Extremely Effective Video is a powerful tool for fundraising and even more powerful when used to thank donors. If you follow our year-end fundraising plan , we recommend using a general thank-you video in an email and social media post on Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S., Then get ready for the magic!

Donation

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. Your rival school launched a seemingly-successful digital fundraising campaign before the big game. Sound familiar?

Software

CauseVox

MAY 22, 2025

Nonprofit CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems are designed to help you organize your supporter data, streamline your fundraising, and build lasting, meaningful relationships with your community. Why CauseVoxs CRM stands out and how it makes fundraising, stewardship, and donor management effortless. No integrations needed.

CRM

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Blackbaud

JUNE 5, 2025

This may include donations, grants, fundraising events, government funding, and even small affiliate programs through your local grocery store. Know when you expect fundraising campaigns to hit, grant payments to be awarded, and when you expect major expenses. Estimate Your Revenue List every way revenue comes into your organization.

Budget

Selfish Giving

JUNE 18, 2025

In short, prospects can download them and say "Nah" without ever talking to you. Follow up personally and immediately when someone downloads the case study. “I Tie your fundraiser to a beloved ritual, make giving easy, and rally teams and customers around a clear, emotional cause. Put them online, and they lose that nuance.

Readiness

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Gail Perry Group

APRIL 3, 2025

It can help fundraisers build relationships where donors feel heard and understood. You can get this entire set of questions in a downloadable pdf by clicking here. Thanks to the very smart Kent Stromans book, Mastering the Art of Conversational Fundraising for this question. You are, in fact, a fundraiser.

Fundraising

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

Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 31, 2025

The highest-performing fundraisers in the nonprofit world arent always the loudest, most charismatic, or best-connected. The Hidden Truth About High-Earning Fundraisers You wont hear them brag about it, but the top gift officers in the field all know how to talk about legacy. Not because they work in planned giving.

Readiness

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.

CRM

DoJiggy

JULY 22, 2025

Learning how to organize a motorcycle ride fundraiser can turn your passion for biking into a powerful fundraising engine. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps of planning, promoting, and executing a motorcycle fundraiser—plus share creative motorcycle ride fundraiser ideas to inspire your event.

Fundraising

GiveSmart

APRIL 1, 2025

No matter a nonprofits yearly fundraising budget, organizations recently shared that events make up nearly half of their annual revenue. 1 With grant funding under threat and siege , many organizations acknowledge increasing revenue streams via fundraising events will be necessary to maintain programs and support missions.

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. When I'm getting ready to work on a big grant application, I tell my husband I'm going scuba diving. You've got to go deep and stay deep until you're ready to come back up. And the last thing I'll go over is just downloading reports.

Instrumentl

Blackbaud

MAY 21, 2025

An online donation form is one of the most powerful tools to support your fundraising efforts. Implement and run your A/B test: When your test design is ready, implement it in your software. Whether you have one donation form or hundreds, you want each to encourage the highest conversion rate and gift amounts for your mission. .”

Donation

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

Free Resource The Ultimate Guide for Nonprofit CFOs Download now Process Pitfalls that Sabotage Efficiency Even the most brilliant team can’t outpace broken processes. Integration Gaps When your CRM, fundraising, and operations systems don’t feed directly into the general ledger , you’re forced to play data ferryman.

Finance

Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

We build a budget that is fair, balanced, and built on evidential history, but flexible ready for whatever hiccups and bumps come along. We may need to revisit our plans for spending and our fundraising needs. As leaders in nonprofit finance, it’s our job to be prepared for the inevitability of change.

Budget

Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

What do smart fundraisers, particularly those heading up “one-person” development shops, need to know? Develop a balanced, thoughtful fundraising plan. Download Encouraging Longevity in Nonprofit Development to discover the secrets behind employee retention. Download it here. Charitable giving in the U.S.

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