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. In their quarterly email, they share about their fundraising goal and how it will help save 50 more animals, so you donate through their call-to-action button.

IT

DoJiggy

JUNE 26, 2025

With a mission to empower volunteers to serve, support health initiatives, and improve lives, fundraising is crucial to sustaining that mission. Whether you’re supporting vision programs, youth services, or disaster relief, having a steady stream of creative fundraising ideas can help your Lions Club make a lasting impact.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Primary School Fundraising Ideas: A Seasonal and Year-Round Guide Blog Summary: Looking for fun ways to raise money for your primary school throughout the year? Youll find practical tips on planning, organizing, and engaging the community, all designed to help your school meet its goals while keeping the excitement high.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Examples include greed, paying off debt, or wanting to meet personal or business goals. Personal information of staff, donors, and volunteers, including payment information received via credit card, donation form, or a physical check, must be properly secured in both physical and electronic environments.

Training

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

In healthcare fundraising, one of the most powerful tools often goes underutilized: grateful patient data. Fundraising teams can do exactly that by harnessing the power of grateful patient data. Not all patient data is suitable to include in fundraising efforts. But using this data responsibly is key.

Ethics

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

Nonprofit organizations hold a variety of events, from fundraising galas to auctions to community outreach programs. That’s where fundraising event management software for nonprofits can help. But managing everything required for a standout event is challenging. Plus, it integrates seamlessly with the rest of the Bonterra suite.

Software

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

In doing so, you’ll help everyone rediscover the purpose behind your organization’s goals. Grant and Donor Reporting Integrating your fundraising software with your accounting system enables the system to automatically pull relevant data, making it easy for your team to track dollars from start to finish.

Finance

Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2024

Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. Gifts from prospects on the top of your giving pyramid are necessary to meet your campaign goal. Add data health tools.

Goals

Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2024

You can see how easy it is for your electronic messages to get lost in the shuffle. While you’ll likely use electronic communication pretty regularly, don’t discount direct mail. We get far less postal mail than electronic communication. Don’t count on that happening with any type of electronic communication.

Electronics

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2024

With such an array of options—and donor preferences—it’s essential for your organization to employ diverse strategies to reach the widest audience with your online fundraising campaigns. Here are seven tips for optimizing your donation page to boost your online fundraising success.

Fundraising

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 17, 2024

From fundraising to volunteering, #GivingTuesday is a great way to engage your community of supporters and become part of a larger, worldwide movement that promotes generosity. This year, expand your fundraising efforts with online giving, making it even easier for your donors to give on any device.

Fundraising

Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

eCards are electronic greeting cards that include fun, attention-grabbing visuals and a personalized message. Assess your audience’s interests, preferences, and goals to determine what appreciation methods are likely to resonate with them. Send eCards. Then, measure your strategies’ effectiveness to fine-tune your approach.

AI

GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Looking to spice things up for your next live fundraising campaign or virtual event? Some friendly competition may also increase your fundraising potential as donor competition fuels fundraising. Most importantly, make sure your creative fundraiser is fun!

Fundraising

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 18, 2024

The concept of relationship fundraising has been around for a while, even though it’s not always put into practice. Many nonprofits seem focused too much on meeting their revenue goals, which don’t get me wrong, is important. That includes fundraising appeals. Keep this in mind – Your Fundraising IS Your Relationship.

Donation

DoJiggy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Here are 20 creative fundraising ideas for wrestling teams that combine traditional sales fundraising with our powerful platform to help your team thrive. Offer Team Sponsorship Packages Securing team sponsorships from local businesses can significantly boost your wrestling fundraising efforts.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JULY 11, 2022

Corporate sponsors are the best way to add lots of money to the bottom line of your fundraising event. Having sponsors means the difference in an event that generates mediocre results and one that blows past your goals. What will help them reach their goals? Unfortunately, most small nonprofits aren’t good at getting sponsors.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Yes, even though my daily schedule is electronic, I still LOVE a good paper planner! As the leader of a small but mighty team of fundraising professionals, who end up wearing a lot of hats throughout the year, my paper planner is also used as a leadership tool. I love the idea of planning the work and working the plan.

Calendar

Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While gala fundraisers might seem intimidating to plan, don’t let the perceived glamor obscure their accessibility! A charity gala is a formal fundraising event aimed at raising significant sums for a chosen nonprofit. The Thrilling Gala Auction A well-curated gala auction can be the heart and soul of your fundraising event.

Budget

Big Fundraising Ideas

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Navigating Liability: Top Digital Waiver Tips for Schools Fundraising is necessary for the vast majority of schools-but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be fun and exciting. Fundraising events are one of the most engaging ways to raise money for your school, as they draw in both old and new supporters. Collect supporter information.

Liability

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Top 10 Best Fundraising Sites to Power Your Creative Fundraising Ideas for 2024 Best Fundraising Sites. In an ever-evolving landscape of community support and educational enhancement, fundraising is a pivotal tool for schools across the United States. Enter the digital age of fundraising.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These applications exist within everything from electronic health records ( EHRs ) to revenue cycle management and claims management. These divisions create data silos that can cause roadblocks within your organization, resulting in unnecessary friction between teams, unmet campaign goals, and staff inefficiency. Enhanced security.

Nonprofit

Big Fundraising Ideas

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Online Fundraising: Pros, Cons, and How to Choose the Right Platform Blog Summary: This blog discusses the advantages and disadvantages of online fundraising. In today’s digital era, online fundraising has revolutionized how individuals and organizations raise money for various causes.

Fundraising

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Tricia Marsherall is the Founder & President of Marsherall Partners, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in nonprofit donor database management & operations support and virtual & traditional fundraising events. The good news is that your data can be cleaned up and leveraged to inform your fundraising strategies.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Maybe you have a particular type of fundraising that just doesn’t perform the way you expect. The “McNamara Line” was a series of electronic monitors, sensors, and human intelligence mixed with real-time reports to make predictions. For this exercise let’s imagine a scenario: You are a fundraiser at a good-sized charity.

AI

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important hosting fundraising events is to both expanding your donor base and retaining existing donors. Fundraising events can also attract new, first-time donors if you hold them in public spaces or encourage attendees to bring friends and family. Which fundraising events require waivers?

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 28, 2023

Think back to your team’s last fundraising campaign. Would you consider the fundraiser a success? Did you find it easy to juggle your team’s schedule along with fundraising activities? Or, were there fundraising tasks that took far longer than they should have? Limited pool of donors.

Software

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

While many companies do have genuinely altruistic goals, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is also heavily shaped by business strategy. Corporate philanthropy is now being guided by mission statements with clear-cut goals, and these goals increasingly involve more than just cultivating the public’s goodwill.

Nonprofit

Big Fundraising Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Maximizing Impact: How Gift Card Fundraisers for Schools Boost Support and Funds Gift card fundraising offers schools an efficient and inclusive way to raise essential funds. Gift card fundraisers for schools are innovative and efficient methods of raising funds to support various educational programs and initiatives.

Retail

Selfish Giving

JULY 12, 2016

Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Brittany Hill , Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Catalist , an agency focused on providing corporate partnership professionals tangible and sustainable tools to meet their fundraising goals. What were the goals of the study? On the show, we cover: Brittany Hill, Catalist.

Electronics

Fundly

JULY 16, 2020

A recent push has been largely due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent social distancing practices, though many organizations have been transitioning to virtual or hybrid fundraising models for years. Luckily, there’s no shortage of virtual fundraising ideas to choose from! Take a look and find one that suits you best.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

Cisco has aggressive corporate sustainability goals : Continually improving the energy efficiency of products because the energy consumed during use accounts for up to 90 percent of the products' carbon footprint. More than 99 percent of Cisco's electronics sent for processing are recycled. Now a bit about us.

Donation

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Our goal is to leverage our extensive and complementary networks of individuals and organizations to provide knowledge, training, and tools to nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs around the world. The Foundation Center and TechSoup Global have announced a new strategic alliance ! About Our Alliance. About the Foundation Center.

Proposal Writing

Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

If you lead a nonprofit, you know how important your fundraising events are. A fundraising event is the best way to engage with donors, garner support for your mission, and meet your revenue targets. But one question you might find yourself frequently asking is “What kind of fundraising event should we host next?”.

Fundraising

Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

To bring your virtual event to life and provide an experience that’s just as enriching as an in-person one, you need the right fundraising event software. You likely already have some of the basic tools you use for regular fundraising events. Need virtual fundraising ideas? Types of Fundraising Event Software.

Software

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

And 60 Minutes recently did a segment on it as a technique to counterbalance our obsession with electronics devices. The goal is to help teens find some emotional stability on their own amid the turmoil of their lives. The organization also does lots of fundraising. million revenue per year. spanhidden.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

eCards are electronic greeting cards that your nonprofit can use to show appreciation. As mentioned, we recommend creating different thank-you letter templates for different gifts, such as online donations, pledge donations, fundraising event gifts, sponsorships, and tribute gifts. Reference donors past involvement.

Template

Selfish Giving

JULY 8, 2009

Part of that planning process involves a half-day retreat for directors at my boss’ house where we discuss our goals for the upcoming year. Before my boss left for vacation last week he said to me: “At the retreat I want you to talk about how we can use social media for prospect research, fundraising and advocacy.&#.

Media