NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

If a donor gets a bland, templated acknowledgment a week later, what does that tell them? But if they get a call within 24 hours from a real person — you, the frontline fundraiser — thanking them by name and connecting their gift to the impact it will make, you’re telling them something different entirely: “You matter.

Retail

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

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

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As organizations explore these funding options, they may also be interested in the resources available for grant writing templates to effectively present their needs and objectives. Nonprofit Support Centers Local organizations that provide resources and support for fundraising efforts.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Go beyond metrics to show what you’ve learned and how you adapt your programs. Start tracking outcome metrics early in your program cycle—not just when the grant requests it. This could be a one-page mutual expectations document outlining how you’ll communicate, report impact, and share feedback over time. Upgrade evaluation capacity.

Grants

Candid

JULY 7, 2025

Fundraising from corporate sources has its own level of uncertainty. So, what if you’ve never attempted corporate fundraising before? Develop a sponsorship toolkit: A sponsorship toolkit should include audience demographics, visibility opportunities, employee engagement ideas, and metrics for measuring community impact.

Manufacturing

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

To help nonprofits overcome these challenges, Stephen King, CPA and (former) founder of GrowthForce, is proud to announce the launch of The Fundraising Accountant Community, an online space dedicated to help nonprofit leaders use their numbers to tell their story to donors. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. rail-container).hide();

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

This collaboration will embed Constant Contacts AI-driven digital marketing platform within Blackbaud Raisers Edge NXT fundraising software. Raisers Edge NXT delivers unmatched fundraising capabilities, starting with a data model thats purpose-built for our social impact users and supercharged with our own fundraising-optimized AI tools.

AI

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. We've got a template for you. 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. That saves a ton of time. Calendar alerts.

Instrumentl

Wild Apricot

JULY 24, 2025

User Engagement Metrics like bounce rate, dwell time and click-through rate show whether your site is delivering value. WildApricot’s mobile-friendly templates and drag-and-drop website editor make it easy to build a site that looks great on any device. Mobile Optimization & Page Speed Most visitors browse on mobile devices.

AI

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

Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By personalizing your donation letters, your nonprofit can increase fundraising revenue and develop long-lasting supporter relationships. How do you write a fundraising letter? Donation request letter example 12 fundraising letter templates What is a donation request letter? Well cover: What is a donation request letter?

Template

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2023

What a Nonprofit Annual Report Is Your annual report has one job: to provide an overview of your nonprofit’s activities and key metrics for a specific year. It might be helpful to choose the tool first so you can pick the template you want to use. Be sure to customize the template so it’s on brand for your nonprofit.

Template

CauseVox

MARCH 30, 2022

Meat Fight is a nonprofit dedicated to “funlanthropy” who has used CauseVox to set records in their digital fundraising. Meat Fight uses CauseVox for their peer to peer fundraising , crowdfunding pages , and donation pages. Peer to Peer Fundraising. Benefit: Fundraising On Autopilot. Pro Fundraising Tip.

Fundraising

Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 10, 2022

For most fundraisers, nonprofit grant writing is incredibly frustrating: in many cases, it seems like a roll of the dice. Here they are, in no particular order: #1: Systemize Your Grant Fundraising Program. The best way to do this is to systemize your grant fundraising program. 2: Do Grant Research on a Regular Basis.

Grant Writing

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

CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

As virtual fundraisers have grown in importance and popularity over the past couple years, peer to peer fundraisers have emerged as a necessary tool for nonprofits looking to raise more with less effort. CauseVox offers users the opportunity to run optimized peer to peer fundraising campaigns with our easy-to-use software.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. Some fundraising events are huge, drawing attendees and sponsors like moths to a flame. You can raise money with all kinds of fundraising events like parties, galas, sporting events, concerts… and the list goes on and on. BUT the flip side?

Fundraising

CauseVox

JULY 6, 2021

If you’re planning on hosting a fundraising event and you want the perfect online fundraising platform, you need to do your research. A good nonprofit event fundraising platform will help you raise more with less effort: it creates a streamlined, simple experience for you, your fundraisers, and your donors. Ease Of Use.

Fundraising

CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

The last year has seen a lot of virtual 5ks, walks, and runs , but when Mojave Desert Land Trust tried their first digital fundraiser, they truly took it to the next level. . Historically, MDLT hadn’t run many in-person peer-to-peer fundraisers , so when they decided to host their Miles for MDLT fundraiser it was all new to them.

Template

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2021

Fundraising for advocacy organizations is tough, maybe one of the toughest types of fundraising out there. Since much of fundraising messaging tends to have a “ra-ra, we can do it” flavor, it’s hard to know how to talk to donors when times are tough or your organization faces setbacks. State The Need Clearly And Accurately.

Fundraising

Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2022

Check out the sponsorship packet template below (and then download a copy to keep on hand). Fundraising event details. Fundraising event goal. Easil is a drag and drop design platform with a variety of professional templates to choose from. Need ideas for planning your next fundraising event?

Template

Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

Grant Professional Association’s GrantZone has over 70 discussion threads on grant metrics, from understanding if a new position’s expectations are realistic to helping directors identify accurate metrics for a team. Having a universal understanding of what an organization hopes to gain from metrics creates purpose.

Metrics

Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

For each program, break down its actual revenue and expenses, including its necessary overhead, such as your staff’s time devoted to office administration, marketing and fundraising for such program. A dashboard is a snapshot of the organization’s progress towards its major financial, fundraising, and mission impact goals.

Finance

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. Even experienced fundraisers can feel overwhelmed, but by following a planned process and some best practices, you can take the stress out of appealing to grant funders.

Proposal

CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

We’ve all been there: staring at a blank screen, desperately trying to create captivating social media fundraising content that resonates with our audience, while keeping up with the latest algorithms and trends. So, are you ready to harness the power of social media for your fundraising efforts?

Media

Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

GivingTuesday is quickly approaching, meaning a big day of fundraising for nonprofits like yours. Many organizations use GivingTuesday as a social media campaign to increase fundraising and spread awareness for their cause. The more specific prompt you provide the AI, the better template it can give to you.

ChatGPT

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The next frontier in nonprofit fundraising is reaching prospective donors on their mobile devices. The good news is that a charity only needs two things to start doing mobile fundraising — mobile-responsive emails and a mobile-friendly donation page. But email is still the killer app for fundraising. And only 9.5

Fundraising

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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. Or, if theyve been to a fundraising event before, mention the event theyve participated in and how you were honored by their attendance.

Template

CauseVox

JULY 10, 2024

Well Aware’s success teaches us valuable lessons in creative and effective fundraising. Whether it’s through a quirky challenge like the Shower Strike or by integrating sustainable practices, we think there’s much that can be learned from Well Aware to enhance any organization’s fundraising efforts.

Metrics

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The last couple of years have been all about virtual when it comes to fundraising. But out of this huge challenge, we’ve seen some amazing creativity crop up as nonprofits revamp their fundraising approaches to be safe and successful. We’ve seen crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising websites that knocked our socks off this year.

Award

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The M+R 2016 Benchmarks Study specifically studied the question of whether to include a fundraising appeal as part of a welcome series: "For nonprofits that send one or two messages, the welcome series generally consists of engagement messaging, with a fundraising message included just 11 percent of the time.

Template

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Strategic partnerships and research inform her approach to new challenges and when drafting fundraising communications. It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. Advanced reports can highlight information like new donors, at-risk donors, and lapsed donors.

Metrics

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

From planning peer-to-peer fundraisers to properly marketing your online campaigns, there’s an endless number of items on your to-do lists. That’s why it’s essential to carefully choose the right software solutions to support your operations–the right tool can drive a high ROI for your fundraising efforts. Personalize donor engagement.

Software

CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2025

As virtual fundraisers have grown in importance and popularity over the past couple years, peer to peer fundraisers have emerged as a necessary tool for nonprofits looking to raise more with less effort. CauseVox offers users the opportunity to run optimized peer to peer fundraising campaigns with our easy-to-use software.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

While goals are vital to success, SMART fundraising goals help make sure you’re setting goals that you just can’t miss. The reality is this: goals ARE vital to success —especially when fundraising for new nonprofits. Fundraising goals help a nonprofit fulfill its mission. So, what exactly is a SMART fundraising goal?

Goals