Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2024

Live auctions are the heartbeats of fundraising events, generating excitement and significant donations. Pro Tips for Live Auction Success on a Budget Storytelling is Key: Craft a compelling narrative for each item, highlighting the unique experience it offers. But for smaller nonprofits, securing high-priced items can feel daunting.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

An optimized donation page is key to turning visitors into supporters, ensuring they have a smooth, impactful giving experience. With CauseVox, you can create a donation page that does more than collect contributions—it engages donors, reinforces your brand, and inspires confidence in your cause.

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GiveSmart

MARCH 21, 2024

If you’re planning a fundraiser, you’ll need a good budget. A fundraising budget plan is essential to maximizing your profit margins and collecting more funds for your cause. Large, lavish in-person events will naturally need bigger budgets than intimate ones or virtual or hybrid events.

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Candid

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This includes creating an annual operating budget , a document that breaks down your organization’s revenue, or the money you’ll bring in, and expenses, or the money going out to cover your costs, for each fiscal year. In this guide, we’ll walk through four essential steps to build an operating budget for your new nonprofit.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

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GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Managing your annual budget—and multiple budgets within it—is one of the most crucial components of running a nonprofit organization. Learn more about what a nonprofit fiscal year is and how you can arrange your budget to best meet your organization’s financial needs below. What is a Nonprofit Fiscal Year?

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 12, 2023

That’s why having a good grasp of your Event Budget and ROI (Return on Investment) matters so much for your fundraiser. Event Budget Basics. Who is going to donate and how much should each donor contribute? Before you even begin to plan your event, make sure that you have set the right goals. What do you want to achieve?

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Qgiv

MAY 15, 2023

Not everyone can be a math genius, but when you’re using a fundraising event budget template, you don’t have to be. Hosting an event requires your organization to do a lot of research and planning, but using a budgeting template can ease some of the stress of your staff.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Organizations are always making miracles happen on tight budgets. Above all, planning for financial sustainability comes down to Budgeting and Expenses: First, sit down with your accountant. Community Service Programs – General maintenance, repairs, and lawn care services impact the monthly budget.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The best gift a nonprofit organization can receive is unrestricted cash, but an inkind donation of something your organization needs and would have otherwise purchased is also a high-value gift. Basically, it’s a non-cash donation made to a nonprofit organization. There’s more to inkind donations than you might think.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Volunteers sit outside grocery stores, ringing bells and encouraging shoppers to donate to their cause. With so many options for charitable giving, people want to know how they can donate wisely. In this blog, I will share how you can use your head and heart to inform your giving and to ensure your donations make a difference.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I was familiar with using data from Candid to evaluate a nonprofit as a prospective employee or when considering giving a donation—I love digging into a 990 ! Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? An effective nonprofit mission statement draws supporters and donors to an organization.

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Greater Giving

JULY 2, 2024

Gazala Uradnik, founder of GFS Events , joined us to talk about event budgeting, revenue producers, and how to make the most of each of your revenue channels. Analyze your budget You’re looking for the highest return on investment with your expenses, which might mean making changes you haven’t considered before to bring in a higher ROI.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 10, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce a revolutionary upgrade in how donors can support your causes—introducing our enhanced Donation Carts. How Donation Carts Work The Donation Cart makes giving fun and interactive, allowing donors to explore, discover, and add your organization’s various causes to their basket.

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Greater Giving

JULY 11, 2024

Start applying for sponsors as soon as possible so you can catch them when they’re making their budget decisions. Donations Get in contact with donors as early as possible, three months or more before the event. Don’t just reach out to sponsors and donors when you need them for a donation or to attend an event. Apply early.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Recurring donations are gifts to a nonprofit organization made by a donor on an ongoing basis, typically monthly. Nonprofit organizations benefit from recurring donations because they provide consistent revenue streams and help organizations maintain long-term relationships with supporters. And donors like it. And donors like it.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Not all donations need to be monetary! By accepting in-kind donations, you can ask your donors to provide resources for your mission in ways that may be more accessible for some of your supporters. Despite not donating financially, in-kind donations can still qualify as a tax dedication, further benefiting your donors.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

When set up right, your nonprofit accounting system will help you manage your nonprofit and streamline processes like budgeting, projecting cash flow, and even hiring. The sole purpose of a Donor Management system is to track donors, track your communication with donors, and track donation information.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

Your words matter when you’re trying to get people to donate. The right words are critical, especially when your goal is to get people to donate! People make the decision to donate with their heart, then justify it with their head. If you inspire people, you’ll get a gift. If you bore people or confuse them, you won’t.

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The Fundraising Coach

JUNE 22, 2023

If our cause involves using donated funds, then learning exactly what to say to donors is not a distraction from our work. Individuals gave a 64% of the total – still the lion share of all giving – but a drastic drop from last year. Are people less generous? Does this mean people are less generous? Not necessarily.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Too often, there is confusion between grants and donations in nonprofit organizations. Additional confusion can be found when major individual donors begin making donations in amounts similar to what an organization can expect to receive as a grant from a foundation. That makes it a grant. You can only use it for certain expenses.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Thanking your donors is not just something you do after you receive a donation and then do nothing for a while. If you don’t have the budget to send cards to everyone, send them to your most valuable donors. You don’t need to explain what your organization does, brag, or ask for another donation. Is that the case?

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Online giving has been an important branch of fundraising for more than a decade now—but the pandemic has made the ability to accept donations digitally an absolute necessity. Donations made through online donation platforms climbed dramatically in 2020, even though the average amount of gifts has decreased. What will it change?

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Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

Individual donations dropped by 2.4%, with their share of total giving slightly decreasing from 67.4% In contrast, the Giving USA Foundation’s annual report highlights that donations rose to $557.16 Donation Sources: Individuals: Donated $374.4 Donation Sources: Individuals: Donated $374.4 Despite a 1.7%

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Fundly

APRIL 29, 2024

If you’re looking to fundraise and accept donations online, this means you can reach a wider audience than ever before. By collecting online donations, you can tap into the passion and generosity of a global community and raise more for your cause. According to the CAF World Giving Index , 4.2 Broader fundraising reach.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

We’ve all received a fundraising appeal letter in the mail asking us to donate. Some are from nonprofits you’ve already donated to while others are groups you may not have heard of that are looking for new donors, targeting you. Maybe YOU have sent out a fundraising appeal letter for your nonprofit, hoping to see donations pouring in.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After all, the more people that find and interact with your cause online, the more potential awareness and even donations you can drive. The same study cites budget constraints as a common barrier to making this happen. So, how can your nonprofit boost its online visibility—without breaking the bank? How does nonprofit SEO work?

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To produce meaningful reports to help you do this, you must track all financial activity and ideally compare it to your budget, or your financial representation of what you think you’ll pursue during the year. You can run them with just a few clicks, and easily add columns for budget to actual, balances, and activity year-over-year.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 6, 2024

You could put a donation envelope in your newsletter to raise some additional revenue, but do not put one in a thank you or holiday card. While that’s understandable on one level, you need to be careful before you nix something you think you can’t afford. It may be something you should be investing in. Stay away from the scarcity mindset.

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CauseVox

JULY 13, 2021

You’ve probably heard of a donation pledge if you’ve been in fundraising for any amount of time. A donation pledge is when a supporter promises to give a certain amount of money in a set time frame. Why Ask For Donation Pledges? So what is the benefit of a pledge over a donation? Increase Gift Sizes. It’s All Automatic.

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CauseVox

JUNE 29, 2022

Your donation page is an essential component of your digital fundraising. It doesn’t matter how many people you get to click through your emails or social media posts; if your donation page doesn’t convert, you won’t see any payoff from that hard work. Sometimes you see donation page examples that makes you swoon. Check it out.

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In essence an RFP is a solicitation released by a funding agency who has money to donate to a good cause. The RFP identifies the best candidates to apply for a grant. And the best part? The RFP process is just as valuable – if not more so – to a potential grant seeker. Finally, the last section gives submission requirements.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2024

Will certain policies or budget cuts affect your organization? Many states have issued their budgets for the next fiscal year. Share ways your donors can help – perhaps by contacting their legislators, volunteering, or making a donation. It’s summer! I hope you’ll get a chance to take a vacation or just some time off.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One key element that can elevate your fundraising game is leveraging in-kind donations. Delve into the world of in-kind donations, exploring what they are and how they can significantly benefit nonprofits, especially for those new to the art of fundraising. Understanding In-Kind Donations What are In Kind Donations?

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CauseVox

MAY 20, 2022

A donation page is one of the most important components of your website and can make or break your fundraising. Your donation page should ultimately aim to close the loop by converting those individuals into donors. If your page is sloppy, clunky, or confusing, it’s counterproductive to driving more donations. Donation tiers.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Search for a platform that offers essential fundraising features such as: Branded donation pages. These donation pages allow your organization to solicit gifts on online channels. Though gifts may be specified for specific campaigns, an online donation page usually collects donations for the annual fund. Recurring giving.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

You don’t want to spend more than you raise, and poor planning can turn an event into a budget buster that wastes your most precious resource – time and volunteers. Tupperware parties, garage sales, and candle fundraisers will not sustain your budget. The RIGHT event: Raises 10-20% of your annual budget. BUT the flip side?

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