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 get practical tips, references to helpful resources, and fresh ideas to maximize your primary school fundraising ideas.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Use GivingTuesday as the kickoff to your year-end fundraising campaign. So, consider creating a communications calendar from GivingTuesday through December 31 st and using email, snail mail, social media, telephone calls, and even SMS messages to connect with donors and remind them to give. Have more tips for year-end giving success?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Find space in your email calendar, swap social media accounts for a day, and line up media interviews. This post was originally published in November 2015 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness in October 2024. Let your partner share their story.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it.

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GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While #GivingTuesday and end-of-year appeals might feel far away, the busiest time of the giving calendar is just around the corner. Donors are paying attention, and many are looking at their spending for the rest of the calendar year. Can they be peer-to-peer fundraisers?

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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?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Don’t let this term scare you.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

We faced a global pandemic, resulting in oftentimes disastrous fundraising. Organizations relying on event-driven fundraising suffered. And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. Then, once nonprofits recovered their wits and resumed asking, fundraising initially rebounded big time.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

According to our report, Navigating the Unknown: 2020 Findings to Future-Proof Your Fundraising , social media posts were the number one driver of charitable gifts in 2020—ahead of email and direct mail appeals! But as a busy fundraiser or nonprofit marketer, it can be challenging to find the time to make social media a priority.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

The secret to successful year-round fundraising for nonprofits is hiding in plain sight. As every seasoned fundraiser will tell you, it comes down to building and sustaining a strong network of nonprofit funders. Many organizations publish a calendar of events on their websites, social channels, or in their newsletters.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now. Nonprofit organizations will need to get serious about fundraising particularly donor retention in 2025. Donor communications provide the engine behind your fundraising program. And for too many years, our money mindset has affected our fundraising.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

From the time we added this topic to our content calendar to the time of publishing, COVID-19 case numbers began to steadily increase as the holidays approached, which gave us a clear answer to the question in this blog’s title: Yes. Virtual fundraising is still needed. Of the nonprofits surveyed, 69.9% Final thoughts.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

1) Save Time Using A Calendar App For Meetings. Your contact simply compares their calendar to your published availability and self-selects an agreeable time. These principles can be applied to systems improvements in fundraising, marketing, operations, and much more. Let’s all help each other get more done.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Include your ad campaigns in your content calendar to maximize their return on investment. Use ads to promote major fundraising campaigns, events, or cause awareness days. Widening your audience reach provides your organization with more opportunities to expand your fundraising campaigns and raise more money for your cause.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

3 Top Fundraising Ideas for Environmentally-Focused Schools Drive home the importance of demonstrating sustainability through your school fundraisers. While you can teach environmental conservation through lessons, drive home the importance of these lessons by demonstrating sustainability through your school fundraisers.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Their findings were published in the Fall 2020 Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, showing a gap in available information as well as initial research indicating more than three in four grant professionals experience physical symptoms, socio-emotional symptoms, or both, of burnout. However, sometimes it is a great fit.

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

As those in the nonprofit world realize, few things are as effective—or as time consuming—as fundraising events. It’s important to have an effective event fundraising marketing plan to save time and execute flawless fundraisers. What should my team consider when developing an event fundraising marketing plan?

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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.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 30, 2024

To succeed in fundraising, you need to maintain energy and enthusiasm among supporters in the community. What are the different ways that you measure fundraising success -dollars raised, event sign-ups, volunteer acquisition? Identify trends in your data and make connections-which years were your best for fundraising?

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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.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2021

Offer something of value, such as a whitepaper, special report, or e-book your organization published or an infographic your organization created. Another organization offered a beautiful digital calendar image on the first day of every month. When a person signs up to receive the item, request their email address. Get creative.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

Clearly articulating the objectives — the outcomes — you expect from your grantseeking efforts is a critical component of your overall fundraising plan. " One resource is the State of Grantseeking™ Report that GrantStation publishes every six months. Mark your calendar now for May 16 and 17 (next week!).

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Check out this Fundraising Fundamentals eBook we made with our friends at Donorly to keep learning and honing your fundraising skills! If you’ve got events to highlight, reserve a section of your newsletter to promote your upcoming fundraisers and need-to-know events. Upcoming nonprofit events. Miscellaneous information.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

What are the top GivingTuesday best practices and fundraising ideas to make you stand out in 2024? Here are a few things you should discuss with your team as we head towards the holiday season: Themes to tie your fundraising together. Since 2012, GivingTuesday has become a worldwide day of (mostly) online giving.

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The Fundraising Coach

JULY 27, 2023

For example, let’s say you want to highlight your annual year-end fundraising event on social media. Create a content calendar that includes what will be published on your website and when it will be shared on social media. Encourage peer-to-peer fundraisers to post.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Your organization’s ability to further its mission depends not only on successful fundraising , but also on allocating your funds so you can cover all of your expenses while setting your nonprofit up for long-term sustainability and growth. Effective financial management is critical for operating a nonprofit. Statement of functional expenses.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2024

Budgeting Your nonprofit’s annual budget is a key financial planning document that guides your organization’s spending and fundraising efforts. In the first few years of your organization’s existence, your overhead expenses may be relatively high since you’re just getting started with fundraising and fine-tuning your operations.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you start planning your fundraising events, you want to make registration and management as easy as possible for both you and your donors. With the right event management software for nonprofits, you can run your fundraising events more efficiently, helping you raise more money for your cause.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

We at GrantStation hope the data in the soon-to-be published State of Grantseeking™ report helps to alleviate some of the frustration among nonprofit organizations as they engage in grantseeking activities. Mark your calendar now for May 16 and 17! Learn more. spanhidden.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Offer major donors a VIP ticket to an exclusive gala, event, or other upcoming experience on your organization’s calendar. This well-designed document will showcase measurable outcomes that align with their specific interests, and if it is published externally, can bring more awareness to causes they care about.

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Selfish Giving

MAY 11, 2022

Tomorrow, May 12th @ 3pm EDT for the unveiling of the very latest research on giving at the register (aka Point-of-Sale fundraising). ?? I WILL NOT BE PUBLISHING A NEWSLETTER NEXT WEDNESDAY. ?? Last night I was trying to remember the last time I DIDN'T publish my newsletter. It's the #1 conference on my calendar every year.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Manage the Filings Keep a calendar of filing requirements and assign responsibility. File Form 1099-MISC to report payments totaling more than $600 per calendar year to such persons. Most state nonprofit associations have helplines or publish FAQs and other guides covering these types of issues.

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Community Boost

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Content Calendar and Resource Planning A content calendar is crucial for maintaining a consistent presence across all channels. For example, a nonprofit focused on environmental conservation might host a webinar on sustainable living practices or publish a guide on the impact of deforestation.

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