Blackbaud

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Grants are an integral lifeline for many nonprofits, providing the necessary funding to launch new initiatives, sustain critical programs, and ensure operational stability. We’re living in an era of technological advancements, AI, and data-driven fundraising solutions that can take your nonprofit organization to the next level.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 29, 2024

Check out these future-proof nonprofit fundraising strategies based on today’s top philanthropic trends. Do your fundraising practices look forward and actively build a foundation for long-term success? This often means investing in new forms of fundraising or making significant updates to existing practices. Gifts of stock.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 31, 2024

In fundraising taking advantage of every potential opportunity for cultivating relationships is essential! You did a crowd-funding campaign and raised enough to fund your new program. In A True—and Heartbreaking—Tale of Not Being Asked for a Donation , Megan Contakes writes: “Yes, it is counter-intuitive. Usually several.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Your nonprofit donation page is a crucial tool for gaining and keeping new donors for your organization. Online donating is far and away donors’ favorite method, with 63% of donors saying they prefer to give online with a credit or debit card. Learn how to set up a donation page with our preferred solution, Qgiv by Bloomerang.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Meta announced a new partnership with PayPal Giving Fund over the summer, but there are ramifications for nonprofits that don’t agree to Meta’s new terms and the new payment provider. Here are four changes that your nonprofit should know if it plans to continue using Facebook and Instagram to fundraise for year end.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Heres a tip: give two (or more) of your friends $10 and ask them to donate to your nonprofit online, via your website. Gifts by DAF (Donor Advised Funds) increased by 83% from 2019 to 2023.Ensure You know that yes, online giving isgrowing because of how accessible and easy it is (or how easy and accessible itssupposedto be).So

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

The past couple of years have represented a challenging time for nonprofit fundraising. In difficult circumstances, it’s helpful to return to the fundraising basics to ensure you’re making the most of tried and true strategies to boost your nonprofit’s donation revenue. Explain the impact of donations.

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Qgiv

MAY 17, 2023

Your online donation forms have the potential to boost your fundraising results. But how do you know if your donation form is hurting or helping your chances? We’ve put together this list of 5 ways you can optimize your online donation forms to increase the funds you raise. You can incorporate images in many ways.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

According to school fundraising studies , only 64% of parents, teachers, and administrators believe their school is well-funded. As a result, choosing the right school fundraising ideas to excite your school community is essential. Implementing a well-organized and engaging fundraiser can yield numerous benefits for your school.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Fundraising experts are mixed on whether this is a good idea. Next comes the ask Ask for a donation at the beginning of the next paragraph (after the story). They’re your best bet for getting donations. Create donation tiers that show what each amount will fund. Do this on your donation page , too.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Whether you’re future-proofing your fundraisers by focusing on future giving initiatives or leveraging low-cost digital channels to acquire donors , your nonprofit can still inspire enough support to keep its operations going strong. Charitable giving saw a 2.1% Use ethical and organized data collection methods. Examine donors’ journeys.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

What do we know about the causes and states each type of funding flows to and the factors that affect giving trends? Both individual and institutional giving increased between 2015 and 2022, not only in terms of total dollars awarded but also in terms of average donation or grant size. According to 2023 IRS data, there are about 1.9

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Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

What do smart fundraisers, particularly those heading up “one-person” development shops, need to know? 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

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Clairification

MARCH 11, 2024

Yet the methods used to encourage donations tend to assume that philanthropy depends on objective assessments of need rather than on donors’ enthusiasms. If there was ever a time to commit to finding out more about the folks on your mailing list so you know what floats their boats, this report indicates that time is decidedly NOW.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

Your words matter when you’re trying to get people to donate. Maybe you’ve experienced this with a fundraising letter that performed so poorly you called it a failure and didn’t want to try it again. Maybe you’ve experienced this with a fundraising letter that performed so poorly you called it a failure and didn’t want to try it again.

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Double the Donation

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Double the Donation has received several requests asking about matching gift programs in Minneapolis. Matching gifts can increase nonprofit fundraising without asking donors to contribute more of their own funds. […]

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. In short, great storytelling tugs heartstrings and that’s step 1 if you want a donation. Your donation of $7.32 EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell!

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

October 10, 2024 will be the first-ever DAF Day , a giving day dedicated to donor-advised funds (DAFs). The initiative was launched in July by a group of 60 nonprofits, fundraising platforms, and DAF sponsors to expand DAF giving by encouraging their networks to give from their DAF accounts on one day, together.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. What Are Restricted Funds? Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

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Candid

AUGUST 13, 2024

Developing an effective funding strategy is vital to any nonprofit’s ability to sustain or increase its impact. And nonprofit boards play an important role in virtually every organization’s funding strategy. Too often, nonprofits jump at flashy fundraising tactics (“Let’s host a gala!”) So how does that play out?

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 28, 2024

By Jackie Sue Griffin Securing grant funding is crucial to a nonprofit’s growth, and it starts with crafting a well-planned and realistic budget. It’s also important to allocate sufficient funds for evaluation and monitoring activities to ensure the project’s success.

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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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CauseVox

JULY 1, 2024

What more could you do to meet your nonprofit’s mission if your amount of monthly donations was constantly growing? We’ve created this comprehensive guide to help you navigate the essential steps to plan, launch, manage, and grow your recurring donation program effectively. Start Today!

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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?

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Many organizations attempt to provide this through a dropdown menu on the donation form, offering donors a list of programs, funds, or departments to choose from. CauseVox Fund Pages offer a better way to connect donors with the causes they care about. Here’s how the key components come together.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundraisers like you have a lot of work to do to make the world a better place, so any time you can save on administrative tasks is incredibly valuable. Fundraising automation saves your nonprofit valuable time and resources by streamlining time-consuming tasks, so you can devote more to time advancing your mission and raising more money.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Evaluating Your 2024 Fundraising Events: What Worked and What Didnt? As 2024 wraps up, now is the perfect time for evaluating fundraising events. Refine Strategies Apply data to optimize your fundraising campaigns for 2025. Did sponsor contributions cover costs, enhance the event, or drive additional fundraising?

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Pamela Grow

JULY 24, 2024

When you combine the associated expenses with the costs of operating your organization day-to-day, you determine that you’ll need to add new fundraisers to your calendar to fund all of these initiatives. Fortunately, there is an answer—passive fundraising! What is passive fundraising? Let’s dive in! Thanking participants.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Fundraisers are scrambling to comply with an October 12 deadline to register without penalties with the State of California regarding the Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable Purposes Act. Passed in 2021 , it establishes a new statutory framework regulating online charitable fundraising platforms.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The first full year of the pandemic, 2021, saw the highest amount of inflation-adjusted dollars donated. The Giving USA data is part of The 2024 Philanthropic Landscape , a report from CCS Fundraising. The point is that nonprofit donations are not keeping up with inflation, and that trend cuts across nearly all funding sources.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2024

However, you can incorporate donor stories on other fundraising pages too, like peer-to-peer fundraising information pages or your ways to support page. Ensure your donor stories include information about the impact of your donors’ gifts to show supporters that your nonprofit uses donations effectively.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Increasing your nonprofit’s fundraising capacity is essential to compete in today’s fundraising environment. According to the 2024 Digital Fundraising Benchmark Report , new donors acquired online gave 19.4% This shows the value of dedicating more resources to growing your online fundraising efforts. Event fundraising.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Words are everything in fundraising. The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. So, what does it look like to use storytelling in fundraising, especially when it’s done well? Why is Storytelling an Effective Tactic for Fundraising? Again, words matter.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2025

Why does making a donation often feel like a transaction? The concept of relationship fundraising has been around for a while, even though its not always implemented. That includes fundraising appeals. Stop using transactional language First, the word transaction should not appear anywhere in your fundraising.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Quick Definition Online fundraising is the process of raising donations for a cause, project, or organization through digital platforms such as websites, social media apps, and email campaigns. In this article, we will cover online fundraising methods, tools, and some quick tips to get your nonprofit started!

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 16, 2024

However, fundraising isnt as simple as it seemsnumerous compliance considerations come along with soliciting funds and maintaining your organizations tax-exempt status. Robust fundraising software streamlines much more than fundraiser-specific tasks like item procurement for an auction or event ticketing for a gala.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 25, 2024

What's more difficult: raising money or deciding which causes to support? Here's a look at the differences between the two.

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