Podcast & Articles
Our podcast episodes and articles both contain tips and tales of non-profit success in fundraising, board development, and doing good.
Each of our podcast episodes feature an interview with a non-profit about the tactics used to raise funds and create impact. Click here to ask a question or be a guest on our podcast.
Empowering loyal donors to fundraise on your behalf is a powerful way to bring in new supporters. But peer-to-peer fundraisers can be difficult to manage. Success means coordinating many people, messages, and technology.
The success of your campaign depends on how
Summer can sometimes be a fundraising “low point” because it’s hard to break through the fun, sun, and activities to get donors’ attention.
But we also know that summer offers valuable time to connect with your community and get ready for your fall and year-end ...
If you’re lucky enough to get to participate in a local giving day, here are some tips to make your campaign successful
"Stop treating your donors like an ATM, and start treating them like a community." We hear this advice all the time.
But how do you build a donor community?
We distilled some tactics to help you build a strong community that is motivated to support your cause. ...
The unsung hero of the donation process is the thank you page - that page your donors get to after they make a donation. Too often these pages look clinical and boring. We once saw one that just said “Thank you for your donation” on a plain white page.
So while ...
Raise more money by understanding your donor types
One of the hardest things to do is write a fundraising message to someone you don’t know. That’s where developing donor personas can help you. Donor personas are just an imaginary profile of how a typical donor ...
One great way to bore your audience is to repeatedly send the same email over and over again. (“Too many asks” is probably the number one reason your donors unsubscribe). But this is an easy problem to fix by developing different types of emails for different ...
Good ways to increase donations
The best kind of fundraising is the kind that consistently delivers, day after day. One of our favorite tactics to increase your fundraising effectiveness is working on your donation page. Not only can it increase the NUMBER of ...
Good ways to get to know your donors and keep them
We see non-profit organizations spend a lot of time speculating about why donors choose to make donations. But rather than spending time assuming what your donors think, try asking them. Donor surveys are ...
Every time we review results from a fundraising campaign (I mean, EVERY SINGLE TIME) our clients realize how much more money they could have raised if they only had a bigger email list.
Don’t live your life filled with regret, check out these tips on how to build ...
January is the time to put the finishing touches on your fundraising plan and to think big about what your non-profit wants to achieve for the year. The simplest fundraising plan has the following parts:
Summary of your past fundraising results
How much came in ...
An easy and meaningful way to get the board involved in organization fundraising is by giving them the MOST fun part of our jobs - thanking donors!
But you don’t want to just let the Board go bananas with a bunch of donor contacts so it’s best to give them some ...