3 Online Donor Retention Tips That Everyone Should Know

Julia Claire Campbell Fundraising, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising Leave a Comment

Guest blog by Lomesh Shah, CEO of NonProfitEasy Your nonprofit’s supporters help with everything from advocacy to donations, making them essential for maintaining high success rates for mission-oriented projects. So how do you maximize donor retention? Start with prioritizing donor engagement. Use available technology to its fullest extent in order to retain your donors by maintaining high engagement levels. Focus your …

5 Actions Nonprofits Should Take Based on Facebook's Giving Tuesday Report

5 Actions Nonprofits Should Take Based on Facebook’s #GivingTuesday Report

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media Leave a Comment

A recent report released Facebook showcases the impact of their nonprofit fundraising tools last year on Giving Tuesday, and the results are encouraging. If you have never heard of Giving Tuesday, it’s an international day of giving – on the calendar the Tuesday after we have a day of thanks (Thanksgiving) – and then two days of rampant consumerism and …

6 Steps to Get Your Supporters Fundraising on Facebook this #GivingTuesday

6 Steps to Get Your Supporters Fundraising on Facebook this #GivingTuesday (and beyond)

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media Leave a Comment

GivingTuesday is arguably the biggest international social media fundraising event for nonprofits and charities. Occurring after the Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday shopping blitzes each year, GivingTuesday was created as a day to give back. GivingTuesday 2019 stats GivingTuesday gifts: +4 million Total amount donated: $511 million Whole Whale prediction: $502 million Compared to 2018: +$131 million ~ 28% In …

How to Plan for a Great Giving Tuesday Campaign

How to Plan for a Great #GivingTuesday Campaign

Julia Claire Campbell Fundraising, Marketing, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media Leave a Comment

Do you want to raise more money and connect with more supporters this #GivingTuesday? You’re in luck!  Today on Facebook Live I talked with special guest all about what goes into planning and executing a successful Giving Tuesday campaign at your nonprofit. Josh Hirsch is the Director of Mission and Communication for Susan G. Komen South Florida, and he is …

Nonprofit Fundraising On Facebook

5 Ways to Improve Your Nonprofit Fundraising On Facebook

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media Leave a Comment

Charlotte and Dave Willner started a Facebook fundraiser on June 16, titled “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child,” after they saw a viral photo of a 2-year-old Honduran girl looking up and crying as her mother was searched by a Border Patrol agent in southern Texas. They aimed to raise $1,500. As of June 24, more than 400,000 donors have …

Nonprofit social media storytelling strategy

4 Simple Guidelines For Your Nonprofit Social Media Storytelling Strategy

Julia Claire Campbell Marketing, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media, Storytelling, Strategy 1 Comment

Creating a vibrant, effective, and workable social media storytelling strategy can be daunting for many nonprofits, especially small and grassroots organizations with little to no staff capacity or tech savvy. It doesn’t have to be! To begin, take out a piece of paper or your phone and answer this question: “What do our supporters want to hear from us?” This …

Nonprofit Facebook Fundraising

Facebook Is Changing the Nonprofit Crowdfunding Game Again: What Nonprofits Need To Know

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media Leave a Comment

The efficacy of Facebook fundraising tools for nonprofit crowdfunding remains a controversial topic in nonprofit circles. Can the world’s biggest social network really be leveraged to raise significant amounts of money for causes, especially smaller organizations? All evidence points to a resounding yes. (Yes, with some caveats. Read on.) Facebook has created a suite of useful tools for nonprofits to …

Live Debate: What Are The Pros and Cons of Facebook Fundraising for Nonprofits?

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media 1 Comment

Welcome to Facebook Fridays! Fridays at noon I take 15 minutes to help you navigate the crazy wilderness of Facebook for your nonprofit. Today I brought on special guest Noah Barnett from peer-to-peer online fundraising platform CauseVox to answer your question: What are the biggest pros and cons of setting up and using Facebook fundraising tools for nonprofits? Grab the Nonprofit …

5 Stories to Tell In A Nonprofit Crowdfunding Campaign

Crowdfunding for Nonprofits: 5 Stories to Tell In Your Fundraising Campaign

Julia Claire Campbell Fundraising, Marketing, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Storytelling Leave a Comment

Crowdfunding for nonprofits is a trendy but often misunderstood term thrown around in nonprofit fundraising circles. Pew Internet found that roughly one-in-five Americans (22%) have contributed to an online fundraising project on a website like Kickstarter or GoFundMe. This percentage has assuredly grown in recent years with the proliferation of crowdfunding platforms and the push from Facebook to use their free fundraising …