I want to run an online fundraising campaign to connect with new donors. You have seen the power of crowdfunding and online fundraising campaigns for nonprofits, from the increasing popularity of #GivingTuesday to the Ice Bucket Challenge and beyond. These successful online fundraising campaigns do not happen overnight. Quite a lot of preparation and planning goes into launching a …
Nonprofit Master Class
NONPROFIT MASTER CLASS: How to Launch a FABULOUS #GivingTuesday Campaign with Less Work and More Impact During this 60-minute Masterclass, you’ll learn: The reasons that so many #GivingTuesday campaigns fall flat, and solutions to ensure that you don’t make the same mistakes; The 3 essential steps to take to ensure that you launch a campaign that will slay your goals …
Your Best Year-End Fundraising Plan EVER
Do you have a plan in place to meet – or, better yet, exceed – your year-end fundraising goals? Or will you be spending the last weeks of the year in panic mode, wondering what tactics you could have used to raise more money? Just think: some organizations raise 70% of their donations during the last six weeks of the …
How to Create a Nonprofit Social Media Toolkit for Your Online Fundraising Campaign
When creating and implementing your nonprofit online fundraising campaign, remember that getting people’s attention is much harder than it seems. The trap nonprofits too often fall into is that they feel entitled to attention, and even donations, from their supporters and online community members. Reality check: Just because you have a wonderful cause does not mean that people will understand …
8 Step Guide to Planning the Perfect Nonprofit Fundraising Event
Guest blog by Kerri Moore With the advent and extent of social media marketing, nonprofit organizations are able to spread the word about their fundraising events farther and wider than ever before. Year over year, fundraising events have increased the revenue of nonprofits across the board— smaller nonprofits especially. It’s no coincidence. Social media has opened up the doors and …
How Much Was Raised On Giving Tuesday?
The numbers for 2015’s #GivingTuesday are in, and they are astounding! **$116.7 million dollars raised through over 1 million gifts **The mean gift size was over $100! **Social media mentions of the hashtag #GivingTuesday were at least 1.3 million. **71 countries across the globe participated. And the numbers and data keep coming in! To get your nonprofit counted, please fill out …
2 Essential Mobile Apps Your Nonprofit Should Be Using
Millennials – that elusive group of donors over which every nonprofit salivates – have identified that they prefer giving more frequent, smaller gifts. They want to see the direct impact that their money is having on the social causes they care about. And they want to share the good work with their social networks and get even more people on …
Nonprofit giving is about more than just money
As a busy nonprofit professional, I am sure you often get hung up on the million-dollar question – How can we quickly raise more money for our organization? Nonprofits are obsessed with online giving campaigns and social media fundraising, but how can we quantify all the other ways people support our cause? This infographic from everydayhero describes this type of …
21 Ways to Give Back Through Your Holiday Shopping
Love it or hate it, the holiday hysteria is upon us! Thankfully, there are quite a few ways you can give back and pay it forward this holiday season. Here are just 21 ways to give back through your holiday shopping. 1. Participate in #GivingTuesday Then you can feel good about all the shopping you did or have yet to do. …