Archive for Fundraising

The Art of Year-End Fundraising: How to Develop a Compelling Campaign Story

Developing a strong and compelling campaign story can make a huge difference in your donation revenue. Articulating your mission’s efforts and impact while appealing to emotions is key to ensuring your donation ask is accepted. Our team has developed a tried and true donation campaign storytelling framework to…

How to Effectively Launch Your Year End Campaign

What are your nonprofits’ top pain points in fundraising? In order to build your year-end fundraising campaign, this is the most important question to ask in order to understand what doesn’t and what does work when it comes to building your fundraising strategy. We stress to all of…

Recurring Giving: The Keys to Unlocking Your Campaign

Power and Key Benefits  What is your experience as a nonprofit with launching a recurring giving campaign? Do you already have a program and theme, or are you stuck in certain areas? We want to talk about the importance of recurring giving and donor stewardship following year-end. First,…

Year-End Fundraising Campaign: 7 Tips to Surpass Goal and Finish Strong

Tip #1: Don’t Reinvent The Wheel  As a nonprofit, it can be hard to recognize your year end fundraising campaign wins when you are feeling overwhelmed as if everything is coming down on your plate at once, and you are wearing ALL of the hats. If you don’t…

Giving Tuesday: What Your Nonprofit Needs To Do in November

If you are following along with our year-end campaign suggested timeline, you may know that November is the time to fully launch your 2021 Giving Tuesday campaign by leading with gratitude. Here are our top suggestions for what your nonprofit should be focusing on in November based on…

6 Creative Ways to Fundraise on Giving Tuesday

  In just over a month, Giving Tuesday 2021 will take place and it’s projected to be one of the biggest Giving Tuesdays yet.  Year over year, the amount raised on Giving Tuesday has multiplied. Even in 2020 when Covid-19 hit, there was a 94% increase in giving…

The Power & Predictability of Recurring Giving Programs

The Keys to Launching a Recurring Giving Program As we learned from our webinar, there is a whole lot of power and predictability behind a strong recurring giving program.  Based on industry data, recurring giving programs can lead to an increase in total donor lifetime value by 487%,…

How to Keep the Momentum Going Through December’s Month of Giving

It’s finally December! After the big build-up from Giving Tuesday, I’m sure you can take a nice deep breath. But now what? How do you keep this momentum going through December or during the ‘inevitable trough’? Well, we are here to tell you that 31% of all giving…

Top 5 Giving Tuesday Results in 2022

What Is Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday (aka #GivingTuesday) is a global day of giving that takes place on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, serving as the unofficial kickoff to the year-end giving season.   Since its inception in 2012, Giving Tuesday has taken the nonprofit world by storm and…

8 Ways To Thank Your Donors This Year-End

Thanking your donors is one of the best ways to engage with them, build community and trust, and increase your chances of receiving a second gift. This isn’t just speculation, the proof is in the data! According to GuideStar, donors are 400% more likely to give again if…