Fundraising Trends in 2017 On this episode, we talk with Heather Mansfield. She is the founder of the Nonprofit Tech for Good blog and author of the best-selling books Mobile for Good and Social Media for Social Good. Over the last 10 years, she’s helped trained fundraisers at more than 30,000 nonprofits, NGOs, and charities […]

2016 was our first year hosting Rally & Engage, a podcast about online fundraising for nonprofit leaders, fundraisers, and marketers (you can read more about why we did this here). Over the course of the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to bring insights and ideas from 25 top nonprofit leaders and fundraising consultants to thousands of listeners made […]

Year-End Fundraising Emails On this episode, I wanted to share the audio from a recent training I hosted. During the training, I shared 11 ways you can get more of your supporters to open, engage, and respond to your year-end fundraising emails. With only 1 week left of the year, I thought this was a […]

As a Customer Service Advocate at CauseVox, I have the opportunity to work alongside nonprofit fundraisers who are working in the trenches. It’s truly a privilege to assist organizations that are doing amazing things every day. Hearing their stories about not only how but why they’re fundraising, makes being a resource to fundraisers all the […]

Being a fundraiser is hard. And these last few months of the year are especially so, with #GivingTuesday, year-end appeals, donor events, and holidays sprinkled throughout. On top of this, it’s mostly thankless work. Why is this? As our team takes tomorrow off to celebrate Thanksgiving here in the U.S., we wanted to stop and […]

Guest Post by Beth Kanter and Aliza Sherman, Co-Authors, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout Thanksgiving marks the home stretch of the year-end fundraising cycle which can be a pressure cooker for many nonprofit professional fundraisers.  Trying to manage huge workloads with limited resources, can easily trap us into thinking that we […]

How To Activate Supporters For Your Cause In this episode we talk with Kenny Kane, the Executive Director of Testicular Cancer Foundation (testicularcancer.org/) about the importance of having a deep understanding of your ideal donors and how that fuels how you craft your messages and activate supporters to take action for your cause. Kenny has significant […]

Guest Post by Barb Perell Vice President of Online Services from Avalon Consulting. My name is Barb and I love direct mail. As a digital fundraiser for the past 16 years, that may be surprising. But I’ve seen first-hand that nonprofit programs that leverage online AND offline channels perform better than those that don’t. So as […]

Guest Post by Allison White, Vice President Graham-Pelton Consulting, Inc. The end of the year approaches and like clockwork, so many organizations and fundraisers throw out the strategic, thoughtful approach they embrace the rest of the year. In its place arrives a hurried pace, an overflowing calendar, and worst of all….a feeling of guilt. The […]

What are ideal donor personas? On this episode we talk with Julia Reich, founder of Stone Soup Creative, about how a nonprofit can identify and craft their ideal supporter personas and how these profiles then influence your fundraising messages. Julia is a branding consultant for nonprofits, strategist, speaker, designer and writer. She works with nonprofits and […]