We are less than one week out from #GivingTuesday, on December 2. We have no doubt your team is busy running around with the final preparations (come back to the blog in a few days for a post on that topic), but is your community ready, too? Depending on your fundraising strategy for the end […]
Storytelling For Your #GivingTuesday Campaign
Read the title of this post again. You may be thinking, “It’s a 24-hour fundraising challenge. How can storytelling be the most important part?” Trust us – and let us explain. Each year, the #GivingTuesday movement shines a light on thousands of nonprofits doing good in their communities and around the world, in the middle of […]
Why You Should Use CauseVox for Your #GivingTuesday Campaign
With so many options for online fundraising these days, it may be hard to decide which platform to use for big campaigns and opportunities such as #GivingTuesday. And with thousands of partners and nonprofits participating in this unique 24-hour giving event, there’s a challenge and an opportunity to make your campaign stand out, whether you’re doing […]
Making the Most of Your Resources for a #GivingTuesday Campaign
We are less than two months away from #GivingTuesday, December 2, and we’re starting to feel the crunch here at CauseVox. We’ve already heard from some of our nonprofit clients about the campaigns they’re planning, and we hope the resources we’ve provided so far are helpful. Speaking of resources – as a small organization, we […]
New Guide: Finding Nonprofit Volunteers to Support Your Mission
This week, to celebrate Pro Bono Week, the global celebration of pro bono service, we’re launching a new guide on how you can use volunteers to support your nonprofit. People interested in social good are increasingly looking for more active ways to give back to their communities and to the world – they want to […]
New Guide: How to Plan for a Successful #GivingTuesday Campaign
#GivingTuesday is a one-day annual movement focused just on charitable giving. In the two years since #GivingTuesday was launched, the campaign has engaged more than 10,000 organizations around the world, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 2013, collective reporting showed a 90% increase in online giving compared to 2012 and a 270% increase in giving on […]
Gearing Up for #GivingTuesday
We can hardly believe it, but yes, fall is essentially here (at least in terms of football, pumpkin spice lattes, and back-to-school), and that means the holiday season isn’t too far away either. Does your nonprofit already have a holiday giving campaign plan, or are you holding onto those last few weeks of summer? In […]
3 Lessons on Fundraising from J.D. Rockefeller
Before Rockefeller, wealthy philanthropists gave haphazardly to pet causes and rarely concerned themselves with the results of their giving. J.D. Rockefeller, on the other hand, was obsessed with measurable results and accountability. He created the modern institution of philanthropy, but he also set the standard for the modern donor. Working in a nonprofit, you probably […]
CauseVox Feature Focus: Impact Metric
We hope you’ve been enjoying our CauseVox Feature Focus series so far, where we share insights and updates about some of our community’s favorite features. If you haven’t had a chance yet, read about our Site Editor and Blog Tool. This week we’re focusing on the CauseVox Impact Metric. CauseVox Impact Metric This little tool […]
Design Cues from 3 Top News Sites
Gone are the days of text-heavy, unorganized websites with little to no visuals, confusing navigation, and hard to read fonts. Building user-friendly, clean, and beautiful websites aren’t just for top brands or graphic designers; these days, businesses from restaurants to realtors and newspapers to nonprofits are taking advantage of this trend to tell their story. […]