Aishwariya Chandrasekar, Development Manager at VisArts, joined CauseVox’s CEO, Rob Wu for a great interview covering all things from VisArts almost $100,000 annual campaign to embedded donations form perks. While she is not a CFRE (yet), Aishwariya brings a diverse background in business psychology and anthropology with corporate experience and social anthropology. Throughout her career, […]

Cylinda Nickel is the Executive Director of Compassion Services International (CSi), a nonprofit dedicated to global support and change for the future. She has worked in various roles in mission oriented nonprofits and joined CSi about 4 years ago. While her experience shines through her answers by sharing great tips through this discussion, including emphasizing […]

While nonprofits can ignore the importance of individual donors, corporate partners can bring unmatched powerful support to organizations, including: Skills-based support & training Workplace giving programs In-kind donations Volunteers or a volunteer grants Sponsorships for fundraising events Matching gift programs Often times, the outreach process is less than easy to find corporate partners for your nonprofit. […]

Here’s the secret: organizing the perfect fundraising event isn’t always about creating something new or doing what’s trendy. Instead, it’s about implementing the right event fundraising best practices and ideas that fit your organization and your donors. Whether you’re organizing an in-person, virtual, or hybrid fundraising event, you’re all trying to pull off a high-performing […]

Your donation page is an essential component of your digital fundraising. It’s often times one of the first places a potential donor is able to get to know your nonprofit, which is a huge opportunity for a great first impression. But most of the time, it’s an afterthought in fundraising. You’re too busy formulating the […]

Smart tech helped nonprofits to pivot to suddenly remote and digital delivery of programs and services during the pandemic, it may also enable us to turn the page on an era of frantic busyness and scarcity mindsets to one in which nonprofit organizations have the time to think and plan — and even dream. As […]

“Why should I give to you?” Your donors ask or think about this question every time they consider giving. When a donor says it out loud, most nonprofits are ill-equipped to answer it. Do you go through your programming? Ask the donor more questions before responding? Try to find even the slightest connection to the […]

You’ve hit a wall with your marketing strategy. You’re struggling to connect with your target audience and gain or retain their support. You’ve tried the social media thing, but your engagement is lower than you’d like it to be. You’re frustrated and tired. Something needs to change, but you don’t know where to start. Well, […]

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, major gift work revolved around in-person donor visits – and for many of us, that’s how we would prefer to make those big asks. But, even before the virtual shift, this approach was creating significant barriers for smaller nonprofits as well as wear-and-tear on traveling major gift officers. The pandemic […]