Monday Mixtape 027: 2018 Giving Tuesday Tips Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or questions? Let us know […]

Monday Mixtape 003: Future Fundraising, Website Mistakes, & Winning Fundraising Gold Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions […]

Monday Mixtape 026: Effective Fundraising, Fundraising Appeals, & More Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or questions? Let […]

Monday Mixtape 024: Fundraiser Habits Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or questions? Let us know at blog@causevox.com. […]

Monday Mixtape 028: Board Member Fundraising Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or questions? Let us know […]

Are you looking for a fundraising event that will really make a splash? There’s nothing quite like a polar plunge.  A polar plunge is a peer to peer fundraising event centered around a fantastic group stunt: supporters reach out to their social networks to raise money for a cause and then jump into cold water, […]

It’s hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data.  Instead of reaching out to donors, offering relevant giving opportunities, and telling your nonprofit’s story, you spend your time trying to find information, entering data in multiple places, and creating endless spreadsheets. None of those activities raise any money. Luckily, there’s a simple answer to streamline […]

Since there have been good causes to support, there has been fundraising.  Communities have rallied to meet needs around the globe and throughout history. In the last one hundred years or so, the “how” of fundraising has changed dramatically.  The ways we raise and give money constantly change due to new situations, needs, priorities, and […]

Look, I get it. You got into fundraising to change the world and support a cause, not to do math. Digging into metrics and calculating ROIs was never my favorite part. I like a good spreadsheet as much as the next development professional, but it wasn’t the highlight of my day. I wanted to talk […]

If you’re planning a bowl-a-thon fundraiser for your nonprofit, you’re probably hoping for a bunch of fundraising strikes, or at least to avoid a gutter ball.  But what makes a peer to peer bowl-a-thon successful?  How can you make sure your event is a hit, instead of a ton of work for no results?  Combining […]