When everyone else looks at their December calendars to pencil in parties and family events, fundraising professionals may as well just scrawl “The End is Nigh” across the entire month. Year-end fundraising. It’s coming. Get ready! The end of the calendar year and its corresponding tax deduction potential collides with winter holidays and celebrating generosity, […]

Look at the average fundraising professional’s budget, and you’ll see allocations for four major pools of money: individuals, foundations, governments, and corporations. These four areas count for the majority of donations for most organizations. Far too often, skipping over the last area is easy. Corporate donors can seem mysterious, and developing strong nonprofit corporate partnerships […]

Monday Mixtape 023: Nonprofit Change Management 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 022: Nonprofit Leadership Strategies 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 […]

What is a case statement? Well, let me share a story that will help you better understand what a case statement is, why it’s important, and how to ensure your case statement resonates with potential donors. Imagine you’re sitting down for coffee with a prospective major gift donor. Maybe you met her at an event […]

Monday Mixtape 020: Social Media Fundraising in 2018 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 […]

If you or your nonprofit uses the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram, you may have noticed a new TV screen icon pop up on your screen where there wasn’t one before. It’s a new feature: IGTV. IGTV is an app for viewing long-form, vertical video that launched on June 20, 2018. Previously, Instagram only allowed […]

Monday Mixtape 019: How Will the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) Impact Charitable Giving? 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 […]

Monday Mixtape 018: How Will the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) Impact Charitable Giving? 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 […]

From the server who draws a smiley face and “thank you!” on the back of your check, to giant brands like Zappos going on a “thank you tour” businesses understand the power of  “thank you.” Are the businesses who go out of their way to thank their customers simply very polite folks? Maybe, but in […]