This week, Lauren Knight is sharing her fundraising experience and best practices. Lauren raised $1060 within 10 days. Read more to gain some valuable insights on how to make your fundraiser more successful. Tell us a little bit about who you are. I am a 25 year old from Tennessee, currently working and traveling in […]

To all startup nonprofits, stop wasting your donor’s funds. You’re not spending time and money on the right things when it comes to technology. We’ve seen non-profits waste thousands of dollars on a web developer, adopt overpriced donor management systems, pay for phone lines, and much more. It’s upsetting because so much time and resources […]

HUGE is a full-service interactive agency that specializes in building digitally-driven businesses. They rallied their own company’s community to raise over $12,000 for Japan. Read their story and fundraising tips. Tell us a little bit about who you are. My name is Claudia Chow, I am a Creative Director at HUGE. Why did you decide […]

Understanding your support base is one of the three foundations of a successful digital campaign. We talk about this strategy framework in a previous post. The most effective fundraising is based on relationships. Understanding supporters is building relationships. It gives you insight into why they love your non-profit, what draws them in, and how to […]

How do successful fundraising campaigns communicate? What makes them effective and fundraising or not effective? After examining fundraising campaigns that have been successful, we’ve developed three categories of communication that they use: 1. Updates – This is commonly in the form of mass communication to your support base — usually email newsletters and blog posts. […]

Getting started with online fundraising can be difficult and confusing. We’ve heard from many of you that were waiting to set up your fundraising campaigns to fit within our 30 day trial period. Some organizations were even creating multiple accounts to extend their trial — very clever. You’ll be glad to hear that we’ve replaced […]

On March 11th 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan. The massive earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 77 feet that pushed as far as 6 miles inland. Tens of thousands of Japanese were reported dead or missing and hundreds of thousands were left homeless. That morning, CauseVox […]

Camp Rising Sun is one of our non-profit partners that has used CauseVox as a “home base” for their online fundraising efforts. Rene Pierpont, one of their supporters, has raised more than $2600 through her fundraising page. We asked Rene to share her thoughts on the experience and to give a few tips on fundraising. […]

Supporters create fundraising pages to fundraise on your behalf. Here are some helpful tips to help your supporters get started: 1. Complete the setup of your page. It’ll say “100% Complete”. 2. Regularly send personal emails to everyone you know. Reminders work well. 3. Include your personal link everywhere — your email signature, Facebook, Twitter, […]

Guest post by Mazarine Treyz, Author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising, Speaker, Consultant Mazarine helps people get money for the causes they care about. She also helps businesses and people with their online reputations. Give her a shout on twitter, or email her at info@wildwomanfundraising.com. @wildwomanfund WildWomanFundraising.com ———————————————————————————————— You have one lick, and then you want more and more! It’s […]