What is your organization’s story? The Carlisle Family YMCA is an independent stand-alone Y (short for YMCA) as opposed to other areas that might have twenty to thirty branches. Our mission is three-fold: healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility. What does the fundraising campaign cover for the Y? Every year we raise money in […]
Movers & Shakers: Sarah Kaufmann-Fink of MMORE Raises $80,000
It’s quite a powerful combination when personal passion intersects with fundraising, as in the case of MMORE. In March, Sarah Kauffman-Fink set an ambitious fundraising goal to move a research study to the clinic so myeloma patients could have access to this new treatment as soon as possible. Let’s hear more from Sarah now. Do […]
Movers & Shakers: Trinity Grace Church Williamsburg Raises $100,000
With no prior experience in fundraising and barely tapping social media networks, Tyler Stanton and his team were able to raise $100,000 in forty days to successfully launch their church on Easter Sunday. Continue reading to find out how! Can you tell me more about Trinity Grace Church and its mission? Trinity Grace Church-Williamsburg is […]
5 Crowdfunding News To Follow For Success
You spend your days making a difference, thinking about the change you want to make, the story you want to tell, and the money you need to make it all happen. You eat, sleep, and dream about the change you want to enact, the people you want to help. You know your world better than […]
Movers & Shakers: Adam Hutchison of Roots & Shoots Raises $10,000 to Educate Children in Indonesia
Adam Hutchison set off to Indonesia to pilot a literacy program for WIJABA/Roots & Shoots, hoping to raise $10,000 to continue educating children this fall. By the power of short videos, video editing skills, and a personal touch, he did it! Let’s learn more about Adam and his campaign. Can you tell me about Roots […]
How the Pixar Pitch Framework Can Help You Tell Your Nonprofit’s Story
Powerful storytelling is one of the cornerstones of a great nonprofit fundraising strategy. To learn how to tell great stories, we can look to one of the masters of storytelling: Pixar. If you’ve ever seen one of its award-winning films, you know the people at Pixar do an A+ job of getting the viewer invested […]
Newsjacking: 3 Steps To Leverage Current Events For Your Nonprofit
In late February, a dress took over the Internet. For several days, tweets and Facebook posts flurried around the world. People swore to blue and black or proclaimed allegiance to white and gold. Though not exactly news, the controversial and, at times troubling photo became a trending topic, and soon every website, newspaper, and news […]
What You Can Learn About Crowdfunding From Humans of New York (HONY)
Over a million people liked his photo on Facebook, taken as he stood on a street in Brooklyn with his lips pursed together but a smile in his eyes. He praised the principal of his school as the most influential person in his life. He wasn’t looking to raise money. He answered a few questions, […]
Movers & Shakers: Danielle Festa of Grey2k
Their team might be small, but they’re mighty at Grey2k, an advocacy group for greyhounds in Massachusetts. In 2014, they decided to try CauseVox for their GivingTuesday campaign, and within hours, they nearly surpassed their $5000 goal! Let’s hear more from Danielle Festa about her GivingTuesday campaign success. Tell me more about who you are and […]
Movers & Shakers: National Domestic Violence Hotline’s GivingTuesday Campaign
Kristin Campbell’s fundraising story is not an exception to how current events can quite literally change the course of history for your nonprofit. Three months before their GivingTuesday campaign, TMZ Sports released a shocking video. It showed Baltimore Ravens star, Ray Rice, punching his then-fiancé in an elevator, knocking her unconscious. He then tries to […]