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 […]
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Movers & Shakers: Sanjli Gidwaney with Design for Change
Once you know other possibilities are out there, you can’t un-know it and often this happens by traveling abroad. Sanjli Gidwaney, the founder of the US chapter of Design for Change, has seen this firsthand by taking a group of students abroad last year. This year she needed to crowdfund again, except she decided to […]
Movers & Shakers: Jolene Tan of AWARE & The Sexual Assault Care Centre
AWARE decided to expand their current services to launch a Sexual Assault Centre so they set out to raise $30,000 in ten weeks. Jolene Tan, the Programs and Communications Senior Manager at AWARE, led her team in this effort. To their great surprise, they raised $33,000 in one month! With the help of a compelling […]
