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 […]
Movers & Shakers: Xio from Charity Science
Xio Kikauka, Co-founder and Executive Director of Charity Science, an organization focused on looking into science for good, thought fundraising would ruin her connections with people. However, this is not how her story ends. During her fundraising campaign, she tested this idea that claims ‘if you ask for money you will ruin your friendships’ and […]
Movers & Shakers: Heather Biscoe of Bayshore Christian Ministries
30 days / Goal $10,000 / Raised $14,230 Hailing from East Palo Alto, California Heather Biscoe, the development officer of Bayshore Christian Ministries, needed to raise $10,000. This year marked their 30th anniversary so they set out to ask for $30 from each person in their “$30 for 30 years” campaign. Not only did they […]
Movers & Shakers: Mark Whitehead of WOD for Water
In 2009 Mark Whitehead and Forrest Walden founded Neverthirst to bring clean water to people around the world by using a fitness workout as a fundraising event they call WOD for Water. Five years later not only have they helped 300,000 people, they’ve had an outpouring response that has forced them to scale up their […]
New Guide: The Indispensable Guide to Nonprofit Donors
As a nonprofit, you need to know the difference between types of donors and the cultivation cycle and timeline for each donor. We just launched a new guide to help you understand the timing and strategy involved with acquiring individual donors, foundation grants, and corporate donors. With this guide, you will better understand how to diversify […]
Movers & Shakers: Kris Hassanpour of Anchor Church
Our next Movers & Shakers story comes from a pastor in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In August of 2014 lead pastor, Kris Hassanpour, and his team launched a fundraising campaign to help ease the often bumpy transition of relocating and rebranding their church. By raising $15,000 they hoped to move to a new building and take […]