Your fundraising idea needs to be as simple as possible. If it’s not, then you’re setting yourself up for an uphill battle. Crafting a story, writing content, and recruiting supporters is going to be exponentially more difficult for complex ideas. Here’s why simple wins: 1. You’ll have a clear call to action so that supporters […]

The landscape for philanthropy is moving faster than ever before, and the way you run your nonprofit today may not work tomorrow. We found three major trends occurring in online philanthropy that will affect how you operate this decade. These trends are economic, social, and technological. Economic trends Because of the recent recession, donations during 2008 […]

“With CauseVox, we were able to focus on helping children with rare diseases connect with researchers and not worry about building a fundraising platform. It has saved us hundreds of hours and still give our families a beautiful and easy way to raise funds.” ~ Dr. Jimmy Lin, Rare Genomics Institute About Rare Genomics Institute […]

The Online Giving Study found that the branding and personality of your fundraising page makes a double-digit difference in the amount of donations you get. Donors not only give 15% more to branded fundraising pages, but they give 38% more over time! What’s a branded fundraising page? A charity-branded donation page is integrated with the charity’s website. […]

We love browsing through some of our successful fundraisers and their appeals. We ran across Autism Science Foundation’s recent fundraising campaign and one of their supporter’s fundraising appeals. With assistance from BC/DC Ideas, a communications and fundraising agency dedicated to supporting nonprofits, their supporter came up with the high performing appeal, linked below. What made […]

We love it when nonprofits use us to create beautiful branded fundraising pages. Trickle Up, a nonprofit that fights poverty, found a creative way to integrate CauseVox into their website. When you go to their donation page, you’ll see a large call to action called MyCircle. They give a short description of what MyCircle is […]

“CauseVox increased the amount of donations people were receiving online and made it much easier for participants to receive donations.” ~ Christina Taylor, Executive Director of Friends of Van Cortlandt Park About Friends of Van Cortlandt Park (FVCP) Van Cortlandt Park is New York City’s fourth largest park. Playing fields and playgrounds are scattered about […]

In conjunction with the launch of Get Donors, our free 7-part video series on the secrets of nonprofit fundraising, we’ll be publishing key take-aways from each of the seven videos. Our series is taught by Ruthellen Rubin, an NYU Professor of Philanthropy and Certified Fund Raising Executive. She distills over 30 years of professional nonprofit fundraising experience […]

Technology has made communicating and working in teams easier than it has ever been before. As nonprofit staff, we also have tools, tips, and case studies on how to be successful with virtual fundraising. But why do we still struggle with launching campaigns that yield a high impact? Why haven’t we reached our full potential […]

Fundraising is all about the strength of the relationships that you build with your supporters as well as their relationships with their friends and family. At no other point in our history has it been easier to keep in contact with our friends and family through social media, mobile phones, and new technology. We can […]