Customer Story: Junior League of St. Petersburg’s Little Black Dress Initiative

As the Junior League of St. Petersburg quickly learned after running a stellar peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, amazing fundraising results don’t always mean you have a phenomenal fundraising experience. When a fundraising website isn’t laid out properly or isn’t user-friendly, both your fundraisers and donors suffer. When it was time to run their 2017 Little Black […]

Want to Send Better Emails? Be More Personal.

For almost all of our clients and most nonprofits for that matter, email is the most valuable source for online donations so we’ve been kind of obsessed with figuring out how to send great emails (once you’ve acquired them, more on that here). If I had to sum up our findings from experiments and experiences […]

Monday Mixtape 007: Spring Fundraising Ideas, Peer-to-Peer, & Nonprofit Email Tips

Monday Mixtape 007: Spring Fundraising Ideas, Peer-to-Peer, & Nonprofit Email Tips Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions […]

The 2 Online Donation Tools You Need To Use In 2018

What fundraising tools do you use on an everyday basis? If you’re like most fundraisers, your fundraising tool belt is pretty full. You probably have a website, possibly a Facebook “Donate” button, physical pledge cards for in-person events, and more. Each tool you use plays an integral role in bringing in those much-needed dollars—they’re all […]

3 Tips To Running A Wildly Successful Recurring Donation Campaign

At CauseVox, we know that it takes more than a couple fundraising campaigns to meet the ever-growing financial needs of the average nonprofit or charity. Thankfully, there’s an effective way to bring in enough money to support your organization over the year and it doesn’t involve an annual campaign. Think about integrating a recurring giving […]

Monday Mixtape 006: Fundraising Mentorship – Take Chances, Make Mistakes, & Get Messy

Monday Mixtape 006: Fundraising Mentorship – Take Chances, Make Mistakes, & Get Messy Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. […]

Five Effective Ways To Craft a Donor Update Letter

Do your donors know what’s going on at your organization? Have you shown them what their dollars actually do? Too often, we ask donors for money, send a thank you when they give it, and then… They never hear about it again. This lack of follow-through is too bad, for several reasons, including: They helped […]

Customer Story: Pensacola Habitat For Humanity Women Build Campaign

Pensacola’s Habitat for Humanity started their own Women Build initiative back in 2013 in an effort to bring women together to change the lives of deserving families in Pensacola. At that time, they used a general website equipped with a few fundraising plugins to capture all their much-needed donations. But as the scope of the […]

Monday Mixtape 005: Donor Retention, Annual Reports, & Fundraising Tips

Monday Mixtape 005: Donor Retention, Annual Reports, & Fundraising Tips Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or […]

Nonprofit Website Redesign Best Practices

Your nonprofit’s website is essential to the success of your work. A high-quality website runs all day, every day to inspire, activate, and rally your online audience for you. But just because you have a functioning website doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Just like you need to train the perfect employee, you also need to build […]