To celebrate the holidays, we’re having a 15% off sale on CauseVox Prepaid subscriptions. This promo expires on January 15, 2015, and only happens once a year, so take advantage of these discounts today. Prepaid plans give you a 0% CauseVox transaction fee, an annual license to use CauseVox with no monthly subscription fees, and all unlimited features. You […]

If you work in a nonprofit, chances are you are a woman or are led by one. Women make up 45 percent of nonprofit CEOs, and 73 percent of overall workers, but only 21 percent of nonprofits with budgets over $25 million are led by women. This suggests that most smaller nonprofits, those most in […]

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 […]

While crowdfunding gives you access to a much wider audience for spreading your message and connecting with potential supporters, it can also put you at risk of diluting your message. With access to so many people, you need to make sure that you are spending your time wisely and getting in front of the most […]

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 […]

Modern nonprofits don’t operate like the charities of old. They blend attributes of social enterprises, educational institutions, microfinance banks, and volunteer organizations. While these non-traditional models are having bigger and more lasting impacts, it means that these nonprofits have unusual organizational structures and often a higher proportion of funds going to overhead, a four-letter word […]

You can breathe now – the third annual #GivingTuesday has come and gone. We were so excited to see how many of our users chose to participate in the annual day of giving back. Compared to last year, the total raised for #GivingTuesday increased by 15x on CauseVox. We had hundreds of #GivingTuesday campaigns running. […]

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 […]

We’re just a day away from the third annual #GivingTuesday; it’s time to do a status check. With Thanksgiving this week, time is getting tight to put the final pieces into place for the 24-hour giving holiday on December 2. Hopefully, you’ve been able to make use of the CauseVox GivingTuesday Resource Center to help your organization […]

We are less than one week out from #GivingTuesday, on December 2. We have no doubt your team is busy running around with the final preparations (come back to the blog in a few days for a post on that topic), but is your community ready, too? Depending on your fundraising strategy for the end […]