All right – you’re jumping hurdles and filing the paperwork to incorporate your nonprofit, but you suddenly hit a roadblock: you need to select a board. Or let’s say that your organization launched with a board comprised of friends, but their interest is fading as they discover how much is expected of them, and you’re […]
Live Below the Line is both an annual fundraising campaign to fight extreme poverty and a physical challenge for its participants. The challenge? Live on less than $1.25 each day, for five days. Granted, most participants in the US couldn’t adhere strictly to this challenge without leaving their homes on Sunday night with $6.25 in […]
Forget personal New Year’s resolutions – those are rarely kept. This year, adopt organizational resolutions. (You’ll definitely keep those. They’re legally binding!) As you start out in 2013, here are seven things you can do to turbocharge your online fundraising. 1. Create your own branded donation page Having your own branded donation page or online […]
If your organization has a website, but you don’t know what content strategy is, this post is probably good for you to read. Content strategy is the way you go about telling your story as well as creating and publishing information (e.g. blog posts, etc.) on your website or through other related digital media. As […]
“This is our first online fundraiser ever, and we’re already halfway to our goal!” -Matt Wells, Organizer Diavolo Dance Theater in Los Angeles is currently in the middle of a CauseVox campaign to support their dancers, and they’re already more than 50% of the way to their goal. To date, they have raised over $9,000 […]
Some say it’s “the most wonderful time of the year,” but it can also be the busiest. Whether you’re elbowing past last-minute shoppers, dodging tourists, attending a million holiday parties, figuring out how to roast a ham, or trying to squeeze in time with family, it gets pretty hectic. And that’s before we even begin […]
What do a) fundraising and b) screwing around in front of a crowd in a dimly lit bar basement have in common? We recently had a chat with Porter Mason, the Deputy Director of Social Media at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, and a former improv teacher at the UCB in NYC. He let us […]
All right, first things first: this is not a post on how to be funny. (In fact, if you aren’t “funny,” you should stay that way. Unfunny people are the often the funniest of all, just not in the ways they want.) This is a post, however, about how to include more humor in your […]
Do you feel like your online fundraising site isn’t getting as many donors as you should? Here are some tips to help you get more clicks on your donate button. Have a strong call to action Donors are far more likely to donate online when the action you are asking them to do is clearly […]
Blogging is a powerful way to drive search engine traffic to your nonprofit website or online fundraising site. Here are some tips to maximize your online fundraising efforts with blogging. Topics When visiting blogs, users are not looking for a stream of promotional material or asks for donations. They want to read informative, relevant information that is […]
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