Digital storytelling is one of the big trends for nonprofits in 2012. More and more of them are seeing a high ROI on creating videos, writing narratives, and investing in media. Yesterday, we presented with Annie and Ethan from ListenIn Pictures at NTEN’s 501 tech event in NYC about our digital storytelling for nonprofits. We […]

Every day, I get to see how hundreds of nonprofits run their virtual fundraising campaigns. Some of the most memorable, shared, and successful are the ones that make fundraising fun. For example, One Girl raised $40k by asking their supporters to do things in a dress. The United Way raised 50% more than their goal […]

Happy holidays to all! We’re excited to kick 2012 off with a free session in NYC on video storytelling, hosted by the Foundation Center and NTEN. We’ll be talking about our recent digital storytelling ebook with ListenIn Pictures. Read more and register for the session below. It’s free and limited seats are available. —- The […]

“CauseVox is the sexiest fundraising platform I’ve ever used. So simple, so easy to understand.” – Chantelle Baxter This case study discusses how One Girl’s “Do It in a Dress” campaign raised over $42,000 through their CauseVox fundraising site. In addition, their campaign strategy, techniques, results, and lessons learned from their campaign are discussed in […]

Tell us a little bit about who you are. I currently work at Yammer, supporting some of Australia’s largest enterprises to roll out an enterprise social network inside their companies. I’m also a board member of The Awesome Foundation, a monthly micro-funding project which promotes the interest of awesome in universe. This was actually where […]

After co-authoring our video ebook, we decided to “eat our own dog food” and create a video! Here it is: Let us know what you think.

We are thrilled to announce that our e-book The Starter Guide to Non-profit Video Storytelling (which we co-wrote with ListenIn Pictures) is now available for download! In the book, we describe how your non-profit can create a video strategy that will set you up for success. We explore how to create video which push people to […]

This is a guest post by our friend Howard Freeman. Howard Freeman is Founder and Principal of Zoey Creative Development, a charitable giving consultancy in NYC serving both organizations and also individual philanthropists.  He can be reached at howard@zoeycreativedevelopment.com. The Upper West Side of Manhattan is not the best neighborhood to shop for cheap groceries if […]

Year-end fundraising is the biggest time of the year for nonprofits. 40% of donations come in at year-end. Allyson Kapin from Frogloop gathered these facts on her blog post. In 2010 an estimated $291 billion was raised. – Charity Navigator This is an increase of 3.8% from 2009 when giving was $280.3 billion. – Charity […]

From your team at CauseVox, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving! We have a lot to be thankful for. One of the biggest things is you, our customers and supporters. This has been our first full year, and it has been a been a tremendously awesome year. Through ups and downs, we are so grateful […]