Online Fundraising

We’ll highlight how the Appalachian Train Conservancy created a strategic plan for increasing online giving.

When it comes to perfecting your online fundraising strategy, nonprofits often focus on leveraging software to enable convenient digital donations. Making giving easy for your online supporters is certainly important. However, if your nonprofit wants to bolster your online fundraising strategy over time, you need to take into account the way these software strategies can boost donor retention rates...

As experts in the nonprofit sector, we all understand how difficult it can be to fund our nonprofit marketing strategies for our fundraising initiatives. That's why we have to look toward optimizing online tools that are more cost-effective and still give us the exposure we need to bring in the donors and donations we want...

BitGive Foundation, a nonprofit organization, announced the launch of the beta version of GiveTrack, a blockchain-based platform that allows donors to donate bitcoin to charitable causes and track those donations in real-time. Connie Gallippi, founder of BitGive, made the announcement yesterday at Money20/20, a four-day payments and finance event in Las Vegas. “It is a…

Let me share this story with you. When I worked at a big animal welfare organization with a huge donor base, we had several wonderful people in our “systems support/technology/IT” department. As manager of monthly giving, I had to have regular meetings with these great “techies...

In the nonprofit world, direct mail is still king when it comes to generating revenue. This is one of the few industries in which this is the case, and I can confidently say it isn't changing drastically in the near future. As a digital marketer, it's fascinating to me because this sector seems ripe for…

In this challenging economy, more and more nonprofits, magazines and even brick-and-mortar stores are cutting back on their marketing efforts to better focus on email marketing. Developing or continuing a relationship via email is a good way to further the mission of your organization with the inclusion of more tools in your toolbox...

Nonprofits aren’t immune. In fact, nonprofit organizations may be prime cyber-attack targets. Most collect and store sensitive data like emails, social security numbers, billing information and more. Despite this, nonprofits are often hesitant to make cybersecurity a priority due to the investment of time and resources...

We know that video gives a major boost to open and click-through rates online. So, why not use it to your advantage and invite other donors to join your monthly donor program? Look at your current monthly donors—even if you have just five of them...

We often hear it called “peer-to-peer,” “crowdfunding” and a few other things. Social fundraising is definitely being talked about in both the nonprofit and direct giving space a lot these days. But as I read through post after post, a thought occurred to me: What if everyone is sort of “missing it” with social fundraising? There seems to be something larger here that nobody is really talking about...