Video

#NPPTrendingNow Ep 8: Creative Ideas for an Awesome Swag Bag
June 30, 2017 at 8:49 am

Welcome back to #NPPTrendingNow, a weekly video series where NonProfit PRO editor-in-chief Nhu Te breaks down the top three coveted stories of the week. Topping the ranks this week is from guest blogger Sam Momin, where she gives you some really creative and valuable tips for putting together an awesome swag bag. Angela Struebing shares…

2017 NonProfit Pro Leadership Conference Recap
June 20, 2017 at 11:47 am

The NonProfit PRO Leadership Conference was a blast this year. Our speakers were great, our content was educational and our attendees had a fantastic time. Check out the video to see this year's highlights. What do you want to see in 2018?

What Makes a Good Design? Beauty or Performance?
June 20, 2017 at 11:09 am

How does modern design impact your donation page? As modern Web design relies more and more on user experience, it’s brought new design elements to donation pages and landing pages. We like to think that having a beautiful donation page or landing page means we’ll get more donations...

#NPPTrendingNow Ep. 6: Guidelines for a Simplified Strategic Plan
June 16, 2017 at 10:31 am

This week was all about the fundraising ladies. Andrea Kihlstedt shares a story of a gift solicitation gone wrong and lessons learned from it; Marilyn Donnellan gives us five guidelines for a simplified nonprofit strategic planning process; and Tammy Zonker discusses the five donor love languages...

Make Video a Powerful Tool, Not a Wasted Resource
June 7, 2017 at 10:04 am

We are huge proponents of video—carefully planned video with a clear objective. In most campaigns that are focused on major gifts, we are not big fans of a fundraising video, unless there is a reason that prospective donors can’t see impact of the client’s work firsthand...

#NPPTrendingNow Ep. 2: Are Nonprofits Hypocritical?
May 19, 2017 at 10:49 am

Welcome back to #TrendingNow. This week, our readers were interested in some executive issues addressed by some of our top bloggers: Howard Levy, F. Duke Haddad and Jeff Jowdy...

#NPPTrendingNow Ep. 1: Monthly Giving Exercises
May 12, 2017 at 11:44 am

Welcome to NonProfit PRO's new weekly video series called #TrendingNow, where Nhu, NPP editor-in-chief, breaks down the most popular articles of the week. This week is all about when a monthly donor calls to cancel from Erica Waasdorp, exercises in monthly giving from Blackbaud's Ashley Thompson and DonorDrive's webinar on Google AdWords...

What Can the King of Rock and Roll Teach Us About Fundraising? (Video)
January 3, 2017 at 9:42 am

Believe it or not, my Elvis obsession helped me arrive here, right at this video from University of Cambridge. Elvis has played a central, deified role in his life and in the lives of the women who knew him. But in this video, he’s cast as a more peripheral character. In the short clip, a Cambridge historian narrates the fascinating history of teenage fundraising in 1950s America...