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Amazing public support via online fundraising after fire destroys dogs’ home in England

We saw another remarkable example of the power of viral nonprofit fundraising emerge last week from the UK from an unlikely quarter. Although not as global or planned as the recent successes of The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that I...

September 16, 2014 Read More

How Vine can help build your online fundraising audience

Nonprofit fundraising has always been deeply associated with engagement of your audience and in 2014 this applies especially in the online arena and getting the most from the various tools, platforms and social media channels that are available to you....

September 11, 2014 Read More

Key information about text donations for nonprofits revealed in new survey

A brand new survey from the mGive Foundation provides even more illuminating data about text donating to nonprofits and can genuinely help charities to strategically assess the best approach to launch mobile giving campaigns. I consider the report to be...

September 10, 2014 Read More

New Blackbaud Index shows a period of very stable growth for nonprofit fundraising in 2014

Welcome back to the blog as we continue the week with encouraging nonprofit fundraising news from Blackbaud as the most recent data from The Blackbaud Index is released which includes data through the end of July 2014. The Blackbaud report...

September 9, 2014 Read More

New data demonstrates how the continued evolution of online giving aids nonprofit fundraising

As we've written before online fundraising continues to demonstrate excellent growth in the sphere of nonprofit fundraising and setting the bar for growth within the industry for the fourth consecutive year. While as recently as 2012 it seemed that online...

September 3, 2014 Read More

5 easy steps to heighten your nonprofit’s LinkedIn profile appeal to donors and others

LinkedIn continues to achieve consistently healthy growth and for nonprofits it remains probably the most valuable external window into your organization both from and at the executive level. For nonprofit fundraising and donor acquisition that executive audience is of vital...

September 2, 2014 Read More

The Ice Bucket Challenge – an amazing example of viral nonprofit fundraising

Nonprofit fundraising has not just been in the news over the last week or so but the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has become the news to a certain extent, especially in social media circles. The impact of the viral nature...

August 28, 2014 Read More

Could webthriftstore.com signal the rise of the online charity shop?

Thrift shops, resale stores or charity shops call them what you will but the thrift store is a very significant revenue stream for nonprofit fundraising that we rarely have cause to discuss here on the blog. Let's look at the...

August 26, 2014 Read More

10 nonprofit fundraising mistakes to avoid

Today we're very excited to bring you a special guest post by kind courtesy of the University of Notre Dame. The article is a rather brilliant summary of some of the most common nonprofit fundraising mistakes that charities unfortunately make....

August 22, 2014 Read More

Five ways a nonprofit can improve online donation forms

Recently I've seen more and more valuable information about how to improve the online donation forms used by nonprofits. As you would expect not only is the donation form a key feature within a website for those who elect to support...

August 21, 2014 Read More

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