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4 tips to help nonprofits become better social media listeners

We often write about using social media to distribute content to your nonprofit supporters using the tools as a method to increase engagement and drive nonprofit fundraising results. It's worth considering if enough attention being paid to the listening element...

September 24, 2014 Read More

Early indicators are that #GivingTuesday will grow for nonprofits

With the summer over nonprofits everywhere much like the public at large begin to turn their eyes towards end of year activities and festivities. It might seem a little early to be focusing on the key events of November and...

September 23, 2014 Read More

How might Twitter adding news filters impact nonprofits?

When it comes to social media for nonprofits I'm still a huge advocate of  the power of Twitter to broadcast your updates and messages. Overall your Twitter audience are typically more in tune with your specific feed items than Facebook...

September 18, 2014 Read More

Four ways to spruce up your nonprofit fundraising newsletter

While the focus of much of what I’ve written about nonprofit fundraising recently has focused on online fundraising and social media I thought today would be a great opportunity to give applause to the power of the newsletter which remains...

September 17, 2014 Read More

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 study highlights value of annual funds for nonprofits

A brand new study by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative reveals that organizations are much more likely to reach or exceed their yearly fundraising goals if they operate an 'annual fund'. While that information could be considered somewhat intuitive the report...

July 17, 2014 Read More

Top tips to thank donors for online contributions to your nonprofit

Online nonprofit fundraising strategies are incredibly important, it would be foolhardy to delay making any needed  revisions to your donation landing page and continue to monitor how your audience are interacting with these pages. Over the coming months I'll be...

July 15, 2014 Read More

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