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10 Tips to build a better social media foundation for nonprofits

The new year has arrived and chances are the holidays passed by far too quickly for you, I know that they did for me. Let's settle in for 2015 however with a quick summary of how to best use social...

January 6, 2015 Read More

#GivingTuesday has arrived – these 5 steps can help your day blossom

After months of planning for thousands of nonprofits the day has arrived - today is #GivingTuesday following the back-to-back events of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Today is the 3rd annual Giving Tuesday - an event that grows each year...

December 2, 2014 Read More

4 reasons mobile text fundraising looks set to continue to grow

Few changes in nonprofit fundraising over the last few years have been as dramatic as the rise and rise of mobile text fundraising or SMS. SMS stands for Short Message Service and is the primary text messaging service component of...

November 25, 2014 Read More

4 Twitter tools to make your #nonprofit #fundraising efforts shine

I'm a strong advocate of social media and the value that it can bring to a nonprofit organization particularly in terms of building public awareness, networking and an improved ability to hear what your audience are doing, feeling and thinking....

November 19, 2014 Read More

4 Key Findings from new UBS nonprofit study

While some may tend to automatically define philanthropy as nonprofit fundraising donations, the circle is completed when volunteering is added to the equation. For so many having the opportunity to give time and effort to support a cause is viewed...

November 18, 2014 Read More

A social media case study for nonprofits – Cecil Shorts III on Twitter

While we often write about the value of nonprofits incorporating a broad range of social media tactics to improve their online reach and fundraising potential we don't often present a case study. As a result I thought it would be...

November 13, 2014 Read More

5 ways to make your year-end nonprofit campaign shine

Somehow we've suddenly arrived at October 1st, the beginning of the last quarter of the year and with just 3 months to go many nonprofits are heading into what is the most important time of the year. Year-end nonprofit fundraising...

October 2, 2014 Read More

Are nonprofits seeing increased corporate giving in healthier economic times?

Corporate giving to nonprofits is an important piece of nonprofit fundraising for charities but I was driven to find out just how a large a piece of the pie is raised via corporations. The results might surprise you as may...

October 1, 2014 Read More

5 great ways to encourage youth nonprofit volunteers

A few years ago I volunteered via my workplace to provide a few evenings help to the well-known nonprofit (the) Ronald McDonald House. Beyond it being a very enriching experience I was also pleased to see a small squad of...

September 30, 2014 Read More

4 key findings from new social media and nonprofit study

Today we wanted to share a really interesting report from Survey Monkey about the positive impact that social media is having on nonprofits and their audience - most specifically how beneficial the social media world has been in building awareness...

September 25, 2014 Read More

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