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Secure Auctions: Essential Data Protection Considerations

With the many financial transactions that occur within the digital space, your organization needs to make sure its data policies are up to date. Recently, even popular, reputable businesses have experienced data leaks. As your organization continues to comply with general fundraising requirements, take extra time ...

How to Keep Donor Data Secure with Fundraising Platforms

Donors trust nonprofits to use their donations wisely. However, in donating, supporters give a lot more than just money–they release their personal and financial information. As nonprofits rely on digital tools to collect donations, plan events, and manage volunteers, sensitive data like credit card numbers and ...

Measuring Virtual Nonprofit Event Success: 4 Quick Tips

When it comes to planning a nonprofit fundraising event, nonprofits have to compare the various differences between virtual and in-person formats. For example, attendee engagement during in-person events is more straightforward. Attendees might mingle with each other, listen to a live presentation, or participate in different ...

3 Tips to Use Nonprofit Data Analytics to Thank Donors

As a nonprofit organization, you should be sending messages of appreciation to your donors any time they make a gift. These messages could be in the form of thank-you letters, emails, phone calls, or even free merchandise. The goal is to show donors that your organization ...

6 Elements to Include on a Silent Auction Bid Sheet

As a nonprofit professional, you’ve likely hosted—or at least considered hosting—a silent auction fundraiser. Silent auctions appeal to a broad audience, engage supporters through friendly competition, and are extremely flexible. They can be held in-person or virtually and pair well with other fundraising events like galas or golf ...

3 Fundraising Strategies To Help Fill Your Annual Fund

The primary purpose of your nonprofit’s annual fund campaign is to raise the money necessary to cover your organization’s operating expenses, like your facility’s utilities and your staff’s compensation packages. In other words, your annual fundraising campaign helps you keep your doors open and makes ...

5 Ways to Use Email to Promote Your Nonprofit’s Next Event

How will you draw a crowd to your next gala, silent auction, golf tournament, or walk-a-thon? No matter what kind of event your nonprofit is hosting, one of the biggest challenges event planners face is simply getting people to attend the event. In order to meet your ...

6 Tips to Boost Your Nonprofit Marketing Campaign ROI

As a nonprofit, your top priority is to provide value to your beneficiaries, but you can’t do it by word-of-mouth alone. The first step in effectively attracting new supporters to your cause is spreading the word about your nonprofit’s programs to interested prospects. That’s why ...

Teeing Up Funds: 5 Reasons to Hold a Charity Golf Tournament

For nonprofit professionals, finding efficient and effective ways to raise funds is a constant challenge. When it comes to event fundraising, it’s about balancing return on investment, time demands, and positive outcomes. There’s one option that, when planned and executed properly, can not only bring ...

5 Tips to Host a Successful Read-a-Thon Fundraiser

If you’re a PTA member, an elementary school event organizer, or otherwise affiliated with K-12 education or fundraising, you’ve probably already heard of read-a-thon fundraisers. After all, read-a-thons are one of the world’s fastest-growing school fundraisers—and for good reason. Read-a-thons not only have the potential ...

Traditional Campaign Consulting Models Hold You Back – Why?

It always pays to learn more about the new ways to fundraise, manage your nonprofit, and steward its resources. Hiring a capital campaign consultant is the perfect example. These are major campaigns that take several years to conduct and come with all kinds of potential pitfalls, so ...

3 Next Steps for Nonprofits After the End of AmazonSmile

For your nonprofit to build a sustainable fundraising strategy, it’s best to have a variety of funding sources that work together to further your mission. From 2013 onward, many nonprofits established a steady stream of ongoing revenue by participating in AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile allowed shoppers to automatically ...

Top 4 Public School Fundraisers to Engage Your Community

If you’ve ever been a student, teacher, or parent at a public school, you know that they’re notoriously underfunded. They depend on school fundraisers and community support to supplement their limited finances. So, if you work at a school, how do you successfully raise money ...

A Deep Dive Into 5 Top P2P Nonprofits’ Matching Gift Efforts

Peer-to-peer fundraising is an increasingly popular nonprofit campaign strategy that enlists dedicated supporters to fundraise on behalf of an organization. Recently, Top Nonprofits conducted a study of the highest-earning P2P fundraising events⁠—and the matching gift efforts they employ. This matching gift research report analyzes 30 ...

Fundraising Compliance 101: 4 Requirements to Consider

When you’re starting a nonprofit, your top priority is likely boosting your organization’s positive impact on the world. A nonprofit’s work is mission-centric, but to keep this essential work alive, founders and staff members must also think about the legal logistics of their organization’s operations. ...

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