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When Should You Host School Fundraisers? 4 Best Times

No matter your school’s size, it needs funding to fuel the various programs and initiatives that support your students. Along with looking for easy and budget-friendly fundraising ideas, you must also plan events that engage your community. Choosing optimal school fundraiser timing is key to ...

How to Manage Inventory at Your Nonprofit Thrift Store

Running a nonprofit thrift store allows charitable organizations like yours to generate sustainable revenue for their causes rather than relying solely on financial donations from supporters. Plus, it provides a fresh avenue to boost your mission’s visibility and encourage community members to engage with it. ...

5 Low-Cost, Low-Effort Fundraising Ideas For Schools

Finding fun ways to raise funds for your school can be a rewarding experience for educators, students, and parents. Whether you’re part of the school’s administration or the parent-teacher organization (PTO), you’re the driving force behind these efforts, helping to unite the school community and ...

After Recruitment: Training & Retaining Event Volunteers

Nonprofit event planners often face a recurring challenge: after investing time and energy into recruiting volunteers, many don’t return. This can leave teams scrambling to fill roles or manage tasks with fewer hands, making it harder to deliver a successful event. The disconnect often lies ...

Breaking Down the 4 Key Nonprofit Financial Statements

While on the surface, businesses and nonprofits may seem like polar opposites, they actually have a lot in common when it comes to finances. Although businesses operate to make a profit and nonprofits work to make a difference, they both generate revenue and accrue expenses ...

Applying Capital Campaign Strategies to Annual Fundraising

Capital campaigns can feel like all-consuming projects, and for good reason. They’re major commitments that require your entire team’s full focus and commitment in order to succeed However, some nonprofit professionals worry that their capital campaigns may negatively impact their regular fundraising efforts, especially their ...

Major Donor Cultivation Toolkit: What You Need to Succeed

Securing major gifts is essential to your nonprofit’s ability to achieve its mission, but you need the right tools to streamline and track your efforts. After all, it takes time and resources to identify, verify, and cultivate donors who are likely to make major donations. ...

How to Manage Restricted Funds: 5 Must-Know Best Practices

Restricted funds are donations set aside for a specific purpose or timeframe designated by the donor. By adhering to these restrictions, your nonprofit will respect donors’ wishes. This is critical because financial mismanagement can lead to repercussions such as fines, penalties, or loss of tax-exempt ...

Crisis Communications: Donor Stewardship in Uncertain Times

Whether it’s a natural disaster, economic downturn or a global health crisis, societal challenges will inevitably impact your nonprofit’s operations at some point or another. Depending on the situation, you may need to brainstorm how to continue providing services, helping beneficiaries and fulfilling your mission ...

How to Use Text Messaging to Boost Giving Tuesday Success

Like most nonprofits, your organization is always looking for its next big chance to rally its community and secure more funds for its mission. With 34 million participants in the U.S. alone in 2023, Giving Tuesday represents a can’t-miss opportunity for nonprofits of all types ...

Improving Event Performance: 7 Tips for Collecting Feedback

For nonprofits, events are pivotal moments to connect with supporters, raise funds, and drive engagement. But once the event wraps up, how can you know if you met your goals or created event experiences that resonated with attendees? This is where feedback collection comes in. ...

Corporate Volunteer Programs: Inspiring Community Efforts

Corporate volunteer programs are more than just opportunities for employees to give back. They’re powerful tools for inspiring community involvement and fostering a sense of purpose within organizations. When companies invest in volunteer initiatives, they create an avenue for employees to make a difference while ...

4 Must-Have Golf Tournament Management Software Features

Your nonprofit’s tech stack is crucial to its success. You likely already use various software tools to manage corporate giving, collect donations, connect with donors and supporters, track projects and programs, or engage employees, so you understand that the more your chosen solution is tailored ...

Tips for Creating Community Awareness for Your Nonprofit

Your nonprofit’s community is one of its most powerful assets. When community members are aware of your nonprofit and understand its purpose, they’ll not only support its work but also advocate for it, tell their friends, and answer urgent calls to join the fight. But ...

You’ve Got 2 Potential Grants – Which One Do You Pursue?

When you seek grant funding to support your nonprofit’s projects, efficiency is vital to ensure you make the most of all your time and hard work. This doesn’t just mean drafting your proposals and getting them out the door quickly. Think bigger. How often do ...

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