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Simplify Your Program Tracking with Web-Based Nonprofit Software

This is the first in our new series “Spotlight: Nonprofits.” More info below. How can a nonprofit serving dozens of community partners through hundreds of volunteers keep track of who it is helping and how? The answer: Adapting from paper-based, onerous administrative systems to one ...

Pledge Campaigns: 6 Tips for Increasing Donations

A successful pledge campaign requires a good amount of detail work but is worth your while to increase donations. A pledge campaign, simply put, is asking people to commit to giving to your organization or cause at some point in the future or on a ...

8 Ways a Nonprofit Can Deal With Negative Online Reviews

Negative online reviews are especially harmful for a nonprofit where the road to success is based on the public perception of trust and competency. Because of the real-time nature of the web, quick action is needed to diffuse a bad review on Yelp or complaints ...

11 Free Graphics Tools all Nonprofits Should Know About

Every nonprofit should know about these free and simple tools to create professional graphics for presentations, websites, social media, proposals, posters, and programs. You can instantaneously save on your bottom line. You can create your own invitations and marketing materials. And you can make your proposals, ...

Nonprofit Statistics and Data: 10 Essential Resources

We love statistics for a reason. They break down our complex ideas to simple numbers and make our work measurable. You don’t need a statistic to know how much statistics help your nonprofit – to backing up the need for your work with real community ...

15 Tips for Increasing Your Income as a Professional Fundraiser

Turn your passion into a viable income with these 15 tips to earn money as a professional fundraiser! Good fundraisers are hard to find, and hence they are the most actively recruited, and best paid, positions within nonprofit agencies. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that ...

Your Nonprofit’s Reputation and How to Protect It

For any organization, having an excellent reputation is non-negotiable and protecting that reputation is vital. We’ve come a long way since public relations meant local media and the press. What are people saying about your organization? Stakeholders get the lowdown on a nonprofit out there ...

Calls-to-Action: 9 Ways to Increase Donations

According to Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report, online donations are still increasing every year, growing 9.2% in 2015 compared to 2014. Whether you have or have not seen an increase in online giving, now’s a great time to check your digital fundraising strategy. Specifically, take a ...

The Baby Boomer’s Great Donor Potential

Demographics have always played an important role in fundraising. The expendable income of the various groups can determine how fundraising campaigns are targeted, and what the messages ought to be. The Boomer Generation, those who were born between 1946 and 1964, holds a tremendous opportunity ...

Best Credit Cards for Your Nonprofit Business Expenses

Every nonprofit needs a credit card, to simplify vendor payments or just to pay for office supplies. Another great benefit of using a credit card for your nonprofit can be establishing business credit – provided you seek out a credit card company that reports to ...

How to Get Millennials to Donate to your Cause

Millennials are a generous generation, with about 80% giving to charity according to the Blackbaud Generational Giving Report. But how do you get millennials to donate to Your cause? What has worked to appeal to their parents and grandparents will not necessarily work for millennial ...

How to Use Grants.gov to Get the Best Government Grants

Nonprofits are eligible for billions of dollars of discretionary funds from the federal government, all listed on one website: Grants.gov. In fact, 26 agencies of the federal government are mandated to re-grant their funding from Congress for social programs, science, defense, and even food and ...

Tweak Your Group’s Marketing Message: 5 Tips From “Mad Men”

Patches of shadow mark the fading light and far away, down the deserted hallway, a door slams. Late in your office, the cursor blinks accusingly as you wrestle once again with your new fundraising appeal… You realize that it is high time to change your ...

Convergence of Social Enterprise and Nonprofits

Social enterprise, or businesses that strive to make profits with the social good in mind, is growing from an increasing customer awareness of global inter-connectivity that directly affects purchasing decisions. A 2014 Nielson report shows that 55 percent of global customers across 60 countries are ...

8 Best Practices for Small Nonprofits

There’s a misconception among some smaller nonprofits that “best practices” is a notion that only applies to the big guys. Wrong! Even in the beginning, a two staff, three volunteer (and the office cat) organization can benefit from adopting a higher standard of conduct. Loosely ...

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