Category Archives: Featured
Tips to Motivate Your Volunteers and Keep Them Coming Back
Sponsored by Reward Volunteers Finding a good volunteer is like finding buried treasure. It’s not always so easy to get to where X marks the spot, but it’s certainly worth the work. Volunteers are valuable in themselves, but keep
Cause Camp Recap: When It’s Okay to Think Inside the Box
From an early age, we’ve been told to “think outside the box” to solve problems. By now, this saying has been said so much that it’s a first-ballot inductee in the Overused Cliché Hall of Fame. As cliché as it
8 Long-Term Health Benefits of Volunteering
Sponsored by Reward Volunteers The impact of volunteerism can be felt in communities of all shapes and sizes. No matter the size of the community, though, the impact of volunteerism is always huge. Wherever it occurs, volunteering exists to
[LIVE PODCAST] Your Fundraising Fix, Tips & Tricks
Cause Camp 2017 was our best year yet. We had live t-shirts being printed, breakout yoga and meditation sessions, service work for a local nonprofit, oh… and a stellar lineup of thought leaders educating and interacting with attendees. On both
Succession Strategy: Mapping the Next Generation of Leadership
I always find it a little funny when I hear someone say, “The future is now.” My immediate thought tends to be, “But what does that even mean?” Frankly, it sounds like somebody is trying to be a little too
7 Best Practices to Create a High-Traffic Campaign Website
Recently, there’s been a notable uptick in the number of campaign websites being built and shared (likely due to something that happened last year). But we have noticed that many of these campaign websites are modeled after more typical websites, which
Text-to-Give Fundraising: Making the Most Out of Mobile
Mobile giving is on the rise, and there’s no platform more prevalent than text-to-give. As you can probably infer from its name, text-to-give software enables donors to make contributions by texting your nonprofit. How these platforms work varies by vendor,
The Easy Guide to Understanding Charity Auction Software
Charity auctions are classic, incentive-driven fundraisers that can be highly profitable when hosted by the right organizations. If you have the time and resources to pull off an auction, they’re definitely an event worth considering. Luckily, planning a fundraising auction
3 Simple Tricks to Improve Email Marketing
Did you know know that overall online giving grew by 19% last year? From the same report, it’s likely due to the fact that for every 1000 email subscribers, nonprofits have about 500 social media followers between Facebook, Instagram and
Three Elements of Transformational Fundraising
One of our most recent additions to the CausePlanet summary library is The Generosity Network by Jennifer McCrea, Jeffrey C. Walker and Karl Weber. We liked their approach to fundraising because it’s not another book about how to be a
