Getting started with online fundraising can be difficult and confusing. We’ve heard from many of you that were waiting to set up your fundraising campaigns to fit within our 30 day trial period. Some organizations were even creating multiple accounts to extend their trial — very clever. You’ll be glad to hear that we’ve replaced […]
How the SXSW community raised over $120,000
On March 11th 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan. The massive earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 77 feet that pushed as far as 6 miles inland. Tens of thousands of Japanese were reported dead or missing and hundreds of thousands were left homeless. That morning, CauseVox […]
Fundraising Page Tip: Interview with Rene Pierpont
Camp Rising Sun is one of our non-profit partners that has used CauseVox as a “home base” for their online fundraising efforts. Rene Pierpont, one of their supporters, has raised more than $2600 through her fundraising page. We asked Rene to share her thoughts on the experience and to give a few tips on fundraising. […]
8 Fundraising Page Tips
Supporters create fundraising pages to fundraise on your behalf. Here are some helpful tips to help your supporters get started: 1. Complete the setup of your page. It’ll say “100% Complete”. 2. Regularly send personal emails to everyone you know. Reminders work well. 3. Include your personal link everywhere — your email signature, Facebook, Twitter, […]
Nonprofit Tech Is Like Ice Cream
Guest post by Mazarine Treyz, Author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising, Speaker, Consultant Mazarine helps people get money for the causes they care about. She also helps businesses and people with their online reputations. Give her a shout on twitter, or email her at info@wildwomanfundraising.com. @wildwomanfund WildWomanFundraising.com ———————————————————————————————— You have one lick, and then you want more and more! It’s […]
The Basic Concept of Web Colors
In our Page Editor, you can change colors using the on screen color palette. HEX codes of colors associated with your organization can be used, in lieu of the color palette, to give you more accurate color results. More accurate colors give the donor and supporters a better fundraising experience. But before we explain HEX codes, […]
New Editor – Now With Background Upload!
Last week, Erika Johansson invited us to give a demo at Purpose. It was really fun, and we ended up making a demo campaign for All Out in 10 minutes. Here is the result. You can see that the campaign site we whipped up looks pretty similar to the All Out website. One big thing […]
Good things happen in community
Beautiful things happen in community: passions ignite, ideas form, and better technology products develop. Our mission is to create better technology for non-profits and many of you have given us valuable feedback on how we can make that happen. We’ve built the platform’s user interfaces and page editors (simple tools to change the look/feel/branding of […]
Helping Non-Profits Control the Donor Experience
Donors and supporters are the lifeblood of every non-profit; they interact with you online through different channels, like your website, social media, and intermediaries (3rd party giving sites). These interactions are crucial in moving your donors and supporters towards richer engagement with your non-profit. At CauseVox, we’re irrationally obsessed in providing our non-profit partners with […]
CauseVox Goes Beta
What, I thought you guys were in already in beta?? Well, somewhat. Today marks the launch of our limited beta, which comes with a new website and an updated blog. For the past few months we have been operating our pilot program with a handful or organizations. Here are a select few case studies. During […]