In conjunction with the launch of Get Donors, our free 7-part video series on the secrets of nonprofit fundraising, we’ll be publishing key take-aways from each of the seven videos. Our series is taught by Ruthellen Rubin, an NYU Professor of Philanthropy and Certified Fund Raising Executive. She distills over 30 years of professional nonprofit fundraising experience […]

Your nonprofit’s story is your most valuable asset. Your story can inspire action and create change. In addition, nonprofits that tell compelling stories tend to raise the most funds. At the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we moderated an incredible session called The Future of Nonprofit Storytelling with JD Lasica (Socialbrite), Jenna Sauber (Case Foundation), and […]

Video is a powerful way to raise awareness and fundraise. YouTube and Vimeo are the two largest video hosting communities; which is better? YouTube and Vimeo had approximately 150 million and 7 million unique visitors last month, respectively. With the larger number of users, YouTube allows you to tap into a potentially large community of […]

How instill more storytelling into your online fundraising? Think about magazines — use images! Images help you communicate your message and help the reader understand what you’re about. You should incorporate some eye-catching images along with content about your fundraising campaign. One of the hardest parts if finding an image and editing it for us. There […]

Today we interview Joe Lambert, founder of the Center of Digital Storytelling out in SF. He’s one of our panelists at the Nonprofit Technology Conference this year too. Here he shares his thoughts on the future of nonprofit storytelling. What is the future of nonprofit storytelling? How is it going to change? I recently found […]

Lesson 1: Make fundraising a priority The first lesson nonprofits need to remember is this: fundraising is important. This is true no matter how large or small your nonprofit is. Once the fundamental importance of nonprofit fundraising is understood throughout your nonprofit, especially by your Board of Directors, raising funds becomes less difficult. Lesson 2 […]

Digital fundraising websites need to compel their visitors to action. Your fundraising efforts should incorporate design and marketing techniques for the maximum effect. One such tool, color theory, has the potential to improve your nonprofit’s success and, as is always the goal with nonprofit ventures, create a greater social impact. Color theory is the study […]

“CauseVox is easy to set up and easy to maintain. They also have lots of great tools and tips available that got our campaign going.” ~ Jed Dembrowski, United Way of Norman This case study discusses how the United Way of Norman’s “No Shave November” campaign raised over $16,000 through their CauseVox fundraising site. In addition, […]

Telling your story matters much more than you think. It especially does when you’re running a digital fundraising campaign. From a population set of campaigns (outliers removed), we picked the top 15 highest grossing campaigns that CauseVox has powered. In total, this sample set raised $1,203,072 in donations with an average raise of $80,205. After […]