AWARE decided to expand their current services to launch a Sexual Assault Centre so they set out to raise $30,000 in ten weeks. Jolene Tan, the Programs and Communications Senior Manager at AWARE, led her team in this effort. To their great surprise, they raised $33,000 in one month! With the help of a compelling […]

Modern nonprofits don’t operate like the charities of old. They blend attributes of social enterprises, educational institutions, microfinance banks, and volunteer organizations. While these non-traditional models are having bigger and more lasting impacts, it means that these nonprofits have unusual organizational structures and often a higher proportion of funds going to overhead, a four-letter word […]

You can breathe now – the third annual #GivingTuesday has come and gone. We were so excited to see how many of our users chose to participate in the annual day of giving back. Compared to last year, the total raised for #GivingTuesday increased by 15x on CauseVox. We had hundreds of #GivingTuesday campaigns running. […]

Xio Kikauka, Co-founder and Executive Director of Charity Science, an organization focused on looking into science for good, thought fundraising would ruin her connections with people. However, this is not how her story ends. During her fundraising campaign, she tested this idea that claims ‘if you ask for money you will ruin your friendships’ and […]

We’re just a day away from the third annual #GivingTuesday; it’s time to do a status check. With Thanksgiving this week, time is getting tight to put the final pieces into place for the 24-hour giving holiday on December 2. Hopefully, you’ve been able to make use of the CauseVox GivingTuesday Resource Center to help your organization […]

We are less than one week out from #GivingTuesday, on December 2. We have no doubt your team is busy running around with the final preparations (come back to the blog in a few days for a post on that topic), but is your community ready, too? Depending on your fundraising strategy for the end […]

Read the title of this post again. You may be thinking, “It’s a 24-hour fundraising challenge. How can storytelling be the most important part?” Trust us – and let us explain. Each year, the #GivingTuesday movement shines a light on thousands of nonprofits doing good in their communities and around the world, in the middle of […]

30 days / Goal $10,000 / Raised $14,230 Hailing from East Palo Alto, California Heather Biscoe, the development officer of Bayshore Christian Ministries, needed to raise $10,000. This year marked their 30th anniversary so they set out to ask for $30 from each person in their “$30 for 30 years” campaign. Not only did they […]

With so many options for online fundraising these days, it may be hard to decide which platform to use for big campaigns and opportunities such as #GivingTuesday. And with thousands of partners and nonprofits participating in this unique 24-hour giving event, there’s a challenge and an opportunity to make your campaign stand out, whether you’re doing […]

In 2009 Mark Whitehead and Forrest Walden founded Neverthirst to bring clean water to people around the world by using a fitness workout as a fundraising event they call WOD for Water. Five years later not only have they helped 300,000 people, they’ve had an outpouring response that has forced them to scale up their […]