Making the Most of Your Resources for a #GivingTuesday Campaign

We are less than two months away from #GivingTuesday, December 2, and we’re starting to feel the crunch here at CauseVox. We’ve already heard from some of our nonprofit clients about the campaigns they’re planning, and we hope the resources we’ve provided so far are helpful. Speaking of resources – as a small organization, we […]

New Guide: The Indispensable Guide to Nonprofit Donors

As a nonprofit, you need to know the difference between types of donors and the cultivation cycle and timeline for each donor. We just launched a new guide to help you understand the timing and strategy involved with acquiring individual donors, foundation grants, and corporate donors. With this guide, you will better understand how to diversify […]

Data Visualization For Nonprofit Fundraising

Data visualization is turning information into imagery, making it hard to digest statistics and numerical figures into easy to swallow pictorial figures. Consider data visualization as the intersection of quantitative analysis and storytelling. Even if you didn’t know what exactly it was, you’ve already encountered data visualization. Anyone who spends any amount of time online […]

Movers & Shakers: Kris Hassanpour of Anchor Church

Our next Movers & Shakers story comes from a pastor in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In August of 2014 lead pastor, Kris Hassanpour, and his team launched a fundraising campaign to help ease the often bumpy transition of relocating and rebranding their church. By raising $15,000 they hoped to move to a new building and take […]

Using Nonprofit Crowdfunding for General Operating Expenses

Crowdfunding and fundraising campaigns focused on projects and programs tend to perform better. Donors like to know what they are specifically donating to and the tangible outcomes and like to see their dollars go directly to a beneficiary or social impact program. But the trend of fundraising only for programs is bad for nonprofits. As […]

Movers & Shakers: Christie Ko of Fiver Children’s Foundation

In July of 2014, torrential storms critically destroyed parts of Fiver Foundation’s summer camp. Christie Ko, Executive Director of Fiver Children’s Foundation, thought if people could see the devastation left by the storm, they would want to help Fiver rebuild their kid’s summer camp. Read on to hear how Christie and her team surpassed their […]

How Daniel Perrett Raised $20,000 For Chab Dai

Who are you and what is your campaign? As a recent McGill university graduate I came up with the crazy idea ride my bicycle from Montreal to Vancouver–thats about 5000 km/3000 miles. Over the past year I have been exposed to the reality of human trafficking in Canada and I decided that I wanted to […]

New Guide: How to Plan for a Successful #GivingTuesday Campaign

#GivingTuesday is a one-day annual movement focused just on charitable giving. In the two years since #GivingTuesday was launched, the campaign has engaged more than 10,000 organizations around the world, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 2013, collective reporting showed a 90% increase in online giving compared to 2012 and a 270% increase in giving on […]

Gearing Up for #GivingTuesday

We can hardly believe it, but yes, fall is essentially here (at least in terms of football, pumpkin spice lattes, and back-to-school), and that means the holiday season isn’t too far away either. Does your nonprofit already have a holiday giving campaign plan, or are you holding onto those last few weeks of summer? In […]