Monday Mixtape 026: Effective Fundraising, Fundraising Appeals, & More Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or questions? Let […]

Monday Mixtape 024: Fundraiser Habits Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or questions? Let us know at blog@causevox.com. […]

Guest post by Jeff Giannotto, Senior Solutions Advisor at MarketSmart At the end of the day, whether your organization is for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental, you need one thing to keep the lights on: money. In our industry, major donors represent a crucial cohort of philanthropists that enable your nonprofit to continue working toward its mission.  […]

Monday Mixtape 028: Board Member Fundraising Here’s your Monday Mixtape, a weekly newsletter from CauseVox designed to jumpstart your week, challenge your thinking, and inspire you to keep at it. Each week, we’ll hand-pick must-read articles, thinking, resources, and stories for nonprofit fundraisers and leaders and drop it in your inbox. Have suggestions or questions? Let us know […]

Every nonprofit foundation fighting cancer has the same fundraising goal: to help save lives.  That’s certainly the case with the Testicular Cancer Foundation, given that 99 percent of the men diagnosed with testicular cancer can beat it when it’s caught early enough.  And when you have successful campaigns like they have with CauseVox, everybody wins! […]

As a fundraiser, you wear many hats. You plan, you market, you sell. You collect money, manage volunteers and organize activities year-round. And your role is constantly evolving because the needs of your organization and the scope of your resources can vary year to year and sometimes even month to month. Through all the normal […]

Your donation page is actually a pretty big deal. With more than half of all donors worldwide preferring to give online, optimizing your donation page should be a top priority. While online donations probably aren’t your sole focus, it’s an integral part of a holistic fundraising strategy. Whether it’s everyday giving or a specific campaign, […]

Imagine if there was a way to make young adult cancer suck less?  There is, and it’s all thanks to Stupid Cancer, an organization dedicated to empowering young adults affected by cancer by ending isolation and building community.  With the help of CauseVox, their main fundraising event, CancerCon has become a life-changing experience for more […]

In today’s digital fundraising landscape, it’s hard for nonprofit leaders to produce tangible results because everything has changed and continues to change.  The way donors give has shifted, social media has become spend-based, and the skill sets of successful fundraisers has changed.  The Digital Fundraising Summit covered how to acquire new skills, processes and technology […]

Your donor is ready to give your organization a gift. Great! But what are the steps they have to take to actually donate? Do you have a “Donate” button that leads them to a page with different branding than your own? Do your social media followers have to follow a link to your website only […]