Monday Mixtape 010: Nonprofit Burnout, Focus Strategies, & Mythical Creatures 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? […]
Monday Mixtape 009: Donor Appreciation and Cultivation Tips
Monday Mixtape 009: Donor Appreciation and Cultivation Tips 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 […]
Want to Send Better Emails? Be More Personal.
For almost all of our clients and most nonprofits for that matter, email is the most valuable source for online donations so we’ve been kind of obsessed with figuring out how to send great emails (once you’ve acquired them, more on that here). If I had to sum up our findings from experiments and experiences […]
Monday Mixtape 006: Fundraising Mentorship – Take Chances, Make Mistakes, & Get Messy
Monday Mixtape 006: Fundraising Mentorship – Take Chances, Make Mistakes, & Get Messy 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. […]
Five Effective Ways To Craft a Donor Update Letter
Do your donors know what’s going on at your organization? Have you shown them what their dollars actually do? Too often, we ask donors for money, send a thank you when they give it, and then… They never hear about it again. This lack of follow-through is too bad, for several reasons, including: They helped […]
Nonprofit Website Redesign Best Practices
Your nonprofit’s website is essential to the success of your work. A high-quality website runs all day, every day to inspire, activate, and rally your online audience for you. But just because you have a functioning website doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Just like you need to train the perfect employee, you also need to build […]
Monday Mixtape 004: Fundraising Events, Galas, & Auctions
Monday Mixtape 004: Fundraising Events, Galas, & Auctions 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 […]
Asian American Arts Alliance Uses Peer-to-Peer to Raise $23,000
It’s easy to stick with what you know, especially when it comes to fundraising. Traditional methods, such as special event fundraisers, grant writing, and email campaigns are all tried-and-true methods that are sure to bring money into your organization. But times are changing and, if you’re anything like the Asian American Arts Alliance, you’re ready […]
Promote Volunteer Fundraising Using These 5 (Proven) Strategies
Nearly a quarter of all Americans participate in volunteer opportunities with charitable organizations. Many choose to do volunteer fundraising projects. This is excellent news for your nonprofit. When a person chooses to work with your cause to further your mission, support your programming, and leverage your impact, it means something—they care. One of the greatest […]
How Nonprofits Must Adapt To Facebook Changes in 2018
Social media is a powerful tool for nonprofits to connect with their community and share their story. However, things are changing (all the time). With an apparent desire to get back to their roots of connecting all of the world’s individuals and building a global community, Facebook alone has announced three significant changes just this […]
