After taking a year’s worth of feedback from our users, we’ve built from the ground up a brand new and improved CauseVox. The first piece of the new CauseVox is geared towards our site administrators. It’ll help you run your fundraising site with incredible ease and give you peace of mind when managing your site. […]

Fundraising is all about the strength of the relationships that you build with your supporters as well as their relationships with their friends and family. At no other point in our history has it been easier to keep in contact with our friends and family through social media, mobile phones, and new technology. We can […]

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 […]

We’re headed off to SXSW on March 9 – 13 and NTC on April 3 – 5 in the next few weeks. If you’re going to be there, we’d love to catch up. Feel free to ping us on Twitter or email. More info on these conferences below. It’s not too late to register! SXSW […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is a guest post by our friend Howard Freeman. Howard Freeman is Founder and Principal of Zoey Creative Development, a charitable giving consultancy in NYC serving both organizations and also individual philanthropists.  He can be reached at howard@zoeycreativedevelopment.com. The Upper West Side of Manhattan is not the best neighborhood to shop for cheap groceries if […]

Your fundraising site represents who you are and what you stand for. Visitors are looking for who you are and information about your story. When they see it for the first time, they’re thinking: – Can I trust this nonprofit? – What are they fighting for? – Do I identify with them? – Why should […]

We want to help your non-profit make your vision of the world a reality. In order to be successful, you need to help  your supporters visualize your impact and emotionally connect with why you exist (i.e. the people you serve). But we recognize that we can’t possibly work with every organization that’s doing great work. To increase our […]

Nonprofit fundraisers need to understand this: writing fundraising copy is not like writing a paper or a direct mail letter. You can use some of the same techniques, but your approach must be different. When people read online, they have shorter attention spans and they tend to skim content. You need to write in a […]