Happy holidays to all! We’re excited to kick 2012 off with a free session in NYC on video storytelling, hosted by the Foundation Center and NTEN. We’ll be talking about our recent digital storytelling ebook with ListenIn Pictures. Read more and register for the session below. It’s free and limited seats are available. —- The […]

Many non-profits recognize that online video storytelling is the most powerful driver of online fundraising. The problem is that after identifying they want video, most aren’t sure what to do next. Many dive in without thinking about what kind of story will garner the response they are looking for. Most don’t know what outcomes they […]

Personal fundraisers are your individual supporters that fundraise for your non-profit or cause. They love your non-profit, but struggle to get the most donations possible. We’ve seen lots of people spin their wheels to figure out how they can get their friends and family to support your non-profit. Help them today. The 7 Habits of […]

Fundraising is the most effective when it’s personal. One way to make it personal is to embed photos onto your personal fundraising pages. Here’s an example: Here’s how you do it: 1. Go to Flickr and upload your photo. Make sure it’s set as public. 2. Click on the photo you want to embed in […]

How do successful fundraising campaigns communicate? What makes them effective and fundraising or not effective? After examining fundraising campaigns that have been successful, we’ve developed three categories of communication that they use: 1. Updates – This is commonly in the form of mass communication to your support base — usually email newsletters and blog posts. […]

The New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA) is the Olympic development organization for cross-country skiing in New England as well as the umbrella for most organized Nordic skiing events in the region. They launched a fundraising campaign not too long ago. One of their fundraisers, Rob Bradlee, has raised $3100 by making the campaign personal. […]

On March 11th 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan. The massive earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 77 feet that pushed as far as 6 miles inland. Tens of thousands of Japanese were reported dead or missing and hundreds of thousands were left homeless. That morning, CauseVox […]

Supporters create fundraising pages to fundraise on your behalf. Here are some helpful tips to help your supporters get started: 1. Complete the setup of your page. It’ll say “100% Complete”. 2. Regularly send personal emails to everyone you know. Reminders work well. 3. Include your personal link everywhere — your email signature, Facebook, Twitter, […]

In peer-to-peer or supporter-driven fundraising, supporters are the key to raising funds and awareness. Online, we use fundraising pages to make this happen. The supporter’s personal appeal on their fundraising page helps their friends and family to connect to the non-profit personally through the supporter. Here are tips, written for supporters, to help them craft […]

Supporter-driven fundraising is a method of fundraising that enables a non-profit’s supporter to champion and raise funds on the non-profit’s behalf within each supporter’s personal networks. Synonyms include: peer-to-peer, distributed, and networked fundraising With supporter-driven fundraising. a non-profit’s support base is expanded past what is managed by the non-profit and into the new personal networks […]