Online charity auctions can enhance your fundraising results. Check out the top 25 recommended charity auction websites to power the perfect fundraiser.

Whether you’ve planned and hosted several charity auctions in the past or you’re currently prepping for your first, we’ve put together this handy list to speed up the process.

Make the most of this fundraising opportunity while making the most of the time and money put into your own mission.

We will delve into the issue of card testing, its associated risks, and effective solutions to prevent it.

Your nonprofit’s brand connects your audience to your mission, but that audience is often complex. Keep these five groups in mind when branding your nonprofit.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to use your donation page to build a strong foundation for online fundraising. Here’s what we’ll cover:

Giving Tuesday is an opportunity for nonprofits to attract new donors and boost their fundraising revenue. Follow these tips to raise more for your cause.

Follow this guide to learn how successful a mobile fundraising campaign can be when you apply the right principles. And, review top examples for inspiration!

The thank you letter is an important step in the donor’s journey, and we should treat it as such.

Although traditional auctions have been around for ages, the rise of virtual auctions is a relatively new trend in the nonprofit space.

If you’re struggling with keeping your donors highly engaged, our best practices and strategies will help you re-engage your donors and build community.

Is your fundraising team understaffed or overworked? Turn to your volunteers for help! Here are four ways volunteers can help you achieve fundraising success.

These six crucial steps will help your nonprofit write an effective fundraising plan to ensure the success of any of your fundraising efforts going forward.

These five text messaging strategies for nonprofits can help your organization reach more potential supporters and increase engagement easily and quickly.

Nonprofit marketing can make a huge difference in the support your organization gets. Learn the best strategies for your nonprofit with this guide.

More people have turned to online fundraising in the past year than ever before, and the same will be true in 2021 and beyond. The

As a nonprofit professional, you know that strategic fundraising practices are critical for ensuring that your organization is fully funded and ready to meet your

As marketing and communications increasingly migrate to digital space, nonprofit organizations are using innovative new techniques in order to spread awareness about their organization and

Many nonprofits fall into the idea that the organization does all the work, while supporters simply give money. If that’s you, it’s time to flip

Every single person in the nonprofit sector is concerned about the impact that coronavirus has on business, its function, and its management. Nonprofit fundraising has

This guest post was written by the experts at File 990, a leading e-filing tool for nonprofits. Online donation forms are a key nonprofit strategy

Church management is an important ideal that brings together the spiritual and the organizational. In the spiritual sense, you are serving the Lord while serving

This guest article was written by Vision2, makers of church engagement and management tools. There’s no question that your church’s members benefit from participating in

More nonprofit organizations are building their fundraising models around securing recurring donations. Why? Because they provide an incredible level of reliable support for your mission.

One commonly used explanation of various types of donations is the donor pyramid. While this pyramid might have some inherently debatable aspects, it is a

If you feel a calling to plant a church, then you truly are in for an incredibly rewarding spiritual adventure. Starting a church can be

If you feel a calling to plant a church, then you truly are in for an incredibly rewarding spiritual adventure. Too many times, people get

Website content. Even the most seasoned of development directors shiver at the sound of the word. We at Elevation are here to break down the

Your nonprofit’s website serves many purposes, like educating visitors about your cause, facilitating online donations, and much more. Effective nonprofit website design can be a

Receiving tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status from the IRS is one of the most important steps in starting your nonprofit organization. Official recognition as a nonprofit not

We’ve all heard of the term “branding” and most event professionals associate it with making the most of your brand colors and logo. However, branding

6 Surefire Ways to Market Your Next Fundraising Event Nonprofit fundraising events are a staple of your funding strategy. When you create your fundraising calendar

Your nonprofit is on the rise, which means it’s time to develop new executive nonprofit staffing for expanding your operation and fundraising efforts. Thankfully, your

If you’ve decided to hire a nonprofit consulting firm to help you with your fundraising, you’re probably wondering how you can work together successfully. A strong

Because of the rate of technological innovation, many might imagine that email will soon become irrelevant. When nonprofit fundraising emails decline in performance, it’s easy to jump to

Nonprofits constantly search for ways to retain their volunteers while continuing to recruit. With the advancements in technology, it is now easier than ever to

Every nonprofit already understands the inherent challenges associated with getting an interested supporter to the finish line, aka the donation page. However, many nonprofits underestimate

Feelings are important. Emotions drive many of our decisions—large and small. And yet, we’re taught not to be “emotional”. Nonprofits take this admonition very seriously

9 Strategies to Brand Your Next Church Fundraising Event The term “branding” gets a bad rap in the nonprofit industry and within the faith-based organization

We live in a world where it is no longer acceptable to be socially unaware. With new markets touting their ethically sourced and sustainably developed

The Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF) is a nonprofit organization that’s been around since August of 2007. Started by former wireless industry executives, the MGF set

  If you’ve heard of #GivingTuesday, chances are you know a little bit about hashtags. But maybe you’re not entirely certain how they work or

Snowball’s blog focuses primarily on mobile fundraising. Every once in a while, we like to bring a new voice to that conversation. Today we welcome

There are a lot of myths surrounding the cost of using text-to-give as a fundraising option. Text-to-give fundraising has a false reputation for being too

Mobile fundraising is just like any other new challenge your nonprofit may face. It will require some planning for certain eventualities. In the end, though,

Mobile fundraising is the one of the latest and greatest ways to help nonprofits reach their goals. With so many ways to raise money using

Even one week after the end of #GivingTuesday, the results of this incredible holiday continue to generate excitement for what the future holds. It’s been four years since the

Marketers everywhere are eagerly jumping to improve email campaigns as recent survey by Adobe shows that the best place to reach millennials is through email. Yes,

Tis the season! It’s that time of year again where holidays, festivities, and advertisements about fantastic shopping deals surround us in our daily lives. But in the midst

Let’s face it. Asking for money is intimidating. And, it can feel a bit awkward. It’s hardly something any of us enjoy doing, but as

How many donors continue to give to your organization? If your acquisition strategy is solid, it can help your organization secure new donors as repeat

After watching a very interesting and informative video by NextAfter the other day on the topic of effective email marketing for nonprofits, we decided to create

In a previous article, we discussed effective email fundraising tactics. By now, you should feel confident in your ability to compose better emails for drawing genuine interest

(Today’s blog post is brougth to you courtesy of Updentity.) You’re on a mission…to change the world. How many people will you need to reach

(Today’s blog post is brought to you courtesy of Gretchen Barry, Director of Marketing, NonProfitEasy.) If you were to study a large group of nonprofits,

Giving is now easier than ever. A church can receive tithes and offering any day of the week, not just on Sunday. Lisa has a

It’s easy to fall into the routine of using the same old fundraising campaigns year after year. What’s familiar is comfortable. Unfortunately, what worked effectively

When I was in Business School, we had a guest presenter in my Entrepreneurship class who was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems. He

The demographics of nonprofit members are a concerning topic for organizations everywhere. And millennials are (still) all the buzz. How will we replace our older

“Can we all get along?” Unless you’re old enough to now legally enter a bar, you have no idea who said these famous words. But

While mobile phones are quickly becoming the preferred option for anything from surfing the web to checking email, there’s still one problem that remains worrisome

At @Pay, we’ve been traveling non-stop all winter and spring to conferences—ranging in genres from tech to nonprofit to payments—and there is no end in sight.

Email has been around for 40 years – for the most part, unchanged. The avg. person spends up to 30% of their work day sorting. How do we sort email better?