When Fundraising Doesn't Work, Donor Outreach Strategies, Tools You Can Use and more

Every month we recap the latest fundraising articles, technology tips for nonprofits, and exciting tools your nonprofit can use. Here are 19 articles, resources and tools that can help you do good.

Fundraising

What To Do When Your Major Gift Fundraising ISN'T Working

If you want to reach and exceed your major gift goal, then don't neglect your important donor relationships!

4 Important Donor Outreach Strategies Beyond Solicitations

It's necessary that your outreach to supporters goes beyond donation requests. Learn about four strategies to connect with your donors and keep them engaged.

10 Things Learned From 30 Years in Sustainer Giving

Sustained giving is a powerful way to way to engage downers and bring in revenue for your organization. Here is a 5 part series on what one development professional has learned over 30 years of running a sustained giving program.

18 End-of-Year Giving Statistics (with Surprising Facts)

These 18 end-of-year giving statistics and 6 surprising facts will help you make crucial decisions and strategies this giving season.

2022 Donor-Advised Fund Report: Grants to Charities Increase 28%, Surpassing $45B for First Time

This new report also reveals DAF grantmaking to charities around the world grew 60% compared to pre-pandemic 2019 and increased 400% over the past decade.

What MacKenzie Scott's Unrestricted Grants Do for Nonprofit Leaders

A study of MacKenzie Scott’s early giving reveals how transformational generous general operating support can be.

Marketing

20 Essential Instagram Marketing Tools You Need

If you are active on Instagram these tools will help manage and increase your presence. From research to execution and measurement, here are the top Instagram marketing tools that you need for your organization.

Nonprofit Marketing Plan: 8 Steps to Create A Strong Plan

Nonprofits that develop and follow a strong nonprofit marketing plan grow faster and make a bigger impact. Here are 8 steps to create your plan with examples.

Tools

Mail-Tester

Mail-Tester provides you with a quick spam test to check your newsletter's spam score and quality. This tool's free and pretty easy to use. Simply send a draft of your newsletter to the email they provide and Mail Tester will score the quality of your content and if it will get through spam filters.

Textiful

Collect information from your audience at live events using text messages. Capture all kinds of information like email addresses, first names and more. Automatically sync information to your email marketing platform to grow your email list fast!

Emojipedia

Emojipedia is an emoji search engine and a fast emoji search experience with options to browse every emoji by name, category, or platform.

Linktree

Linktree allows you to create a personalized and customizable page that houses all the important links that you want to share with your audience. It's a link-in-bio solution that can be used on social platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more.

Rote

Prepare a lot of grants? With Rote, all of your past language lives in one place - organized, filterable, and at your fingertips when you need it. Rote gets all your proposal materials in one place. Find what you need - quick - and then get to work.

DonateStock

Donate Stock makes it fast, easy, and secure to donate stock to charities. Nonprofits can accept stock donations on their website and provide a simple process for your donors to donate stock to your organization and reap the tax benefits.

Loomly

Loomly is the Social Media Management Platform that helps you manage all your social media content — organic posts & ads — from one platform.

VEED

An online video suite that lets you record, edit and stream your videos in the cloud. Veed is the fastest and easiest way to make professional-quality videos. In addition, they have over 30 different tools to enhance any video.

News

Giving Tuesday 2022: Predictions, Stats & Facts

Prediction: Giving will surpass $3.2 Billion on November 29th, 2022

Survey: Nearly 1 in 4 American Donors Increased Giving Due to Rising Inflation

An online survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults conducted by The Harris Poll found that nearly 1 in 4 increased their giving due to inflation.

PhoneRaise Updates

Multiple Messaging Templates

A new feature allows you to create multiple messaging templates in PhoneRaise and allows volunteers to create their own templates. Learn about this new feature and potential use cases.