Archive for March 2015

 Strategic fundraising starts with smart planning. Without a plan, your non-profit is very likely to fail. Writing a high quality plan takes time and requires input from many stakeholders at your organization. Since you’re in the business of saving the world and you can’t fail, you need to run successful campaigns, which means writing the perfect plan! 

You likely use the New Gift Interface to enter most of your gifts in Causeview. Not only does it make it convenient to enter gifts quickly, it also makes sure you populate pertinent gift information to create transaction, payment and allocation records. As an added bonus, the New Gift Interface also processes online payments directly…

Understanding your options and what to consider when it comes to choosing a payment processor to handle your online donations is very important.  You or your organization may be in the process of choosing an online fundraising or event management system or you may be reevaluating how you process your online donations, but wherever there…

 Keeping your donors happy is the key to fundraising success. 3 out of every 4 donors will donate to your non-profit once and never come back. How do you prevent this from happening? How do you ensure that your donor keeps on donating regularly? By building a relationship with donors. All relationships are about reciprocity…

I am a big advocate for good quality email fundraising campaigns. I even wrote an article in the past that went over fundraising email writing best practices. Well-run email campaigns can mean the difference between meeting your fundraising goals and having your fundraising efforts fall flat. Recently, I was reading an article on the HubSpot…

There are lots of components that go into writing the perfect donation thank you letter. In an older post, I actually put together a comprehensive list of donation thank you letter dos and don’ts. While there are tons of best practices, every good thank you letter focuses on one major thing: your donors. In order…