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As you design your next peer-to-peer social fundraising challenge, campaign, or event, consider how you can add elements that will motivate and encourage your participants to fundraise more and start fundraising earlier. At OneCause, we believe this means going beyond simply using leaderboards. Fundraising leaderboards certainly have a place, but if this is your only […]
12 06 1
How many times have you secretly envied an organization with a mission ambassador? You know, the nonprofit with enough funds to hire a big name movie star or a winning quarterback to tout their mission? Or, the organization whose founder is larger than life? Believe it or not, your nonprofit can have a mission ambassador, […]
24 05 0
If you use a Salesforce-based product, such as the Nonprofit Success Pack™ (NPSP) or Luminate CRM™, you have some of the most powerful, flexible reporting tools available for nonprofits. But do you know what reporting capabilities Salesforce has to offer? I recently teamed up with my colleague, Dan Weik, data consultant at Cathexis Partners, to […]
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We know just how important your website is for driving online donations. However, online fundraising is only one objective of a great nonprofit site. When you make thoughtful web design choices, you can inspire your supporters (and potential supporters) to stay on your site longer and ultimately engage with your nonprofit both online and offline […]
25 04 0
When I was a kid, peer-to-peer fundraising looked a little different than it does now. I remember my third-grade self collecting pledges for my school’s walk-a-thon, carefully noting my donors’ contributions on my pledge sheet and collecting them after the event. Our progress was tracked on a giant poster-board thermometer. My supporters paid in cash […]
9 04 0
Sustaining gift donors are some of your most engaged constituents. But, just like most people, they don’t always remember when their credit cards are expiring, or they don’t remember which cards they are using for which ongoing payments. This inevitably leads to declined transactions, and then you’re left to follow up with your sustaining donors […]
20 03 0
It seems like the Big Easy will be the center of the nonprofit universe this April with both AFP International Fundraising Conference and the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans. I won’t miss out on any of the fun: Cathexis Partners will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the events (booth #541 at NTC, and […]
8 03 0
Not every nonprofit organization is lucky enough to have dedicated writers to create and edit email communications. If your organization is like many, you’re on your own when it comes to writing, and you may find yourself struggling to create emails that engage constituents and move them to donate or take some other action. […]
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I’m often thinking about peer-to-peer fundraising. That’s not too surprising, given my role leading a team that helps nonprofits use technology to raise funds and engage with constituents. But, it’s been on my mind even more than usual lately. I recently did a podcast on peer-to-peer fundraising with Successful Nonprofits. In the podcast, I had […]
