This checklist of 200+ digital marketing and fundraising tasks will help your nonprofit get organized and implement the best practices featured in 101 Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.
SMS storytelling is an underused strategy by nonprofits. Texts get opened, they feel personal, and the barrier to respond is lower than almost any other channel. When you ask a question, people answer. And what comes back can become some of your most compelling content.
Professional benefit auctioneers are unsung heroes who often come through time and time again for their nonprofit organizations, instrumental pieces of the fundraising process in helping nonprofits collect donations and raising on average 30% more than their amateur auctioneer counterparts for their good causes.
Community cannot be reduced to a platform. A Slack group is not a community. A membership portal is not a community. An email list is not a community. Those may be containers for community, but they are not the thing itself. Community begins when people are not just receiving information, but building relationships inside the experience.
To a donor, submitting an online donation is instantaneous—a single, satisfying click. But the donor only hears a click. The nonprofit feels the ripples. Beneath the surface of that seemingly simple online donation is a complex, multi-layered financial and technological ecosystem.
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Meta Lead Ads are a great way for nonprofits of all sizes and budgets to grow their email lists, and with 33% of online donors saying that email is the communication method that most often inspires them to make a donation, prioritizing growing your nonprofit's email list in 2026 is the best way to raise more money online.
A lot of nonprofit professionals dread dread tracking key performance indicators (KPIs). Tracking the wrong fundraising metrics—or even using the right metrics in the wrong way—can be intensely stressful. But tracking the right things can actually help you simplify your job while getting better results.
The nonprofit job market is tightening primarily due to a loss in federal grants and donors giving less in response to economic instability. If you are a nonprofit professional in need of new employment, this post features 14 of the top nonprofit job boards.
If you think your organization is too small to start using AI, you’re probably just the right size. With advanced cloud-based services that can access and process big data at scale, it’s not just the biggest enterprises using machine learning and other types of artificial intelligence. Even smaller nonprofits are using AI tools to raise more money, particularly from...
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By utilizing smart ask amounts instead of using a “one-size-fits-all methodology, nonprofits have seen a 12% increase in average donation size and a 62% increase in average gift size year-over-year. Smart ask amounts reduce friction in the donor journey and lessen the risk of donors abandoning their gift altogether.
Our 2026 Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing & Fundraising program is now available on demand! Customized for nonprofit professionals, the webinar series provides a timely, honest approach to using AI for nonprofit marketing and fundraising—and illuminates why human creativity is more valuable than ever.