Book Review: Campaign Craft
I’ve been learning more about political fundraising lately, to help a friend of mine run for office. So I thought I’d share a little bit of what I’m learning. As it turns out, political fundraising is a bit different than nonprofit fundraising. For one thing, they use different terminology. Theme They talk about having a […]
The 5 Most Dangerous Donation Page Mistakes & How You Can Fix Them
Last week I went to London to speak at the Institute of Fundraising’s National Fundraising Convention. At the convention, I shared some tips and tools I’ve found useful when helping people click donate on your nonprofit website. Your whole website, from the moment someone lands there, can tell people if you’re trustworthy or not. One […]
5 Warning Signs Your Nonprofit Website Stinks
Are you not getting enough donations or volunteers signing up through your website? Are you worried your nonprofit website could be better? How can you make a better website? When you look at your nonprofit website, ask yourself, what’s the number one action you want people to take? Then, what’s the second action you want […]
Getting so psyched to go to London!
Have you heard of the National Fundraising Convention? The Institute of Fundraising in London is putting it on in July 2015. Oh happy day! They have invited me to speak about how to get people to click donate on your nonprofit website. If you’ll be at the conference, I’ll be speaking at 11am in Room […]
Fundraising How-To-A new twist on the thank you note
So I’m doing this crowdfunding fundraising campaign and WHEW what a ride it’s been! It ends on December 3rd so go check out our progress! 🙂 I’ve already written about the crowdfunding campaign earlier in November, but here we are-what else can we learn from this Indiegogo campaign? Well, how do you thank online donors, […]
My First Exprience with Indiegogo-Pokey the Penguin Fundraising
If this is your first time here, WELCOME! This blog is all about fundraising, HOW TO DO IT! And so today I’m sharing my fundraising journey with a new tool for me, IndieGogo! What is it like? It’s hard to describe, but it’s kind of like the sound of raspberries tastes! Why am I running […]