Digital Donations: Increase Your Revenue with Mobile Payments While snail-mail remains the most effective tool for reaching your donor base, a rapidly growing slice of the donor pie avoids transactions… Read More »
Fundraising Ideas, Tips, and Strategies
Find Inspiration in this collection of effective fundraising ideas and techniques for non-profits, churches, schools and small groups.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Mobile Bidding Benefit Auction
The era of the pen-and-paper auction is over. Host a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) mobile bidding event! Imagine your next event setting with tables without paper bid sheets on them,… Read More »
The Perfect Amount of Email Content
Write an email with the perfect amount of content. People are on email overload; however, it is still arguably one of the most effective means of solicitation (right along… Read More »
Fundraising Tips Inspired by Beyoncé
Fundraising Tips Inspired by Beyoncé Rock Your Signature Move. Every non-profit organization has its strengths and weaknesses. Like Beyoncé’s signature dance moves inspire her audience, knowing your “signature move” is essential… Read More »
3 Tips for Donor Segmentation
3 Tips for Better Donor Segmentation for Your Next Fundraising Campaign Your donors are not a faceless mass, so they should not be treated as such. Each one of your… Read More »
New Wall of Wine: 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall: A Game of Big Donations You’ve heard the song: “Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer… Take one down,… Read More »
5 Ways Schools Can Keep Summer Engagement High
5 Ways Schools Can Stay Engaged Over the Summer Alumni and parents that give generously to schools don’t simply appear overnight. A positive, giving relationship with parents and alumni is… Read More »
Step Up Your Item Procurement Part 2: Experiences of a Lifetime
Step Up Your Item Procurement with Quality Items Recently, here at the Greater Giving blog, we received a question from a reader. “Hi! We’re clients of Greater Giving and were… Read More »
5 Innovative Auction Game Ideas: Moving Beyond Heads-or-Tails
What better way to generate excitement at your next fundraiser than to involve your guests in a game? People love to play and love to laugh. Give them a chance… Read More »
Nonprofit Software Report: Nonprofits Turn to Software in 2015
We sat down with Janna Finch, a nonprofit market researcher and contributor to this year’s Nonprofit Software Report, published by Software Advice. Each year, Software Advice talks with thousands of nonprofit… Read More »