How to Evaluate Event Success The event is over and guests have gone home. For the sake of your volunteers, donors, organization, and board, it’s time to evaluate your success… Read More »
Fundraising Tips & Tricks
How to Create a Fundraiser Facebook Event Quickly, Effectively, and Easily
How to Promote Your Event on Facebook Whether or not you’re audience and donor-base are on Facebook, you should have an event listed for your fundraiser for three reasons: it’s… Read More »
Guest Post: Creative Fundraising Captures Revenue
Silent auctions, live auctions, and fund-a-need presentations—these are fairly reliable fundraising methods. They are also quite common. Guests won’t be surprised to encounter them, and subsequently may not be inspired… Read More »
How to Mobile Bid: Explain Mobile Bidding to Guests
PS 9 included a “How to Mobile Bid” page in their auction catalog for their 2015 auction. How to Mobile Bid When you register your mobile number at check-in: You… Read More »
Find and Recruit Volunteers for the Job
To find and recruit volunteers (and skilled ones at that) takes a significant investment of time and effort—so once you acquire that fantastic volunteer, foster a culture of engagement and appreciation to keep… Read More »
Raise More with Responsive Design
Computing is becoming increasingly mobile. In fact, analysts predict more tablets will be shipped in 2015 than desktop PCs. More people are using their smartphones and tablets to research information,… Read More »
Top 5 Donor Experience Trends Webinar
Digitalizing fundraising events with technology on smartphones, tablets, and leaderboards is a trend that’s here to stay. Utilizing technology to increase revenue, while improving the donor experience at events, is… Read More »
Banishing Auction Check-out Problems: Accept Credit Cards
Banishing Auction Check-out Problems with Sherry Truhlar and Kim Bauman. A snip-it from the recording: Nonprofits and payment acceptance Sherry: Kim, describe a typical beginner’s auction checkout. Kim: A typical… Read More »
Double Fundraising with Matching Gifts
Matching gifts is easy for donors and monumentally beneficial to your organization. A matching gift is a donation made to a nonprofit by a matching donor (e.g., an employer) under the provision that an… Read More »
How I Fundraise: Sunny Hills Services on Go Time
This quick 5 minute How I Fundraise video features Greater Giving Client Sunny Hills Services and their Development Coordinator Elizabeth Mathern, sharing her story of “How I Fundraise” using Go… Read More »