Does crowdfunding actually work? – 8 convincing reasons for your nonprofit to try crowdfunding today
Learn more about how our crowdfunding services can help you generate serious revenue - join our free webinar on October 22. Details and registration here. Everyone in the nonprofit sector knows what it’s like to be stretched too thin. Chances...
CharityVillage, trusted partner to the Canadian nonprofit sector, is pleased to announce the launch of our next generation crowdfunding platform that will help organizations reach new donors and build a sustainable future. In partnership with Canadian headquartered crowdfunding pioneer FundRazr,...
As much as we hoped that the COVID-19 pandemic would only last a month or two, it’s become apparent that this humanitarian crisis and its economic aftermath isn’t going away soon. Thanks to ample available resources we’ve all started adapting...
This is the first article of 3-part series. The world of fundraising is changing and with it, fundraisers’ skill sets need to change, too. For the last decade, most nonprofits received their funding through grants, major donors, galas and peer-to-peer...
The future is now for the charitable sector. Almost daily, new technologies are being developed to help innovate the way people give or the way organizations offer opportunities to advance their causes. There is no going back. The charitable sector...
Online fundraising can seem complex. You’ve got so many different tools to figure out. All that data you can get and track. Rules, regulations, and ‘best practices’ are often changing. A lot of different people have different ideas on how...
Email continues to be the greatest revenue driver in fundraising – but that also means that it’s become an incredibly cluttered, busy channel. Digital communications have gone the way of direct mail, in the sense that quality and a holistic...
Stories are the backbone of good fundraising and critical to small organizations. We often hear how important stories are, but not how to craft good ones. After all, there is a difference! Vanessa Chase Lockshin, storytelling guru, breaks it all...
In one corner we have fundraising experts who say that what’s needed is just two more appeal letters, while in the other corner, we have experts who say we’ve got to reduce the volume of mail donors receive. As fun...
How could an organization raise a roof for a beloved heritage home before the winter rains set in? A long-time nonprofit client of mine faced this question in spring of 2016. The roof was going to cost $8,500. The organization...
