What? Turn down a gift? You may spend hours developing a relationship with a donor, or if you’re lucky, you may even receive a surprise call from a donor looking to make a substantial investment in your organization. Given how...
Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love, edited by Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira and Nicole Salmon, Gail K. Picco Books, Civil Sector Press, November 24, 2020, 227 pp., $39.99 CAD/$29.99 USD Canada’s charitable sector consists of over 170,000 charities...
Offering a naming right opportunity to donors can be a daunting process. From making the right offer to negotiating the terms of the naming, how might we think holistically and act strategically about it? On today’s episode, Vincent Duckworth, seasoned...
Learn how you can use CharityVillage crowdfunding to pull together a last minute year-end fundraising campaign at our free webinar on December 8! We'll cover how to quickly set up your campaign and create urgency, and how to mobilize your...
What is GivingTuesday? Most people know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday...but GivingTuesday will be celebrated on December 1, 2020. It is a Canadian movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Cyber Monday. The “Opening day of the giving...
How are you going to make this program sustainable after we stop funding you? Most people who have written a grant have been asked that question, and guess what, most people just improvise the answer. There’s a lot to unpack...
Conversations about data, databases, and CRMs often surface fear and insecurity. Are you doing enough? Are we missing out just because we can’t afford an expensive database? How can we leverage the tools out there to help our fundraising efforts? ...
Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, November 5, 2020 Summary: If working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) gives you scary flashbacks to grade 10 math class, then this webinar is for you. Join Tasi Gottschlag, Keela’s COO, for a deep dive into...
Feature Photo: Giving Hearts Award winners gather at the 2019 celebration for National Philanthropy Day in Vancouver. Photo by Pardeep Singh. A celebration of generosity, volunteering and philanthropy amid a year of great adversity Canadian charities and nonprofits have been...
Donor stewardship is something that most of us know is important, but for some reason, it always gets pushed to the bottom of our to-do list. What ends up happening is when it comes time that you need your donors,...
