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Tools, articles and insights for the modern fundraiser.

Year-end Starts Now!

Over 25% of the average nonprofit’s annual fundraising is made in the last 2 months of the year. However, most nonprofits don’t start their year-end planning until October.

Fundraising on Facebook

Facebook recently launched Facebook Fundraisers, which enable individuals to solicit donations from their friend networks on behalf of causes they support…

New Ideas from Strategic Services – May 2017

Each month, we share the most innovative ideas we see in the nonprofit technology industry. Here are three of our favorite ideas from last month…

Integrating Search Function with Donation Forms

Can your donors find the participant or team they want to support on your event site? Many P2P fundraising events face this challenge…

Home Run Fundraising

Home Run Fundraising

April is one of my favorite sports times of the year. We say goodbye to college basketball and March Madness and just a few days later we turn our eyes to baseball opening day. (Go Cardinals!) As I was flipping channels a few weeks ago, I came upon the movie,...

Top 10 Lessons from Fundraising Leaders

Top 10 Lessons from Fundraising Leaders

At Charity Dynamics, we like to have our cake and eat it too. But we also want a side of fresh fundraising ideas and inspiration while we’re eating, especially if we also get to talk about our FEELINGS. That’s how we found ourselves at the Association of Fundraising...

Innovative Ideas from Strategic Services

Innovative Ideas from Strategic Services

Our Charity Dynamics retained strategic services clients receive weekly status updates that allow us to plan and track initiatives that help our clients reach their digital communication and fundraising goals. Each week, we share the most innovative ideas we see in...

Instagram ‘Filtering’ Your Feed

Instagram ‘Filtering’ Your Feed

Instagram recently replaced the current chronological feed with an algorithm that orders the posts based on your interests and relationships. This means your Instagram feed is now constantly evolving based on your user activity. For nonprofit organizations using...

Matching Gifts

Matching Gifts

One of our final orders of business in 2018 was partnering with Double the Donation, the industry-leading matching gift software for nonprofits and educational institutions. They offer the most extensive matching gift database out there, including more than 20,000...

One-Click Donations. Is This Real Life?

One-Click Donations. Is This Real Life?

When nonprofit organizations talk about pursuing a one-click donation process, it can feel like they're discussing a quest for the Holy Grail or the Fountain of Youth. “I know it’s out there somewhere.” There’s a shroud of mystery around whether or not a nonprofit can...