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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…

Maximize Your Retainer Hours

There are many reasons your organization might benefit (or already have) from a strategic retainer with Charity Dynamics. At Charity Dynamics, we structure our retained service relationships to ensure on-demand resources of project management, design, consulting, web...

Engaging your Peer-to-Peer Network

The Engage P2P conference by Fundraising Success took place this past week, October 21, with the theme of Redefining Peer-to-Peer. With almost 200 people representing a variety of nonprofits, the one day conference was a huge success. I was there, and broke down the...

Fundraising Tricks and Treats

Yep, we had to include a play on the fun past-time of ‘trick or treating.’ But, more importantly, we wanted to give you some super quick and helpful tricks to revive your nonprofit’s peer-to-peer fundraising and a way to offer your fundraisers a few treats, making...

Make a Difference Day is Almost Here

Once a year, USA Weekend partners with Points of Light and Newman’s Own to promote the nation’s largest day of volunteering, Make a Difference Day. This year, #MDDAY will take place on Saturday, October 25, and will consist of thousands of projects happening...

A Video is Worth 60,000 Words

The human brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text. This is super important to remember when marketing your nonprofit online, especially in regards to social media. Abila’s Fundraising Academy is a webinar series with lots of great tips for maximizing...

Facebook Improves Privacy, Shares the Benefit

Facebook has embraced a new era as a commercial CRM. They signaled this shift with a threefold strategy to improve the control users have over their data combined with a major rollout to utilize that data for their own financial gain. By restricting third party access...