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When it comes to nonprofit programming, some nonprofits choose a lane a mile wide and an inch deep while others dive a mile deep and an inch wide. The key is to know which lane your nonprofit thrives in.

This week's guest on the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast, Phil Olaleye, Georgia State Representative and Executive Director of Next Gen Next Generation Men & Women a nonprofit closing the opportunity gap for Atlanta high school students.

Phil has must-hear insights into identifying your lane and how to use scale to get to scalable, so tune in now!
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Register to Fundraise, part of Funraise's P2P toolkit, provides a seamless sign-up experience for fundraising campaigns that require ticketed registration.

So, when your next walk, run, race, or anything-a-thon rolls around, you can require fundraisers to register for the event before creating their fundraising page.

And, as a huge bonus, Register to Fundraise pairs nicely with Funraise’s Fundraising Commitments feature, which assists you in charging fundraisers at the end of the campaign if they don’t hit the event minimum.
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Ben Collier is an aspiring—and inspiring—visionary whose nonprofit, The Farmlink Project, has a broad vision to simultaneously hit the root of food insecurity and help farmers cultivate sustainable change in the sphere of food insecurity.
Listen in to the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast as Ben and Justin dig into deep-rooted issues, challenge our perspective on food accessibility, and witness a $100 million vision being planted.
Looking for a way to pursue progress in the food system? Sign The Farmlink Project's Shared Plate Pledge today.
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Spark a sizzling Summer fundraising strategy in 2024
Summer is finally here! Heat up your Summer fundraising with dozens of red-hot fundraising ideas in the 2024 Summer Fundraising Calendar:
- Virtual and in-person event ideas
- Wide-ranging cultural celebrations
- Fundraising ideas that work indoors and out
- Back-to-School vs. Endless Summer: Your choice
Bonus! Get the go-to guide for the events, dates, and seasons that every fundraiser needs to know with Funraise's Complete Fundraising Calendar.
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Gaston County YMCA has become a powerhouse organization when it comes to fundraising—with help from Funraise's friendly front-end giving experience.
Take their growth between 2021 and 2022: starting at $45,400 and increasing to $82,000, they've seen over 80% growth in online fundraising in just one year.

"Donors are able to give to the Y with a quick one-click, and it is what they expect," says Gaston County YMCA Executive Director of Youth Development Molly D'Avria. "They aren't having to go out of their way to try hard to support our YMCA."
In addition, Gaston County YMCA is engaging: they've raised $228,000 online from more than 1400 donors and had 141 peer-to-peer fundraisers rallying for their community centers. Nice work!

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Wanna know how incredible Funraise's data analysis and reporting tool, Fundraising Intelligence, is?
When compared with Funraise customers who don’t use Fundraising Intelligence (yet), organizations who use Fundraising Intelligence:

- Raise 7x more online annually on average
- Grow recurring revenue 1.5x faster year over year on average, and...
- As of April, organizations with Fundraising Intelligence have an average of 12% higher donor retention rates in 2024

These results are great! And for transparency, these are common performance stats for nonprofit growth comparing Funraise customers who have accounts with our Fundraising Intelligence features and those who don’t. Click through to get more info on these amazing stats!

Fundraising Intelligence In Action: The stats behind the smarts We ran the numbers to see common performance stats for nonprofit growth, comparing Funraise customers who use Fundraising Intelligence and those who don’t, and the results are pretty great!

Oh, hello, Artificial (Fundraising) Intelligence!

Even though AI is relatively new to the nonprofit world, there's already a smorgasbord of intelligence platforms out there that will help supercharge your mission (Like Funraise’s AppealAI)!

And as the premier fundraising reporting and data analysis tool in the space, Funraise has compiled the ultimate list of AI tools to fulfill your every need—writing, marketing, productivity, and, of course, data analysis.
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Get ready to heat up your 2024 fundraising with the new-and-improved Summer Fundraising Calendar! 🌞

We’ve put together a list of red-hot fundraising ideas for June through September:
🔥 Blazing-yet-cool fundraising ideas for virtual and in-person events
🥳 Wide-ranging cultural celebrations and days of remembrance
📚 Double-duty strategies to grow your budget and your donors
🏫 Fundraisers to resolve the eternal struggle: Back-to-School vs. Endless Summer
🌳 Ideas designed to raise loads whether you're indoors or out

Get a head start on your summer fundraising strategy today!
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Introducing: Funraise Auctions!

With the event season rapidly approaching, Funraise is thrilled to roll out Auctions, a new feature allowing nonprofits to showcase awesome auction items, keep donors engaged, and streamline payments. Bring your fundraising events to life and increase donation revenue with Funraise's must-have Auctions feature:
- Easily create an auction website
- Highlight your auction item showcase
- Engage donors with online and mobile bidding
- Increase fundraising auction revenue with bid alerts
- Collect payment methods and seamlessly charge top bidders

Shout it loud! Silent auctions make your org a big winner.
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Nonprofits using Funraise grew online revenue 73% on average—3x the industry standard.
But that's not all 💣
Organizations using Funraise grow recurring revenue by 52% annually.
P2P fundraisers on Funraise raise 2x more than the industry's top peer-to-peer programs.
Funraise's donation form has a conversion rate of 50%.
💥 Boom.💥

The growth stat images are in this box folder, but in case you can't access it, I'll drop one here as well. 🙂

Growth Stats | Funraise Funraise customers outpace industry standards, reaching beyond their fundraising goals—you can, too. Compare Funraise customers' average growth performance between 2019 and 2020 in four key areas: online revenue growth, recurring revenue growth, average recurring donation size, and average amount ...

If you've followed Funraise through the years, you know that we constantly deliver innovative foundational fundraising tools that boost nonprofit revenue—because we're on a mission to see your mission funded.

Today, we're proud to announce a new era in nonprofit growth; brilliant dashboards, reports, and artificial intelligence, aka Fundraising Intelligence.

Don't worry; we'll continue to take our leading fundraising and donor management features to ever-higher heights—and now, Fundraising Intelligence will join those core features, strengthening your ability to grow and make impact.

A new era of fundraising intelligence is here... and you’re invited! Funraise is proud to announce our next area of focus: Fundraising Intelligence! With these industry-leading reporting tools, nonprofit growth will be fueled by brilliant dashboards, reports, and AI, aka Fundraising Intelligence.

Earlier this year, an intimate group of forward-thinking nonprofit leaders and industry experts convened in the Redwoods outside San Francisco, led by Brett Hagler and the New Story team in partnership with Funraise. The purpose of the time was to exchange ideas and experiences among these leaders, all of whom are committed to scaling their impact.

The unique intimacy and high-quality content of the event seems to have struck a chord, meeting a need that’s often unmet. We're considering doing another invite-only round this year, so if you're interested, please fill out the quick form below (linked in comments). If you have someone else in mind, share the link freely and have them fill it out.

Keep up the good work out there. 💪 Maybe we'll see you in the Redwoods soon!

Camp Redwood 2024

Although it's not our first time talking about ethical storytelling, this episode of the Nonstop Nonprofit Podcast with Philippe Lazaro, Creative Director of Plant With Purpose, TEDx speaker, and illustrator, delivers a much different message than previous discussions.

Namely, ethical storytelling is the future of the nonprofit story (and the heart and soul of nonprofit fundraising).

Fundraisers searching for concrete steps to becoming ethical storytellers will appreciate Philippe's clarity and direction in making space for dignity in storytelling. Philippe has spent his career centering conversations around communities both global and local. And his advice is exactly what nonprofits need to take their storytelling efforts to higher heights.

Partners, Not Projects: Actionable ideas to make space for ethical storytelling On this episode of Nonstop Nonprofit, David discusses actionable ways to brings ethics into storytelling with Philippe Lazaro.

👍With Spring fast at hand, your fundraising campaigns are turning to activities that spark friendly competition. As your peer-to-peer fundraisers approach their campaign goal, take a moment to celebrate your fundraisers' success—and to give them that last push they need.

Funraise delivers the no-cost boost your Spring P2P fundraisers need: a dazzling feed of your top fundraisers or fundraising teams right on your P2P campaign site. It's like high-fiving all of your fundraisers as they cross the finish line!

Peer-to-peer Fundraising Build beautiful nonprofit peer-to-peer fundraising websites in a snap! Easy for fundraisers to share and even easier for donors to give. Surpass fundraising goals!

🎯Big Announcement! In the interest of increasing donation revenues and improving donor retention, Funraise is making Fundraising Intelligence, our best-in-class nonprofit data reporting, available to organizations across the nonprofitsphere in the form of easily shareable dashboards, reports, and more.

Funraise’s data intelligence partnership with Sisense provides tools backed by AI, including AI forecasting, data explanations, and natural language queries, and allows nonprofits to compete for the same dollars previously secured by for-profit companies that boast massive AI and data intelligence tools.

🤯Fundraising Intelligence is the smart way to increase impact.

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Funraise Accelerates Nonprofit Sector Impact with Focus on AI-backed Fundraising Intelligence Increasing donation revenues and improving donor retention are key goals for Funraise’s data intelligence partnership with Sisense.

Funraise's innovative approach to a Donors Cover Fees model has become increasingly profitable for nonprofits over the last two years.

Here’s a sneak peek into the success of our nonprofit-friendly DCF model:
🤯 $8,000,000+ generated to cover fees
🔥 $3,500,000 of processing fee coverage
💯 100% platform fee coverage
💰 1.5% average effective total payment cost
🙌 ~90% of donors cover fees

Experience the method behind the Donors Cover Fees model yourself.

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One of the most prevalent trends we're seeing pop up early in 2024 is the use of Venmo and other modern payment methods.

In fact, Funraise CEO and Co-founder Justin Wheeler said, "As social interactions have gone digital, donations have moved into the digital realm as well, making it imperative that nonprofits evolve their ability to accept those digital donations."

And it makes sense! Making the donating process as easy as possible is key to converting donors at record-breaking rates. See how Funraise is incorporating digital wallets into donation forms for our industry-leading 50% conversion rate.

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It's time to build that annual report! And boy, have we got some new tools for you. Friend, this is the year that you bring AI into your annual report in an intelligent way.

👇Read on as we explain how, why, and what AI can do for your annual report.

Make an Annual Report with AI (in 5 easy steps!) It's time to build that annual report! Friend, this is the year that you bring AI into your annual report in an intelligent way. Give us a listen as we explain how, why, and what AI can do for your annual report.

Friends, we're excited to talk to you about something that's been on our minds lately: the for-good sector's retention crisis. Not the donor retention crisis, that other one.

It's no secret that many nonprofiteers are feeling burnt out and overwhelmed, and it can be tough to stay motivated and passionate about our work. But fear not, because this episode of the Nonstop Nonprofit has an amazing guest who's ready to help us tackle this issue!

Meet Amber Christoferson, the Vice President of DickersonBakker's Executive Search Group and a true expert when it comes to understanding the needs of both employees and organizations.

Join in the conversation as we learn about employee retention and brainstorm ways to keep our colleagues and peers in the for-good sector.

Talent and Turnover: The for-good sector's retention crisis On this episode of Nonstop Nonprofit, David discusses the for-good sector's retention crisis with Amber Christoferson.

🚀To take your annual report to the next level, you need proven-effective nonprofit data reporting. You need visually compelling charts, graphs, and diagrams. You need Funraise's Fundraising Intelligence.

Start with ready-made fundraising dashboards built by fundraising pros, then customize 'em for your annual report.
✔️Historic donation trends
✔️LYBUNTY and SYBUNTY
✔️Marketing contributions to donation revenue
✔️Donations MOM and Donors YOY
✔️Donation activity YTD
✔️Peer-to-peer activity and Fundraisers YOY

It's easier than you think to embrace reports and analytics and become the savviest fundraiser on the block!

Nonprofit Fundraising Dashboard for Data & Intelligence Your fundraising data wants to share all its juicy secrets for your very best growth. Take a tour through the big (data) picture.

Ready to burst onto the 2024 scene with all your fundraising strategies set for success?
..Us, either.

But the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast's recent episodes have us positively positive that the new year is bringing with it a new attitude and new ways to approach what will definitely be a distracting, tumultuous, exciting year.

Join Rhea Wong in examining the mindset great fundraisers share, investigate the nonprofit sector's retention crisis with Amber Christoferson, and dive into our archives for on-the-go ideas, humor, and support.

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👉There's more to your annual report than meets the eye.

Which is why you need Funraise's Must-Have Nonprofit Annual Report Manual. This pocket-sized manual has everything you need to see 2023 through a different lens, including
✔️Step-by-step fundraising program review
✔️Fundraising reports that'll make your nonprofit shine
✔️Must-have annual report tools
✔️A full-scale guide to building your report with AI
Essential annual report elements
Masterful annual report examples

👇Set your sights on success with an eye-popping annual report, and make it great with the Must-Have Nonprofit Annual Report Manual.

The Must-Have Nonprofit Annual Report Manual | Funraise Pull out the Annual Report Manual and get moving! This pocket-sized manual has everything you need to know to take last year's numbers and reveal your nonprofit's success in a nonprofit annual report.

😨In the cold light of 2024, you're looking for something easier/better/faster than the endless, endless data entry on your plate today. You're looking for Funraise's user-friendly CRM.

Think of it👨‍🎓! Managing donors and donation data with a smile instead of with spreadsheets sounds awesome... but there's more!

✔️Make better decisions with deep historical data
✔️Save time and increase accuracy by automating donation data
✔️Build lasting relationships through targeted donor segments
✔️Reduce costs by centralizing reports, giving, and communications

New year, new tools—exchange all your spreadsheets for one nonprofit CRM.

👇Talk to Funraise and get started in a snap!
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Got a post-holiday journey in front of you? Lean back and listen in to some of the nonprofitsphere's most innovative experts on the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast. Recent guests include Julie Ordonez speaking on courage, Jon DeLange's 12 rules of fundraising, and Nicole Nidea extolling awesome automations.

For on-the-go ideas, humor, and support, Nonstop Nonprofit is the perfect pitstop
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🔍Need something to fire you up during these cold winter days? How about more donations?

Funraise is bringing you the warm, welcoming side of technology with our Firesides sessions. Our first episode is all about the anatomy of a giving form: examples, special tricks, and strategic applications that’ll have you updating your online donation form today.

👇So put the kettle on, snuggle down, and get ready to see your fundraising fire up.

Firesides registration Funraise makes nonprofit fundraising a piece of cake. With truly innovative features and tools, fundraising is easier than ever. Power up your nonprofit.

💥2024 is coming fast, nonprofiteer, and we’re guessing you have a lot of planning to do. To make that planning as smooth as possible, we've got your go-to guide to the events, dates, and seasons that every fundraiser REALLY needs to know.

👇And once you've hit the ground running, make your fundraising goals a reality with fundraising software that takes your plans from dreams to reality.

The Fundraiser’s 2024 Fundraising Plan: Your Complete Calendar of Dates Nonprofits Actually Need to Know Got a lot of fundraising to do in 2024? Here's your go-to guide on the key fundraising dates, events, and seasons that you actually need to know.

It's time to tune into 2024 trends!

Read all about our 5 Top Fundraising Trends for 2024, plus 19 more trends our nonprofit experts expect to see in the coming year.

Trends from Friends: 24 nonprofit trends for 2024 Last year, we brought you 7 trends in 7 minutes. This year, we bring you 24 trends from our friends.

This time of year, nonprofiteers want to lower barriers for donors to increase conversions for their orgs.
👇Here are 5 low-key, totally doable ways to make your giving experience as smooth as silk.
1. Personalize donors' ask amounts to increase conversions
2. Provide a mobile-friendly giving experience
3. Build a year-end-specific campaign site
4.Track progress to your fundraising goal in realtime
5. Place a pop-up donation form on your website

💥Bonus! Download Funraise's Year-End Guide for Busy Fundraisers
Build your best experience with Funraise.

The Year-End Giving Guide for Busy Fundraisers | Funraise Maximize your nonprofit's year-end fundraising with this simple guide to help you create a 3-part year-end email fundraising appeal.

Now that Giving Tuesday is behind us (barely), we've got just the thing to kick your year-end fundraising into high gear: The Year-End Giving Guide for Busy Fundraisers!

Download it for free today, and put it into play later this week. Or next week. Either way, with this 3-email minimalist guide, you're on the path of least resistance—but most donations.

The Year-End Giving Guide for Busy Fundraisers | Funraise Maximize your nonprofit's year-end fundraising with this simple guide to help you create a 3-part year-end email fundraising appeal.