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How to Cultivate New Audiences for Your Nonprofit

Every nonprofit hits a season where the same names keep showing up on the same lists. Your loyal donors renew. Your board shows up. Your volunteers come back. That consistency is a gift. It can also be a quiet warning sign. If your audience isn't growing, your...

The One-Person Development Team Survival Guide

You write the appeals, pull the reports, manage the donor database, coordinate with the board, plan the events, send the thank-you letters, and somehow also find time to actually cultivate donor relationships. If you have a good week, everything gets done. If you have...

Optimizing the Summer Slowdown: 7 Tips for Nonprofits

Summer often brings a welcome lull for many nonprofits. But before you fully kick back, consider this: the organizations that sail through year-end are almost always the ones who used their slower months wisely. This "quiet season" is actually one of the most valuable...

Top 10 Nonprofit CRMs with Event Tools in 2026

Choosing a nonprofit CRM is a big decision, and adding event management into the equation makes it bigger. Whether you are evaluating platforms for the first time or outgrowing what you have, this is a decision worth getting right. The CRM and event tools you choose...

How to Use Your Nonprofit Data For Strategic Planning

Strategic planning can feel like a big undertaking, especially for small and mid-sized nonprofits where staff wear multiple hats and time is limited. But a solid strategic plan does not have to be complicated. What it does need is grounding in real data. The good...

Why Data Governance Should Be Part of Your Nonprofit CRM Plan

Your nonprofit is about to invest in a CRM. You have shopped around, attended demos, and made your shortlist. But one thing many nonprofits overlook is how they will actually use that database once it is live. A nonprofit CRM can provide a wealth of information to...

How to Customize Your Nonprofit CRM for Better Results

Your nonprofit's mission is unique. Your donor relationships are unique. Your CRM should be too. Most nonprofits start with a donor management system, enter the basics, and then quietly work around the gaps, keeping a separate spreadsheet for membership levels here, a...

How to Clean Up Your Nonprofit Donor Data

Your donor database is only as valuable as the data inside it. Duplicate records, outdated addresses, and inconsistent entries do not just create an organizational headache. They produce inaccurate reports, waste money on undeliverable mail, and can quietly erode...

How to Use Financial Data in Nonprofit Storytelling

Accurate financial data is the foundation of evidence-based storytelling. Learn how to transform your nonprofit’s bookkeeping data into a powerful story.

Why Nonprofit Reporting Matters and How a True CRM Delivers

We hear it more often than you might expect. A nonprofit team logs into their CRM, enters a few contacts, maybe records a donation or two, and calls it a day. The reporting tab? Untouched. The data? Sitting there quietly, doing nothing. If that sounds familiar, you're...

Nonprofit Editorial Calendar: How to Make Your Content Strategy Easy and Engaging

Tips & Tricks

To begin with, let's define a few buzzwords. Content: It is what you write in your blog, post Facebook page, tweet out, or send in an email. Content Calendar: a plan for when and what you publish. It might contain other details like the SEO keywords you plan to use,...

Putting Your Linkedin to Use, Finding Board Members and Donors.

Fundraising

I am overwhelmed by the amount of information that Linkedin provides. Until recently I thought of it just as a job seeking site. What I learned last week at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN is it is a much more powerful tool than I had imagined....

A Story of a Lifetime Volunteer

Fundraising

My Grandma Amy is a lifetime volunteer and donor. She has inspired me to volunteer throughout my life and showed me the need to give what you can to charity. I asked her to be a DonorSnap contributor and write about why she cares to help out in her community. I see my...

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