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How to Collect Donations Online: A Complete Guide for Nonprofits

Online giving is no longer a passing trend. According to a study from Double the Donation, 63% of donors prefer to give online using a credit or debit card. Nonprofits that position themselves to collect online donations not only increase the number of gifts they...

How to Retain GivingTuesday Donors

Turning GivingTuesday Donors into Year-Round Champions GivingTuesday is exhilarating. You watch donations roll in, celebrate milestones in real time, and end the day energized by your community's generosity. But here's the question that keeps development directors up...

How Fall Events Can Kick Off Your Year-End Fundraising

The holiday season is often the most important time of year for nonprofit fundraising. However, the key to a successful year-end campaign is a year-long effort. Hosting events in the months leading up to the giving season helps you build momentum, engage donors, and...

Is Your Data Secure in a Nonprofit CRM?

Many nonprofits new to using a nonprofit CRM may wonder about the security of their data in a system like DonorSnap. It is understandable to be cautious, as protecting your donor information and ensuring its accuracy is essential for fundraising success. Since you...

How Employment Data Can Power Your Corporate Giving Strategy

Guest Post from Double the Donation In today’s hyper-connected world, data is the fuel that drives smart decisions, and employment data is one of the most underutilized resources in nonprofit fundraising. While many organizations focus on donor demographics, giving...

Event Attendee Follow-Up and Cultivation: A Complete Guide

Your nonprofit's annual gala is just around the corner. Tables are selling, excitement is building, and your team is putting the finishing touches on what promises to be an inspiring evening. But here's a question that many nonprofits overlook: What happens to all...

How DonorSnap and EventSnap Simplify Event Planning

Hosting a nonprofit event is a great way to engage supporters and raise funds, but planning and managing events can be complex without the right tools. If you're already using DonorSnap, you know it's a powerful CRM for tracking donors, recording event attendance, and...

Nonprofit Fundraising Plan Best Practices

Are you familiar with the law of the 5 Ps? Proper preparation prevents poor performance. More than just an alliteration, this principle is pertinent to successful fundraising. The concept behind it is self-explanatory, but the idea is that your success, or lack...

How to Build Community With a Donor Appreciation Event

Donor appreciation events serve as a powerful way to cultivate donor stewardship. These events help nonprofits really drive home thanks and impact on a personal level. Getting your supporters in person to celebrate their support of your mission helps uplift spirits...

Spring Fundraising Checklist for Nonprofits

Spring is more than a season, it’s a mindset. As trees bud and flowers bloom, it’s a natural time to pause, reflect, and reset. For nonprofits, this season offers a valuable opportunity to review your fundraising progress, optimize your tools, and realign your efforts...

Donor Segmentation: 3 Ways it Will Improve Fundraising

Fundraising

Are you sending out mass communications to your mailing list without performing donor segmentation first? If so, you may be missing out on the opportunity to improve engagement with your supporters. Donor segmentation is a powerful tool used in both marketing and...

Top 4 Fundraising Reports to Watch

Blog, Fundraising

Is data part of your fundraising strategy? Fundraising Report Card defines data-driven fundraising as fundraising that is compelled by data, not intuition or gut-feel. Using the data in your database will help you develop a more cohesive fundraising strategy....

DonorSnap April 2021 System Updates

System Updates

Added searching to DataMiner Platinum Field Export Selection and Query Builder tabs and alphabetized the field order. Updated the following reports to include a standardized set of fields in the export, include user-defined fields, and various functionality additions:...

How to Account for Credit Card Fees When Collecting Online Donations

Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized

Collecting online donations is a great way to reach potential new donors. It is no surprise that millennials prefer online and social giving, and organizations need to provide an outlet for this demographic. Online payment processors charge small fees for accepting...

SalesForce™ Not Designed For Non Profits

Donor Management Software, Uncategorized

Salesforce is one of the largest software companies in the world. It is well known as one of the most successful business Customer Relationship Management platforms on the market. While Salesforce is a great CRM solution for for-profit organizations, it was not...

DonorSnap Responsive Forms Tool Updates: February 2021

Blog, System Updates, Tips & Tricks

DonorSnap's Responsive Forms tool allows you to create interactive web forms to collect information directly from your contacts over the internet. The Responsive Forms tool has been recently updated with two new features. Both donation and interaction with payment...

Excel vs DonorSnap for DonorManagement

Blog, Donor Management Software, Uncategorized

Excel vs DonorSnap for Donor Management In the blog article “6 Reasons to Upgrade from Excel to a NonProfit CRM” we covered the pitfalls of using Excel as your nonprofit database. Excel can be a useful tool to start, but quickly outlives its effectiveness. As your...

Comparing PayPal and DonorSnap with goEmerchant for Online Donations

Blog

Watch the PayPal vs. DonorSnap with goEmerchant Webinar. Are you using PayPal to collect online donations? Many nonprofits use PayPal because of their discounted nonprofit rates. While PayPal is a great choice for many nonprofits, there are other options for...

6 Reasons to Upgrade from Excel to a Nonprofit CRM

Blog, Donor Management Software

Is your nonprofit using excel as its database? Many small or newer nonprofits will use excel to track all of their donors and donation data. This is a common and affordable approach for a season, but there are a number of reasons why most nonprofits can’t afford to...

Four Ways Automation Will Help Your Nonprofit Succeed

Blog, Donor Management Software

Do you agree that people are your nonprofit’s most valuable resource? If so, then you know how much your staff and volunteers do to carry out your mission. With only so many hours in the day, are you focusing on tasks that could be left to automation? Many nonprofits...

Giving Tuesday ⇨ Spam Tuesday ⇨ Blacklist Tuesday

Fundraising

Are you going to damage your email reputation for the dream of easy money? This is an extremely important question to ask yourself as you get ready for Giving Tuesday. Don’t let it become the day that you SPAM all of your supporters, and lose the privilege to email...

How to Find Duplicates in your Database using an NCOA Cleaning

Blog

There is no magic pill that will keep your contact list free of duplicates. Even the organizations with full-time staffs are plagued with this problem. In a past article, I wrote about DonorSnap’s live duplicate checking tool that will alert you to possible...

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