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Start the Year Strong: 7 Ways to Analyze Your Fundraising Data for Success

Your nonprofit CRM holds a wealth of information about your fundraising. However, so many nonprofits are sitting on their data without taking the time to leverage it to boost their fundraising. The start of a new year is a great time to run through your data and spot...

6 Practical Ways AI Can Help Your Nonprofit Work Smarter (Not Harder)

You're wearing five hats today: grant writer, event planner, donor steward, social media manager, and somehow you still need to figure out why donations are down this quarter. Sound familiar? You've probably been hearing about AI constantly. Maybe you're curious but...

One Step at a Time: What A New Nonprofit Needs for Marketing

Starting a nonprofit is an exciting endeavor, but building awareness and gaining initial support takes more than just posting your mission statement everywhere. Many newer nonprofits struggle with where to begin in their marketing journey. Effective marketing helps...

GivingTuesday Resource Round-Up 2025

Fun Fact: DonorSnap customers have collectively raised $3,472,081 on GivingTuesday! We love helping nonprofits make the most of their GivingTuesday campaigns, so we've rounded up our favorite resources filled with helpful strategies. Each resource offers actionable...

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...

Stories About Amazing Donors

Miscellaneous

Do you have a story about an amazing volunteer or donor? Last month at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN we set out to collect stories that honors the folks that go above and beyond the call of duty.

Is Your Nonprofit Prepared for Web 3.0?

Tips & Tricks

Web 3.0? Give me a break! We just got a Facebook page up, what's next? First you needed a website. Did it take a while to get one up and running? Then you needed social media, that changes so rapidly it's hard to keep up! You integrated a blog, that now you need to...

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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