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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 Duplicate records, outdated addresses, and inconsistent entries do not just create an organizational headache.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...

What Is RFM Reporting and Why Should Nonprofits Care?

Not all donors are the same. Some give every year like clockwork. Some made a generous one-time gift and haven't been heard from since. Some are just waiting to be asked again at the right moment. RFM reporting helps you tell them apart and reach out accordingly. If...

The Most Important Donor Retention Metrics (and How to Use Them)

Donor retention is one of the most important fundraising metrics a nonprofit can track. It plays a major role in long-term sustainability, donor relationships, and overall revenue growth. Acquiring new donors takes more time and money than keeping existing ones...

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...

What to Look for in a Donor Management System

Donor Management Software

The selection of a Donor Management system is an important decision for all non profits regardless of size. The system you choose will be your tool for interacting with contacts and donors, analyzing and creating communications and so much more. Since your donors and...

Help! I Inherited the Database From…

Tips & Tricks

Can you relate to this scenario? You just inherited a database(s) that is meant for you to track down donations, board members, visitors and everything else. Perhaps there are several files with repeated information or better yet, incomplete information. Sitting in...

Add a Donate Now Form to your Facebook Page Tabs

Donor Management Software, Fundraising

Edit 4/30/2019: It has been reported that this process may now only work for pages with 2,000+ likes. Recently we have discovered an even further value for DonorSnap Forms – Facebook Page Tabs. Creating a new Facebook page tab out of a DonorSnap Form is easy enough...

The Power of an Authentic Thank You Letter

Tips & Tricks

Growing up I would take yearly vacations to visit my grandmother in Texas. During these visits she would arrange visits with her friends and their grandchildren for play-dates. These arranged visits resulted in lunches, opportunities to swim in their pools and even...

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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