Picture this—you’re an online silent auction attendee. You’re scrolling through the available auction items and weighing your top picks. In one scenario, you come across Item Description A, and in another scenario, you find Item Description B: Item Description A: Title:… More
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Nonprofit Tax Compliance: 7 Essential Forms to Know
As a nonprofit leader, you know that your organization is tax-exempt by definition. To allow you to put as much of your funding as possible toward making a difference in your community, the IRS granted your nonprofit 501(c)(3) status, meaning… More
The Ultimate Nonprofit Silent Auction Planning Checklist
If your nonprofit has hosted a fundraising event before, you know that the planning process involves many moving parts. Some aspects will be the same no matter what type of fundraising event you choose, such as creating a budget and developing… More
How to Create a Political Campaign Website: Tips & Examples
As you’re thinking about how to create a political campaign website, keep one main goal front and center — educating constituents. Your political campaign website design should present your values and your campaign promises to constituents through deliberate imagery and… More
Stand Out Online: 5 Public Phase Tips for Capital Campaigns
Let’s say you’re a fundraiser for a local public history organization. Your team launched a large-scale fundraising campaign, and you’re on your way to raising more than ever before to renovate your museum, invest in new software, and hire another program coordinator.… More
5 Ways to Make Your Nonprofit’s Website One of a Kind
The increasingly digital nature of nonprofit marketing and outreach makes it nearly impossible to avoid website development. As a nonprofit leader, you’re likely following web design best practices to ensure you maintain a site that fulfills its necessary purposes. However, basic website… More
Donor Analytics: What They Are and How to Apply Them
Nearly every nonprofit collects a wide variety of donor data. These data points come from donation forms, event registrations, volunteer sign-ups, major donor prospect research, and more. But if your donor data simply sits in your database without being examined, it… More
Google Analytics for Nonprofits: The Ultimate Guide
You may have heard that Google Analytics is a powerful tool for gaining insights about your website and digital marketing strategies. But Google Analytics for nonprofits? How can Google Analytics work for your organization and its website? While Google’s Universal… More
SEO for Nonprofits: A Complete Guide [+ 10 Optimization Tips]
After you’ve put in so much work creating a beautiful website for your nonprofit, you’ll want to drive as much traffic to it as possible. You can accomplish this by optimizing your website for search engines. A website with strong… More
Nonprofit Website Maintenance: Free Checklist & 4 Quick Tips
We see it all the time. An organization spends a ton of time perfecting its website through an extensive redesign process only to leave it untouched, gathering metaphorical dust in the months and years after launch. Website maintenance for nonprofits… More
Optimize Your Nonprofit Donation Form with These Quick Tips
Sometimes I think “bad nonprofit donation form choices” could be its own drinking game. Of course, we’re not in the habit of boozing it up in the middle of the work day. But we do love taking shots at bad… More
Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: 9 Ways To Secure Your Site
Cybersecurity for nonprofits is a trending topic, especially as cyber attacks are getting more and more sophisticated. Cyber attacks use computers and networks for nefarious activities and include things like hacking and data breaches, phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks. Is… More