Entries by Adam Weinger
Nonprofit Ultimate Guide | What to Know About Crowdfunding
Every fundraiser aims to meet essentially the same goal: to raise money and awareness for your cause while connecting with supporters. When it comes down to the details, some fundraising methods will meet your needs better than others. If you’re looking for a lot of support, a big audience, and the opportunity to expand your […]
Nonprofit Basics: Starting a Foundation
Interested in establishing a permanent positive impact? Starting a foundation is a great way to further the social good initiatives you care about. Individuals, families, and corporations are all eligible parties that can start their own foundations. If you’re looking to create a long-lasting family legacy or have become increasingly aware of an unmet social […]
Nonprofit Basics: Employee Engagement Programs
Every organization wants passionate employees who are committed to their work, but motivating your employees to fully engage isn’t something that just happens by chance. Cultivating a workplace culture of happy, diligent employees requires deliberate strategy and planning through employee engagement programs. Employee engagement programs will look a bit different between the corporate and nonprofit […]
Nonprofit Basics: College Website
We live in a digital age, where almost every company, organization, and group needs a website to connect with its audience. Your college or university is no exception to this rule. University students want to find information online quickly, whether dates and times of upcoming events, requirements for majors and minors, or contact information for […]
Nonprofit Basics: Nonprofit Events
Nonprofit events are a highly customizable way to engage with existing supporters and forge relationships with new people who care about your cause. Whether you’re hosting a peer-to-peer fundraiser, live auction, or gala, you’ll need to create a memorable experience for your supporters. Events are a significant tool to this end since they can easily […]
Nonprofit Basics: What is Annual Giving?
While it’s widely understood that nonprofits raise funds to support their important causes, nonprofits themselves incur their own costs. These costs—such as renting an office space, compensating employees, and paying the bills—aren’t covered in restricted fundraising campaigns, such as capital campaigns. That’s why annual giving, which supports the daily costs incurred by nonprofits, is an […]
Nonprofit Basics: Adoption Fundraising for Families
Thousands of children are adopted into loving families each year. Adoption provides numerous benefits for the child and the parent adopting. It gives children a sense of family, provides opportunities they may not have had otherwise, and offers parents the chance to experience raising a child. Unfortunately, adoption isn’t always accessible to every family due […]
Nonprofit Basics: Moves Management
Moving supporters towards donating requires intentionality. To persuade donors to give, especially major donors, your nonprofit will need to regularly interact with them to build a relationship and lead them to giving. This process, known as moves management, is a precisely defined approach for how a nonprofit interacts with donors and guides them through the […]
Nonprofit Basics: Grassroots Advocacy
When you think of advocacy, you probably think of national-level movements demanding large-scale societal change. However, much important advocacy work starts at the grassroots level, in individual communities. Major change can be enacted by small groups working locally to reach out to decision makers and rally together around a cause. What Is Grassroots Advocacy? On […]
