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Your Go-To Guide for Donor Segmentation
Better nurture and engage your donors Giving trends are a bit bleak, with a steady decline in the overall number of both new donors and retained donors over the past few years. As of 2022,…
6 Ways to Increase Revenue During Your Next Fundraising Event
Your organization spends hours upon hours planning and executing fundraising events to reach your fundraising goals. But what else can you do to raise more once the action starts? With these six great strategies, you’ll…
The Ultimate Data-Driven Auction Fundraising Guide
What if you could confidently predict which items would send bidding into overdrive? By using insights hidden within data—from your organization and from outside—you can. With data-driven insights, you can identify exactly the right items…
6 Stats to Help Nonprofits Navigate Economic Instability
Uncertain economic times are, unfortunately, pretty certain. According to a recent Community Brands survey, most nonprofits are confident that the economy will stabilize in 2023, there are things you can do to find stability amidst…
5 School Fundraising Ideas You’ve Likely Never Thought Of
Find success with these engaging fundraisers It can be difficult for schools to constantly come up with fun, unique fundraising ideas. It takes a lot of time, preparation, and planning to host a successful fundraiser….
Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser Toolkit and Templates
A Guide to Creating the Perfect Assets for Your Ambassadors A comprehensive fundraiser toolkit is an essential part of your nonprofit’s peer-to-peer campaigns. These toolkits help volunteer fundraisers get their individual or team fundraising pages…
Stronger Together: The GiveSmart Teams Set You Up for Success in Every Scenario
GiveSmart’s suite of fundraising, events, and donor management platforms is full of its own superpowers, and investments in the technology are continuously improving to functionally meet your needs as a nonprofit. Within the last few…
Your Go-To Guide for Donor Retention
Engage, Entertain, and Keep Your Donors Coming Back With the average cost of getting a new donor being 5x greater than retaining an existing one, you need a plan for retaining your donors for the…
Nonprofit Fundraising Trends
We surveyed hundreds of organizations—nonprofits supporting animal welfare, health and human services, arts and culture, and the environment as well as K-12 schools, universities religious institutions, and others—to get a better understanding of their experiences…
GiveSmart’s Impact Report
It has been a milestone year at GiveSmart, and our team is excited to share more about what our nonprofit partners accomplished! GiveSmart is honored to power thousands of schools, associations, and nonprofits. This report…
5 Stats for Better Donor Retention
Retaining donors is tricky business! In an ever-shifting atmosphere of fundraising, the data in this infographic can guide your organization’s retention strategies to keep donors coming back for your mission. We’ve compiled this resource to help…
8 Nonprofit New Year’s Resolutions
How many fundraising resolutions do you have? One? Two? Three? More than five? No matter how many you have, we want to help you fulfill those resolutions! Ringing in the new year often comes with…