Guides

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

There is no shortage of options when it comes to fundraising and donor management software. As online fundraising has been a growing technology for some time, an overlap in some basic features is expected.   But…

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…

Messaging templates for fundraising success End-of-year giving can account for over 30% of annual giving. In the last few months of the year, use this messaging guide to copy, paste, and edit easy, pre-made messaging…

Communication templates for fundraising success Recurring giving is a growing, year-round revenue stream option for nonprofits and schools. Did you know that recurring donors give, on average, $326 every year? Or that donors who set…

Data shows that organizations with diverse revenue streams tend to be more resilient to economic change.   With ever-changing economic conditions, take the opportunity to review this infographic and inform your nonprofit or school’s revenue stream…