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Why Events are Critical to Your Organization’s Success

For many nonprofits, events are essential to engage supporters and build excitement around the mission — and provide a smooth ask within the event’s positive atmosphere (and a bit of friendly peer pressure!). While undertaking events is certainly a significant investment requiring vital resources from both your staff and volunteer supporters, outcomes routinely show that events deserve a seat at the table for the long-term health of your nonprofit.

Kilter Rewards – Changing the Equation

  Time, Treasure & Talent. It’s the phrase every fundraiser knows, and possibly the oldest saying in nonprofit history. But what if you changed it to – Talent + Time = Treasure That’s the concept Kilter Rewards is bringing to nonprofit fundraising, and it’s been taking off like wildfire. Simply put Kilter is an app …

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Creative Mind + Passionate Cause = Fundraising Success

I can feel like new ideas are hard to come by in fundraising. Galas, auctions, appeals, raffles – lather, rinse, repeat. You can get so caught up in the everyday “grind” of getting to the next milestone, or through the next crisis, that it’s easy to just assume what you’ve been doing is all you …

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Why it’s Time to Take Part in Giving Tuesday

It can be hard to believe that Giving Tuesday is only 7 years old. But rapid growth has made this a social (media) event that stands on the verge of cultural relevance and acceptance, and your organization should embrace it. But as with anything online these days, some people disagree. And their points can seem …

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United Way of Summit County Selects Big River

  Software and Support from Cleveland-Based Company Will Aim to Increase Engagement and Donations CLEVELAND OH AUGUST 5, 2019- United Way of Summit County (https://www.uwsummit.org/), after a lengthy review process, has partnered with Big River Online (https://www.donorpoint.com/) to overhaul their donor engagement software services, including fundraising, events and more. “We were very impressed with Big …

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Wealth Distribution in the U.S. is Changing Charitable Giving

Charitable Giving in the U.S. Has Changed Over the Past 25 Years This is due to many different factors including the distribution of wealth in our country and the way that Americans are now thinking about tax deductions. These changes have altered the way people consider giving donations, and it’s had a mixed impact on …

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