And since, the busy season is coming up for all you nonprofit fundraisers – year end giving and Network for Good has just announced a Year-End Giving Challenge ,  I thought a guest post from Michael Hoffman about you can incorporate video to power your campaigns was in order.  Tags: Fundraising Guest Post Enjoy. Holy smokes! MORE >>

Actor Ed Norton recently helped launch Crowdrise , a slick new website that gives ordinary people an easy way to crowd source fundraising. Users create personal fundraising pages and then share them on their social networks to raise money. Online Fundraising Social Networking Web 2.0You bet. Crowdrise. MORE >>

Fundraising Revenue. Should non-profits be doing a better job of figuring out how to tie social media activities to hard ROI like fundraising revenue, house file growth, email list growth, volunteer hours, event registrants, etc? Are you measuring the right social media metrics or do you have your head in the sand? The answer matters. MORE >>

I will no longer send out fundraising appeals with boring subject lines and long-winded pitches.". Don’t have the budget to hire fundraising strategists to help you craft your online fundraising campaigns? Tags: Online Fundraising Repeat after me. No problem. Short, Catchy Subject Lines. What’s Wrong with it? MORE >>

For the third and final Conversational Case Study on America’s Giving Challenge from Allison Fine and I, we  pose a question rather than answer one: Is there a “special sauce” for successful participation in online fundraising contests ?   Does this competition complement our communications and fundraising activities for the year? MORE >>