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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

Apart from raising emergency funds, many nonprofits rely on #GivingTuesday and end-of-year giving to generate the bulk of their individual donations. Fundraisers that launch on a holiday can be playful and upbeat and are a great opportunity to raise general funds. There’s a certain yearly cadence to nonprofit fundraising.

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#1MilliForJadudi: A Crowdfunding Campaign in Kenya to help Cancer Patient

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India. 77% knew someone who had been diagnosed with cancer.

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5 Unique Ways to Thank Recurring Donors

Classy

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Bright Pink helps save lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering women to know their risk and manage their health proactively.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

million: we raised X which equaled Y and resulted in Z. Fight Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a health impact organization dedicated to ending colorectal cancer and supporting those affected by the disease through patient support, funding research, and impactful policy change. We love how they showed the lineage of that $25.1

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Fundraising Planning Guide, Calendar, Worksheet, + Template

CauseVox

For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. To calculate your organizational goal you should know how much you need to raise in 2021 (or your whatever your fiscal year looks like). We encourage you to begin this process by understanding your needs to pinpoint your goal.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. Watch below.

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Fundwriter.ai 101 – Can A Robot Write Better Than You?

The Fundraising Authority

Inputs: Organization : Los Angeles Cancer Center (LACC) Mission : Our mission is to serve as a regional destination for oncology services that ranks with the best major treatment centers to ensure we deliver superior care to our patients. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later.