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Compassion Services International on Growing Your Nonprofit Email List, Donation Thank You’s, and Powerful Storytelling

CauseVox

In our effort to highlight brilliant changemakers, we sat down with Cylinda Nickel at Compassion Services International to dive deeper into their global fundraising initiatives – particularly their work for Ukraine- and hear about her top fundraising tips. Fundraising Campaign Best Practices. Grow Your Email List.

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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

Get Fully Funded

For most of us, fundraising isn’t something that comes naturally, especially a straight request for donations. It’s the great irony of fundraising – we love to help but we don’t like to ask for help. Fundraising is not about you. Asking for money, can be uncomfortable, right? Let’s look at it another way.

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5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Tech Soup

At first thought, data and storytelling sound like an odd mix. "Data" sounds dry, while storytelling weaves narratives aimed at appealing to people's emotions. Such exposure often improves capacities to fundraise. Establishing those answers is essential to determine your advocacy or fundraising strategy.

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Is A Downer News Cycle A Factor in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Success?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It sounds counter intuitive to ask people to donate $100 to ALS or make this goofy video and share on social. One reason is that wacky and goofy fundraisers work. The explosive spread of the ice bucket challenge could even end up hurting ALS fundraising in the long term. Fundraising' But the evidence is to the contrary.

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