Nonprofits

The Ultimate Nonprofit Social Media Playbook: Strategies to Maximize Impact

John Killoran — Tue, 09 May 2023 18:30:26 +0000

Boost your nonprofit's social media presence with strategic branding tips, content creation, and engagement for increased donor interaction & conversions.

T-Shirt Fundraising: The Ultimate Guide for Nonprofits and Charities

Kevin Penney — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:17:01 +0000

Unleash the power of t-shirt fundraising for your nonprofit – learn the essentials, best practices, and common pitfalls to avoid.

Nonprofit Fundraising: 3 Strategies for Raising More Money for Your Cause

Sandra Davis — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:19:23 +0000

Learn about different ways to raise money and build a simple fundraising strategy for your nonprofit organization.

Nonprofit Videos: 6 Storytelling Tips for Creating Successful Videos

Doug Scott — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 01:12:02 +0000

Nonprofit videos can engage and inspire donors, supporters, and volunteers. Here are 6 proven tips for creating better nonprofit videos.

4 Tips for Creating Branded Merchandise for Your Nonprofit

Debbie Salat — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:30:02 +0000

Branded merchandise is a great way to give back to your donors and it’s also a great marketing tool. Here are some tips to make your own.

6 Ways to Optimize Donations Giving for Your Nonprofit

Dave Martin — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:45:52 +0000

A one-time gift is good but recurring gifts are better. Optimize your organization’s donation page for recurring gifts with these six tips.

How to Elevate Your Nonprofit’s Digital Marketing Strategy

Carl Diesing — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:33:16 +0000

Discover how to improve your nonprofit marketing strategy to encourage donations, increase volunteers, and grow your organization.

Nonprofit Marketing: How to Engage Donors and Volunteers with Retargeting Ads

Aidan Augustin — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:20:20 +0000

Retargeted advertising helps nonprofits secure more donors, attendees, and volunteers. Here's how to retarget properly.

Nonprofit Lean Marketing Tips

Ross Kimbarovsky — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 05:05:30 +0000

Discover nonprofit marketing tactics that amplify your mission, encourage donations, attract volunteers, and help your organization grow.

5 Tips for Creating a Better Nonprofit Annual Report

Ann Fellman — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 18:48:51 +0000

Your nonprofit’s annual report recaps successes, shows appreciation for supporters, and highlights your plans. Use these tips to create a better annual report.

A New Pool of Nonprofit Givers: Engaging a Growing Gen Z Audience

Bob Happy — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:58:10 +0000

Nonprofits need different strategies to engage Gen Z supporters. Check out the top tips for engaging this rising generation of givers.

5 Nonprofit Donation Page Best Practices That Boost Conversions

De’Yonté Wilkinson — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:31:41 +0000

A donation page can drive donations or be enough to push donors away. Read this guide to learn 5 web design best practices for your online donation page.

Four Proven Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Events

Jeff Porter — Mon, 23 May 2022 19:56:57 +0000

Successfully marketing your nonprofit events requires using several strategies. Here are four proven strategies to get you started.

SEO for Nonprofits: 5 Effective Strategies for Nonprofit Websites

Anne Stefanyk — Fri, 20 May 2022 00:39:45 +0000

Tips and insights on SEO best practices for nonprofits. Learn how to get started, drive donations, and increase organizational awareness.

How to Choose a CMS for your Nonprofit

Murad Bushnaq — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:57:40 +0000

Trying to decide what website building tool to use for your nonprofit’s website? Learn the difference between a nonprofit CMS vs. a generic CMS!

Nonprofit Branding: Complete Guide to Building a Strong Nonprofit Brand in 2024

Ross Kimbarovsky — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:06:13 +0000

Strong nonprofit branding helps your organization stand out from others. Learn how to create a nonprofit brand and how to use branding to drive your mission and vision.

3 Important Reasons Why You Must Build a Strong Nonprofit Brand

Katie Lundin — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:03:00 +0000

Just because nonprofits aren't in it for the money doesn't mean they don't have to worry about branding. In fact, branding may be even more important for nonprofits.

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back with Branding for Global Sanitation Non-Profit gather

Lauren Nelson — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:07:36 +0000

At crowdSPRING, we feel very fortunate to participate in such a vibrant community of talented creatives. It’s the work we do as a collective that makes the greatest impact. But we also value our broader, global community, and feel it’s important to make an impact there, as well. That’s part of why we launched our Give Back program back in 2008. The crowdSPRING creatives agreed to offer up their services on a voluntary basis to worthy non-profits and charitable groups at no cost to the organizations, while we agreed to waive all fees and assist in the setup and promotion of their projects. The idea was that if branding and marketing matter and these organizations are doing good work, we wanted to contribute in the best way we could. Thus, the Give Back program was born. And we’re thrilled to announce that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is to brand UK non-profit gather. This group is working to make sure underprivileged communities across the world have access to something folks in many Western nations take for granted: a toilet. An ever-growing health crisis In many developing nations, sanitation systems are in a woeful state at best and entirely absent at worst, particularly in more remote areas. It is estimated that 2.6 billion people — more than one-third of the world’s population — do not have sufficient access to a working toilet. This is often directly linked to lack of infrastructure and clean water sources, and the consequences can be dire, particularly for children. As many as 5,000 kids worldwide die every day from diseases and conditions linked to this inadequacy. Example of a Kenyan shared pit latrine Image Source: wsup.com Luckily, great strides have been made in technology that is bringing access to clean water and toilets to areas. It’s becoming more affordable and easier to build. But the problem has been scaling. As communities consolidate and grow, their sanitation and waste management needs are growing, too, in both size and sophistication. And while rudimentary solutions are certainly an improvement over no access to all to such resources, the more efficient and effective solution is one that provides for long-term and far reaching access. In order for that to happen, the brilliant minds tackling the issue need access to data. And that’s where gather comes in. Build a strong nonprofit brand.Apply to see if your nonprofit qualifies for free design services from crowdspring's Give Back program. We just emailed you info about the Give Back program. Email Address Enabling sanitation solutions The non-profit launched earlier this year with the goal of finding an effective way to build toilets and waste management systems to serve the most marginalized people. As they got down to business, though, they found that a lack of centralized information on existing infrastructure and resources was a major handicap to durable progress. “In March, we met with more than 25 sanitation providers in Kenya and Uganda, and discovered that this lack of data was a universal problem,” explains..

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – Kids In Danger

Ross Kimbarovsky — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:34:12 +0000

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. crowdSPRING will waive all fees and will assist the organizations with posting their project. We will collaborate together to help those less fortunate. You can read more about the origins of Give Back here. We’re thrilled that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is for Kids In Danger (KID). Kids In Danger is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children by improving children’s product safety. The organization was founded in 1998 by University of Chicago professors Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar following the death of their son Danny in an unsafe portable crib. KIDS’s mission is to promote development of safer children’s products, advocate for children, and educate the public (especially parents) about dangerous children’s products. You might wonder why KID’s mission is important. Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death among children. An estimated 66,400 children under age 5 were rushed to U.S. hostpital emergency rooms in 2006 for injuries associated with nursery products. An average 81 children under age 5 die annually in incidents associated with nursery products. In calendar year 2007, the U.S. Consumer Product safety commission recalled children’s products, including nuersey items, toys and clothing, at a rate of almost 4 per week. This accounts for over 46 million recalled units. KID has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2010 Civil Justice Foundation Community Champion Award and a Presidential Service Award given by former President Bill Clinton. Build a strong nonprofit brand.Apply to see if your nonprofit qualifies for free design services from crowdspring's Give Back program. We just emailed you info about the Give Back program. Email Address Our entire community is honored to be helping Kids In Danger. You can view their New logo for Kids in Danger – a dynamic growing nonprofit project. They’re looking for a new, more professional logo to help promote their mission and the organization. Please consider helping this worthy cause. You can help directly by participating in their logo design project, or you can help by telling others about this project and/or about Kids In Danger (you can follow the organization on Twitter or visit them on Facebook). As in all our projects, participation in Give Back projects is voluntary. Give Back projects work like regular projects, including contracts, wrap-up, notifications, etc. To help the learning process along in these projects, we encourage creatives to collaborate and to provide constructive feedback to each other. We’re fortunate to have an amazing community of creatives – 88,000 of them, from 200 countries. They speak hundreds of languages, cover all age groups, demographics, experience and religions. They’ve created logo designs, web designs, and custom graphic designs for companies in virtually every country of the world and in most languages spoken on the planet. We encourage everyone to find ways to help worthy..

Free Google Programs For Non-Profits

Ross Kimbarovsky — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:49:51 +0000

Three years ago, Google launched Google for Non-Profits to help non-profits raise money and operate more efficiently. Among other things, that portal offered tips and tutorials on ways that non-profits could leverage Google’s tools and services. Google also historically offered Google Checkout for free to non-profits who accepted donations on their site, and has allowed qualified non-profits to participate in Google Grants – free advertising via Google’s Adwords network. Two days ago, Google re-launched the non-profits portal and added several new and important benefits that non-profits should know about. One important change was in the application process to use the Google tools and programs. Previously, non-profits had to apply to each Google product individually. Now, non-profits can sign up through a one-stop application. Among other benefits, approved non-profits can receive up to $10,000 per month in advertising credits on Google AdWords (to reach more donors), free or discounted Google Apps products, and premium features for YouTube and Google mapping technologies. And there are now even more educational resources and case studies tailored specifically for non-profits. Build a strong nonprofit brand.Apply to see if your nonprofit qualifies for free design services from crowdspring's Give Back program. We just emailed you info about the Give Back program. Email Address Non-profits should know about another new service from Google – Google for Nonprofits Marketplace. The Google for Nonprofits Marketplace connects approved nonprofits with a worldwide network of Google Certified Partners specializing in a variety of Google products. Certified Partners are carefully vetted by Google and meet rigorous qualification standards. Google for Nonprofits Featured Providers below have agreed to offer their services to approved nonprofits at a free or discounted rate. Rates for services and projects vary by provider. Please research multiple organizations to find the one that meets your needs. If you’re not familiar with Google Tools and how non-profits can leverage them, watch this short video (it includes some excellent case-studies about how Direct Relief International raised more than $1 million using AdWords and about how other non-profits benefited from Google’s programs):

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – MagazineLiteracy.org

Ross Kimbarovsky — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:31:39 +0000

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. crowdSPRING will waive all fees and will assist the organizations with posting their project. We will collaborate together to help those less fortunate. You can read more about the origins of Give Back here. We’re thrilled that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is for MagazineLiteracy.org MagazineLiteracy.org is an innovative effort to help families and at-risk kids. The organization’s mission: The Magazine Publishers Family Literacy Project (MagazineLiteracy.org) is the first and only global, magazine industry-wide literacy campaign for children and families. MagazineLiteracy.org devises innovative programs that foster community and business partnerships to get new, surplus, and gently used recycled magazines into the hands, homes, and hearts of children and families so they can learn and love to read and build their self-esteem. Learning how to read is vital to a child’s ability to succeed in every school subject and in life. Adults unable to read were once children who did not learn how. MagazineLiteracy.org unleashes the awesome potential of magazines as a powerful literacy resource for teachers, early-learning programs, after-school programs, boys and girls clubs, homeless and domestic violence shelters, child advocacy and foster care programs, and other literacy agents who are passionate about helping kids and families learn to read. The organization was founded in 2004 and is supported by corporations, local businesses, literacy agents, magazine publishers and stakeholders, and individuals: The Magazine Publishers Family Literacy Project was conceived in 1994 and incorporated on International Literacy Day, September 8, 2004. The program was inaugurated on that day with the launch of MagazineLiteracy.org. MagazineLiteracy.org is made possible by the generous support of corporations and local businesses, literacy agents, magazine publishers and stakeholders, and caring individuals. Their inspiration and support has enabled us to launch programs that put magazines in children’s hands every month. We continue to add wonderful children’s magazines to our portfolio, so children in every age group can have access to every title available. The consumer magazine industry has been supportive with display advertising and invitations to participate in national conferences, such as the FOLIO: Show, where we need to mobilize stakeholders. We have joined with the Association of Educational Publishers (edpress.org) to promote Children’s Magazine Month in October each year. Our entire community is honored to be helping MagazineLiteracy.org. You can view their MagazineLiteracy.org – Comfort Food for Homeless Moms and Kids Reading Together project here. They’re looking for banner ad designs they can use to introduce the program and their activities, to others. Build a strong nonprofit brand.Apply to see if your nonprofit qualifies for free design services from crowdspring's Give Back program. We just emailed you info about the Give Back program. Email Address Please consider helping this worthy cause. You can help directly by participating in their banner ad project, or you can help by telling others about this..

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – Campus Consciousness Tour

Ross Kimbarovsky — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:57:11 +0000

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. crowdSPRING will waive all fees and will assist the organizations with posting their project. We will collaborate together to help those less fortunate. You can read more about the origins of Give Back here. We’re thrilled that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is for Reverb’s Campus Consciousness Tour. Reverb (www.Reverb.org) is an environmental nonprofit in the music industry that helps musicians green tours and make it easy for music fans everywhere to take environmental action. The organization is based in Portland, Maine. Reverb was founded in 2004 by environmentalist Lauren Sullivan and her musician husband, Adam Gardner of the band Guster. Half music tour, half environmental campaign, the Campus Consciousness Tour aims to inspire and activate students in an electric atmosphere while leaving a positive impact on each community the tour visits. The Tour includes many greening elements and is run to have a minimal environmental footprint. Build a strong nonprofit brand.Apply to see if your nonprofit qualifies for free design services from crowdspring's Give Back program. We just emailed you info about the Give Back program. Email Address Reverb launched the Campus Consciousness Tour in 2006 as a way to redirect some of the light shining on popular musicians onto students and student groups. Past headliners include rising hip-hop star Drake, O.A.R., Guster, and the Grammy-winning artist Ben Harper. The Fall 2010 Campus Consciousness Tour will be headlined by Passion Pit and will be stopping at 10-15 college campuses from October 14 – November 14. To learn more about Reverb, watch the following two videos. A bit more in this video from Drake, talking about this past Spring’s Campus Consciousness Tour. Our entire community is honored to be helping Reverb. You can view the Logo for Campus Consciousness Tour project here. Please consider helping this worthy cause. You can help directly by participating in the logo design project, or you can help by telling others about this project and/or about Reverb and the Campus Consciousness Tour. As in all our projects, participation in Give Back projects is voluntary. Give Back projects work like standard projects, including contracts, wrap-up, notifications, etc. To help the learning process along in these projects, we encourage creatives to collaborate and to provide constructive feedback to each other. We’re fortunate to have an amazing community of creatives – nearly 65,000 of them, from 170+ countries. They speak hundreds of languages, cover all age groups, demographics, experience and religions. They’ve created logo designs, web designs, and custom graphic designs for companies in virtually every country of the world and in most languages spoken on the planet. We encourage everyone to find ways to help worthy causes and others who are less fortunate. Thank you – from our entire community!

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – In Our Own Backyard

Ross Kimbarovsky — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:31:49 +0000

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – Teaming 4 Technology

Ross Kimbarovsky — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:37:38 +0000

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. crowdSPRING will waive its fees and will assist the organizations with posting their project. We will collaborate together to help those less fortunate. You can read more about the origins of Give Back here. As in all our projects, participation will be voluntary. Give Back projects will work like standard projects, including contracts, wrap-up, notifications, etc. To help the learning process along in these projects, we will encourage creatives to collaborate and to provide constructive feedback to each other. We’re fortunate to have an amazing community of creatives – 12,000 of them, from 130+ countries. They speak hundreds of languages, cover all age groups, demographics, experience and religions. They’ve created logo design, web design and other types of graphic designs for companies in virtually every country of the world and in most languages spoken on the planet Earth. Build a strong nonprofit brand.Apply to see if your nonprofit qualifies for free design services from crowdspring's Give Back program. We just emailed you info about the Give Back program. Email Address We’ll ask the winning creatives in Give Back projects to propose other worthy non-profits and charities that can benefit from this effort. We hope that in this small way, we can help non-profits and charities around the world. We are currently working with Novastorm, an outstanding designer who won our first Give Back project (for Breaking the Silence, an international network, based in the United Kingdom, supporting fathers of autistic children. You can view that project here) to identify another worthy non-profit or charity for an upcoming Give Back project. In the meantime, we’ve identified another worthy cause. Our second project is for Teaming 4 Technology (T4T), an organization that seeks to better the community of Chicago by providing new and innovative ways for technology to enhance the services of Chicago’s nonprofit community, offering free technology consulting, software training classes, and low-cost office and network solutions. T4T matches up technology requirements of non-profit organizations to technology providers. United Way of Metropolitan Chicago supports Teaming for Technology with supervision, community links, and in-kind support. You can view the T4T project here. Please consider helping this worthy cause. You can help directly by participating in the project, or you can help by telling others about this project and the Teaming 4 Technology organization. We encourage everyone to find ways to help others who are less fortunate. Thank you – from our entire community!

crowdspring Community Gives Back

Ross Kimbarovsky — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:14:05 +0000

Crowdspring is proud to announce a new effort, just in time for the holidays. Give Back is our community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charitable causes in need. Creatives in the crowdspring community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. crowdspring will waive its fees and will assist the organizations with posting their project. We will collaborate together to help those less fortunate. This idea for Give Back originated in a discussion started by Tooley in our forums. Tooley suggested that we should look for ways to help creatives learn from each other. As the community discussed Tooley’s suggestion, it became clear that we could learn and help good causes at the same time. Artistree nicely pointed out that these projects would give creatives “a chance to help and to grow.” As in all our projects, participation will be voluntary. Give Back projects will work like standard projects, including contracts, wrap-up, notifications, etc. To help the learning process along in these projects, we will encourage creatives to collaborate and to provide constructive feedback to each other. While Give Back projects will not have monetary awards, we will find ways to recognize creatives whose work is selected. Among other things, we will write in our blog about the project and the winning creative, the work will appear on a Hall of Fame type page that we are developing (this page will display winning designs), and we will look for ways to profile the winning creative(s) on our home page. There’s at least one other benefit. We’re fortunate to have an amazing community of creatives – 10,000 of them, from 130+ countries. They speak hundreds of languages, cover all age groups, demographics, experience, and religions. They’ve created graphic designs for companies in virtually every country of the world and in most languages spoken on the planet Earth. We’ll ask the winning creatives in Give Back projects to propose other worthy non-profits and charities that can benefit from this effort. We hope that in this small way, we can help non-profits and charities around the world. Our first project is for Breaking the Silence, an international network, based in the United Kingdom, supporting fathers of autistic children. You can view the project here. Please consider helping this worthy cause. You can help directly by participating in the project, or you can help by telling others about this project and the Breaking the Silence organization. We encourage everyone to find ways to help others who are less fortunate. Thank you – from our entire community!