Top Bloomerang Alternatives: What Record-Count Pricing Really Costs as You Grow
Record-count pricing means growing your supporter base raises your software bill. A five-year total cost of ownership look at the Bloomerang alternatives.
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Best Event Fundraising and Ticketing Software for Nonprofits: The Real Cost Per Ticket Sold
Platform fees are the visible cost. Staff hours, unpaid pledges, and lost donor records are the ones that matter. A total cost of ownership comparison.
Best Nonprofit CRMs to Maximize ROI (and the Real Cost of Picking Wrong)
Picking a CRM for your nonprofit sounds like it should be straightforward. You compare a few options, maybe sit through a demo or two, and choose the one that feels right. But in practice, it's one of the highest-stakes decisions your organization will make, because the wrong call doesn't just cost money. It costs donor…
Online Fundraising for Nonprofits: Proving Your Digital Spend Delivers Real ROI
Understanding Your Digital Revenue Baseline Before you can prove ROI, you need to know where online giving actually sits within your revenue picture. And here's the thing, it varies a lot depending on your organization's size: Small nonprofits: online giving accounts for 13.4% of total revenue (NPTechforGood, 2024), Medium nonprofits: online giving accounts for 8.3%…
Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy That Prioritizes Impact Over Overhead
If you've spent any time in the nonprofit world, you've probably felt the quiet pressure to keep overhead low, brag about it in donor emails, and hope nobody asks too many follow-up questions. It's a familiar dance, and honestly, a lot of organizations are still doing it even though the research keeps nudging us in…
Fundraising Gala ROI: Is Your Event Actually Profitable? A Brutally Honest Look
Let's be honest for a second. Your gala looked incredible on Instagram. The centerpieces were perfect, the speeches were moving, and the gross revenue number made your board genuinely proud. But when the invoices stopped rolling in and someone finally sat down to do the real math, did your organization actually come out ahead? That's…
How to Do Succession Planning for Nonprofits Without Disrupting Operations
Leadership transitions are one of those things we all know are coming, yet somehow never quite feel ready for. Whether it's a long-planned retirement or a sudden resignation that catches everyone off guard, the way your nonprofit handles those moments says a lot about the strength of your organization beneath the surface. The good news?…
In-Kind Donations and the Overhead Myth: Why Non-Cash Gifts Deserve Better Accounting
Here's the thing: nonprofits are sitting on a goldmine of non-cash support that never quite makes it onto the balance sheet. Donated office space, pro bono legal hours, truckloads of food and supplies. It all adds up to real, mission-driving value that most financial reports quietly ignore. And when those gifts go unrecorded or undervalued,…
Beyond Wealth Screening: Why Giving Capacity Alone Won't Predict Your Next Major Donor
Wealth screening feels like a superpower at first. You get the report, scan the names, see the real estate portfolios and executive titles, and think: these are our people. Then the calls go unanswered, the invitations get politely declined, and you're left wondering what went wrong. Sound familiar? Here's the thing: knowing who can give…
Mobile Donation Forms: Why Most Donors Bounce and How to Fix Your Completion Rate
Mobile giving should be simple. Someone reads your latest impact update, feels that pull in their chest, taps the donate button, and… completes their gift in under two minutes. That's the dream, anyway. In reality, most nonprofits are quietly hemorrhaging donors at the very last step, not because people don't care, but because the forms…
Nonprofit CRM ROI: How to Measure Whether Your Donor Database Is Actually Worth the Cost
Somewhere between signing the contract and surviving the onboarding process, most nonprofit teams hit the same quiet crisis: "Wait, is this CRM actually doing anything for us?" It's a fair question, and honestly, it doesn't get asked often enough. The gap between what a donor database costs and what it demonstrably delivers is where a…
Why You Should Stop Asking "Can a Non Profit Make Money?" and Start Scaling
Let's be honest: the question "can a nonprofit make money?" is the wrong one to be asking. Of course nonprofits can generate revenue. The more interesting, more urgent question is why so many of them treat fundraising like a chore instead of the engine that powers everything else they do. This article is really about…
Email Automation ROI for Nonprofits: What to Measure and When to Kill an Underperforming Sequence
Email automation can feel like one of those things nonprofits set up once and then quietly forget about, like that office printer nobody knows how to fix. But here's the thing: every sequence you're running right now is either earning its keep or slowly draining your resources. And the difference between the two isn't luck.…
Summer Fundraising Ideas That Scale: 12 Events You Can Repeat and Grow Year Over Year
Summer has this funny way of sneaking up on nonprofits. One minute you're planning your spring gala follow-ups, and the next, you're staring down three months of longer days, community energy, and real fundraising potential. The question isn't whether to run summer events. It's whether the ones you run will still be paying off three…
5 Nonprofit Tech Stack Mistakes That are Ghosting Your Best Supporters
Donor retention is one of those topics that sounds dry on paper but hits pretty hard when you realize how many of your most loyal supporters have quietly slipped away. Not because they stopped caring about your mission, but because somewhere in the gap between their gift and your follow-up, your tech let them down.…
8 Strategies to Build a Massive Recurring Giving/Monthly Donations Engine
Recurring giving might just be the most underleveraged tool in nonprofit fundraising. Not because organizations don't know it exists, but because most treat it like a checkbox rather than the strategic engine it can actually be. There's a real difference between having a "monthly donation option" and building a genuine sustainer program that donors feel…
12 Tips to Overcome a Staff Shortage Without Sacrificing Mission Impact
Staff shortages in the nonprofit sector have become one of those problems that's hard to talk about without feeling a little overwhelmed. The vacancies pile up, the workload doesn't shrink, and somehow the mission still has to move forward. If that sounds familiar, you're definitely not alone, and more importantly, there are real ways through…
Are There Still ARPA Funds Available? A 2026 Guide to Stimulus Reporting
If you've been keeping one eye on ARPA news and another on your organization's budget, you're not alone. The American Rescue Plan Act sent a massive wave of funding into communities starting in 2021, and now, as we move through 2026, a lot of nonprofit leaders are wondering whether any of that money is still…
How to Write a Donor Acknowledgement Letter That Feels Truly Personal
You know that sinking feeling when you realize you're losing supporters faster than you can attract new ones? It's not about your mission or your team's dedication. More often than not, it comes down to something surprisingly simple: your donors don't feel seen. When acknowledgement letters read like form letters (because, well, they are), you're…
Beginner's Guide to Claiming Your Nonprofit Property Tax Exemption
Look, property tax exemptions might be one of the most overlooked opportunities in the nonprofit world. While you're busy optimizing overhead ratios and perfecting donor acquisition strategies, there's this straightforward way to redirect thousands of dollars annually toward your actual mission. We're talking serious money here. Back in fiscal year 2009, U.S. property tax revenues…