Tools, articles and insights for the modern fundraiser.

Year-end Starts Now!

Over 25% of the average nonprofit’s annual fundraising is made in the last 2 months of the year. However, most nonprofits don’t start their year-end planning until October.

Fundraising on Facebook

Facebook recently launched Facebook Fundraisers, which enable individuals to solicit donations from their friend networks on behalf of causes they support…

New Ideas from Strategic Services – May 2017

Each month, we share the most innovative ideas we see in the nonprofit technology industry. Here are three of our favorite ideas from last month…

Integrating Search Function with Donation Forms

Can your donors find the participant or team they want to support on your event site? Many P2P fundraising events face this challenge…

New Ideas From Strategic Services

New Ideas From Strategic Services

Our Charity Dynamics retained strategic services clients receive weekly status updates that allow us to plan and track initiatives that help our clients reach their digital communication and fundraising goals. Each week, we share the most innovative ideas we see in...

Discover Why We Are Mad About UX

Discover Why We Are Mad About UX

The UX team at Charity Dynamics is always fighting the good fight in the name of our clients and a great user experience. We are constantly questioning, "is that a best practice in UX?" when we are auditing platforms, wireframing a new landing page, or designing an...

The Changing Mobile Fundraising Landscape

The Changing Mobile Fundraising Landscape

Mobile giving is on the rise. Statistics show that between 13 and 18 percent of donations are now made via mobile devices. It’s no surprise given that 79 percent of Americans use smartphones and that 21 percent of Millennials are mobile only for many of their day-to-day tasks

The Ideal P2P Platform Scorecard, Part 2

The Ideal P2P Platform Scorecard, Part 2

In Part 1, we looked at snapshots of two veteran P2P fundraising platforms, TeamRaiser and Classy, and what kind of nonprofits they could be ideal for. Now, we will look at three other platforms—two proven players in DonorDrive and RallyBound and a relative new kid on...

The Ideal P2P Platform Scorecard, Part 1

The Ideal P2P Platform Scorecard, Part 1

With plenty of peer-to-peer fundraising platforms to choose from, nonprofits may feel overwhelmed when it comes to figuring out which one fits best. No one platform is perfect for every organization—thus all that competition. But each platform is perfect for certain...