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…

Operation: Acquire & Convert

You’ve no doubt labored over the perfect end-of-year plan that falls in line with the continuing trend of covering all of your multi-touch, multichannel donor experiences. While it is extremely important to have your cross-channel content locked down, remember that...

New Ideas from Strategic Services October 2015

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...

Responsive Design and UX is No Longer Optional

User behavior has permanently shifted in favor of the use of mobile devices over desktops. The majority of web traffic comes from mobile devices including the majority of Google search traffic. Email is also more likely to be opened via mobile devices than desktops;...

Telling Your Nonprofit Story

Once upon a time there was a nonprofit organization, they tried many types of campaigns to boost donations and engagement, but one thing was missing…storytelling. It might be a change for your organization but it’s also fun to try something new. Storytelling has...

Fall Into Peer-to-Peer Events

For most of us, fall means the weather is cooler and the leaves begin to change color. This season is a great time to focus on peer-to-peer fundraising (well, all the time is really). Fall is a great time to emphasize peer-to-peer signature events because it’s...

A Skeptics Guide to Giving Tuesday

Network for Good recently released a lot of great data that implies strongly that organizations that aren’t participating in Giving Tuesday are missing out on potential donations. A few striking metrics include: An increase of 146% in fundraising from 2013 to 2014 58%...