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…

Newcomers Leapfrog Incumbents in Digital

The concept of ‘leapfrogging’ has been around for a while now – mostly in the context of governments and infrastructure. According to Leapfrog Digital Strategies leapfrogging is, “the notion that areas which have poorly-developed technology or economic bases can move...

New Ideas from Strategic Services September 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...

Path To Success – Part 1

Most organizations use a web analytics platform to collect website performance metrics and tracking information of site visitors. One of the most popular platforms for web analytics is Google Analytics, and in spite of its popularity, many Google Analytics (GA) users...

I Still, Still Don’t Like Spam (Part 3)

In Part 1 of this series, I reiterated what most of us think to ourselves at least a few times a week - nobody likes spam. Then I offered how your nonprofit should consider text to image ration when designing emails. In Part 2 of the series, I emphasized. In this...