Gabby Houck

Learn how nonprofit fundraising innovation is playing out in real life. From AI agents and peer-to-peer events to emotional “neurogiving” and storytelling through direct mail, these four takeaways show how to blend fresh tactics with donor-centered relationships.

Nonprofit fundraising in 2025 is being shaped by five powerful forces — from a K-shaped economy and new tax rules to generational giving shifts, donor-advised funds and AI. Learn what they mean for your donors and how to adapt before you fall behind.

Here are four key steps nonprofits need to take to push their missions forward in 2025.

There may be a lot of pressure to hit fundraising goals. After all, your nonprofit depends on that revenue to continue its mission’s work. But all that pressure doesn’t have to feel so intense. 

On the final day of Nonprofit POWER in Baltimore, Maryland, Bill Stanczykiewicz, senior assistant dean for external relations at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, led the keynote session, “Fundraising in Turbulent Times” to help the nonprofit professionals in the room make sense of data and the wealth effects of charitable giving as they prepare for multiple scenarios in 2024.

Community is “actionable,” Katrina VanHuss, chair and founder of Turnkey, said. It gets people to do crazy things like VanHuss signing up for Jujitsu and Courtney Bugler, president and CEO of Zero Prostate Cancer, joining the ballroom dance community, the pair shared in the NonProfit POWER session, “Why the CEO Is the Only One Who Can Build Your Nonprofit Community.” 

Fundraisers find themselves emerging from two challenging years and preparing for the possible recession in the year ahead. On the final day of the NonProfit POWER conference, Bill Stanczykiewicz of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy opened the final day of the event with his keynote, “Current Trends in Fundraising.” His takeaways were surprising.

NonProfit POWER resumed yesterday with a full day of educational content and networking for nonprofit leaders and decision-makers. Here’s a brief look at what attendees experienced yesterday. 

Vicky Kelberer, research and strategy group manager at Vanguard Charitable, kicked off NonProfit PRO’s NonProfit POWER event on Dec. 5 with a keynote address. Here are the six key steps she suggested nonprofits should take to create a donor-advised fund (DAF) strategy.

While most high-schoolers are busy worrying about passing their driver’s test or making the varsity team, Arnav Bhakta, CEO and president of Stem4Free, decided that he was going to take on food waste.