Web Design

If all you do is provide a monthly giving option as a button next to your donation amount, you are missing the boat.

Are you ready for a huge spike in online gifts this month? I hope so! Because the money — and the donors — are out there.

Check out the winners of the 2014 FundRaising Success Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence Website category from Milwaukee Rescue Mission, The Wilderness Society and Union Rescue Mission.

Here are 12 simple steps any organization can take right now to make their donors happy, boost their retention rates and create sustainable gifts year after year. These are the changes that matter. They are not complicated. They don't require a lot of decision making or processing. They don't even take a ton of time!

Because your website is so important, we should consider some ways to evaluate and measure its success. Here are five key steps that can be easily measured with Google Analytics.

As peer-to-peer fundraising continues to establish itself as a major pillar in the nonprofit sector, fundraisers must make sure they provide the best experience for their participants and volunteer fundraisers. And that starts with the website.

Fundraisers know how big a role mobile plays in peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns, which makes responsive design a must for your event website.

Are you utilizing the right tools and strategies to optimize the amount of online donations you receive? Here, we’ll explain two simple strategies for improving your organization’s corporate-giving metrics by making just a few simple edits to your website.

So much rides on our search engine rankings. In Canada, 3 percent to 6 percent of donated dollars go to international charities. It’s a very competitive marketplace for all nonprofits and extremely competitive for international charities. Advertising can be effective, but it’s also costly. Search engine optimization (SEO) allows us to capture the attention of the niche market of people who may want to make an overseas donation.

As FundRaising Success gears up for the ninth annual Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence, take a look back at last year's Website of the Year from Covenant House and Sanky Communications.