Free Fundraising Resources for Nonprofits

With Giving Tuesday and the year-end fast approaching, you need all the help you can get to help you plan and organize fundraising campaigns to surpass your fundraising goal. 

In over 20 years of serving nonprofits, we have formed strong partnerships with like-minded companies passionate about helping nonprofits succeed. 

Here’s a list of free resources from some of our valued partners to enhance every aspect of your year-end fundraising: 

Silent Partner Software - Fundraising Thermometer & Calculators

Silent Partner Software has been building solutions for nonprofits for over twenty-five years. They offer a variety of products, services, and custom projects that can help you accelerate your nonprofit organization's growth and fulfill your mission.

Providing real-time status updates to your supporters can help you appeal more effectively for donations. Their free fundraising thermometer is a valuable and easy-to-use resource for nonprofits.

All you need to do is:
• Inserting the values of your goal
• The amount raised
• The colour
• The size

You then get a snippet of code you can use to embed an updated fundraising thermometer on your website, in newsletters, and in emails.

Quickly calculate on Giving Tuesday with their free nonprofit calculators.

• The Fundraising Gift Range Calculator: Quickly calculates how many gifts and prospects you need at each giving level to reach your goal.
• The Receipt Value Calculator:  Quickly calculates receipt value for donations that come with an advantage using the 'De Minimus Rule.'
• The Monthly Giving Calculator: Quickly calculates how much more your nonprofit could raise with a monthly giving program.

Silent Partner Software Nonprofit Templates

There area also free nonprofit templates for you to use. From fundraising letter templates, donation receipt templates, board meeting minutes templates, case notes examples and templates, all for you to utilize to your benefit.

Auction Frogs - Podcast 

Auction Frogs provides a web-based, full-featured, online event management solution that is simple and easy to use.  

Their services include Virtual Events, Online Auctions, and Mobile Bidding along with all the tools you need to share your mission, convert audiences to supporters, and maximize your fundraising efforts. Their event pages are fully integrated and responsive, and their team of experts guides the planning and organization process from brainstorming through event wrap-up.  

Drawing on their successful track-record of helping nonprofits raise funds, Auction Frogs’ Frog Talk podcast helps you leap into fundraising success one episode at a time.  

Every episode covers a fundraising topic and features guests, such as auctioneer Bobby D offering fundraising advice, and IATS President Andrew Mosawi talking about payment processing best practices for nonprofits. Listen to the Frog Talk podcast in your free time, on your commute, or while doing chores! 

Post Event Blog

We also have a co-marketing blog post on how to prepare for after you wrap up your campaign and some best practices.

Anthology

Anthology supports learners and institutions with the largest EdTech ecosystem globally.

Anthology gives you access to free webinars for you to listen to at any time. Webinars such as "Engaging Students Through Outreach Support" and "Next Generation Platform for Hybrid, Hylex and Online Learning."

Their free blog posts span all aspects of education and discuss best practices, tips and tricks, developments in EdTech, and more for great reading and learning.

Anthology's free white papers consist of nationwide in-depth data studies involving student engagement, course evaluations, institutional effectiveness, noncognitive skills, and beyond.

Engaging Networks – Fundraising and Advocacy Resources 

For over 20 years, Engaging Networks has been helping nonprofits maximize their impact. Nonprofits of every size and cause use Engaging Networks’ suite of world-class online fundraising and advocacy tools to raise money, engage their communities, and advance their missions.  

Engaging Networks is a flexible, completely customizable and innovative software platform for nonprofits which can replace all the systems you currently use, or can work well with whatever you’d like to keep. 

There are many useful webinars, blogs and case studies on the Engaging Networks website that you can use in your own Giving Tuesday campaign. How do Apple’s recent privacy changes affect your fundraising and what can you do to make sure your supporters will still receive your messages? How should you segment your email lists? Find answers to these questions and more on the Engaging Networks website.  

OneCause - Peer to Peer Fundraising  

OneCause’s easy-to-use fundraising solutions (and extensive nonprofit experience) gives their clients the freedom to focus on what truly matters: advancing their organization’s mission.  

Peer-to-peer fundraising is when individuals organize their own fundraising campaigns to collect donations from their personal networks. Individuals fundraising on your behalf can help you reach a wider audience and increase brand awareness for your nonprofit. Done right, word of mouth appeals by your supporters to their personal networks can be an effective way of reaching your fundraising goal.  

To help you organize and implement effective peer-to-peer fundraising events, OneCause offers many resources on their website. Get peer-to-peer fundraising ideas, tips for attracting peer-to-peer fundraisers, webinars, infographics, and an entire downloadable toolkit full of innovative ideas, new tactics, and powerful insights.    

With more high-quality nonprofit technology partners than anyone else in this space, our robust and seamless integrations help you simplify your reconciliations and reduce operational costs. Check out our partners and discover payment integrations to optimize your resources. 

Simply Fundraising CRM – YouTube Content  

After 25 years at DonorPerfect, Jon Biedermann has launched Simply Fundraising CRM, a comprehensive CRM/database for nonprofits.  

In a world in which it takes 7 minutes on average to fill out a donation form, Simply Fundraising CRM is designed to take the friction out of fundraising and be as user-friendly as possible. You can create, edit, and send fundraising letters easily and quickly. It is simple to add new donors, and to add gifts. 

Head over to the Simply Fundraising CRM YouTube channel, which has loads of informational videos containing fundraising tips from industry experts. Subscribe to Simply Fundraising CRM’s YouTube channel and learn how to ask for major gifts, how to retain grants, how to use prospect research tools, and much more.