Nonprofit KPIs: How to Choose the Best Metrics to Measure Your Organization’s Performance
Most nonprofits tackle complex, long-term goals. With goals that big, how can you possibly measure performance? Simple. With a few carefully selected key performance indicators. KPIs are crucial to the success of any organization, in both the for and non-profit...
7 Tips For Hiring a Professional Fundraiser
What’s a Fundraising Consultant? A fundraising consultant, sometimes called professional fundraisers, are seasoned pros, field marshals of the nonprofit world. They’ve usually got several years of experience under their belts running campaigns and managing donors for...
Volunteer Retention Strategies: 7 Tips to Keep Your Volunteers
While many organizations were rethinking their volunteer recruitment efforts, even before COVID, that alone can’t change the low volunteering rate. Nonprofits need to start taking volunteer retention rates seriously. There are only so many people out there looking to...
20+ Handy GivingTuesday Resources for 2020
There are a ton of excellent GivingTuesday resources online; Free tools that your nonprofit can use to boost its year-end success. The only issue? You have to do some digging to find the best ones. At Neon One, we’re all about saving you time (and money!)....
Member Renewal Letters: A Complete How-To Guide (Free Template Included)
Your members are the backbone of your membership program. To keep your members excited about your organization, you probably pull out all the stops, from reeling them in with a positive application experience to keeping them engaged throughout their membership. In...
7 Donor Survey Questions You Should Be Asking
You don’t have to wonder what motivates your donors to give. You just have to ask the right donor survey questions. Surveying your donors is the most powerful thing you can do when it comes to improving your processes. Understanding what makes your donors tick can...
Power Up Your Endurance Event with Rallybound & Strava
Many peer-to-peer fundraising events are designed around an accompanying endurance activity. These endurance challenges can vary between a low-intensity walk to a high-intensity bike-a-thon — the choice is up to you. Regardless of what endurance activity you...
10 Year-End Giving Statistics Every Fundraiser Should Know
The end of the year is swiftly approaching. You know what that means — giving season is almost here. Giving season is a huge deal for the nonprofit sector, driving billions of dollars in just a few days. But don’t take our word for it. Here are 10 year-end giving...
Unite Development and Finance Teams with NeonCRM & QuickBooks
One of the biggest challenges nonprofits face is alignment around the money that they are receiving for donations, events, memberships, and other channels. Attempting to reconcile multiple revenue streams with accounting processes can be complicated, and it can often...
The 3 Types of Giving Tuesday Emails You Need to Send
When thinking about your organization’s emails, it’s always a good idea to step back and consider the number of emails you get in a single day. How often do you open an email for less than a few seconds? Or mark one as ‘read’ without actually looking at it? During the...
10 Giving Tuesday Statistics Every Fundraiser Should Know
There’s no denying it — #GivingTuesday has become a worldwide phenomenon. What started as a grassroots movement meant to balance out holiday season spending is now a donation-driving powerhouse. Still not sure if your organization should get involved in the fun?...
4 Creative Giving Tuesday Campaigns Ideas, Inspired by Neon One Nonprofits & Orgs
In 2019, Giving Tuesday campaigns generated over $500 million dollars in online donations, and over 20 billion global social media impressions. It’s safe to say it’s officially a mainstay of year-end fundraising. So what makes a #GivingTuesday campaign...
How Does Giving Tuesday Work?
By now, you’ve probably heard of Giving Tuesday. When a single event generates over $2 billion dollars in one year, it gains quite a reputation. But, if you’ve never participated in the 24-hour celebration, you might be wondering, “how does Giving Tuesday work?” There...
New in Rallybound: Endurance Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major shift in traditional fundraising events. Virtual events are now the standard, which has created a new need for innovative, engaging online fundraising experiences. Since the launch of Rallybound’s new Virtual Toolkit, we’ve...
How the Ulman Foundation is Bringing Their Community Together (While Staying Socially Distant!)
In March 2020, the world developed a new vocabulary, seemingly overnight. Words like “quarantine”, “pandemic, and “PPE” suddenly became part of our shared daily lexicon. One newly introduced term has been everywhere since this spring — social distancing. Everywhere...
Celebrating the 2020 Changemaker Award Recipients
At Neon One, our clients are our ‘why’. We exist to help them raise more to support the amazing missions they’ve dedicated themselves to serving. It’s fun, challenging, and rewarding work. And sometimes it calls for a celebration. Earlier this month, we wrapped our...
Insights from the Giving USA 2020 Report
Earlier this month, our Director of Strategic Partnerships, Tim Sarrantonio, dove deep into this year’s Giving USA report and broke down the basics as it relates to individual, foundational, legacy, and corporate giving (so you don’t have to). The webinar also...
Unifying the Ecosystem: A Look at The Future of Neon One
Last week, we hosted the first-ever Generosity Exchange, a two-day long virtual event that fostered connection, discussion, and transformation between over 600 nonprofit professionals. This exciting opportunity gave us a chance to create a space for open dialogues...
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