Digital Fundraising

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Tool Kit

Required Reading for Running a Capital Campaign

August 4, 2025

A collection of articles and advice to help your nonprofit run a big fundraising drive.

Mark and Heather Segal celebrate completing a cross-country bicycling trek from Washington state to New York, raising funds for the Reeve Foundation in honor of two individuals living with paralysis, in Sept. 2024.

Case Study

How the Reeve Foundation Tripled Its Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Revenue

By M.J. Prest July 22, 2025

The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, started by the late Superman actor and his wife, raises more than $1 million a year by coaching volunteers to throw uplifting events on its behalf.

A still image of a mated bald-eagle pair, Jackie and Shadow, with their two chicks, Sunny and Gizmo, from a nest cam operated by Friends of Big Bear Valley in San Bernardino County, California on April 15, 2025. The nest cam broadcasts around-the-clock footage with Big Bear Lake in the background.

Advice

How Feel-Good Fundraising Lifts Revenue and Spirits

By M.J. Prest June 20, 2025

Learn how an environmental group sustains a warm, wholesome online community — and raises blockbuster sums.

Opinion

Why the Quiet Collapse of a Crowdfunding Platform Should Alarm Philanthropy

By Roger Doiron May 27, 2025

Nonprofit crowdfunding platforms get money to the people and places big for-profit platforms ignore, but they need funding themselves to survive.

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Fundraising Strategy

Online Giving Is Sliding Amid Turmoil. Should Fundraisers Retreat or Go Big?

By Ben Gose May 1, 2025

Digital donations are dropping in the wake of the president’s tariffs. Experts weigh in on whether charities should back off appeals or push ahead with ambitious campaigns.

James Kunder, former deputy administer of USAID, speaks at a demonstration in support of the agency's employees who were fired or placed on leave by Elon Musk and the department of government efficiency, outside USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C. on February 28, 2025.

Foundation Giving

Nonprofits Are Struggling. These Emergency Funds Are Offering Help

By Stephanie Beasley March 28, 2025

The philanthropic response to the federal government’s defunding of nonprofits has been sluggish, but emergency funds are starting to emerge. The Chronicle of Philanthropy provides a list.