4 Crowdfunding Strategies You’ve Never Considered

  Online crowdfunding reportedly raised over 5 billion dollars in 2013 with about 30% going to charitable causes.  In recent years, there has been a proliferation of platforms and consultants...

5 Easy Ways To Boost Online Donations

  Online retailers invest LOADS (that’s a technical term meaning “a heck of a lot”) of time and money to find ways to covert more visitors to customers.  Not all of the...

One Thank You Note You Have To See

Donor Acknowledgement is not the same thing as a Thank You.  It’s tempting to try to craft a donor acknowledgement that provides required details for tax purposes and simultaneously demonstrates...

Startup Life – In Pictures

    Big River is starting 2016 in a brand new location!  We packed up our laptops and our monitors, our whiteboards and markers and set up shop at StartMart, a new (and very cool) space for...

Website Assessment Tool For Nonprofit Fundraisers

As we head into 2016, it’s a perfect time for nonprofit fundraisers to assess their online fundraising to be sure pages and processes are optimized to raise as much money as possible and...

YouTube Donation Cards – A Tutorial

  YouTube has introduced donation cards, which can easily be embedded into any video to raise funds for an organization.  Here’s an explanation of the cards as well as tutorials to guide...