Nonprofit Grant Tracking: Best Practices for Managing Grants
If you’re looking for ways to improve your current nonprofit grant tracking process or create one from scratch, this article can help.
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5 Volunteer Management Best Practices
If you’re looking to enhance your existing volunteer program, taking some time to improve your volunteer management strategies can make a big...
Nonprofit Technology Grants: How To Find And Win Them
Finding and applying for nonprofit technology grants can be one of the best ways to fund a new technology investment in your organization.
Fundraising
Introducing: Online Fundraising in Instil
Users of Instil can now access Pledge’s fundraising functionality and create modern, mobile-optimized donation forms and pages without ever leaving...
Volunteer Management
How to Recruit and Retain Volunteers: A Nonprofit Guide
Volunteer recruitment and retention are pillars of an effective program. Here's how to find and keep volunteers that become true champions for your...
Cultivation & Stewardship
Moves Management: A Nonprofit Guide
Moves management is the process of tracking your relationship-building actions and using that information to inform your donor stewardship...
5 Ways We’re Proud To Make Instil A Great Place To Work for LGBTQ People
As an early-stage company, we’ve started from the ground up in designing a workplace where LGBTQ employees can thrive - here are a few of the ways...
Fundraising
6 Major Gifts Fundraising Strategies To Try This Year
If you’re looking to improve your major gift fundraising strategies this year, we’re here to help with new tactics to build and strengthen...
Cultivation & Stewardship
5 Donor Stewardship Strategies That Increase Donor Trust
Strong donor relationships and retention are built on donor trust. This means putting donor stewardship strategies in place to show donors you will...
Fundraising
How to Build a Major Gifts Fundraising Plan
Creating a major gifts fundraising plan doesn't have to be complicated. We’ll help you start with best practices and a free template for building...
Fundraising
What is Donor Management?
Through effective donor management, you can move your supporters through the donor lifecycle to keep growing your mission.
Cultivation & Stewardship
Donor Stewardship: The Essential Guide
Donor stewardship a set of communications that keep the supporter engaged and, ultimately, work to encourage their next gift. Here's what you need to...
Fundraising
Major Gifts Fundraising: Everything You Need To Know
If you’re new to major gifts fundraising, getting started can feel overwhelming. In this guide, we’ll cover all the basics you need to kickstart your...
Fundraising
Lapsed Donors: How To Win Them Back and Keep Them
Just because a donor has lapsed doesn’t mean they’re gone forever. We're here to help you get started with identifying lapsed donors and winning them...
Cultivation & Stewardship
Cultivation: Not Just for Major Donors
Donor cultivation is for more than just major donors, but this doesn't have to mean a lot more effort.
4 New Donor Cultivation Strategies to Try This Year
Building and maintaining strong relationships with your donors starts with creative donor cultivation strategies - here are four to implement this...
Cultivation & Stewardship
Donor Cultivation 101
What is donor cultivation and why is it important? How do you build a donor cultivation plan? We'll cover all of the basics you need to know to get...
Fundraising
Case Study: Goodie Nation Modernizes Donor Management With Instil
When planning a campaign to increase individual donations, Goodie Nation found a solid foundation in a modern donor management platform.
Cultivation & Stewardship
5 Ways To Streamline Nonprofit Project Management in Instil
With Instil’s newest feature, nonprofit project management is easier than ever. Add and assign tasks to your team to stay on track for every deadline.
Fundraising
5 Donor Retention Strategies to Try This Year
Donor retention is critical to providing a reliable revenue stream for your nonprofit, so here are five example donor retention strategies to try...
Fundraising
Everything You Need To Know About Donor Retention in 2022
Donor retention is the key to strong nonprofit fundraising - here's how to improve your retention rate, as well as context and trends over time.
Fundraising
Maximize Donor Stewardship with Instil + Classy
For organizations using Classy for fundraising, donor data can now flow seamlessly into Instil, empowering your team to supercharge donor stewardship.
Fundraising
Make 2022 Your Best Year Ever With Instil
Prioritizing donor stewardship now goes a long way toward ensuring a successful Year-End and building a strong foundation for future fundraising.
Fundraising
How To: Calculate and Track Donor Retention & Benchmarks
Donor retention is a critical metric for nonprofits, so it's important to know how to calculate and set benchmarks for your donor retention rate.
Fundraising
Best Practices for Keeping Your Donors Engaged
If donors stop giving, it’s tough to get them back. Nonprofits need to hang on tight to their current donors. Here's how:
Fundraising
Top 10 Tips For Giving Tuesday
If you are thinking, Giving Tuesday is a crowded time to reach out to my donors. They are being bombarded by every charity they’ve ever supported....
Just Say No To Messy Spreadsheets and Disparate Documents
Our donor management software will help you say no to storing donor data in spreadsheets and documents. You deserve a CRM built with and for...
Fundraising
4 Ways to Supercharge Your 2021 Fundraising
Just in time for Giving Season, power up your fundraising, amplify your reach, and engage new donors with these 4 steps.
Fundraising
3 Ways To Future-Proof Your Fundraising
Although there are many unknowns in 2021, there are ways to future-proof your fundraising. Three areas of focus from our nonprofit experts.