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Learning from peers to refine your nonprofit funding strategy

Candid

In this article, well outline a three-step process adapted from our report Finding Your Funding Strategy: Benchmarking 101 , tailored to U.S.-based Annual reports can provide valuable insights. based nonprofits.

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Your Board’s Role in Fundraising Events: 5 Responsibilities

Nonprofits Source

But attracting them requires time, strategic outreach, and access to the right contacts. Sample ask language , like short scripts or talking points, they can personalize when reaching out to their contacts. Sponsors provide essential funding, help cover event costs, and expand your reach through cross-promotion.

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50+ Fun and Creative School Fundraising Ideas That Work

Qgiv

Read-a-thon Encourage reading for a cause, with parents pledging donations for the number of books read by students. Sponsors can pledge to donate to students for each hour danced during the dance-a-thon. View fundraising data and trends from a reporting dashboard. Offer prizes for most books read per grade or class.

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8 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising With a CRM for Nonprofits

CauseVox

Instead of spending hours manually sending donation acknowledgments or tracking pledges on spreadsheets, automation lets you streamline your workflows and stay focused on what really matters: building relationships and advancing your mission. That means better targeting, smarter reporting, and stronger relationships.

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Fairphone Has a New Plan to Get You to Care

Wired

Its own reports tell us Fairphone sales have flatlined at around 100,000 a year. Thanks to the company's wonderful transparency we can all find out once Fairphone drops its 2025 Impact Report some time in early 2026. Now we have even more—like where that “made in America” pledge went. It’s unusually transparent, too.

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Google Cloud pours more than $25B into domestic AI infrastructure

CIO Dive

Published July 15, 2025 Matt Ashare Senior Reporter post share post print email license The Google Cloud pavilion at the 2025 Hannover Messe industrial trade fair on March 31, 2025 in Hanover, Germany. AWS and Microsoft pledged $100 billion and $80 billion , respectively, to capital investments earlier this year.

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China's Electric Vehicle Factories Have Become Tourist Hotspots

Wired

Prior to joining WIRED he was China reporter at MIT Technology Review and a tech reporter at Protocol. Zeyi Yang is a senior writer at WIRED, covering technology and business in China. His journalism has appeared in other publications such as Rest of World, Columbia Journalism Review, and Nikkei Asia. All rights reserved.