The Giving Experience

You don't even need to read this article: Grab yourself a Funraise account and start accepting donations via credit card, ACH, Venmo, Apple Pay, and more. It’s fast, safe, and easy.

...otherwise titled as "Why is it easier to buy stuff on Amazon than it is to donate to your nonprofit?"

In honor of Funraise’s shiny donation forms, which make accepting and tracking Venmo payments a breeze—we’re exploring the current Venmo landscape for nonprofits. As a nonprofit organization, here’s what you need to know about Venmo as we roll into 2023.

Human rights organizations fight for justice day in and day out. If you’re ready for liberty and justice for all, for real, read on.

Your donation page is telling a story about you. Is it the right one? Increase conversions with quick actions.

Our fundraising campaign sites guide goes through everything you need to build an awesome campaign microsite: types, elements, benefits, & tips.

Funraise, the nonprofit industry's leading digital fundraising platform, is gifting best-in-class Fundraising Sites and Peer-to-Peer Pages to customers for a limited time—just in time for the 2022 giving season.

Check these best donation platforms for nonprofits to make sure you’re using the perfect charity giving platform for your cause.

Browse our donation form template examples for charitable requests, nonprofit pledges, donation boards, fundraising packets, proposals + more!

Complete donate button guide. Benefits, best practices, wording, location & examples of cool, free, red, small, donate here buttons. Read more here.

The Great Resignation of 2021 may have a significant impact on nonprofits’ employer matching gift strategies. Find out what it means for your org in this guide!

International Fundraising Update! Funraise has updated donation forms to reflect the most up-to-the-moment, easily customizable multi-language and multi-currency offerings available to nonprofit organizations.

More and more digital donors are making donations on their phones while living their lives. Let’s talk about some proven ways to make it easy peasy for your donors to give and how to optimize your online donation forms.

If you’re using WordPress, Funraise’s Donation Form WordPress plugin is the easiest and code-free-est way to add a donation form to your website. This article covers how to install and use it.

Since Squarespace is one of the internet's most popular site-building platforms, we've written this article with instructions detailing how to embed your donation forms on a Squarespace site.

Action Against Hunger asked, "Can a better donation form improve conversions?" Their scientific approach to this question resulted in a surprising response as they tested Funraise's Pop-Up donation forms on their website.

Turn your donors' giving experience into a conversation. Custom questions take the donation process from generic form-filling-out-ing to an engaging moment of generosity and give you the power to grow your budget while growing closer to your supporters.

Custom campaign websites improve your fundraising results. Plus, custom stuff just looks rad and makes you feel like a boss. We want you to have that boss feeling all the time, so Funraise made an incredible fundraising website builder.

How does a donation button solve fundraising concerns? Consider the one-click buy option on Amazon: just one little button that automatically charges, ships, and confirms your order. A donation button does that... for fundraising. Let's Get Digital!

Ken Norwood has lots to say about Safe Families' nonprofit's relationship with Funraise and how they found triple-digit success in donor acquisition and online giving revenue by using Funraise's forms.

Adding a donation form to your donor-facing emails has the potential to unlock next-level donations and supporter engagement—try it in your next email!

An in-depth dive into the world of in-kind donations, complete with an overview, best practices, and do's + don'ts that should be on every nonprofit's radar.

Saying thank you to donors is critical to any nonprofit fundraising strategy. Check out how you can delight your nonprofit donors by saying thank you the right way.

Start preparing early and make sure you're giving donors the best experience possible. Together, social media, your website, and your online giving form create a super-powered trifecta that'll give your nonprofit its best Giving Tuesday yet. 

If you're a nonprofit who waits to the last minute to focus on year-end fundraising (no shame here!), read on for tips and strategies to lay a solid groundwork for your best year-end campaign yet. Let’s get to it!

Selling out your event takes planning, preparation, marketing, and a lot of enthusiasm. Here's a list of 15 tips to help you sell out your next nonprofit event.

A breakdown of three types of fundraising: peer-to-peer fundraising, crowdfunding, and capital campaigns, and ways you can leverage all three to get the funding you need to make the most of your mission.

Fundraising automation for nonprofits gives you more personalization and better relationship building with less work so you can work smarter, not harder.

How your nonprofit can build an enticing text-to-give fundraising strategy using the five basic elements of a story.