Nonprofits

Thoughts about the nonprofit sector

Top 4 Fundraising Mistakes… Are you guilty of any of these?

This week on #WiserWithWisely we talk about the Top 4 Fundraising Mistakes to avoid. While every fundraiser knows that at its heart fundraising is about relationships with donors, it’s still easy to get into bad habits and commit these common fundraising mistakes when it comes to relationship-based fundraising. From our conversations with our clients and …

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Grow and Scale Your Fundraising Efforts

Fundraisers today are working harder than ever for fewer donations. Is fundraising getting harder? What is it going to take to grow and scale your fundraising efforts? Are donors becoming more selective? Or, like many other industries run over by the tech revolution, is fundraising getting left in the dust? In 2017, I co-founded Wisely …

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Wisely’s Top 5 Tips to build an AI Strategy to enable larger gifts

In recent years, overall donation to nonprofits is up. But the number of donors is dropping; charities have to rely more on large individual gifts and compete for a smaller pool of donors. As a result, many fundraisers are turning to fundraising software to help enable larger gifts. If you’re considering a similar move, you’ll …

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Wisely in 15 min! All You Need for the Best Donor Insights

Our team has over 20 years of fundraising experience with nonprofits and decided that the fundraising journey needed to be simplified. So we created Wisely – a fundraising software powered by AI that takes the guesswork out of fundraising. We help you tap the right donors at the right time for the right ask. Here …

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Fundamentals of Donor Acquisition as told from an agency strategist

For the last ten years, the most pressing need of any of my clients has been the need to acquire new donors. More recently, it’s become my priority to optimize this activity for our agency. Clients trust us to grow their fundraising, but also to share as best as I can the opportunity in embracing this …

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