Fundraising & Nonprofit Blog

How to Optimize Retention by Mapping the Donor Journey

How much more effective could your marketing be if you understood more about your individual donors? One tool to help…

Q&A: Profitable Partnerships: Creating and Expanding Your Corporate Giving Program

We recently hosted Profitable Partnerships: Creating and Expanding Your Corporate Giving Program in partnership with Sarah Andrews (Andrews Consulting LLC). …

Cryptocurrency: How Nonprofits Can Tap Into New Sources of Donations

Nonprofits are increasingly looking to crypto philanthropy as a fundraising source, and there is some impressive data as to why.…

How to Increase Fundraising from Corporations For Your Nonprofit?

Earlier in August, iWave hosted a webinar by Claire Kerr of Fronstream called Serious Business: Digital Strategies to Boost Corporate Support. …

Five Ways to Increase Your Fundraising Efficiency

If you are responsible for fundraising or prospect research for your nonprofit organization, you know that it takes a great…

Prospect Research: Breaking Free of Portfolios

Guest post by Rachel Richards and Matthew White, USU Foundation This is a follow up blog post to Rachel and…

5 Essential Tips for Increasing Annual Giving

Use these five essential tips to help your donors get excited to participate in annual giving at your organization and support your everyday operations.

Why Data Source Matters When Screening Donors

We’re at a point in time where millions of data points are being generated and stored at any moment .…

What donors want from nonprofits?

If you work in a fundraising department in a nonprofit, chances are you’ve spent more than a few minutes wondering……

Q&A: Prospect Lists

Last month we launched iWave’s new Prospect Lists. This exciting new feature reimagines prospecting in the nonprofit space by using…

What is Fundraising Intelligence and Why is it so Important?

You may have noticed, but we talk about Fundraising Intelligence a lot. And there’s a good reason for that. We…

The Three Keys Introduction: What is Propensity, Affinity, and Capacity?

Good things come in threes. When it comes to ideal donor ratings, the big three are propensity, affinity, and capacity (The Three Keys). Throughout the nonprofit industry, there are many different perspectives and names for this ratings trio.