Will Google's New Rules Crush Your Nonprofit Website Search Rankings?

Things are changing... again. In case you missed it, Google recently announced more upcoming changes to the way it indexes websites for search results. Those changes are now in full effect. Read more

7 Story Types To Make Your Appeals More Appealing

To engage donors and inspire them to get involved in your nonprofit—whether by fundraising, word-of-mouth advertising, or volunteering—they need to become invested in your story. What makes your nonprofit tick? What are its Read more

5 Biggest Benefits of Bulldozing Your Data Silos

Nobody likes silos—well, except maybe farmers. Many nonprofit organizations continue to put information into silos. We call these disconnected applications "point solutions": one product for marketing, another for volunteer Read more

Impact Versus Overhead: Which Is More Important?

What makes your nonprofit a trustworthy organization? Is it transparency? Good PR? Low executive turnover? Quantifiable results? A longstanding reputation in the community? Read more

Nonprofit Executive Roundtable Breakfast

StratusLIVE hosts event exclusively for nonprofit executives and industry leaders. On July 23, 2014, StratusLIVE hosted a Nonprofit Executive Roundtable Breakfast at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. Read more

4 Questions To Answer Before Integrating Your Online Donation Page

Get the most out of your existing data: integrate your online fundraising and donation tools to your database. The importance of having one single database for all of your constituent related data cannot be overstated. From Read more

5 Principles for Building Strong Donor Relationships

People give to people. Everything in your organization should revolve around building stronger relationships. From your staff, to your board, to your donors, to your corporate sponsors, everything should be about Read more

3 Questions to Better Donor Relationships

To get the best responses, you must know how to ask the right questions. Smart businesses know that when they take the time to get to know their customers, they often become customers for life. The same principle applies to Read more

How Are Nonprofits Using Business Intelligence?

Is your nonprofit ready for the donor data revolution? We've all heard how important "big data" is to improving the reach, accuracy, and effectiveness of marketing outreach and sales efforts. Business intelligence (BI) is Read more

How To Easily Accept Online Donations

Remove barriers to online donation and make giving as simple as possible. Everyone has heard “follow the money,” implying that if you pay greater attention to where the money is coming from and where it’s going, you will Read more