How a Mental Health Charity Acquired Thousands of New Supporters from Facebook Fundraising
About the Mental Health Foundation – since 1949, the Mental Health Foundation has been the UK’s leading charity for everyone’s mental health.
How to Link People Directly to Create a Facebook Fundraiser (works for Facebook Ads)
Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could send people directly to set up a Facebook fundraiser for your nonprofit? Guess what…. You can! And here’s how:
The 9 types of Facebook supporters (and how to steward them)
Anyone who supports your cause with a donation or fundraises for you, through Facebook, is a star!
But some stars shine more brightly than others.
New Feature – Donate Button Posts
There is a somewhat hidden type of fundraising with Facebook Giving Tools that not many nonprofits are taking advantage of… until now.
Five reasons NOT to contact the donors of Facebook fundraisers
We like to say that there are two different types of donors: those who donate directly to the nonprofit via the Donate button (we call these “direct” donors) and those who sponsor a friend via a fundraiser (we call these “sponsor” donors). In this blog post we are talking about whether or not we should contact (thank) sponsor donors. Read more
Five actions to leverage the power of Facebook fundraisers
Earlier in the year, I presented on how to leverage the power of Facebook’s Giving Tools for Fundraising Online, a global virtual conference run by the Resource Alliance. In this post, I share the five steps I talked about, which you can action right now to make the most of Facebook fundraisers for your nonprofit. Read more
Three ways you can generate more income from your current Facebook Fundraisers
We have a whole bunch of blogs on how to recruit more fundraisers as well as best practices for thanking them. What we haven’t shared yet, up until now, is how you can raise more valuable income from the wonderful Facebook fundraisers you already have. Ready? Let’s go. Read more
Facebook Birthday Fundraisers hit $1 billion – how your nonprofit can benefit
Facebook announced that since their Giving Tools launched in 2015, $2 billion has been raised for good causes around the world.
Six time saving tips for thanking Facebook fundraisers
We’re big fans of thanking Facebook fundraisers. After all, they’ve taken on a challenge or donated their birthday so it’s only right and proper to thank them.
A simple guide to Facebook Fundraising Transaction Reports
If you’re not an Excel wizard, we know that trying to make sense of your Facebook Fundraising transaction reports can be hard.
That’s why we built GivePanel.
Announcing three new GivePanel features to help you with your Facebook fundraising
We’ve had a VERY busy few months here at GivePanel. Listening to feedback from our Beta partners and working hard on refining and improving the platform.
How to target Facebook Ads to potential Birthday fundraisers
For many of our GivePanel customers, Birthday fundraisers are generating over 90% of their income from Facebook.
So an obvious question to ask from the get-go is:
“How do I get more people to set up a Birthday Fundraiser for us?”
Case study: How one charity increased birthday fundraising income by 400% with Facebook Ads
Sands is the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. They operate throughout the UK and support anyone who has been affected by
the death of a baby, working to improve the care bereaved parents receive.
How to find “zero-dollar” fundraisers on Facebook
Experience tells us that if you can reach fundraisers earlier in their fundraising journey to engage them, they will raise more. But with Facebook Giving Tools you don’t get notified when someone starts a fundraiser for your nonprofit.
11 Facebook Fundraising myths demystified
In 2013, Facebook launched Facebook Donate and then Fundraisers in 2017 in the US (in beta) and then to 15 other countries across Europe.