Unleash the power of Facebook Fundraising

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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 fundr...

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 fiv...

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 ...

When to use Facebook’s donate button vs a page fundraiser

If you’re starting out with Facebook’s Giving Tools, how do you know when to add a Donate button to posts or when to start a fundraiser? We spoke to Wendy Ahl, UK Operations Director at Safe Haven for...

Case study: How one nonprofit is raising 40% of total income via Facebook Fundraisers

Trude Jacobsen is the Secretary General of Dråpen i Havet / A Drop in the Ocean, a non-profit in Norway who helps provide support to refugees. We spoke to her about how Facebook fundraising is helping...

How to target Facebook Ads to potential Birthday Fundraisers

For many of our GivePanel customers, Birthday fundraisers generate over 90% of their income from Facebook, so an obvious question is: “How do I get more people to set up a Birthday Fundraiser for us?”...

How your nonprofit can prepare for Instagram Donate

There is much excitement about Instagram Donate! The Instagram Donation Sticker for Stories is now available in the US, and here at GivePanel we are super excited about it. If you haven’t started usin...

Five creative ways to thank your Facebook fundraisers

Are you harnessing the power of Facebook’s Giving Tools yet? No doubt, if you’ve switched them on, you’ll have noticed people have started setting up fundraisers for your cause, without much prompting...

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...

Facebook Birthday Fundraisers: How to generate more fundraisers

How can you market Facebook Birthday Fundraisers to encourage more people to fundraise for your nonprofit? Here are five ways! Since the launch of Facebook’s Giving Tools, $1 billion has already been ...

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 six months later. These tools combined are called Facebook’s Gi...

How to use the Facebook Donate button in a Facebook Ad

So, you want to put some more juice behind Facebook Donate with paid ads? In this short 6 minute video, Nick Burne takes you through how to supercharge an organic Facebook page post that has the Faceb...