This is my friend Bill, aka Skillz. He’s from the South Side of Chicago. He’s  Tele-fundraising for us right now. It’s not an easy task. It wasn’t made easier by the fact Bill didn’t have the proper tech. He took a bus to our closed office, between trips to the...

This article was originally written for the Nonprofit Quarterly by Niduk D’souza, Up Fundraising’s Director of Strategy and Marketing.  The “stuff we all get”—also known as swag—to entice donations has over the years become a booming industry, from address...

One of the most common questions we get asked by our charity partners when talking to our donor acquisition team is: What is your recruitment process like for your fundraisers?  This is a polite way of saying, listen, we’ve had some not so nice experiences with F2F...