A Round-Up of Our Best Year-End Resources for Nonprofits

Set your year-end campaigns up for success with our planning guides, segmentation tips, and ready-to-use content. Whether you’re new or experienced, these nonprofit fundraising tools deliver results.

FAQ: What Do Donors Look for Before Making a Year-End Gift?

Year-end giving isn’t just December 31—it’s a six-week season where conscious choices, emotional triggers, and collective momentum drive generosity. Learn what donors look for, feel, and remember to maximize results and build lasting connections.

Nonprofit Fundraising Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide & Checklist

Introduction This guide brings together key themes and actionable strategies designed to help nonprofits achieve sustainable fundraising success. From the fundamentals of strategic planning and goal setting to the latest...

Top Dos and Don’ts for Fundraising While Navigating the News Cycle

As a nonprofit fundraiser, only so much is under your control. You shape strategy, email volume, tactics, and more, but there are factors that no one can predict, let alone...

Fundraising Year End Planning – Guide and Checklist

This checklist + guide will keep your planning on track and position your nonprofit to raise critical funds when it counts the most.

A Cross-Channel, Year-End Success for Children’s Health

Overview Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (LPFCH) is the sole fundraising entity for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the child health programs at Stanford University School of Medicine. ...

Achieving a Best Year-End Performance to Date—Again

Overview Liberty Hill Foundation is a small nonprofit organization in Los Angeles, dedicated to raising and distributing funds for local social justice organizations.  Media Cause first partnered with Liberty Hill...

Why Brick + Mortar Nonprofits Need to Think Differently this Year-End

What do I miss most? Easy. It’s yoga with Mr. Jack.  If you were to ask me what I’ve missed most after being cooped up in the house since March,...

4 Reasons to Start Thinking About Your Ads Program as Year-Round — Not Just Year-End

Year-end is a great time to run paid advertising to reach your fundraising objectives. As my little brother would have said circa 2004, “no, duh,” right? Stay with me here....

What Happened This Year-End 2018?

2018 year-end fundraising results are in and there’s a lot to unpack. We can’t deny it – Giving Tuesday is the real deal, as much as fundraisers might dislike it....

What It’s Like to Work with a Nonprofit Marketing Agency

Nonprofit-focused agencies blend marketing expertise with sector insight, helping organizations strengthen donor retention, navigate policy shifts, and integrate fundraising, advocacy, and awareness into sustainable growth strategies built for nonprofit realities.

Media Cause Wins 3 Hermes

It’s with great pleasure to share Media Cause has won three Hermes Awards for our outstanding creativity and strategic work accomplished for the American Kennel Club and Pathfinder International. Pathfinder...