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Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Funding Guide · Country: European Union

EU opens €3.5m media-literacy call: five checks for nonprofits

A new Creative Europe call offers up to €500,000 for cross-border media-literacy projects. Nonprofits need three-country partnerships, co-funding and a credible plan for AI-generated content and disinformation.

Media literacyGrant fundingInformation integrity
6 min

Data & Privacy · Policy Guide · Country: United Kingdom

ICO opens agentic AI privacy review: five checks for charities

The UK privacy regulator is gathering evidence on autonomous AI systems. Charities using agents should map permissions, data flows, human control and audit records before deployment.

Agentic AIData protectionAI governance
6 min

Field Technology & Humanitarian Response · Product Update · Country: Global

Five checks before using PRISM's grounded humanitarian analyst

PRISM has opened its country dashboards and launched a citation-grounded AI analyst. Humanitarian teams should test provenance, freshness, coverage and privacy before using either in operational decisions.

Humanitarian dataGrounded AIDecision support
5 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Buyer Guide · Country: United States

Five checks before treating Blackbaud Lantern as a product

Blackbaud's fundraising-specific language model is scheduled to begin powering selected capabilities in 2027. Nonprofits can use the lead time to define evidence, data and oversight requirements before buying.

Fundraising AIProcurementDonor data
5 min

Fundraising Technology · Practical Guide · Country: Sweden

A six-week Christmas fundraising plan for nonprofit teams

Turn the strongest giving period into a manageable campaign with clear decisions on audiences, offers, channels, stewardship and January follow-up.

Christmas fundraisingCampaign planningYear-end giving
7 min

Fundraising Technology · Practical Guide · Country: Global

Fix mobile donation friction before buying more traffic

Mobile brings most nonprofit website visits but a smaller share of transactions and revenue. Use a five-test audit to find where donors stop.

Mobile givingDonation formsConversion
6 min

Fundraising Technology · Practical Guide · Country: Global

Build recurring giving around retention, not just acquisition

Monthly giving is valuable because relationships persist—not because a checkbox exists. Design onboarding, payment recovery and stewardship as one programme.

Recurring givingDonor retentionStewardship
6 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Buyer Guide · Country: Sweden

Where Adoveo fits in a nonprofit fundraising stack

Adoveo is best assessed as an engagement and first-party-data layer connected to CRM and communications—not as a like-for-like replacement for every donation tool.

AdoveoFirst-party dataFundraising stack
6 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Buyer Guide · Country: United States

Donorbox or Givebutter: a buyer guide for small nonprofits

Both cover online giving and peer-to-peer campaigns, but their surrounding toolkits and pricing logic create different operating trade-offs.

DonorboxGivebutterSmall nonprofits
6 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Buyer Guide · Country: United States, United Kingdom

GoFundMe Pro or JustGiving for supporter-led fundraising?

Compare community reach, geography, organiser onboarding, charity data and fees before choosing a peer-to-peer fundraising home.

Peer-to-peer fundraisingGoFundMe ProJustGiving
6 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Buyer Guide · Country: France, United Kingdom

iRaiser or Enthuse for European fundraising?

iRaiser positions itself for connected multi-market fundraising; Enthuse combines branded UK fundraising and events. The operational fit is different.

European fundraisingiRaiserEnthuse
6 min

Operations, CRM & Collaboration · Buyer Guide · Country: United States

Blackbaud, EveryAction or Salesforce for a complex nonprofit?

Enterprise breadth is useful only when it matches fundraising, advocacy, programme and federation requirements that staff can actually govern.

Enterprise CRMFundraising operationsAdvocacy
7 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Buyer Guide · Country: Global

Donation-platform pricing models compared

Transaction fees, subscriptions, donor tips and custom quotes distribute cost differently. A realistic model reveals who pays and when.

Platform pricingProcurementTotal cost
6 min

Fundraising Technology · Practical Guide · Country: Global

Email fundraising still works—when the journey stays coherent

Email remains a material revenue channel, but low response makes audience relevance, deliverability and landing-page continuity more important than volume.

Email fundraisingSegmentationLanding pages
5 min

Fundraising Technology · Practical Guide · Country: United States

Prioritise known donors before cold direct-mail acquisition

Direct mail remains productive for some nonprofits, but benchmark returns differ sharply between active, lapsed and prospective donors.

Direct mailDonor retentionFundraising mix
5 min

Operations, CRM & Collaboration · Practical Guide · Country: Global

Connect first-party supporter data without creating a data swamp

A shared data flow is useful only when consent, identity, ownership and next actions are designed before more engagement data reaches the CRM.

First-party dataCRM integrationData governance
6 min

Fundraising Technology · Practical Guide · Country: Sweden

Turn December one-time gifts into ethical long-term support

Year-end generosity creates new relationships. A careful January welcome can build recurring support without treating every donor as an immediate upgrade target.

Donor conversionMonthly givingJanuary stewardship
5 min

Digital Rights & Policy · Policy Guide · Country: European Union

How civil-society teams can feed evidence into DSA enforcement

A practical route map for NGOs researching platform harms: where to send evidence, what to document and which limitations to expect when seeking platform data.

Digital Services ActPlatform accountabilityCivil society research
5 min

Field Technology & Humanitarian Response · Case Study · Country: United States

What NGOs can learn from ADAPT's assistive-technology test centre

ADAPT's home-like lab offers a useful procurement model: let service users test devices in realistic settings before choosing technology, support and payment routes.

Assistive technologyAccessibilityService design
5 min

Field Technology & Humanitarian Response · Practical Guide · Country: United States

Four digital-service patterns nonprofits can reuse

Offline-first tools, familiar messaging channels, trigger-based assistance and government adoption offer four practical design patterns for nonprofit digital services.

Digital public goodsHumanitarian technologyDigital inclusion
6 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · News · Country: United States

TechSoup launches searchable technology offer directory for nonprofits

The new Civil Society Offer Center brings donated, discounted and nonprofit-specific technology offers into one searchable directory, with filters for eligibility and direct links to providers.

Technology discountsProcurementVendor discovery
4 min

Cybersecurity · News · Country: Netherlands

Dutch authorities tell leaders to prepare for AI-accelerated cyberattacks

Seven Dutch security, intelligence and law-enforcement bodies say widely available AI is making existing attack methods faster and easier to scale, and have placed responsibility for basic resilience at board level.

AI securityCyber resilienceLeadership
4 min

Field Technology & Humanitarian Response · News · Country: Global

NetHope and Start Network report digital-capacity gains across local NGOs

A year-long partnership says 28 national and subnational organisations accessed training in cybersecurity, digital fundraising, AI governance and digital strategy, while warning that the results remain partner-reported.

Digital capacityLocalisationAI governance
4 min

AI & Automation · Buyer Guide · Country: Global

How NGOs should evaluate AI tools safely

A practical governance framework for testing usefulness without handing sensitive data, critical decisions or accountability to an unexamined system.

AI governanceProcurementData protection
9 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Buyer Guide · Country: Global

A nonprofit technology procurement checklist

Twenty questions to answer before signing for a CRM, fundraising platform, cloud service or operational system.

ProcurementCybersecurityVendors
7 min

Funding, Procurement & Vendors · Funding · Country: United States

Zoom Cares directs $2.75m in new grants toward nonprofit AI readiness

Seven organisations will receive funding across education, workforce development and nonprofit AI readiness, including a $500,000 grant for NetHope to support 200 nonprofits worldwide.

AI readinessGrant fundingCapacity building
5 min

Data & Privacy · Policy · Country: United Kingdom

UK regulator sets conditions for an AI regulatory sandbox

The ICO says a statutory sandbox for AI and emerging technology is feasible if regulator independence, individual rights and equivalent accountability are preserved.

Regulatory sandboxAI governanceData protection
4 min

Fundraising Technology · Product News · Country: United States

GoFundMe launches AI coach for campaign creation and outreach

The US launch gives organisers help with stories, goals, sharing and follow-up, but its early performance estimates come from the platform's own analysis.

AI fundraisingCampaign creationDonor outreach
4 min

Fundraising Technology · Policy · Country: United Kingdom

UK charities gain a soft opt-in route for digital supporter messages

New ICO guidance explains when charities can email, text or direct-message previous supporters without fresh consent, subject to strict notice and opt-out safeguards.

Digital fundraisingDirect marketingConsent
5 min

Operations, CRM & Collaboration · Training · Country: United States

Google adds free nonprofit AI courses and one-to-one coaching

Three sector-specific courses cover fundraising, marketing and operations, while a new coaching offer aims to help organisations turn learning into practical workflows.

AI trainingOperationsCapacity building
4 min

Operations, CRM & Collaboration · Product News · Country: United States

Blackbaud pilots invoice automation for nonprofit finance teams

Document Intelligence for Payables can move invoices from email into draft records for human review, with the expanded workflow currently limited to an early-adopter programme.

Financial managementInvoice automationHuman review
4 min

Field Technology & Humanitarian Response · Field Technology · Country: Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, India, Thailand, Pakistan, Malaysia

UNHCR digital gateway reaches nearly 300,000 users across seven operations

The multilingual portal connects refugees and other displaced people to registration, appointments and services in seven countries, with further expansion planned.

Digital servicesDisplacementService access
4 min

Digital Rights & Policy · Policy · Country: European Union

Civil-society groups press EU on platform enforcement and data access

A European Commission roundtable focused on Digital Services Act enforcement, researcher data access, trusted flaggers and the role of civil society in monitoring compliance.

Digital Services ActPlatform accountabilityCivil society
4 min

Digital Rights & Policy · Policy · Country: Ethiopia

ICRC dialogue puts civilian infrastructure at the centre of cyber policy

A high-level meeting in Addis Ababa brought states, diplomats, the UN and civil society together to examine cyber operations, AI and protection under international humanitarian law.

Cyber warfareCivilian infrastructureInternational humanitarian law
5 min