June 6, 2025
4 midyear tips to maximize your fundraising resultsThe halfway point through the calendar year offers a valuable opportunity for fundraisers. Whether you’re on track to meet your fundraising goals or you’re falling a bit short at midyear, there’s still ample time to prepare for a strong second half of the year. In…
Read ArticleMay 23, 2025
The importance of tracking donor and volunteer dataCommunicating with your organization’s supporters is key to strengthening their connection to your mission. But without a full picture of your supporters, you may miss opportunities to engage more deeply with them. That’s why it’s so important not only to track donor and volunteer data,…
Read ArticleMay 16, 2025
LGL Pro Tip: 5 ideas on sharing public links of documentsWant to share documents with your constituents but struggling to find an easy way to do that in LGL? Then we think you’re going to love a new feature shared in the April 2025 LGL Release Notes: Making a document file stored in your LGL…
Read ArticleMay 12, 2025
5 ways to set your volunteers up for successEngaged volunteers can augment your organization’s work and help expand your network of supporters. Use these tips to ensure your nonprofit is doing all it can to set up your volunteers for success. Five tips to set your volunteers up for success: Tip #1:Create job…
Read ArticleMay 12, 2025
Why you should commit to a sustained grantwriting effortPersistence is key when it comes to pursuing grant funding for your organization. Grant writer Stephanie Mathers encourages organizations to commit to a sustained grant writing effort of 12 to 18 months and finds that when they do, their rate of success increases. This recommendation…
Read ArticleApril 23, 2025
LGL Release Notes: April 2025This April 2025 Release Notes edition shares the latest updates and fixes LGL developers have made over the past few months to improve and enhance functionality within Little Green Light. Click any item in the table of contents below to link to further details. Feature…
Read ArticleApril 16, 2025
How to craft a thank-you plan for your donorsThanking donors contributes to the foundation of an effective fundraising operation. Sometimes sending acknowledgments gets brushed off as a transactional task, but without an effective thank-you plan in place it’s unlikely that your organization will retain a substantial number of donors. And that means that…
Read ArticleApril 10, 2025
Some challenges and opportunities to using AIAI seems to be everywhere these days, and the hype and hyperbole can feel a bit overwhelming at times. At Little Green Light, we are getting requests to jump on board. But, as we do with all of our product development, we are taking time…
Read ArticleApril 3, 2025
How to acknowledge a qualified charitable distribution (QCD)Older Americans with individual retirement accounts (IRAs) can meet their required minimum distribution by making qualified charitable distributions (QCDs) to eligible nonprofit organizations. This method offers a nice option for donors to support organizations they care about, and brings much-needed financial support to the organizations…
Read ArticleMarch 28, 2025
New and improved PayPal integration for LGL FormsLittle Green Light has built a new integration for using PayPal as your payment processor in LGL Forms. The PayPal Complete Payments integration uses a completely new and improved platform provided by PayPal and provides three big benefits for LGL Forms users. Benefit #1: New…
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