BetterUnite

Your year-end appeal is about to compete with election texts, market headlines, and holiday noise. Here is how to win anyway. BetterUnite CEO & Co-founder Leya Simmons goes solo for this 501(c) Drop on the year-end squeeze: elections, the economy, and the first year-end under new tax rules for donations. ✅ How to time your fundraising around the midterm election ✅ How to match your ask to each donor's financial situation ✅ The new deduction for non-itemizers most donors have not heard about ✅ A year-end plan built for this year, not a copy of last year's 📅 October 6, 2026 | 1:30PM CT 💻 LIVE via Riverside 🎫 Register for FREE here https://lnkd.in/gpH-RzhE #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

Still time to save your seat. Adding AI to bad donor data does not fix the donor data. Next Tuesday, Nathan Chappell, MBA, MNA, CFRE, AIGP of Virtuous and Fundraising.AI sits down with Leya Simmons to talk about where bias already lives in your CRM and wealth-screening tools, what responsible AI actually looks like inside a fundraising team, and the questions to ask your software provider before AI touches a single donor record. 📅 September 29, 2026 | 1:30PM CT 💻 LIVE via Riverside 🎟️ Register for FREE here https://lnkd.in/gRbiSxtU #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

Still typing the same thank-you email 47 times with different names? Kirby Cathey, Account Manager and Event Specialist at BetterUnite, joins BetterUnite CEO& Co-founder Leya Simmons for a practical hour on putting your fundraising on autopilot. ✅ The 5 tasks nonprofits still do by hand that software should be doing ✅ The first-gift welcome series that fights the 7.1% new donor retention problem ✅ The recurring giving conversion hiding in your data (monthly giving is 27% of online revenue) ✅ The one thing you should never automate 📅 August 25, 2026 | 1:30PM CT 💻 LIVE via Riverside 🎫 Register for FREE here https://lnkd.in/gUmx2DSa #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

💥 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER 💥 Your event ends when the lights go down. Your donor journey shouldn't. Melissa DeClue, M.Ed, CFRE, Founder & CEO at Amplify Missions, joins BetterUnite CEO & Co-founder Leya Simmons to map the donor journey before, during, and after your events, and to turn your gatherings into major-gift cultivation environments. ✅ Shift from event execution to Event Experience Design  ✅ Audit your event programming through the donor journey lens  ✅ Spot exactly where the donor experience goes cold  ✅ Design signature donor moments that turn attendees into lifelong advocates 📅 TODAY - August 11, 2026 🕰️ 1:30PM CT  💻 LIVE via Riverside 🎫 Register for FREE here https://lnkd.in/g6uz9nne #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

Every event pro knows this feeling. Volunteers briefed, iPads charged, water bottles filled, and ten quiet minutes before the storm. Kirby Cathey, Account & Event Specialist at BetterUnite, tells CEO & Co-founder Leya Simmons why this is her favorite part of event day. ▶️ Watch the full episode - https://lnkd.in/gURp4EXd 📝 Read the blog - https://lnkd.in/gdK_KSqS 🎧 Listen to this podcast on Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gHBN_9Sr #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

Perfectionists, look away. Your guests will never notice the backwards dessert pick, but they will remember how your event made them feel. This is Kirby Cathey's best advice for first-time event planners 👇 ▶️ Watch the full episode - https://lnkd.in/gURp4EXd 📝 Read the blog - https://lnkd.in/gdK_KSqS 🎧 Listen to this podcast on Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gHBN_9Sr #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

💡The best event day advice we've heard all year: assume your volunteers forget everything you taught them. ▶️ Watch the full episode - https://lnkd.in/gURp4EXd 📝 Read the blog - https://lnkd.in/gdK_KSqS 🎧 Listen to this podcast on Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gHBN_9Sr #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

Event planners, this one stings a little 👇 The check-in setup you use every year might be missing your guests entirely. Kirby Cathey, Account & Event Specialist at BetterUnite, breaks down for CEO & Co-founder Leya Simmons why knowing your donor base beats running the same playbook. ▶️ Watch the full episode - https://lnkd.in/gURp4EXd 📝 Read the blog - https://lnkd.in/gdK_KSqS 🎧 Listen to this podcast on Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gHBN_9Sr #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

Every organization is different. We're all special snowflakes. But the challenge is the same across the sector: mid and low-level donors are walking away, and the pipeline that produces tomorrow's major donors is thinning with them. What started as a peer-to-peer campaign is now naturally evolving into giving circles, a model with a long track record of success. In this clip, Leya Simmons challenges every nonprofit to find its own version of the approach that Jeffrey Givens used to bring hundreds of new donors into the fold. 📖 Read the blog  https://lnkd.in/g5PMX76u  ▶️ Watch the full episode  https://lnkd.in/ggt5xqdK  🎧 Listen to this podcast on Spotify https://lnkd.in/gKsXM-8A #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising

"They like me, but they love David." That one line explains why a Sunday school class at Houston's First Baptist Church raised about $5,700 to send Azerbaijan's delegates to a global Congress, with roughly 16 donors giving and the vast majority first-time givers. Jeffrey Givens, VP of Advancement at Evangelism Explosion International, had spoken to that class many times. So had the ministry's president. But when the ask came from their own board chairman, someone the class already trusted and loved, everything changed. He digs into why peer-to-peer asks outperform even the most polished pitch from staff. 📖 Read the blog https://lnkd.in/g5PMX76u  ▶️ Watch the full episode https://lnkd.in/ggt5xqdK  🎧 Listen to this podcast on Spotify https://lnkd.in/gKsXM-8A #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising