Fundraising & Donor Tools
Campaign planners, donor CRM and retention trackers, GivingTuesday and year-end planners built in Excel and Google Sheets.
Start with the guide: GivingTuesday and Christmas Fundraising Plan for Small Nonprofits, Nonprofit Fundraising and Donor Retention: A Working Guide
All 18 fundraising tools
Giving Tuesday Planner
Excel + Google SheetsGivingTuesday falls on December 1, seven weeks from today, and teams that start writing in the final week spend the day catching up.
Fundraising Idea Finder
Excel + Google SheetsSmall teams often copy a fundraiser that worked for a bigger charity, then find out halfway through that nobody has time to run it.
Christmas Fundraising Planner
Excel + Google SheetsChristmas Day is nine and a half weeks from today, and appeals planned after Thanksgiving tend to launch late and close in a rush.
Holiday Fundraising Bundle
Excel + Google SheetsNovember is when a development team's single fundraising spreadsheet starts doing six jobs at once, and the jobs start blocking each other.
Year-End Giving Campaign Planner
Excel + Google SheetsYear-end targets set without a segment plan tend to reveal their gap in mid-December, when there's no time left to add another appeal wave.
Donor Retention Tracker
Excel + Google SheetsFundraisers planning December appeals often send one letter to everyone, including the donors who gave last year and haven't given yet.
Holiday Giving Campaign Planner
Excel + Google SheetsHoliday season planning gets hard for a development director the moment three appeals land on the same donors in one week.
Year-End Fundraising Checklist
Excel + Google SheetsSixty days before December 31 fell on Sunday, the point where a small team should already know its year-end goal and budget.
Christmas Content Planner
Excel + Google SheetsWriting a Christmas appeal under deadline, a fundraiser can publish a striking number that nobody on the team can trace to a source.
Holiday Donation Tracker
Excel + Google SheetsDecember gifts logged in three places mean nobody can say, on any given day, how far the appeal is from its goal.
Nonprofit Donor CRM
Excel + Google SheetsA development officer sorting by last contact date will rank a quiet monthly donor below a quarterly funder who is perfectly fine.
Donor Thank-You Tracker
Excel + Google SheetsGivingTuesday is two weeks out, and once the December surge starts, thank-yous are usually the first thing to slip.
Fundraising Campaign Planner
Excel + Google SheetsDevelopment directors drafting next year's plan often find that the campaigns, added up, fall short of the target the board expects.
Corporate Sponsorship Tracker
Excel + Google SheetsPartnership managers walking into a renewal meeting get one question first: which of the promised benefits did the sponsor actually receive?
AI Fundraising Prompt Builder
Excel + Google SheetsFundraising teams using AI to draft appeals often skip the fact check, and an invented figure ends up in front of donors.
Fundraising & Comms System
Excel + Google SheetsTomorrow is GivingTuesday, and for many small comms teams December is the month the calendar holds more than the people can produce.
Donor Management System
Excel + Google SheetsGivingTuesday gifts land today, and the person who has to thank each donor is often the same person still running the appeal.
Fundraising Email Conversion Kit
Canva + ExcelMost fundraising emails fail at small, fixable points: one message sent to everyone, a vague subject line, a wall of text on a phone, a claim nobody can back up, a button that lands on a generic page, and silence after the gift.