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INSIGHTS

What 1,500 nonprofits
taught us about growth.

Guides, research, frameworks, and playbooks from the field — built for the nonprofit marketing and development leader who needs answers, not more noise.

OUR BELIEF

Nonprofits don't need more campaigns.They need stronger communities.

The organizations winning today aren't the ones running the most ads. They're the ones building the most connected communities — where supporters feel belonging, trust the mission, and keep showing up. We support the nonprofit sector with thought leadership grounded in this belief.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Your team is stretched.
Your board wants answers.
Your donors are changing.

Every resource in this library is built for the nonprofit marketing and development leader managing too many channels with too small a team — and expected to explain every dollar to leadership. No filler. No strategy frameworks that hand the work back to you. Just clear, actionable thinking grounded in what's actually working across 1,500+ organizations.

5,127
Nonprofit professionals surveyed for our 2025 research
13 yrs
Of performance data informing our frameworks
Free
All resources — gated only to keep the content worth your time
RESOURCE LIBRARY

Everything you need to
make the case for better marketing.

Building Community in Uncertain Times
Playbook
TACTICAL GUIDE

Building Community in Uncertain Times

When funding is under pressure, your community is your most resilient asset. This guide walks through a four-step engagement campaign — Impact, Resonance, Stewardship, Sustain— designed to rally supporters and protect organizational momentum when it matters most.

  • A ready-to-deploy four-step community engagement campaign with email templates
  • How to build urgency without burning out your team or your audience
  • Practical tools to mobilize advocates, deepen relationships, and increase resilience
The Boardroom Blueprint
Leadership
LEADERSHIP GUIDE

The Boardroom Blueprint

When your board asks "what did marketing actually contribute to fundraising?" — this is the guide that lets you answer with confidence. Reframe the conversation, build the right KPIs, apply attribution models, and present board-level reports that earn budget and trust.

  • How to shift boards from viewing marketing as overhead to seeing it as a growth engine
  • The core KPIs that connect marketing directly to fundraising outcomes
  • Attribution frameworks and dashboard structures you can implement immediately
Beyond Awareness: Building Year-Round Donor Pipelines
Campaign Strategy
CAMPAIGN STRATEGY GUIDE

Beyond Awareness: Building Year-Round Donor Pipelines

Awareness months generate impressions. This guide shows you how to turn them into donors. Learn the structural shift from one-month campaign blasts to evergreen acquisition systems — with omnichannel execution tactics and a proven case study delivering 9.63× ROAS.

  • Why most awareness campaigns are high-cost, low-conversion — and how to fix the structure
  • The full-funnel framework: Impact → Resonance → Stewardship, applied to campaign planning
  • Omnichannel best practices for retargeting, segmentation, and post-campaign nurture
2025 Nonprofit Acceleration Report
Research
Annual Research Report

2025 Nonprofit Acceleration Report

Based on responses from 5,127 nonprofit professionals, this is the data-backed picture of where the sector is headed. What's driving revenue growth. What's holding organizations back. And what the highest performers are doing differently.

  • Online fundraising, multi-channel trends, and digital ad budget benchmarks by org size
  • Why nonprofits with loyalty programs dramatically outperform those without
  • The #1 challenge (still) blocking growth — and what's actually working instead
The Supporter Journey Guide
Strategy
Framework Guide

The Supporter Journey Guide

Our framework for putting Community-First Marketing into practice — moving supporters from first impression to lifelong advocate across every channel.

  • Define all three stages- Build strategy- Align teams
  • Build strategy at every phase, from discovery to conversion to loyalty
  • Align internal teams around a unified framework for long-term mission growth
EVENTS AND WEBINARS

Learn alongside 23,000+
nonprofit marketers

The Nonprofit Marketing Summit brings together the strategies, benchmarks, and real-world insights shaping what's working right now.

It's where nonprofit marketers go to stay ahead —and turn ideas into action.

Explore the Summit →
Events webinars

"These sessions were about heart... I learned so much last year about how to execute nonprofit marketing, but this feeds my soul."

Lisa M.· Summit Attendee
FROM THE FIELD

What nonprofit leaders say about working with us.

“Community Boost best knows how to deliver the relevant content on our programs to audiences we do not have the capacity, nor knowledge, to reach.”
Anita Uyehara
Running Strong for American Indian Youth
“They understand our business and our goals, and make concrete recommendations that have a measurable impact.”
Amy DiLaura
Seniors at Home
“Community Boost has the technical expertise and best-in-class customer service — a true extension of our communication and development team.”
Bethany Eggleston
The Foster Alliance

Understand what's driving results — and where to focus next.

The guides are a start. A conversation with our team is where the clarity actually happens.