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Here are a few ways to help ensure your organization is well-positioned for the grant opportunities that you pursue this year.

As the new year rolls in, it’s the perfect opportunity to reflect, recalibrate, and reignite your fundraising efforts.

Promoting planned giving helps qualify, steward, and cultivate donors, leading to more and larger gifts. Build your program and start today!

If you are launching the perennial year-end appeal, we encourage you to invest a little extra effort in these key strategies

As I write this, it’s been a week since the election and based on what our clients are saying and feeling...

Tips to maximize GivingTuesday success! Use data-driven insights, targeted messaging, and storytelling to engage donors and boost impact.

Combine quantitative and qualitative to get a fuller picture of your organization's impact.

Creating Simple, Effective Fundraising Dashboards to Track Success

Your case statement captures the need, logic, and heart of your campaign all in one place.

How do you know you are ready for a campaign? It can be a transformational experience for the organization that is ready.

The Edmonds Food Bank, an Ostara client, has done an incredible job of engaging their community through their social media efforts.

The Ostara Group is in the early stages of planning a fall workshop on major fundraising campaigns - capital, endowment, or...

The Ostara Group has been privileged to work in partnership with several food banks throughout Washington state. At Ostara we believe in...

At Ostara, we’ve been thinking a lot about food security organizations recently. We’ve worked with numerous organizations in the sector...

Fundraising can be an uncertain, challenging, and long process at times. And with over 1.5 million nonprofits in the US seeking funding...

When your organization is planning major capital work, it’s important to not overlook public funding resources. Public funding...

For non-profit organizations, the heartbeat of sustainability is philanthropic support. Yet, contrary to popular belief, fundraising...

We all know that relationships are at the center of any fundraising work.  We also know that as relationships with donors and prospects...

15 years can feel like the blink of an eye…and yet so much can happen in that same span of time. Kids grow from infancy to young adults...

In 2023, GiveBIG raised nearly 13 million dollars for 1,409 nonprofit organizations in Washington state from nearly 23,000 donors, while...