Operation Broken Silence Named A Top Growing Nonprofit By Classy

Today we are humbled to announce our place on the Classy 100—a list of the top growing nonprofits on the Classy platform. 

The annual list from Classy, creator of world-class online fundraising software, celebrates growth-minded organizations looking to scale their impact. To recognize these nonprofits, Classy created a unique growth score based on an organization’s year-over-year donation volume.

This year’s Classy 100 also identifies four key common contributors—growth trends—that were prevalent across the top 100 organizations’ strategies. These factors include refining existing tactics, trying new campaign types, growing their recurring donor pool, and expanding their geographical donor network. 

“The Classy 100 has become a staple initiative for us because it’s important that we continue to promote and celebrate growth in the social sector,” said Scot Chisholm, Classy CEO and Co-Founder. “As donor churn threatens organizations’ sustainability and the charitable giving landscape becomes increasingly fragmented, nonprofits must adapt to raise the funds necessary to make an impact. We’re proud of these organizations that continue to make strategic decisions, experiment with new campaigns, and continue their overall quest to engage and retain new donors.”

Recognized as number 41 out of 100, Operation Broken Silence leveraged Classy in 2017 to double the size of our recurring donor family, fully fund the Endure Primary School, and allow supporters to create online fundraising pages for Mother of Mercy Hospital for the first time. 

“The world-class tools and resources Classy has provided us are critical to the success of our mission," said Mark Hackett, Executive Director at Operation Broken Silence. "With Classy, we are able to provide our movement members tangible ways to be involved with supporting some incredible programs in Sudan that are changing and saving lives, as well as provide supporters simple and beautiful ways to talk to their friends and family about the crisis in Sudan. Our movement is growing in an increasingly sustainable way, and Classy is an integral component of that growth.”

To be included in the Classy 100, organizations needed to have had at least five transactions on Classy before 2016, made at least $40,000 on Classy in 2016, grown in 2017, and be currently active on the Classy platform. The organizations recognized span a large array of causes, sizes, and revenue. To learn more about how Operation Broken Silence and all of the other Classy 100 recipients grew, please click here.

Memphis, We Belong Here

On February 1, we joined over 1,000 of our fellow citizens here in Memphis to protest the Trump Administration’s travel ban. Starting at 5PM, we gathered at the historic Clayborne Temple and marched to the National Civil Rights Museum. Here are a few photos from the march:

The people of Sudan are overcoming two of the greatest challenges facing humanity today: war and genocide. Operation Broken Silence is accelerating their ability to generate lasting change through storytelling, education, and healthcare programs. Sudan is one of the countries that the Trump Administration has banned refugees from. 

Here are a few positive ways you can support Sudanese refugees right now.

Building A Global Movement: Our Next Big Step

Since Operation Broken Silence's beginning, one of our primary programs has been to use visual storytelling and our top-notch fundraising and giving platform to build and sustain a global movement that empowers the Sudanese people. We're in the fight for a better Sudan over the long haul alongside of our Sudanese friends and partners. It will not be an easy or short process. From our Executive Director all the way down to our newest movement members, we understand that our mission will most likely take place over the course of our lifetimes.

I am excited to announce another major step forwards towards building our global movement. Starting today, your fundraising and giving efforts are going global like never before. Operation Broken Silence can now accept donations in over 130 currencies worldwide, and our supporters outside of the United States can now start fundraising pages in their own currencies as well!

So, how does it work? This is where things get even more awesome! Let's take a look at our holiday campaign this year as an example.

Fundraising In Your Country's Currency

If you live outside of the United States and visit one of our fundraising campaigns, you can simply click the currency symbol next to the box you enter your fundraising goal amount into and pick the currency you would like to fundraise in. You can click or tap the below screenshot of our holiday fundraising page setup and see the small green circle where you can chage your currency.

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Donating In Your Country's Currency

If you live outside of the United States and visit one of our donation pages, your native currency and applicable address fields automatically display, making it easy for you to give to empower the Sudanese people.  And your donation receipt will display the amount you gave in the currency you gave!

On the rare occassion that your country's currency doesn't automatically pop up on the donation page, you can simply click the currency symbol next to the box you enter your donation amount into and pick the currency you would like to give in. It's very similar to how you would change the currency you are fundraising in when you start a fundraising page! You can click or tap the below screenshot of one of our donation pages and see the small green circle where you can chage your currency.

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We are 100% serious when we say that we are building a global movement to empower the Sudanese people through innovative programs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Today is another major step forwards in growing our movement beyond the United States.

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Hi there! You’ve reached the end of our blog.

Operation Broken Silence has been a nonprofit working in Sudan since 2011, so why do our blogposts begin in 2017? Great question Watson!

We moved to a new website in March 2020. Sadly, it was not possible to import old blogposts into our new online home all at once. Each post had to be manually moved over. We simply just didn’t have weeks of free time to manually move hundreds of blogposts over. There were many ashes on our head and much gnashing of the teeth.

The good news is that most posts from 2017 onward were manually moved over, so you can still enjoy those. Happy reading! And hey, while we have your attention, can you give to our wonderful programs in Sudan?