Nonprofits are busy reaching out to their donors to convince them to make that end-of-year gift for tax purposes, and according to Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy, they may be more successful this year than last. The NonProfit Times reported yesterday that based on its recent semiannual survey, nonprofit fundraisers are more confident about giving […]
The service I use for my personal blog sends out a monthly e-newsletter highlighting posters who are addressing timely matters, and in the spirit of the season, this month’s edition links to a handful of blogs that deal with gift-giving. One of the highlighted efforts is Dollar Philanthropy, whose mission is “to harness the power […]
Stung by congressional criticism of practices that reflect poorly on its field, the Association of Fundraising Professionals is calling for legislation banning percentage-based fundraising, in which fundraisers receive a set percentage of every dollar successfully solicited. AFP’s Code of Ethics prohibits the practice and argues that nonprofits are mistaken if they think that consultants who […]
One of the nonprofits I support monetarily is Philadelphia’s WXPN-FM, a noncommercial, listener-supported radio station out of the University of Pennsylvania. One of the country’s best stations, ‘XPN has the freedom to play a uniquely diverse collection of music, including work by artists who are far out of the mainstream yet deserve to be heard. […]
A poster at Ask Metafilter yesterday asked, “How do I choose between two equally worthy charities to receive my donation?” He actually had more than two charities to choose from in the area he had opted to support, animal-related organizations, and he added, “Ultimately, what I want is a method to help me identify a […]
Maybe it’s the former PR guy in me, but even as the fallout from the Red Cross’s cashiering of CEO Mark Everson becomes more sordid, I find some very positive stuff for the organization to hang its hat on. As the NonProfit Times reported recently, not only did the married Everson have an affair with […]
In an era when yellow “Support the Troops” ribbons are plastered on countless cars, in which a politician’s criticism of a war is immediately and reflexively followed by praise for the soldiers fighting it, it is not simply morally wrong for a veterans’ charity to spend most of its donations on fundraising instead of wounded […]
In an interview with onPhilanthropy, Tom Ralston, the author of the new book ROI for Nonprofits: The New Key to Sustainability, discusses the reaction among the nonprofit community to his premise that “[n]onprofits, like their for-profit counterparts, must … deliver outcomes their investors value”:
As one can imagine, academics and others who study nonprofits, rather than […]
Nonprofits face the dual challenge of raising money to support not only their mission-based priorities but also their day-to-day activities. The latter pitch, while hardly as sexy as asking donors to pony up for something cool or innovative or inherently tied to the central aim of the organization, is nevertheless very important. Writing in onPhilanthropy, […]
As recently as last week, a nonprofit in Ann Arbor, Michigan, discovered that a staggering 35 percent of the 1,200 toys it tested, many of them still being sold despite a slew of cautionary coverage and recalls over the last several weeks, contained lead:
Only 20 percent of the toys and other products had no trace […]
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