The Toronto Globe and Mail goes big today with a report on a recent seminar at which two top Canadian fundraisers discussed how they pitch and close the country’s most deep-pocketed philanthropists.
One advises to
[s]et your sights on donors with a net worth of at least $100-million; dispense with the idea that selling the naming rights [...]
Forty-two years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Miranda v. Arizona.
You might be more familiar with the passage the decision mandated be recited to those taken into custody by the police: "You have the right to remain silent. …"
Many people have seen Miranda as coddling criminals, a negative viewpoint that extends [...]
Summertime may mean a slowdown for lots of businesses, whose employees escape for much-needed vacations. But for nonprofits, the season can bring some unique challenges.
Writing on her blog Nonprofit Communications, Kivi Leroux Miller relays some of the fascinating summer stories told to her by the United Way agency staffers she teaches in North Carolina. Increasing [...]
Remember Nancy Schwartz’s nonprofit tagline survey? The nonprofit marketing guru, through her superlative Getting Attention Blog, is now asking her readers to assess the 56 finalists she culled from the more than 1,000 taglines that were submitted through the survey and decide which is the best. As Schwartz herself notes the voting is less about [...]
Shelly Cryer has spent nearly 20 years in the nonprofit sector, and for much of that time she has served as a consultant to various organizations. Cryer noticed that many of her clients were having trouble recruiting and retaining talent, and when she began teaching at Baruch College she discovered that one of the most [...]
Writing on the Electronic Engagement Blog, Chris Labash, a business communications and strategy professor at Carnegie Mellon, wondered when and how the country’s impressive nonprofit enterprise would begin truly leveraging online opportunities. In the wake of the extraordinarily visible efforts of the Susan G. Komen Foundation to raise awareness of and funding for breast cancer [...]
This one’s a no-brainer: If you’re a biomedical researcher as well as a high-priced consultant to Acme Pharmaceuticals, and your studies result in a huge increase in the use of the very medicines that Acme manufactures, you disclose your financial relationship with the company so that other scientists can judge for themselves whether the consulting [...]
The president of Citizens Against Government Waste wrote to the Washington Post strongly protesting the paper’s suggestions that its aggressive defense of an Air Force tanker contract with Northrup Grumman crossed the line into partisan lobbying because of CAGW’s links to John McCain. In a letter to the editor headlined "Fighting Waste Without Fear or [...]
Nonprofits are not immune to the need to practice crisis communications. In fact, in some ways they may find it even more necessary than their corporate brethren: For-profit malfeasance is often shrugged off as business as usual, but in the third sector, where trust is such a key element, wrongdoing can lead to long-term consequences [...]
A nonprofit radio station that was a lifeline during Hurricane Katrina needs financial help. | Biloxi, Miss., SunHerald
Craigslist plans on targeting the nonprofit sector. | Deserted After Dark
A new nonprofit from Thomas Keller and Daniel Boulud aims to help young American chefs prep for an international cooking competition. | San Francisco Chronicle
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