Barack Obama’s decision several weeks ago to forgo public funding of his presidential campaign was made for one reason: He had so much money already in hand or pledged that it would have been detrimental to his campaign to limit himself to the lower public amount. Expect a pricey battle between Senator Obama and John […]
The tanking economy’s deleterious effects on the nonprofit sector have been well reported. But one part of the sector has found a way to make lemonade from lemons. As the Associated Press reported earlier this week, plunging real estate prices have provided conversation conservation nonprofits with a terrific opportunity to pick up and protect lands […]
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Several recent blog posts have examined various benefits to nonprofits of newer online phenomena.
Graduate student Alyssa Walden writes about the sector’s increasing use of social-networking sites to attract donors and volunteers:
MySpace and Facebook are making it easier for non-profits to set up accounts, with both adding Impacts and Causes[, respectively,] for non-profits to use. […]
Here’s another reason for nonprofits to cheer the ascendancy of online advances: According to Elizabeth Wasserman, writing in Contribute magazine, the Internet has allowed the sector to skate closer to the line separating issue advocacy from political advocacy than ever before.
With the need to woo more young, social-networking converts to their causes, issues-advocacy nonprofits — […]
Operating under the theory that a strong regional economy helps everyone, nonprofits are springing up around the country to fund start-ups that would have trouble attracting capital from more traditional investors. The starring role in today’s New York Times trend story is played by the Cleveland-area nonprofit Jumpstart Inc.
Like a venture capital firm, Jumpstart identifies […]
Interesting damage-control tactic: Point to how you help charities. And so, facing criticism that its attempts to go green are nowhere near as comprehensive as they should be, the direct-mail industry’s response is to play the nonprofit card:
“Our industry employs quite a few people, generates billions of dollars in revenues for the economy and a […]
How much would you pay to hang in Howard Stern’s Sirius studio while he and his crew do one of their daily broadcasts? To buy a piano Elton John played on tour? To name a new species of monkey?
Charity auctions are nothing new, but as BusinessWeek notes, nonprofits are using online auctions to open up […]
The September 11 attacks elicited, however briefly, a spirit of common decency that united Americans as nothing had in decades. There was real dialogue about the need to engage our fellow citizens humanly and humanely. Donations poured in to organizations set up to help victims of those horrendous deeds. Charities and foundations seemed poised to […]
Bad news, Generation X, Generation Y, Millennials, and whatever the hell else they’re calling anybody under the age of 50 these days: The Baby Boomers are coming to the nonprofit sector.
Yesterday New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote breathlessly about the coming trend of retiring Boomers who are shelving their golf clubs in favor of […]
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