Rosetta Thurman writes engagingly and passionately about her life as a nonprofit fundraiser and finance pro at the blog Perspectives From the Pipeline. Her recent post about low nonprofit salaries generated such intense reader response that Ms. Thurman decided earlier today to offer some suggestions on how to negotiate a higher pay. The tips range from researching salaries for comparable […]
How many nonprofits, I wonder, start at someone’s kitchen table, with a couple of committed people hatching an idea, scratching out endless pages of notes on a legal pad, and setting up the PC in the corner of the third bedroom as the home base of a new advocacy and fundraising organization? Lots, I’m guessing. […]
Calling it “A Capitalist Jolt for Charity,” the New York Times breathlessly told the story on the front page of its Sunday Business section of a pair of married philanthropists who took the nonprofit they were supporting and transformed it into a for-profit venture because, shock of shocks, what they were funding was costing them […]
“Operational excellence.” “Revenue streams.” “Differentiation.” “Cross-selling.” “Quantitative and qualitative research.”
Having learned well from their for-profit brethren, nonprofits now have much to teach, according to a Boston Symphony Orchestra official and a communications consultant. Writing in the current issue of Forbes, Mark Volpe and Roger Sametz argue persuasively a point I’ve been making since starting this […]
One of the things I’ve tried to emphasize here is that nonprofits and for-profits have a lot to learn from each other. For young professionals thinking about launching a new nonprofit, allow me to refer you to Jim Gordon’s Boss Hatch, this week’s b5 Business Channel Blog of the Week. Jim provides lots of nifty […]
To death and taxes Benjamin Franklin should have added “postal increases.”
” The standard mail category used widely by nonprofits will see an average increase of 2.875 percent, coming in under the 2.9-percent cap,” the NonProfit Times reported yesterday. “And, nonprofit standard regular parcels and Non-Flat Machinable, which effectively was a new class that doubled rates […]
The global economic slump that followed the September 11 attacks caused 40 percent of the 6,500 nonprofits surveyed by the Nonprofit Finance Fund to run operating deficits for three straight years. With many observers believing the United States is on the verge of a recession, the Nonprofit Finance Fund held a conference call with reporters […]
Nonprofit staffers too often hear the word “branding” and end up throwing up in their mouths a little bit. That they have to deal with marketing is bad enough, but branding is a concept and practice that is crass and commercial and too far removed from their organizations’ respective missions to care about.
That’s the wrong […]
Many people at the nonprofit where I worked for 10 years in two separate stints shuddered when they heard the word “branding,” as immersed as it is in corporate marketing projects. Yet nonprofits face the same challenge as businesses do: an increasingly crowded marketplace filled with consumers who are overcommitted and underfocused. Cutting through the […]
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, […]
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