May 11th, 2008
Canada tries to inject ethics into fundraising. | Toronto Star
Three little letters to guide nonprofit media pitching. | Nonprofit Communications
A nonprofit professional finds herself on the other side of the fundraising relationship … and doesn’t like it. | Nonprofit Congress Blog
Nonprofits join retailers in making a pitch for the government’s lame attempt to bribe taxpayers […]
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May 7th, 2008
Maine nonprofit fundraiser Alicia Nichols published a poignant piece in today’s Knox and Waldo Village S0up about turning her daughter on to the fulfillment of giving to nonprofits. Nichols writes about growing up as the child of parents who lived through the Great Depression, and how her father failed to understand, after she landed a […]
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May 4th, 2008
You might find it hard to quibble with a $100 million donation to education, but you’re not the executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. David Rockefeller’s massive gift last week to fund study-abroad programs and the arts at Harvard University drew a pointed letter to the editor from Aaron Dorfman in yesterday’s […]
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May 2nd, 2008
Nonprofits raised 19 percent more money online in 2007 than in the prior year, according to a new study from the Nonprofit Technology Network and M+R Strategic Services. This was despite the facts that e-mail open rates, click-through rates, and response rates all dropped in the same period and that over half of the surveyed […]
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April 27th, 2008
Oprah’s hopelessly misguided take on giving. | Chronicle of Philanthropy
The underwhelming fundraising conference circuit, and some suggestions for reform. | NonProfit Times, Donor Power Blog
Do nonprofits do enough to vet their volunteers? | National Center for Victims of Crime
Can the nonprofit sector define a universal data model when it comes to customer relationship management? | […]
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April 16th, 2008
"Trickle-down economics" was initially coined to describe how tax benefits and other initiatives at the corporate level would eventually work their way down to the middle and lower classes, but the current economic climate seems to be shunting troubles, not advantages, down the drainpipe. According to the Republican-American of Waterbury, Connecticut, with the decades-long exodus […]
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April 15th, 2008
Well-heeled colleges and universities are being scrutinized for their impressive endowments and facing questions about why those funds aren’t used to lower tuition or in the service of underresourced groups. But as Sunday’s New York Times showed, for many schools, gifts come with so many odd qualifications that it can be difficult to them to […]
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April 11th, 2008
Talk about ambitious. Greg McHale thinks he’s found a win-win-win-win way for:
Nonprofits to reach greater numbers of donors, volunteers, and event participants
People to discover new ways to contribute to the causes they believe in
Media companies to earn more advertising revenue
Corporations to increase the visibility of their giving programs
McHale is the founder and CEO of good2gether, […]
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April 10th, 2008
One of the lessons I gleaned from the M.B.A. program from which I graduated was that regardless of your tax status or your mission, there’s one seminal necessity for success:
It’s all about the data.
Having the right information — however you define that — and having it readily available and up to date is paramount. Without […]
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April 8th, 2008
The avalanche of bad economic news that has buried Americans in recent months has also been taking nonprofits along its dangerous rumble down the mountain. The same forces that are laying waste to your 401(k), making it tough for you to sell you house, and causing you to grimace at the gas pump and in […]
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