Fundraising Are fundraisers and program staff at your organization even on the same planet? Heidi Massey, on Pamela Grow’s blog, asks Fundraisers and Program Professionals: Can’t Everyone Just Get Along? Janet Levine, of the Too Busy to Fundraise blog, suggests that actually getting something done in fundraising is a little like planning a trip. Try out her terrific to-do list and you’ll... (more...)
Cradles to Crayons’ vision is that, one day, all children will have the basic things they need to feel safe, valued, and ready to learn. Founded in 2002, Cradles to Crayons (C2C) is an innovative Quincy, MA-based nonprofit organization that equips homeless and in-need children with the basic essentials they need to feel safe, warm, ready to learn and valued. While meeting the immediate needs... (more...)
The good news from the 2010 Fenton Forecast: Leadership and Effectiveness Among Nonprofits* is that 80% of the respondents to this annual survey have a postive view of the performance of nonprofit organizations. The bad news is that nearly two-thirds of survey respondents report they plan to either reduce their giving or keep it the same as last year. This is on top of already reduced giving levels... (more...)
I don’t think any of us need to be reminded that we are all drowning in data…and a lot of us enjoy data…just not the drowning part. NTEN is trying to do something about that. They quote research that claims Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes of information per day. One zettabyte is one billion trillion bytes. We are overwhelmed and our donors and supporters are even more so. Can you... (more...)
Fundraising Jordan Viator, posting at Connection Cafe, has provided some wonderful examples of Getting Creative with Online Fundraising: 10 Campaigns Using Mission Inspired Gifts aka Gift Catalogues. If you need ideas about how to offer your donors more engagement through their gifts, this is a great resource. Allyson Kapin, at Frogloop, explores some terrific advice from Mal Warwick, guru of direct... (more...)
Operatic Experience, Inc., a New Jersey-based organization, sponsors the Italian Operatic Experience Summer Program. The program helps students to bridge the gap between opera-related studies, such as voice, piano, conducting, stage direction, set and costume design, and the professional operatic world. Operatic Experience, Inc. does that through its Tuscany-based summer program that features: Intensive... (more...)
Joe Waters, of Selfish Giving, is my go-to person when it comes to cause marketing. He has had a ton of experience, and he can translate that experience into best practices that we can all follow. Recently Waters came up with the 10 Commandments of Cause Marketing. In the wake of the Komen for the Cure partnership with Kentucky Fried Chicken, some of us have been thinking, “Don’t we... (more...)
Most of the time I am fortunate enough to work from home, but for a couple of months each year, I return to an office. I’m doing that now and always have to go through a sort of “back to the real world” syndrome. Here are some things about the office environment that I always forget and then am startled by again: Offices are fun. It’s the socializing that is fun. Saying... (more...)
