Fundraising Is Beautiful: Keeping your donors
Jeff Brooks (Donor Power Blog) and Steven Screen’s new podcast: Learn about ten of the main reasons donors stop supporting a charity. Awesome intro music and voice over guys!
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The Project Streamline report begins:
A national organization has dozens of foundation funders, each with a distinct application process, different requirements, and its own cycle for funding.
As part of their annual report to a funder, staff from a nonprofit service agency have to categorize their clients according to the funder’s specifications, even though the categories are [...]
New IRS Rules Help Donors Vet Charities - WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal discusses the new 990 and points out the flaws in expense ratio analysis. L.H. Bayley (profiled in the article) sounds like my kind of donor!
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Live Discussions: Engaging Millennials for Social Causes
Allison Fine chats with Chron of Phil readers [...]
I almost didn’t go to the NetSquared conference this year. Big mistake, I’m glad I went.
Two years ago I attended NetSquared (which that year was a learning conference about how nonprofits could use social media tools). I, like most people attending, heard about YouTube and Facebook for the first time. And more importantly, I learned [...]
Tax Exemptions of Charities Face New Challenges - NYTimes.com
Stephanie Strom reports on the growing challenges by tax and government authorities to the nonprofit status of some organizations. Taking away the tax exempt status of orgs that are truly not charitable will only strength the sector.
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Failure! — Social Edge
A Social Edge discussion examines why “failure” [...]
(This is a guest post from Taylor Ansley, a fellow at Z Smith Reynolds Foundation, who covered the Council on Foundations Conference for Tactical Philanthropy)
By Taylor Ansley
I wrote previously about a session at COF 2008 that I found to be chock full of extremely practical, sensible, and desperately needed improvements in the unwieldy processes of [...]
‘B corporation’ plan helps philanthropic firms
The San Francisco Chronicle profiles B Corporations, a newly designed corporate structure that lets companies consider the interests of non-shareholders (which is currently essentially illegal).
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Acting Wikily: How Netwokrs Are Changing Social Change
This new report from Monitor Institute profiles various uses of wikis by philanthropic entities.
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The Collaboration Prize
The Collaboration [...]
Today’s post cast is with Mark Kramer of FSG Social Advisors. Mark and I talk about mission aligned investing, information sharing in philanthropy and whether achieving social impact means limiting financial returns. My favorite line from the interview, “I’ve actually talked to a couple foundation CEOs who, when I’ve said what was your greatest achievement, [...]
IssueLab: Home
An organization dedicated to disseminating nonprofit research for anyone to use.
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Knowledge Center | The Wallace Foundation
The Wallace Foundation is a foundation that designs grantmaking initiatives with the goal of producing knowledge that it can then share with wider audiences (for the common good).
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In February I wrote a post positing that people give to charity as a way to satisfy their deeply held need to find meaning in life. The post is now the #2 result in Google for the phrase “why do people give to charity”. The #1 result is a publication of The Federal Reserve Bank [...]
How the Carbon Credit Market Does Its Magic | PhilanthroMedia
Carla Dearing explains carbon trading markets with a nice little example. Caution: pig manure ahead…
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Seth Godin, my favorite non-philanthropy blogger and author of a bunch of outstanding books, was the guest on the Chronicle of Philanthropy online live discussion yesterday. Some sample Q&A:
Question from Jeff, via Philanthropy Today: How do you think emotional marketing by non-profits compares to campaigns that are more focused on performance capabilities [...]
Yesterday I wrote about foundation consultant Tom David’s practice of posting reports he has been commissioned to create by large foundations on the web for anyone to read. Turns out Blueprint Research and Design, the consulting firm run by Lucy Bernholz (who blogs at Philanthropy 2173) posts all of their reports online as well. They [...]
Debunking “Accountability to Donors” - Finale | Creating the Future!
My writing about the potential for giving “growth capital” donors voting power to elect nonprofit board members inspired a full blow rant from Hildy Gottlieb.
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America Forward: Blog
America Forward is organized by New Profit, Inc. A very well respected organization focused on social entrepreneurship. The blog [...]
I’ve been writing for awhile about information sharing in philanthropy and the way that institutional foundation can leverage their accumulated knowledge about “doing good” by sharing it with the public.
Tactical Philanthropy reader Tom David is a foundation consultant and emailed this week to share the fact that he has been making reports he has been [...]
