Want to have your cake and eat it too? Start a monthly giving program. Monthly donor programs are cash cows and cash chickens and cash horses and all the animals on Old MacDonald’s farm. Consistent funding is key when runningRead more…
China: the fundraising dragon awakes
Or, how do you persuade more than half a billion1 affluent, as yet uninspired individuals that they should become charity donors for the first time ever? Modern China is no newcomer to addressing social issues, leading development, tackling poverty reduction or helping thoseRead more…
The Complete Guide to Nonprofit CRMs
Have you ever gone to the grocery store and thought, I’m not buying much, and set off without a cart. You start with milk, then get some cereal, decide you need bananas, the nearby strawberries look great too, oh and you’dRead more…
How to Draft a Case for Support for Your Capital Campaign
Do you know what your campaign will raise money for? And roughly how much money you want to raise? If so, it’s time to start working on the document that will serve as the heart of your campaign: your caseRead more…
Doing Less, Better – The real competitive advantage of social enterprise, compared to traditional charities
Call me a natural skeptic. As the social enterprise movement has gained momentum over the past decade, launching new conferences and awards, I have found myself continually puzzling over what makes the enterprise approach different from traditional charities and nonprofits.Read more…
A Coming of Age for Impact Investing The new benchmark is an indication of a fast-growing and increasingly sophisticated impact investing industry
More than seven years ago, when the first conversations about creating the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) were percolating, very few would have characterized the impact investing community as a “market.” Outside of active sector-specific pockets, such as microfinance, individualRead more…
Are You Ready to Lead? The 11 Best Nonprofit Leadership Conferences of the Summer and Fall
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, conferences are part of the game. Sometimes you may feel that a conference is pulling you or your team away from more pertinent work, but attendance can have major value. ConferencesRead more…
3 Ways to Make Better Fundraising Asks
NonProfitEasy’s blog is all about fundraising tips and tricks that we think would be helpful for nonprofit professionals. That’s why we reached out to our friend Joe Garecht at The Fundraising Authority for some advice on how development professionals can make better fundraising asks!Read more…
Building Movements, Not Organizations
Creating a healthy, humane world will require more than new organizational designs. It will take rethinking the nature of organizations entirely. In his 2007 book Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken described a growing global movement to create a healthy, humane world—work thatRead more…
The Joy of Sacrificing for the Future
South Florida is known for a lot of things…swamps, beaches, Disney World and retirees. But Idlewild Baptist Church is doing its part to make South Florida known for increasing levels of generosity. Case in point. A man in the churchRead more…