Chocolate sauce on top of vanilla ice cream. A glass of wine with a warm bubble bath. The best nonprofit CRM to manage your fundraising. Good decisions can make great things even better. Fundraising is all about raising money, andRead more…
Nine Unique Summer Camp Fundraising Ideas
Kids will do the craziest things: sneak attack counselors with water balloons, get lost in the woods after being explicitly told not to enter the woods, cannonball into the shallow end, eat sunscreen, and the summer camp memories go onRead more…
On generosity and selflessness
“IF OUR CHARITIES DO NOT AT ALL PINCH OR HAMPER US, I SHOULD SAY THEY ARE TOO SMALL. THERE OUGHT TO BE THINGS WE SHOULD LIKE TO DO AND CANNOT DO BECAUSE OUR CHARITABLE EXPENDITURE EXCLUDES THEM.”–C.S. LEWIS– WhatRead more…
The Art of Selflessness
What leads a woman to shelter, adopt and raise as many as 69 children? How do you get to the point where you are more concerned with the life of a stranger than your own? What prompted these 11 individuals to alter the courseRead more…
The 5 things you need to know about matching gifts
Life needs water, but life craves flavor. I’m talking about pineapples that burst into a tingle of fresh blueberries that ripen on your tongue like the slight sour of a fresh, juicy apple. Similar to fruit punch, your fundraising constituencyRead more…
10 Unique Fundraising Ideas for Botanical Gardens
I know that you’re wondering what happened to those medieval medicinal gardens. Don’t worry, they still exist, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a doctor who will try to cure your arthritis with Sarracenia, which garden enthusiasts may knowRead more…
What is Christ-Centered Generosity?
This week we released a new book called Christ Centered Generosity: Global Perspectives on the Biblical Call to a Generous Life (Kingdom Life Publishing, 2015). In this inspiring book thirty-three authors from twenty-two countries share stories and reflections on biblical generosity fromRead more…
Culture is Changing: Fundraising Needs to Change With It
Like many people in the nonprofit world, I started out as a fundraiser. I worked for a development director, however, who had very different ideas about how that job should be done. While her peers boasted about “bringing in aRead more…
The 3 things nonprofits need to know about prospect research
A pack of crayons can be so exciting to a child, as the plethora of colors opens up a world of possibilities. Likewise, your nonprofit’s donor constituency consists of a variety of different individuals who each have a different backgroundRead more…
5 Tips to Help Museums Dominate Fundraising
There are automobile museums, beer museums, farm museums, halls of fame, insectariums, lighthouse museums, planetariums, toy museums, and urban planning museums. The abundance of museums proves that people care about preserving what they love. However, whether it’s artisanal beer orRead more…