Board members can help organisations to mobilise funds. These are some ideas:help Ask a foundation executive or corporate representative to sponsor your annual event. Ask a friend or family member to sponsor your annual event. Ask everyone you know toRead more…
7 Tips for Improving Donor Stewardship
Stewardship is the responsibility of taking care of something that belongs to someone else. Olsen gives a few tips and resources to improve the way organisations deal with donors. They include: treating donors well, have a written stewardship plan, followRead more…
Giving Practices of Tithers May Surprise You
In this blog Pastor Brian Kluth of Maximum Generosity (www.kluth.org/index.htm) discusses the results of his 2013 State of the Plate research that focuses on tithers—the people who give 10 percent or more of their income to charitable causes. Some of the surprisesRead more…
mothers2mothers combines storytelling, social media and easy donation processing to inspire donors to give
How mothers2mothers Combines DonateNow with Social Media mothers2mothers International, a nonprofit that helps HIV-positive mothers in sub-Saharan Africa give birth to healthy babies, harnesses the power of social media and Network for Good’s DonateNow tool to raise funds for itsRead more…
Educating Donors
In this reflection on child sponsorship, Vinoth Ramachandra argues that child sponsorship ’is a near-perfect marketing strategy for raising funds.’ However child sponsorship exaggerates the importance of donors over that of the local people providing the care and training on theRead more…
The ethics of child sponsorship
Steve Holmes lecturer in theology at St Mary’s College, St Andrews, Scotland wrote this very interesting blog on the ethics of child sponsorship. He argues that there is ’something deeply Christian about child sponsorship as a mode of delivering aid andRead more…
Giving away relationships
This week, I’ve been visiting friends in New York and Philadelphia and having conversations about how they see generosity, especially being generous with relationships. I heard three different versions of giving away relationships, which I call building relationship bridges. ReturningRead more…
Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money
A very interesting blog in which the author argues that to unconditional cash transfers directly to poor people such as being done by GiveDirectly (http://www.givedirectly.org/) can have great benefits.
Resource mobilization initiative launched in India and the Philippines
Tandon Institute™, a global advisory firm, works with Christian ministries and social sector enterprises, equipping them with strategy, solutions and staffing to enable them rapidly accelerate their impact, revenues, brand and organizational capacity. Since 1999, Mission Increase FoundationRead more…
A man with a shoulder Bag is at your door
God’s Servants-Are they Beggars? (or) God Anointed to Bless your Household? “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me” “He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receiveRead more…