I’m not proud of this, but I’m obsessed with the Proust Questionnaire feature on the back page of Vanity Fair. Made famous by the responses from Proust at various ages throughout his life (I prefer age 20 to age 13, for the record), the questionnaire is a smart little treat. It’s a perfect coda to [...]
All photos taken from Chimp Haven’s website The DonationPay office can be an emotional bunch and we have been known to get . . . worked up, over the awesome work our clients are doing. We are moved, inspired and amazed at our clients great work, fortitude and brilliant fundraising strategies, every day. That [...]
As I was reading the industry news on AllTop today, I came across an article from November that I’d apparently missed. From Pamela’s Grantwriting Blog (which, if I’ve never mentioned it before, I love and read anytime I get a spare minute, which clearly at this time of year is once every six weeks), it’s [...]
Since last week, I’ve been meaning to write a long post about our experience at Netroots Nation last weekend in Minneapolis. And while it’s been edifying to- instead of writing this long and thoughtful blog post- slog through the backlog of work I left behind to attend the conference, I had trouble deciding how to [...]
We hear a lot complaints from our smaller client organizations that much of the benchmarking available is geared toward non-profits of a much larger scale. While the studies on the more widely-known organizations that have a national fundraising scope are helpful in terms of seeing what groups with ideal funding and a built-in donor base [...]
It Gets Better: Dan and Terry (some language is NSFW) I’m sure everyone has heard by now about Tyler Clementi’s heartbreaking suicide (with an assist from his incredibly cruel, amoral roommates) and probably has heard about all the other recent suicides of bullied teenagers. I’ll not launch into my personal feelings on this whole topic, [...]
Is Your Organization Tied Up in Knots? The foundation of a non-profit organization often begins with a single, powerful idea, originating in the mind of one individual. This person mulls it over for a bit, gathers resources, tests the waters and gets folks behind them, does some paperwork, gets a staff together and poof!: a [...]
Hey there, moneybags More on Non-Profit Marketing It’s easy to make presumptions about how much money you think your organization should be raising, or how much you think others of a similar variety might be making from their donor base. As it turns out, even in these recession years, there is an upward trend in [...]
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