Bombarding Donors With Mail and Telemarketing Appeals Backfires, Author Says
The pressure to keep making pitches does more than lose supporters. It’s the key reason one-third of fundraisers leave their jobs.
By Holly Hall
Contributor
A Clarion Call to Shake Up Development Offices and Curb Turnover
After five years of research with more than 12,000 nonprofit executives, trustees, and donors, Penelope Burk says fundraisers and nonprofits need to change how they work.
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Big Changes Help Hospital Attract More Big Gifts Much Faster
Virginia Mason Hospital’s fundraising arm found a way to relieve fundraisers of their most hated task and then improved efficiencies.
By Holly Hall
Contributor
Raising Money From the Crowd: What Charities Find Works Best
Now that Kickstarter and other mass-appeal sites have been around for a while, charities are mastering what works best to attract large sums.
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
What Moneyball Didn’t Teach You About Measurement
In some nonprofits, analysts, researchers, and evaluators have trouble making themselves heard. What they don’t realize is that decision makers are looking for insights, not just numbers.
By Rick Groves
Contributor
A Board’s Travels Inspire Bonding, Fresh Ideas, and Bigger Gifts
Whether you go across town or around the world, a mission trip brings trustees together in a unique and wonderful way that pays dividends for years to come.
By CAROL WEISMAN
Contributor
A New Trend in Design Can Help Charities Do Better Work
“Service design” focuses on eliminating friction and frustration for nonprofits and their staffs.
By MATTHEW SCHARPNICK
Contributor
Boards Are Not Ready for the Next Generation of Trustees
A rising generation of younger donors could bring new money to nonprofits and fresh energy to their boardrooms—if boards can overcome their dysfunction and engage them.
By RICK MOYERS
Contributor
Inequitable Salaries at Nonprofits Are a Kind of Bullying
When it comes to underpaying women and human-service workers—and using volunteers as unpaid but essential labor—nonprofits are both victim and victimizer.
By Dione Alexander
Contributor
Nonprofit Consulting Goes Global
As more governments move toward democracy, charities are popping up in new places—and the worldwide marketplace for nonprofit consultants is heating up.
By PENELOPE CAGNEY
Contributor