5 Ways to Get the Attention of the Media
Highlight newsworthy facts and events, target the right reporters and editors, be timely, and consider skipping a news release all together.
By Jennifer R. Farmer
Contributor
How to Nudge Reluctant Leaders to Ask for Money
Six tips to help nonprofit executives acquire the skills and confidence to help bring in money.
Top Advice for Nonprofit Managers and Leaders in the Year Ahead
What you need to know about leading in stressful times, overcoming bias, protecting your staff from sexual harassment, and more.
Video: How to Draw In a More Diverse Group of Donors
Isaac Thweatt, executive director of Individual Giving at Columbia Business School, talks about how to appeal to donors who don’t usually give to your mission.
Our Best Guidance for Managing Your Nonprofit Career
Asking for raises, dealing with impossible managers, meeting with recruiters, or just carving out a little “me time": a look back at The Chronicle’s best advice of 2017 for your professional life.
5 Fundraising Skills to Give Your Charity an Edge in 2018
These Chronicle articles explain how to get your CEO to help with fundraising, how to use social media more effectively, and other things every savvy nonprofit official needs to know.
Readers’ Choice: the Most Popular News-You-Can-Use from The Chronicle in 2017
Every week we publish new resources that help you do your job better and more efficiently. Here’s a list of the resources that drew the most clicks from our readers during the past year.
Reader’s Choice: The Most Popular Stories of 2017
We mined our data to compile the stories that readers clicked on the most this year, on topics including how to raise money from deep-pocketed donors, how to work smarter, and how to deal with a dysfunctional manager.
How They Did It: 10 Stories of Runaway Growth in Giving
These organizations defied the ho-hum fundraising returns of recent years to post remarkable results.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
How Highly Rated Program Officers Earn Grantees’ Approval
They recognize that nonprofits are the experts in their subject areas and choose their words carefully so they don’t sound like they’re issuing mandates.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor