How to Plan a Financial-Wellness Day for Your Staff
Help your employees spend time during a designated workday to create a household budget, negotiate lower bills, plan for retirement, and more.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
How to Assemble a Tool Kit to Create a Powerful Visual Identity
Two branding strategists offer advice on the key questions to ask and the elements to consider in designing logos and communications that attract and engage donors.
By Meg Fowler Tripp and Roger Sametz
15 New Fundraising Ideas That Worked, Part I
The 92nd Street Y excites donors with cool technology, a ballet steals an airline tactic, and more.
15 New Fundraising Ideas That Worked, Part II
Inside a “textathon,” the ultimate day planner for gift officers, and benefit parties where food steals the show.
15 New Fundraising Ideas That Worked, Part III
An advocacy group’s members generate social-media content, and a small charity trades events for experiments.
From Microsoft to Gates Foundation to Local Charity: The Evolution of a Leader
Former Gates Foundation head Patty Stonesifer shares lessons she’s picked up in moving to Martha’s Table, a small Washington, D.C., social-services nonprofit.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How to Capitalize on Donor-Advised Funds
The Chronicle’s “What Donors Want: Donor-Advised Funds” gives you advice you can use to tap into this fast-growing trend.
Celebrating Success: How Our Readers Mark Fundraising Accomplishments
Symbolic traditions, surprise parties, and specialty drinks are some ways you told us your organizations recognize achievements.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
How to Keep Your Charity Neutral in a Partisan World
Nonprofit leaders offer smart tips for remaining apolitical to build bipartisan support among lawmakers and donors. The advice can also benefit groups that take a neutral stance but are plunged unexpectedly into a political controversy, as happened to the Boy Scouts this week after President Trump made a speech at its jamboree that included partisan political comments.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Strategic or Responsive Grant Making? Foundations Should Strike a Balance
Grant makers can maximize their impact by focusing most of their spending on a few key objectives, but there’s nothing wrong with setting aside some money to support local ideas and institutions.
By PAUL JELLINEK
Contributor