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CRM August 12, 2015 Gabe Cooper |
Why Nonprofits Deserve CRM Innovation With charitable giving exceeding $298 billion in the U.S. alone, it's time that software companies gave nonprofits the attention they deserve by creating technology that truly serves their needs. |
Foundation News & Commentary Jan/Feb 2005 Lee Draper |
Where the Money is: Tapping Overlooked Sources of Support for Nonprofits Where will the funding come from to enable nonprofits to serve more people? How can nonprofits find the capital to reorganize for greater efficiency and economies of scale or to invest in new ways to address growing social needs? |
AFP eWire September 1, 2009 |
The Vicious Cycle of Low Overhead Nonprofit leaders say it's time to break the cycle of unrealistic expectations for overhead spending. |
CRM April 2012 Leonard Klie |
Nonprofits Find Money on the Web Charity no longer beings at home; today, it begins with a homepage. |
Foundation News & Commentary May/Jun 2005 Wing et al. |
Paying for Not Paying for Overhead Many nonprofits are sacrificing organizational infrastructure needs to tell foundations what they want to hear about overhead costs. |
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 |
For Nonprofits, "It's a How Crisis" Professor and author Paul Light says the biggest problem is underinvestment in infrastructure, which leads to more inefficiency at nonprofits. |
AFP eWire November 30, 2010 |
High Hopes for Holiday Giving Convio estimates that U.S. giving during the 2010 holiday season to nonprofit organizations will be more than $48 billion across all giving channels |
AFP eWire August 9, 2011 |
What is Your Funding Strategy? Find out how your organization fits into these models so you can better articulate your funding strategy to funders and constituents. |
Searcher February 2004 Hazel Cameron |
The Nonprofit Phenomenon Internet resources for nonprofit organizations |
AFP eWire June 29, 2010 |
Wise Giving? Most Donors Spend Little Time Researching Charities Only about one third of donors surveyed recently said that they did any research before donating to a charity, and those that did looked at overhead ratios above all else. |
AFP eWire August 14, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (August 14, 2013) Is your nonprofit resonating with millennials?... How to get donors to give month after month... Helping the Poor Is No Longer a Priority for Today's Nonprofits... |
Entrepreneur December 2006 Carol Tice |
Making a Difference If you have a passion for a cause, starting a nonprofit could be for you. |
AFP eWire November 20, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (November 20, 2012) What Do Donors, Foundations Want to Know about Nonprofits?... Direct Mail -- The Exquisite Corpse... How High-Profile Causes Like `Movember' Push Less `Sexy' Ones Aside... |
Inc. May 1, 2002 Donna Fenn |
Shaking the Foundations Sanjay Chopra is an astute donor. The founder of two technology companies recently joined 59 other fledgling philanthropists to give $50,000 to KidsVoice, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that provides legal services to children in juvenile court... |
AFP eWire December 13, 2004 |
Many Charities Misreporting Fundraising, Administrative Costs Public and donor pressure to keep administrative and fundraising expenses low may be leading nonprofit organizations to underreport such costs, according to a new study. |
CFO January 10, 2007 Joseph McCafferty |
Misgivings Recent studies raise an uncharitable question: Is nonprofit accounting off track? |
AFP eWire January 28, 2015 |
Technology: Fundraisers and Donors Not Yet on the Same Page Give Central, a web-based donation platform, reports on the disconnect between the increasing ability and eagerness of nonprofits to take advantage of rapidly evolving technology -- and the reluctance of donors to take advantage of the same |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2004 Allison H. Fine |
Blending the Bottom Line Nonprofits and grantmakers must meet each other halfway to move toward outcomes-focused approaches to collaboration. |
CRM May 28, 2014 |
Salesforce.com Foundation Unveils Salesforce1 for Nonprofits New solutions offer tools for program management, community engagement, marketing communications, and fundraising. |
AFP eWire January 10, 2012 |
Key Trends for the Nonprofit Sector in 2012 The biggest impact on the nonprofit sector in 2012 will be the maturation of social media and mobile giving, a greater role for peer-to-peer engagement, and a move toward donors dictating the terms of interactions. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 David A. Twibell |
Helping Nonprofits Profit Small and midsize nonprofit organizations can be great clients for financial advisors, but understanding their unique needs is critical to success. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 22, 2004 Martha Lagace |
How Nonprofits Use the Internet to Get Ahead You'll need more than a nice-looking Web site and a "Donate Now" button. Experts swapped tips at the 2004 Social Enterprise Conference. |
CRM February 2003 Lisa Picarille |
Charitable Groups Profit From CRM Nonprofit organizations need CRM as much as for-profit businesses do. |
AFP eWire November 3, 2008 |
Website Features User Feedback on U.S. Charities A new website called GreatNonprofits allows donors to post reviews and ratings of charities. Charities, in turn, are able to customize their page and ask for donations. |
AFP eWire January 8, 2014 |
Creating Successful Nonprofit Boards, Staff and Programs--Take a Cue from Successful For-Profit Businesses Borrowing from for-profit best practices, Keith Jennings explains how you can revamp your nonprofit board, staff and programs in 2014 for your most successful fundraising year ever. |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2004 Lee Draper |
Achieving Impact Without Giving Cash Grantmakers are trying to stretch dollars, but there are limits to their budgets' elasticity. How can we achieve broader impact with limited dollars? |
CFO July 1, 2005 Bill Birchard |
Nonprofits by the Numbers In the wake of embarrassing revelations, high-profile scandals, and Sarbanes-Oxley, nonprofit CFOs are striving for greater transparency and accountability. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 15, 2008 Roger Thompson |
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise Social enterprise as an entity is primarily in the business of creating social value, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. |
AFP eWire June 25, 2007 |
Pyrrhic Fundraising While it "takes money to make money," nonprofits actually lose money -- at least in the short term -- when they try to raise funds through direct marketing. |
AFP eWire December 11, 2013 |
Assess Your Year-End Appeals -- Are You Doing Them Right? As you are knee-deep in appeal-season, it's the perfect time to take a step back and assess your appeals to make sure you're doing them the right way -- it's never too late to implement best practices |
CRM February 2010 Jessica Tsai |
The Lowest Cost of All Why the nonprofit sector should embrace social media and viral marketing. |
Searcher February 2007 Cecilia Hogan |
Philanthropy -- Not Just for Rock Stars: "Real People" and Digital Donations A look at trends in online giving, the impact of disasters, being effective in your philanthropy, and resources for researching charities. |
AFP eWire August 30, 2011 |
Nonprofits Retained More Donors in 2010, Report Shows Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. were better at retaining donors and shored up their net losses in donations in 2010, according to the latest report of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. |
AFP eWire April 28, 2008 |
Building Trust With Print And Online Appeals Print or online appeals must do more than outline the needs for your organization; they must also make the case for organizational effectiveness. |
AFP eWire October 25, 2011 |
Despite Global Economic Uncertainty, Nonprofits Are Optimistic Heading into 2012 There is a growing sense of optimism in the nonprofit sector globally regarding growth in staffing and earned and charitable income, especially when looking forward to 2012, according to a new report. |
AFP eWire March 27, 2006 |
Nonprofit Executives Burning Out, Planning to Leave Jobs A survey of almost 2,000 nonprofit executives found that 75 percent are planning on leaving their jobs within five years, while another 10 percent are already in the process of switching job. |
AFP eWire November 8, 2011 |
Growing Philanthropy: Moving From Donors to Partners (Part 1 of 3) Here is a snapshot of an idyllic scenario, wherein philanthropy grows to be a larger part of people's finances, and their lives. |
AFP eWire August 7, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (August 7, 2013) Philanthropy beat: Young donors want to see results... A Walk Around the Track With an Event Donor... Design Thinking: A Powerful Tool for Your Nonprofit... |
AFP eWire October 1, 2015 |
New Report: Less Than Half of Donors Give Again to Organizations That They Supported in the Previous Year Just 43 percent of donors who gave to participating survey organizations in 2013 gave to those same organizations in 2014. |
AFP eWire October 16, 2012 |
Charities' Fundraising Improves Slightly, But Still Not Retaining Donors While fundraising levels are improving slightly, charities continue to lose more donors than they gain and have a long way to go to recover from the impact of the 2007-9 recession. |
AFP eWire September 14, 2010 |
Taming the Fear of Fundraising Costs When asked about fundraising costs in terms of impact, donors clearly favor spending more to make more. |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2006 Kathleen P. Enright |
Philanthropy's Greatest Asset Grantmakers' success depends on the performance of nonprofit leaders. Committed people are at the heart of every innovation and every bit of progress the nonprofit sector makes. |
AFP eWire April 16, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (April 16, 2013) Fundraisers, not just donors, are sick of endless appeals... Five questions every nonprofit donor should ask... 70% of charities forecast rise in donations in 2013... |
AFP eWire November 20, 2006 |
Accountability, Impact Build Trust in Nonprofits for Wealthy Donors Providing evidence of what their contributions have accomplished and abiding by high levels of accountability are the two critical ways that nonprofits can build trust, especially for wealthy donors, according to a new survey. |
CRM February 2010 Jessica Tsai |
Profiting from the Nonprofits The for-profit world should heed the hard-won lessons of the nonprofits. |
AFP eWire November 24, 2009 |
Most Nonprofits Experimenting With Social Media, But Struggle to Measure Value for Organization While seen as a good way to communicate with broad audiences and mobilize volunteer support, nonprofit executives are skeptical about social media's ability to reach donors, media and policy makers. |
AFP eWire February 2, 2004 |
Donors Increasingly Give Online Donors are using the Internet to give online, and at the same time, many nonprofits are planning to increase online fundraising this year, according to two new surveys from Kintera Inc. |
AFP eWire December 15, 2009 |
Despite Economy More Consumers Plan to Give Online in '09 than '08 Convio Inc. estimates that U.S. online giving to nonprofit organization will be more than $4 billion during the holiday season of 2009 as increasing numbers of people donate to charities via the web. |
AFP eWire July 28, 2008 |
Overhead Costs Too Low, You Say? Watch Your Mouth! An analysis by The Bridgespan Group argues that strategic and proper investments in fundraising overhead are necessary for growth and sustainability. |
AFP eWire July 14, 2008 |
AFP Responds to L.A. Times Report on Fundraising Inefficiencies A response to a recent article stating that only a small percentage of money reaches California nonprofits when they use a for-profit fundraising company to raise funds. |