During a 15 minute research session this week, I learned the following information: Ninety-three percent of nonprofits say they regularly monitor social media, up 18 percentage points from the study a year earlier. NBC Universal Foundation awarded a total of $800,000 in grants to 26 nonprofits in six cities across U.S. to improve secondary education [...]
Even if you have only been in the development field for a few months, it is likely you know that AFP stands for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the international professional organization that serves people who work in all aspects of development. Although it was more than a decade ago that I attended their worldwide [...]
This week I suggest you look at these two web sites: www.guidestar.org and www.charitynavigator. Both of these web sites focus on providing information to potential donors but in very different ways. GuideStar basically uses input from the nonprofits themselves. You can (and should) sign up for the free membership (if you haven’t already) and then [...]
When coaching development staff, I always encourage them to look beyond the day to day busyness of their jobs to learn from others in the development field. A common response I hear goes something like this: “I’d love to know how someone has started an endowment fund or increased annual giving or expanded their major [...]