As a new executive director, I’ve set a goal for myself to increase corporate giving to our mission. ”Sounds like a plan,” right? But I have some basic questions to answer first.
“What’s the best approach?”
Ever since passage of the 2017 federal tax law, with its potential threats to charitable giving among middle-income households (and even among very wealthy households, due to the doubling of the estate tax exemption), nonprofits have asked us—...
Expressing regular and authentic gratitude to the donors, volunteers (including board members), and others who support your organization’s mission is one of the most important things you can do.
In less than two weeks, the seventh annual #GivingTuesday launches the unofficial beginning of the “giving season,” following the commercial days of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber...
It seems that almost every day, we read a new report about the state of individual giving. Among the recent highlights are:
Whether a nonprofit organization has been recently formed and is looking to engage in initial fundraising efforts or is well-established and is planning to expand its fundraising nationwide, the organization will need to consider compliance with...
What are the “next big things” in fundraising?
Even state officials who regulate charitable assets and charitable organizations realize that the current system of inconsistent state-by-state registration for fundraising is too cumbersome, imposing costly burdens and confusing complexities.
In the early 2000s, I met with the executive director of an education fund in rural Virginia to kick off what would eventually be a seven-year engagement as a grant writer.
What’s the secret sauce in great funder/nonprofit relationships? Here’s a crowdsourced “recipe” straight from the participants in four programs we co-hosted with Exponent Philanthropy in 2017.
