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Trends in the Nonprofit Sector

Source: Connection Café  by Vinay Bhagat As a technology entrepreneur with a passion for marketing strategy and the nonprofit sector, around this time each year, I like to pause and make predictions as to the changes I foresee. As a change agent, I also like to...

A Blunt Outlook for Fund Raising in 2012

Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy by Holly Hall Two new surveys suggest that fund-raising challenges for charities will persist through year’s end and beyond. But a third shows a burst of optimism among people who raise money for nonprofit causes. Among the key...

5 1/2 Myths About Donor Acquisition

Source: The NonProfit Times It is said that myths are the ways by which a society defines and identifies itself. If that is so, what do the myths it accepts say about the nonprofit sector? At the DMA Nonprofit Federation conference, Shannon McCracken of Special...

Donors expect to give the same or more

Source: Philanthropy Journal  by Sarah C. Libbey American donors plan to give the same amount or more to charity this year, and they say charitable tax deductions do not affect their giving, a new study says. Among 502 adults who plan to donate $200 or more to charity...

Five Ways to Brainstorm an Idea

Source: Business2Community By Natalie Clive The hardest part of any project is coming up with an original idea. The carrying out of the idea can take very little time compared to how long you took to even come up with the idea. If you are stuck on a project, and need...