The new tax bill’s aftermath doesn’t need to be the end of your nonprofit
There are dire warnings in the United States press about the huge drop in charitable giving coming in 2018. Even groups who should know better, like AFP – the Association of Fundraising Professionals, is saying the sky is falling. (Full disclosure: I am on the board of my local AFP chapter. That doesn’t mean I […]
7 Key Ways Online Giving Has Changed Over the Past Year
As all up-to-date fundraising professionals know, online giving has become one of the most important sources of revenue for nonprofits in the past few years. Online donation forms allow supporters to donate securely and quickly from anywhere in the world, on their laptops and their mobile phones, without licking a single envelope. Of course, online […]
He’s rich. Now what? | FundraisingCoach.com
I’ve been getting the same type of question from a wide variety of nonprofit leaders in many different sectors. The question goes something like this: “This guy is rich. What’s my next step?” Part of me wants to applaud them. These leaders are doing the hard work of trying to expand their fundraising. But most […]
5 Ways Nonprofit Tech Can Improve Your Donor Stewardship
In order to be successful, your nonprofit needs to create a balance between fundraising and developing relationships with existing supporters. Think about it this way: your nonprofit may be an expert at encouraging first-time donors to contribute. However, if you can’t retain these contributors, you’ll have to expend even more money and resources to keep […]
Why Your Brain Craves Meaning by Laura Roser
The Science of Giving: Why Your Brain Craves Meaning by Laura A. Roser Your brain is a meaning magnet. It can’t help it; it’s been conditioned. Since the hunter and gatherer days, humans have tried to make sense of the world. From the Egyptians and Greeks with their gods to philosophers with their theories to […]
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said Tuesday that aggressive central bank rate rises are needed to get inflation back under control. “Inflation is clearly too much too high and monetary policy must be repositioned to address this,” Evans said in a speech in New York. While there is a lot of uncertainty […]
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 28, 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri 2/2 By Noel Randewich and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) – Wall Street finished sharply higher on Tuesday, lifted by Apple, Tesla (NASDAQ:) and other megacap growth after strong retail sales in […]
Dear Quentin, My father passed away in 2015, and his estate was transferred to my mother. Before his passing, he was clear that things were to be divided equally among his children, only once he and my mother were gone. Since that time, one of the four siblings moved in with our mother, and he […]
Workers operate a drilling rig for an EBR Energy LP natural gas well near Columbus, Texas. Scott Dalton | Bloomberg | Getty Images US natural gas prices more than doubled since the start of the year, and this summer’s air-conditioning season could send them soaring by at least another 25%. In the futures market, gas […]
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Abbott Laboratories logo is displayed on a screen at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, US, October 18, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo 2/2 (This story corrects to drop “Dr” title before Peter Pitts’ name in paragraph 11) (Reuters) – Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:), the biggest US supplier […]
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Rescue workers work at the site where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed, in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China March 24, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo (Reuters) – Flight data from a black box recovered from a China Eastern jet that crashed earlier […]
Exterior view of a Walmart store on August 23, 2020 in North Bergen, New Jersey VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Walmart — Shares fell about 10.5% after the big-box retailer reported quarterly earnings that significantly missed Wall Street’s expectations. Walmart adjusted posted first-quarter […]
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The new tax bill’s aftermath doesn’t need to be the end of your nonprofit
There are dire warnings in the United States press about the huge drop in charitable giving coming in 2018. Even groups who should know better, like AFP – the Association of Fundraising Professionals, is saying the sky is falling. (Full disclosure: I am on the board of my local AFP chapter. That doesn’t mean I […]
7 Key Ways Online Giving Has Changed Over the Past Year
As all up-to-date fundraising professionals know, online giving has become one of the most important sources of revenue for nonprofits in the past few years. Online donation forms allow supporters to donate securely and quickly from anywhere in the world, on their laptops and their mobile phones, without licking a single envelope. Of course, online […]