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TIFF 2012 Celebrities and the Causes They Support Part 2

In anticipation of the start of the Toronto International Film Festival  (TIFF) which began yesterday, I wrote a post on how this time of year is also becoming known as a festival of fundraising. I also began Part 1 of a...

September 7, 2012 Read More

TIFF 2012 Celebrities and the Causes They Support Part 1

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is the “leading public film festival in the world, screening more than 300 films from 60+ countries every September”  and it begins next week. As I wrote on Wednesday, this TIFF time of year...

August 31, 2012 Read More

10 Highest Paid Celebrities from Forbes Under 30 List and their Philanthropic Efforts

Combining celebrities and philanthropy is not a new concept but it does seem that it’s becoming more and more prevalent which is a good thing. I previously wrote about this in the 20 Celebrities Doing Good to Benefit Nonprofit Fundraising...

August 1, 2012 Read More

10 Top Forbes Power Celebrities and the Charities They Support

I recently came across the Forbes 2012 World's Most Powerful Celebrity 100 list and it got me thinking of the quote from the famous French philosopher Voltaire “with great power comes great responsibility.” We expect those to whom much is...

July 4, 2012 Read More

No Mother’s Day in Support of Maternal Mortality Reduction Globally

[caption id="attachment_9407" align="alignright" width="400"] Image Courtesy of everymothercounts.org[/caption] Mother’s Day originally began as an anti-war protest. A call for change by mothers fed up with losing their husbands and sons to war. Over time it’s evolved to become a day...

May 9, 2012 Read More

5 Lessons for Effective Professional Fundraising from Non-Profit Digital Report

I continue to be impressed with the number of information resources available to those of us working within the professional fundraising sector. We have featured a few key reports on our blog like 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking...

February 2, 2012 Read More

Online Fundraising and Cause Marketing Combined in One Platform

Causecast improves nonprofit online fundraising and for-profit employee engagement In the past I have written about several online fundraising platforms such as CovergeUS, Razoo, Give2gether, Kickstarter, Kiva City, Givmo, Broadcause, Startsomegood, Donorschoose, Kopernik, FirstGiving and ClickYourSupport.  Each of these online...

November 17, 2011 Read More

Benchmark Report Measures Traditional and Online Fundraising Methods

Being in professional fundraising, I have written about several industry reports relating to traditional and online fundraising and other important nonprofit trends. Reports such as The Nonprofit Research Collaborative (and Part 2), the Blackbaud Index on Charitable and Online Giving,...

October 18, 2011 Read More

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