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Apple face growing pressure over ban of nonprofit fundraising apps

The ongoing saga between Apple and the nonprofit industry seems to be escalating much as I had expected. The crux of the issue is the lack of versatility offered by Apple smartphones when it comes to using apps designed for...

January 13, 2011 Read More

Four CSR trends to watch in 2011

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices continue to expand and evolve as companies marry their CSR policies more and more efficiently to their daily practices. Four trends that I expect to see accelerating throughout 2011 have already shown promising signs in...

January 11, 2011 Read More

Wikipedia’s face to face results in online fundraising success

Nonprofit fundraising can sometimes be at its most effective when you encounter it almost subliminally, especially when your awareness of a cause is only triggered because you were online looking up some information. According to 'typical internet user stats' the...

January 7, 2011 Read More

Nonprofits tax exempt status being tested due to weakening city cashflows

Nonprofits throughout the US are facing what may amount to becoming a huge, systematic (if temporary) and inconsistent change dependent upon the location of their operations. In different cities and municipalities throughout the States, city management are scrambling to create...

January 6, 2011 Read More

Southwest Airlines align CSR with Make-A-Wish Foundation via novel use of social media

Southwest Airlines have launched a creative way to introduce their millions of customers to a charitable cause in a practical way involving social media. This level of creativity is a very tangible way for a company to demonstrate their commitment...

December 21, 2010 Read More

Is Apple taking a bite out of mobile giving to nonprofits?

Nonprofit fundraising is often in tandem with the economy and quite naturally has faced some difficulties in the last 2 to 3 years. While donations overall fell away in conjunction with the recession which was very nearly global; the response...

December 17, 2010 Read More

CSR red flag – Chevron say Utah oil spills ‘highly unusual’ despite two issues in 6 months

While the giant BP oil 'spill' disaster quite rightly caught the attention of the international media plus of course governments and environmentalists yet another smaller accident is almost being ignored by the media. Should the size of the spill actually...

December 16, 2010 Read More

New survey shows perceived value CSR has moved so far in last decade

Based upon a new article in British newspaper 'The Guardian' the landscape for a corporation's CSR practices have gone from being very pedestrian to a fully fledged component of how they do business. This is encouraging news and to be...

December 14, 2010 Read More

Jumo early verdict – hit and miss

Now that Jumo have had a live beta version online for about a week the reviews are coming in from far and wide. Opinions range from the ecstatic to the unconvinced and in the middle many are taking a wait...

December 10, 2010 Read More

5 great timesavers for your nonprofit fundraising Twitter account

Using Twitter to help grow the networking capability of your nonprofit fundraising organization is a topic I've touched upon previously on the blog, for example this post about tagging/keyword reach and this one about creating a simple to use audio...

December 9, 2010 Read More

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