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5 Tips to help your nonprofit build local media coverage for fundraising events

Every year across North America literally tens of thousands of charities are aided in spreading awareness about special nonprofit fundraising events by the thousands of media outlets across the United States and Canada. The local news and other community focused...

February 3, 2015 Read More

Maine budget proposal includes controversial tax changes for large nonprofits

In a recent story from the Wall Street Journal I learned that the unthinkable is being proposed in Maine that could have serious ramifications for nonprofits in the state and indeed may set a worrying precedent in general if approved....

January 29, 2015 Read More

Giving Tuesday was a rousing success for nonprofits once again

#GivingTuesday has quickly become one of the more remarkable nonprofit fundraising days on the calendar even though last month's event marked just the third anniversary of the occasion. Giving Tuesday was launched and I believe originally conceived back in 2012...

January 27, 2015 Read More

#GivingTuesday has arrived – these 5 steps can help your day blossom

After months of planning for thousands of nonprofits the day has arrived - today is #GivingTuesday following the back-to-back events of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Today is the 3rd annual Giving Tuesday - an event that grows each year...

December 2, 2014 Read More

5 things nonprofits can learn from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Viral nonprofit fundraising via social media has probably peaked this year with the tremendous success of the Ice Bucket Challenge and yet I'm sad to read some people being negative and building a critical backlash raising qualms about the way...

September 4, 2014 Read More

New data demonstrates how the continued evolution of online giving aids nonprofit fundraising

As we've written before online fundraising continues to demonstrate excellent growth in the sphere of nonprofit fundraising and setting the bar for growth within the industry for the fourth consecutive year. While as recently as 2012 it seemed that online...

September 3, 2014 Read More

5 easy steps to heighten your nonprofit’s LinkedIn profile appeal to donors and others

LinkedIn continues to achieve consistently healthy growth and for nonprofits it remains probably the most valuable external window into your organization both from and at the executive level. For nonprofit fundraising and donor acquisition that executive audience is of vital...

September 2, 2014 Read More

The Ice Bucket Challenge – an amazing example of viral nonprofit fundraising

Nonprofit fundraising has not just been in the news over the last week or so but the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has become the news to a certain extent, especially in social media circles. The impact of the viral nature...

August 28, 2014 Read More

Could webthriftstore.com signal the rise of the online charity shop?

Thrift shops, resale stores or charity shops call them what you will but the thrift store is a very significant revenue stream for nonprofit fundraising that we rarely have cause to discuss here on the blog. Let's look at the...

August 26, 2014 Read More

10 nonprofit fundraising mistakes to avoid

Today we're very excited to bring you a special guest post by kind courtesy of the University of Notre Dame. The article is a rather brilliant summary of some of the most common nonprofit fundraising mistakes that charities unfortunately make....

August 22, 2014 Read More

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