Accountability

An integrated donor experience is critical in the digital age. You have more touchpoints with your donors than ever before, and you have to be keenly aware of how they are experiencing your organization. In order to make sure you are fully aware of your donor’s experience, we need to back up and talk about…

In an effort to provide grounding for Donald Trump’s claim that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years, his campaign compiled a 93-page list of his 4,844 contributions. The Washington Post analyzed the list and found Trump hadn’t used his own money for any of those donations, many of which were free rounds of golf to his courses, provided for charity auctions and raffles...

Two former Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) executives, who were fired after the media questioned the nonprofit's spending even though an internal investigation found no wrongdoing, have launched a blog...

Dallas Cowboys legend Troy Aikman has overseen the Troy Aikman Foundation for Children ever since establishing it in 1992. Now, however, the NFL Hall of Fame quarterback has decided to dissolve his foundation and transfer its $1 million in assets to the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas' Unite Forever Campaign. That campaign, an effort announced…

It is one of the preeminent roles of a nonprofit board member to assure the financial health of the organization. That means fundraising is a board-member responsibility, but the very mention of the word "fundraising" can strike fear in the soul of even the most stalwart nonprofit supporter, whether on the board or not. Unfortunately,…

The executive director of a New York nonprofit was attacked with caustic liquid in an attempt to cover up a $750,000 embezzlement scheme, a newly unsealed indictment revealed. Rev. D. Alexandra Dyer, head of Healing Arts Initiative, was walking to her car after work when a man holding a cup of drain cleaner allegedly approached her and flung the liquid at her. The attack left serious burns on Dyer's face and eyes. Authorities this week announced they made three arrests in connection with the crime...

Nonprofit HR surveyed 362 nonprofits on staffing, recruitment and retention practices for the “2015 Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey.” With 49 percent of nonprofits reporting an increase in staff size in 2014 and 50 percent expecting to create new positions in 2015, the survey projected nonprofit growth in 2015 that could outpace the corporate sector. However, this growth could aggravate some already pressing issues...

It is Friday, Feb. 19, and Michael Thatcher sits before hundreds of nonprofit leaders, fundraisers and marketers at the DMANF Washington Nonprofit Conference, ready for questioning. To say that the former Microsoft official and current president and CEO of Charity Navigator has entered the lion’s den would be inaccurate. He has thrown himself in, walked up to the biggest lion he could find, and jumped into its open jaws. The head of the nonprofit sector’s most controversial organization facing his harshest critics...

Our friend Rory Green wanted to find out how nonprofits measure their donor stewardship and retention efforts. This is an important issue. After all, you improve what you measure, right? If nonprofits aren't measuring donor retention or stewardship, they also probably are going to do a poor job of it. So Green went out and…

In February 2015, Robert Bruce, a 34-year-old from Tennessee, was indicted by a grand jury on six federal wire fraud charges related to the charity he created to honor the victims of December 2012’s Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Newtown, Conn. Now, Bruce has agreed to plead guilty, having reached a plea deal with the U.S. attorney’s office, The Associated Press reported...