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FundRaising Success to host its second annual virtual conference May 19.

FundRaising Success to host its second annual virtual conference May 19.

If you're looking for a free, valuable chance to learn from some of the fundraising industry's best and brightest minds, join us in a couple weeks for the second annual FundRaising Success Virtual Conference & Expo: Engaging, Enlightening and Empowering Donors.

What book has changed your (professional) life?

The economy … well … sucks at the moment! But does that really mean nobody is giving? Nope! Fundraising is alive and well and even thriving. I have 10 tips to help you get your share of the money that's going around.

FS will host its second annual virtual conference and expo on May 19. The theme of the show remains the same as last year — Enlightening, Engaging and Empowering Donors — because that's pretty much what it all comes down to when you're trying to raise money and awareness for your important cause.

These 12 strategies aren't the only things I'd do to transform my donor-development office. They may not even be the most urgent things I'd do, or even the most important. But they are the things I'd do that I think would have the most lasting impact. They would make the most difference to converting my imaginary donor-development department from the under-funded, misunderstood appendage to the fundraising function that I found on joining the organization into the finely honed, high-
earning core activity that I'd like to leave behind when, in the fullness of time, I move on to pastures new (you have to indulge me a little here, in this fantasy). Anyway, here we go.

Someone looking for a position in the nonprofit arena needs to weigh the pros and cons. The pros are many and should be taken to heart.

Indiana University is receiving two generous gifts from the estate of philanthropist Ruth Lilly — an estimated $10.7 million — including approximately $8 million for the Center on Philanthropy and approximately $2.7 million for the Herron School of Art and Design.

Some organizations seem trapped in a sisyphean cycle of not just making mistakes but repeating the same mistakes again and again. So how do you work at becoming a learning organization? Here's my checklist of five characteristics drawing on Senge's work and my own thinking and experience.