Fundraiser Education
October 10, 2017 at 11:04 am
Contact forms are one of the most important features of any website, being the main way most website users interact with an organization to ask questions or request information. If users have a poor experience using a website’s contact form, bad things happen...
October 5, 2017 at 12:33 pm
On Wednesday afternoon, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg took to Twitter to announce that he will match donations given to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control that he founded in 2014. "US has a gun violence problem," the billionaire wrote. "I'll match every donation. Give now." Bloomberg…
October 5, 2017 at 12:10 pm
Guilt as a motivator has been around a long time. It can get a donor to respond—for a while. As donors get more sophisticated and demanding, guilt becomes less and less effective. And yet, it’s a perennial favorite of nonprofits...
October 4, 2017 at 1:05 pm
For the second consecutive year, nonprofit news organizations have an opportunity to participate in a year-end fundraising match. The Democracy Fund, the Knight Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation are collaborating to match $3 million in contributions to nonprofit news organizations through the end of the year. More than 100 participating organizations are eligible to receive…
October 4, 2017 at 1:01 pm
In the last few years, the term “implicit bias” has gone mainstream, and the idea has infiltrated even the backwoods of Virginia. Otis and I talk about this kind of stuff almost every day in our home life and at work. So, implicit bias was on my mind last Sunday as I drove home three hours to go to church with my dad. We sat on the back pew, as is my family’s way...
October 2, 2017 at 12:36 pm
London recently dealt another blow to Uber’s plans to take over the world. Saying the ride-hailing giant had failed to abide by public safety rules governing private cab companies, regulators in the U.K. capital said the company would lose its “license to operate” at the end of September. The decision hit hard for 40,000 fare-earning…
October 2, 2017 at 12:30 pm
A few months back, our friends over at Turnkey—Katrina VanHuss and Otis Fulton—sent us a copy of their latest book, “Dollar Dash: The Behavioral Economics of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.” And because NonProfit PRO’s September issue is our annual P2P issue, we thought it would be the perfect fit...
September 29, 2017 at 11:47 am
Since President Donald Trump’s administration ordered an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Sept. 5, nonprofit providers across New York City have responded to those directly affected by offering legal services and other help. The move would phase out a program, created by then-President Barack Obama in a June 2012 executive…
September 28, 2017 at 10:44 am
If you want to be sustainable over the long haul, you must incorporate this dual-pronged goal into your values and planning. The values part is critical, because if you don’t have goodwill internally (in how you treat your colleagues) you’re unlikely to have goodwill externally (in how others perceive you)...
September 27, 2017 at 1:09 pm
Charity regulators are cracking down on fundraising scammers after concerns that fraudsters had used tragedies such as Grenfell Tower and terror attacks to dupe donors. Fundraising platforms are to attend a meeting with the Charity Commission to agree new guidelines after websites, such as JustGiving and GoFundMe, were forced to suspend fundraising pages for tragedies,…
