Fundraiser Education

Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Tyler Cashman, Fundraiser of the Year. For most fundraisers, conceptualizing, implementing and coordinating a new 
program, especially one dependent upon volunteers, is a difficult task. But Tyler Cashman is no ordinary fundraiser. He’s a seventh grader...

Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Alex Goldsmith, Board Member of the Year. As head of strategy for Macquarie 
Investment Management, a global fund management company, Alex Goldsmith knows a thing or two about business. o it’s no surprise that, as a board member for The HOPE Program, he provided essential leadership and business expertise...

Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Rebecca Bond, Executive of the Year. The gun debate in America is a contentious one. For the most part, the pro and anti crowds are locked in a stalemate, neither side willing to concede ground to the other. Compromise is rare. Rebecca Bond wants to change all that...

Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Jo Ann Remender, Lifetime Achievement. How do you distill a lifetime of unparalleled accomplishments into 350 words? It’s not easy, and it’s even harder when you’re working with a resume like that of Jo Ann Remender. Let’s start with the numbers...

Announcing the winners of the NonProfit PRO Nonprofit Professionals of the Year Awards: Alison Silberman, Nonprofit Professional of the Year. When Alison Silberman took over as director of field engagement for Ovarian Cancer Research Fund in 2012, tasked with overseeing the STS program, it was a big deal for the health-care nonprofit, and for Silberman. The program’s future was in her hands...

In June, everyone shifts into summertime mode. The kids are done with school. Summer camps and vacations are anticipated. And for many nonprofit marketers, work slows down or takes on a different pace. How can you make the most of summertime mode? Here are a few creative summertime fundraising projects Taylor Shanklin discussed during last…

When people give to causes that are deeply meaningful to them, they feel like a million bucks. Understanding this—truly, deeply understanding this—is so important I’m going to repeat it in bold and italics. When people give to causes that are deeply meaningful to them, they feel like a million bucks. This is the key to…

This week the internet is awash in news about the latest number from Giving USA and the record amount given to charity. But if you are the more typical fundraiser, wearing several hats and trying to eke out enough donated income to meet your budget, you may glance at all this coverage and say, "So what?"...

The beloved and I were meeting recently over dinner with Robert, (not his real name) a fundraising executive with one of the top 20 health care nonprofits. Robert had been in this particular position for only four months, and was telling me about the challenges he is facing navigating the organizational chart to get things done...

How is it good in the context of nonprofit fundraising, marketing and management? How do you know you’re changing in the right direction? And at the right time? I'm a firm believer in challenging the status quo, as long as that does not ipso facto mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater...