Health

As a special thank-you to St. Baldrick's for participating in our conference and for all the great work the organization does, in addition to the personal nature of cancer organizations, I volunteered to start a fundraising campaign for St. Baldrick's … and participate in shaving my head for the cause.

It is clear that foundation opportunities exist, but many FQHCs lack the grant sophistication to identify, target and secure these funds. To mitigate these barriers to funding, relying on grant professionals to prospect for key grantseeking priority areas, develop research-based programs, and submit competitive proposals will be critical to FQHCs' long-term grantseeking success in the post-ACA era.

Part of the power of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is that it relies on specific, one-on-one invitations to participate.

Canadian citizens, foundations, corporations and government agencies last year donated the largest amount of cash and pledges, more than $1.4 billion, in support of the nation’s health care institutions, according to the Report on Giving, Canada, issued by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. Fiscal year 2012 saw a 4.9 percent increase in donations over 2011. It was the fourth consecutive year of advances in philanthropic giving to Canadian health care institutions since 2008, when during the recession, such donations plunged 20 percent from year-earlier levels.

Imagine this: What you say and when you say it are completely out of your control for a full 24 hours. That’s what Surrender Your Say participants experienced via this imaginative campaign from Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada (TSFC). TSFC launched this out-of-the-box Twitter takeover to boost gut-level understanding of what having the disorder is like. Here are the four steps to Surrender Your Say’s success: show, not tell; make participation as active and energizing as possible; spur emotion and surprise; choose a platform that makes it easy to spread the word.

I recently recalled this great Easier Said Than Done column by Jeff Brooks from April 2009 and the equally great response from a reader that appeared in July of that year. First, the column, "When PC Equals BS" ... then the response, "We Are Not Afraid to Say 'Leprosy'"

I know the official Movember month has come and gone, so forgive my tardiness. But this year, thanks to a little challenge thrown down during an after-work happy hour, I joined in the Movember movement this November.

Ted Hart speaks with speaks with Dave Simms, general manager of events and community relationships at the Leukaemia Foundation in Australia, on his Nonprofit Coach radio show.

Donors to Canada’s health care institutions increased contributions by $151 million last year, 12.5 percent more than in fiscal year 2010. Cash donations and pledges in FY 2011 totaled $1.355 billion, according to the AHP Report on Giving-Canada issued by the Association for Health Care Philanthropy (AHP).

The improved fundraising in fiscal year 2011 primarily enabled Canadian hospitals and health care systems to pay for up-to-date equipment, which accounted for more than 53 cents of every donated dollar.

Donations to U.S. nonprofit hospitals and health care systems advanced 8.2 percent last year to $8.941 billion, but the cost of raising these funds remained close to post-recession highs, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), whose Report on Giving-USA for fiscal year 2011 was issued Monday.

The FY 2011 total for cash gifts and pledges represented a 4 percent increase over the previous high water mark of $8.588 billion set in FY 2008.