International Fundraising

The President Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama of the Republic of Botswana, the Honorable Minister Dorcas Makgato of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers and Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital through public-private partnerships with the governments of Botswana, Uganda…

Gaining donor compliance is not new work. Nonprofits that recognize that our job is gaining donor compliance—that is a new idea. This idea is that we must embrace fully if we are to compete with other human hardships, faux fundraisers, radical hate groups and smarmy politicians of all kinds...

After months of uncertainty for foreign nonprofits, China released a list of activities the groups will be allowed to pursue under a controversial new law, with a surprising number of activities falling in potentially sensitive areas such as legal services. Chinese President Xi Jinping has waged a fierce campaign against foreign influences in the country,…

The Internet has changed the way we communicate, effectively rendering distance obsolete. Everyone and everything is a click away, opening new avenues for international fundraising. One of those avenues is crowdfunding, which can provide a solid secondary revenue stream for organizations of all sizes. Just ask Arlington Academy of Hope, a small nonprofit based in Arlington, Va...

All told, 1.4 billion people worldwide donated money in 2014, more than six times the amount of Americans who donated. This is not a knock on U.S. giving. It’s a reminder that the 
donor pool is much larger than many charities realize. International 
donors are a viable and underserved fundraising market, a vast pool of untapped resources. How do you tap into it?...

Lionel Messi is one of the world's best-known sports figures and one of the most famous people on the planet. So when the soccer star donated his cleats to an Arab television station, to later be auctioned for charity, it seemed like a nice gesture. Autographed Messi gear fetches big bucks online, so it's reasonable to assume it'd do the same for charity. Little did Messi know, his gift would cause an international incident...

A growing proportion of the world's population is giving money or time to charity, a new report from the Charities Aid Foundation finds. Based on surveys conducted by Gallup in 145 countries, the 2015 edition of the World Giving Index reports that 1.4 billion people made a gift to charity in 2014—a global participation level…

Go big or go home, right? That seems to be the mantra at the Greek Bailout Fund page on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. The campaign, started by a 29-year-old Brit named Thom Feeney, popped up two days ago, seemingly as a good-natured (if tongue-in-cheek) way to lend a hand to Greece, which yesterday announced it was unable to make its scheduled 1.8-billion-euro International Monetary Fund loan payment. "All this dithering over Greece is getting boring," reads the campaign's mission statement.

Ted Hart speaks with Penelope Cagney, president of The Cagney Co., about global fundraising on his Nonprofit Coach radio show. Cagney is co-editor of the 2015 Association of Fundraising Professionals/Skystone Ryan Partners Award in Research Winner, "Global Fundraising: How the World is Changing the Rules of Philanthropy."

“Global Fundraising: How the World is Changing the Rules of Philanthropy” by Penelope Cagney and Bernard Ross takes a continent-by-continent overview of philanthropy and fundraising, showcasing techniques and trends, opportunities and obstacles, and features authors with specific knowledge of each market or trend. Although “Global Fundraising” is organized also to highlight several major themes, there are some that resonated quite strongly with my own experience and observations of the international fundraising landscape. These are, in my view, among the most important things that any international fundraiser or nonprofit leader should know …