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This infographic from online fundraising platform provider MobileCause, Online Giving Tips for Maximum Donations, lays out ways nonprofits can maximize online giving. Here are the seven tips MobileCause provides.

Since the recession, the rich have benefited most from financial gains, but interestingly, at the same time, it's the poor who upped their giving during that period while higher-income people gave less, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Using IRS data, the Chronicle found that between 2006 and 2012, the lowest-income Americans bumped up the share of their incomes that they gave to charity, but as they went up the income ladder, the charitable giving grew smaller and smaller.

Nonprofit boards can be a huge pain point for many people. Here are 23 habits of high-performing nonprofit boards to help alleviate that pain.

Nonprofits should utilize the DMA Nonprofit Federation's Nonprofit Accountability Dashboard. It's a great step in furthering the discussion and truly educating the public on what running an effective nonprofit organization really means. That's what nonprofit leadership is all about.

Well-meaning commentators needlessly snipe back and forth while espousing their analyses of the pros and cons of either the traditional nonprofit model or those more aligned with a business-oriented approach. Nonprofits must continuously strive for innovation. We must constantly review methodologies and find areas for improvement—just like any nonprofit. Above all, in our specific field, we must find ways to put treatments into the hands of those who need them. Commentators can call it what they want; we call it effective drug development success.

This video takes a look at year-end mailings from Project HOPE and Habitat for Humanity. Be sure to join Project HOPE's Richard Rumsey at the NonProfit PRO Leadership Conference, which will be held in Washington, D.C. on May 5. Register today!

A big part of life—as we know from our profession—is continually giving and continually learning. Continue to associate with great folks and be part of a cause larger than yourself. Don't make leading or giving a "season of life." Make it a lifelong habit and commitment.

More tweets from the 2015 Association of Fundraising Professionals International Fundraising Conference (#AFPICON).

(Press release, April 1, 2015) — The Blackbaud Index today reported that overall charitable giving to nonprofits increased 3.5 percent and online giving increased 9.9 percent for the three months ending February 2015 as compared to the same period in 2013-2014.

A proposed change to the Pennsylvania state Constitution, which aims to give legislators more power to set rules for tax exemptions, has stalled in the House after whizzing through the Senate, jeopardizing its chances of appearing on the November ballot. The proposed 28-word amendment aims to cement the role of the Legislature in defining “purely public charities.”