NonProfit Pro
February 26, 2015
Volunteers want you to succeed. These true believers will be more than happy to provide financial resources if you ask them. They do so at a rate 50 percent higher than non-volunteers and in amounts 50 percent higher than those who don't give their time.
February 26, 2015
To get a handle on what’s in store for 2015, NonProfit PRO rounded up some of the nonprofit industry’s finest, who were kind enough to share their nonprofit trends for 2015. Here are five accounting trends.
February 26, 2015
Chapman University has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a 98-year-old philanthropist who had charged that the university took advantage of his age to get him to donate $12 million for a technology building. University officials said donations from James and Catherine Emmi now will be used to create a scholarship fund. The agreement will resolve the suit, according to a brief statement issued Wednesday.
February 26, 2015
The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday. Most of the contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation’s 2008 agreement, which included limits on foreign-government donations.
February 26, 2015
David M. Huffine, CFRE, vice president for advancement for St. Joseph’s Villa in Richmond, Va., has helped raise an estimated $750 million in charitable funds over his career and been named the 2015 Outstanding Fundraising Professional by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Huffine will receive this award on March 28, 2015 at AFP’s International Fundraising Conference in Baltimore.
February 26, 2015
Knowledge matters in fundraising, but that's not all. What each of us brings to the job matters, and I am convinced that a daily commitment to these six habits is critical to be excellent fundraisers.
February 25, 2015
(Press release, Feb. 25, 2015) — Interact Intranet, the intelligent intranet software company, announced War Child as the overall winner of its annual Nonprofit Competition. War Child is a small, U.K.-based organization providing life-changing support to the most vulnerable children whose families, communities and schools have been torn apart by war. As the overall winner of Interact's global Nonprofit Competition, it wins a fantastic Interact Intranet software package worth $60,000, which will include consultancy, training and project management.
February 25, 2015
There is one important thing you can do to ruin your chances with a major donor. It's when you are guilty of being boring.
February 25, 2015
(Press release, Feb. 24, 2015) — Charitable giving in the United States is expected to grow by 4.8 percent in 2015 and by an additional 4.9 percent in 2016, according to The Philanthropy Outlook, a new report researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The report is presented by Marts & Lundy, a leading fundraising and philanthropy consulting firm. Projected rates of change are in 2013 inflation-adjusted dollars.
February 25, 2015
Nonprofit and social service organizations are as plentiful and diverse as the world itself. To better serve communities, nonprofits must bend, mold and adapt to rapidly changing conditions and so must the insurance industry that serves this specialty market, the experts say.
“The nonprofit world has become so diverse; organizations are always reinventing themselves to access additional funding,” says Diane McDaniel, senior marketing analyst at Lovitt & Touche, an independent insurance agency that employs nearly 200 employees in three offices and writes more than $300 million in total premium.
