Disabled American Veterans

The DMA Nonprofit Federation is very pleased to announce the selection of Carol Portale as its 2011 Max Hart Nonprofit Achievement Award recipient.

Portale, senior vice president of CRM and direct response for March of Dimes, will be honored for her achievements at the 2011 Washington Nonprofit Conference gala awards luncheon Feb. 18.

The DMA Nonprofit Federation is now seeking nomination submissions for the 2011 Max Hart Nonprofit Achievement Award. 

Fundraising is, by its nature, a selfless endeavor. The work is all about raising money to help others, and any good fundraiser knows the efforts are all about the donors and the missions. So when fundraisers acknowledge one of their own, it's no surprise for the honoree to credit others for his or her achievement.

June 19, 2009 — The DMA Nonprofit Federation is pleased to announce that effective July 1, 2009, Susan M. Loth, director of fundraising, Disabled American Veterans, will serve as Chairman and Geoffrey W. Peters, president, CDR Fundraising Group, will serve as Vice-Chairman of the Nonprofit Federation's Advisory Council. 

Convio, Inc. – the leading provider of on-demand constituent relationship management software and services to nonprofit organizations – today announced record annual revenue of $57.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2008, representing a 32 percent increase over 2007. Generating $2.9 million in operating cash flow for the year, and $1.2 million for the fourth quarter, Convio has now produced positive cash flow from operations in five of the last six quarters. In addition, Convio achieved profitability on a non-GAAP basis for both the fourth quarter and for fiscal year 2008.

John Melia is a no-nonsense kind of guy. He’s got what seems at first to be the naïve determination of a child building sand castles at water’s edge, not quite cognizant of the fact that the surf could swoop in at any moment and wreak havoc. It’s a refreshing assessment. But it’s also wrong. At 42, the wounded Gulf War vet and founder and executive director of the Jacksonville, Fla.-based Wounded Warrior Project is far from naïve about the way nonprofit organizations have historically worked. He just cuts the crap and focuses on how they should work. And in the case of WWP, how

As told by John Melia: I was a Marine in the early ’90s, and I was injured in a Marine Corps helicopter crash that killed four of my friends and injured 14 of us. So my experience coming home as a wounded vet kind of showed me some of the gaps in service delivery to [wounded] military members. In 2002, I was watching a news story on TV and saw a young Marine being loaded onto a helicopter, and it just brought back a flood of memories for me and I thought, “Boy, I bet that guy’s getting ready to go on the

After a brainstorming session one day, the Yoda of direct-response fundraising and I were mulling over ideas the group had generated. “You know,” Yoda said, “there really are no new offers anymore. It was easier to be brilliant before everybody started doing this. Now, you have to find a really good hook, or just the right spin, to make it seem new.”

Let's Get Personal Feb. 7, 2006 By Abny Santicola, associate editor, FundRaising Success Direct mailers, most nonprofit direct mailers in particular, are missing the golden opportunity that's personalization, says Tom Keller, captain of all that's direct mail at international fundraising consultancy Smith, Beers, Yunker and Co. Using nothing more than a prospect's ZIP code, mailers can go beyond merely personalizing the salutation at the top of a letter, using personalization to add relevancy to messaging by talking about mission-related issues that hit close to home and "bring the message to the doorstep of the person who is receiving the mail," Keller says. Keller