Skip to content
raise money

4 Simple Steps to Raising All the Money Your Nonprofit Needs

In the world of nonprofits, it’s all about fundraising. You can’t do much in the way of service delivery or mission fulfillment without money. For fundraising staff, it IS all about raising money and sometimes it can be a challenge.…

Nonprofit Fundraising Basics

Nonprofit Fundraising Basics

One of the most important things that a nonprofit can do to build a sustainable organization is to develop a robust fundraising system. Funding for nonprofits typically comes from three sources: donations, grants, and program revenue. Each of these sources has benefits and…

Free Webinar – Grow Your Stewardship Program

Free Webinar – Grow Your Stewardship Program

Aplos Software, one of our valued business partners, is hosting a free online webinar on Tuesday, June 21st at 10:00 a.m. Pacific (1:00 p.m. Eastern). Join fundraising expert Dan Kimball for a one-hour webinar that will help you get a good…

raise money

Where To Find New Donors For Your Nonprofit

Guest Post by Fundraising Expert, Sandy Rees, CFRE You need new donors.  New donors bring money and other kinds of support to the table.  But the hard truth is this: If you don’t bring in new donors, you’ll eventually have…

Cultivating and Maintaining an Active Donor Base

Cultivating and Maintaining an Active Donor Base

So, you want new donors?  You want to make sure that you keep getting funds from the donors you currently have?  What are you doing to make sure that both of these things are happening?  If you lack a strategy and…

What Charities are Worth Your Donations? – Ignoring the Overhead Myth

What Charities are Worth Your Donations? – Ignoring the Overhead Myth

Dean Karlan, professor of economics at Yale University, recently wrote an article about determining if a charity is wasting donated money on overhead expenses. In this article, he discusses the “overhead ratio,” which we have discussed in a previous article.…

Vilifying Donor Advised Funds – ProPublica Gets It Wrong

Vilifying Donor Advised Funds – ProPublica Gets It Wrong

An article published yesterday by the online newspaper, ProPublica (which claims to focus on stories with “moral force”), is getting a lot of attention.  In the essay entitled, The Wall Street Takeover of Charity, writer Jesse Eisinger goes to great…

Back To Top