Robert is a 10-year-old boy who likes to play games. He's a great young boy who cares about his family, and he's fortunate to be a member of a large family of 12, which include seven brothers and sisters, two parents, an uncle by marriage and a baby cousin. He’s got a lot of love [...]
A recent study by the Pew Research Center, Americans have a great standard of living. Yes, we do have inequality in our country. That’s a global issue as well. However, we have more wealth in this country than people living in other nations. According to global standards 56 percent of Americans are considered high income [...]
Last week I published the first part of my conversation with Neil, a strategist and fundraiser, which you can find by clicking here. This week I’d like to continue our discussion as the talk shifted to nonprofit leadership, management and donors. You’ve spoken a lot about the changes and investments nonprofits need to make. Do [...]
With the fall comes a lot of nonprofit fundraising events to promote. One of the best ones I’ve seen recently was with the Whitesboro Music Boosters out of Marcy, New York. Their coordinator, Robin Wynn, was searching out fundraising ideas and decided to do a shoe drive fundraiser. Throughout the year, Whitesboro Music Boosters does [...]
We know there is a greater demand for fundraisers than there are talented people to fill the jobs. It doesn’t matter if you’re the CEO of a large organization or you have a small shop and are in need someone with smarts and skills to raise money for you. Philanthropy has changed a lot since [...]
Not Your Father's Charity is pleased to feature the following guest post by Dolma Beresford, IFC Group Have you ever considered crowdfunding as a viable fundraising activity for your organisation, but didn’t know where to start? Here are five top tips to getting started. Start With Your Own Network To make a crowdfunding project successful [...]
You want to succeed in your fundraising. One of the best places to begin is with your board. It doesn’t matter what type of board giving policies you have and it’s not important who serves on your board. Every board needs the support and motivation to raise money for their organization. All boards have a [...]
If you’re a nonprofit fundraiser, you’ve started thinking about your year-end appeal. You want to make it compelling, of course. You want to have the best images that capture your work. You also want to accompany this photography with written copy that will move to give to your organization. Many nonprofits rise and fall with [...]
Last week I had the opportunity to speak to a philanthropist in her 80’s. Leigh (she asked me not to use her last name) actually worked in the nonprofit sector for decades only retiring last year. Those who know her consider her a master fundraiser having raised tens of hundreds of millions of dollars during [...]
I received a nonprofit fundraising email the other day. As most of us quickly do, I scanned it and noticed they were promoting a mud run. I love innovative and creative ways to fundraise and I think those organizations that are focused on peer-to-peer fundraising and team events should consider a mud run as well. [...]
