“Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? 42.3% of the entire American population use Facebook. Twitter has over 16 million users. YouTube is the second most used search engine in the world. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large [...]
Charitable Giving – Donors Set to Give More to Charity in 2011
05/11/2011 By Leave a Comment
“Just as more jobs are being created, and the economy continues to lurch forward in a recovery, the outlook for charitable giving is trending upwards, according to the 2011 Cygnus Donor Survey that came out in April.Here are the ‘aha’ moments from that incredibly thorough and wide-reaching survey. Charitable Giving Up Respondents to the survey [...]
How to Reinvest Profits with a Non-Profit
04/26/2011 By Leave a Comment
Around election time, politicians like to talk-the-talk about the importance of small businesses to economic vitality. Often overlooked in the rhetoric is the contribution of new non-profit organizations to regional economies. Non-profits have the same ability to attract outside capital through donations and grant awards, increase employment, and produce a ripple effect of economic activity [...]
Can Non-Profit Investors Help Grow The Next Silicon Valley?
04/23/2011 By Leave a Comment
A recent New York Times article dove into the idea of organically creating the next Silicon Valley. Its author, Steven Davidoff, reviewed the different ingredients public and private sectors are adding to their entrepreneurial ecosystems and touched on a growing consensus that government does, and should, have a role in entrepreneurship. In illustrating this, Davidoff [...]
Myths about Online Volunteering
04/21/2011 By Leave a Comment
Are myths about online volunteering preventing your organization from tapping into this valuable resource? In the following article, which first appeared on the website Coyote Communications, consultant Jayne Cravens dispels some common misconceptions about finding and working with online volunteers. Online volunteering means unpaid service that is given via the Internet, either via a computer [...]
The Celebrity Foundations Directory
12/11/2010 By Leave a Comment
The Celebrity Foundation directory, 2010 second edition has just been released. The directory consist of a database of more than 1700 foundations of celebrities and notable individuals in various fields; such as business, entertainment, politics, and sports.The Celebrity Foundation Directory provides information about your favorite celebrities foundation. example William J Clinton Foundation. photo © 2009 [...]
Board Governance: Best Practices for Not-for-Profit CEO Evaluation
06/21/2010 By Leave a Comment
Being a member of a not-for-profit organization’s board of directors allows members to be directly involved in the decision-making that ultimately decides the mission and direction of the organization However, with the transitory nature of many boards, with members often serving one or two terms, it can sometimes be difficult to set specific, consistent guidelines [...]
New App Helps Charities Make More Money Online
06/17/2010 By Leave a Comment
Name: Nadanu : “Enables non-profits, educational institutions, campaigns and businesses to use a secure, next-generation fundraising platform to increase interaction, awareness and support. Our patent pending technology will create a simple, fun to use and accessible method of collecting donations and interacting with your donors.” Quick Pitch: Nadanu transforms the electronic giving into a simple, [...]
The For-Profit to Non-Profit Career Switch
06/09/2010 By Leave a Comment
Would it surprise you to learn that a LOT of the folks I’m working with today (and I suspect the same is true of other career coaches) are expressing strong interest in the possibility of making a career switch from the for-profit to the non-profit sector? Predictably, when things get tough in corporate world, a [...]
Nonprofit-news pioneer sees promise in non-profit news done by advocacy, membership groups
06/09/2010 By Leave a Comment
he erosion of the traditional business model for news has led many to go down the non-profit path. The result is a slew of new non-profit news websites. The Bay Citizen, which launchedat the end of May, is the newest and joins the likes of ProPublica, MinnPost, and the Texas Tribune, to name just a [...]