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AFP eWire April 2, 2013 |
Seven Steps to Getting Started with Google+ Two months ago Marc Pitman shared WHY your nonprofit needed to be on Google+. Now that you hopefully are, he's back to provide an update on why, and next steps on how to use it to your nonprofit's advantage. |
AFP eWire January 10, 2012 |
Key Trends for the Nonprofit Sector in 2012 The biggest impact on the nonprofit sector in 2012 will be the maturation of social media and mobile giving, a greater role for peer-to-peer engagement, and a move toward donors dictating the terms of interactions. |
AFP eWire July 30, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of July 30, 2014): 10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers 10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers... Nonprofit finds revenue stream in its lobby... Research on Fundraising Strategies Proven to Work... |
AFP eWire October 28, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of October 28, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Opportunities Missed From Too Many Fundraising Channels... The Dos and Don'ts of Donor `Thank You' Calls... Do You Know if Your #Fundraising is Failing?... |
AFP eWire April 16, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 16, 2014): 5 Unusual Direct Mail Techniques to Try A Little Networking Can Go a Long Way... If You Can't Support the Cause, Don't Take the Job... Three Ways to Deepen Donor Engagement... |
AFP eWire April 23, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 23, 2014): Americans Want To Give Back With Their Purchases--Not With Charity Checklist: Is Your Online Giving Site Donor-Friendly?... Show Your Donors How You Are Making a Difference... What's A Fundraiser Worth?... |
AFP eWire January 12, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of January 12, 2015): Making--and Keeping--Major Gifts and New Year's Resolutions Fundraising Research: Study: Corporate Giving Improves Employee Performance... NPQ's 11 Biggest Nonprofit Stories of 2014 and Their Implications for Our Future... Top 10 Major Donor Fundraising Trends... etc. |
AFP eWire May 25, 2010 |
Dive In! Research Shows Nonprofit Social Media Programs Lack Adequate Investment New research into social media use by nonprofits shows that the best success has come to nonprofits that invest more staff to the job -- and solicit outside advice and training. |
AFP eWire April 29, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of April 29, 2015): Crossfit, Human Rights, Shakespeare and the Zoo--How Making it Personal Makes all the Difference The Nonprofit Job Skills You'll Need by 2020... Nonprofits Work to Come to Terms with Minimum and Living Wage Standards... With Ice Bucket Challenge in the Rear View, What's Next for Fundraising?... |
AFP eWire November 4, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of November 4, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! The Most Sinister Word in Fundraising... 9 Super Scary Nonprofit Website Mistakes... Setting Your Charitable Contributions Goal... |
AFP eWire October 1, 2013 Claire Kerr |
How Does Your Organization Define "Success" in Social Media Fundraising? Fortunately for those of us who love social channels, it's now much simpler to prove that platforms like Facebook or Twitter (or even Pinterest!) have a measurable impact on your fundraising projects. |
AFP eWire August 7, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (August 7, 2013) Philanthropy beat: Young donors want to see results... A Walk Around the Track With an Event Donor... Design Thinking: A Powerful Tool for Your Nonprofit... |
AFP eWire March 9, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of March 9, 2015): How Your Donor and Your Goldfish Are Alike 4 tips you can us to attract attention from prospective donors... What is "stickiness" in fundraising and how can you measure it?... Thanking donors... etc. |
AFP eWire April 9, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 9, 2014): David Letterman Retiring, Jimmy Fallon on the Rise and Social Media Private Charity Can't Replace Government Social Programs... What Rights Do Your Donors Have?... If You Can't Support the Cause, Don't Take the Job... |
AFP eWire April 30, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 30, 2014): Has the Word 'Impact' Lost Its Impact? How to Predict the Success of a Nonprofit Program Before It Starts... How to Get People Excited About Your Nonprofit's Next Fundraising Campaign... Has the Word `Impact' Lost Its Impact?... |
AFP eWire July 5, 2011 |
What Good is Facebook? Having a Facebook page for your nonprofit can help drive traffic to your website and raise awareness of your organization, but it is proving less effective at helping an organization recruit volunteers and raise funds, according to a recent survey. |
Job Journal November 23, 2008 Shelly Cryer |
A New Day in the Nonprofit Sector The dynamic, evolving, and rapidly expanding nonprofit sector offers abundant career opportunities -- and plenty of jobs providing a livable salary. |
AFP eWire December 13, 2004 |
Many Charities Misreporting Fundraising, Administrative Costs Public and donor pressure to keep administrative and fundraising expenses low may be leading nonprofit organizations to underreport such costs, according to a new study. |
AFP eWire November 24, 2009 |
Tricks of the Trade: Integrate the "4 Ps" of Traditional Marketing into Your Plan Can nonprofits apply the traditional marketing mix and achieve great fundraising results? |
AFP eWire September 21, 2010 |
Four Easy Steps to Social Media Success Here are four simple steps for developing a social media program at your nonprofit, taken from a white paper by the organization NPower. |
AFP eWire October 13, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of October 13, 2014): Moving a First-Time Donor to a Major Donor 7 Fundamental Principles of Major Capital Campaigns... Who Would You Rather Ask for a Gift: a Woman or a Man?... Move a First-Time Donor to a Major Donor... |
AFP eWire October 7, 2015 |
Chatting about Social Media Ethics with David Tinker, CFRE, and Lisa Chmiola, CFRE AFP recently chatted with David Tinker, CFRE and Lisa Chmiola, CFRE about how to responsibly and ethically interact with donors and donor information online. |
AFP eWire April 10, 2012 |
Online Giving Still Fastest Growing Fundraising Channel with Almost 16 Percent Increase in 2011 A new study shows that online fundraising continues to grow robustly. |
AFP eWire March 27, 2006 |
Nonprofit Executives Burning Out, Planning to Leave Jobs A survey of almost 2,000 nonprofit executives found that 75 percent are planning on leaving their jobs within five years, while another 10 percent are already in the process of switching job. |
AFP eWire August 25, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of August 25, 2014): 6 Signs of a Well-run Nonprofit Organization Turning Tragedy into Action!... Using #GivingTuesday to Experiment with New Fundraising Strategies... 6 Signs of A Well-run Nonprofit Organization... |
AFP eWire April 11, 2005 |
Back to Basics: Make Your Site User-Friendly Do you think investing in expensive website redesigns will make your website more user-friendly? Here are the basic elements that should be incorporated into a nonprofit website before you even look at costly new technology. |
AFP eWire February 2, 2004 |
Donors Increasingly Give Online Donors are using the Internet to give online, and at the same time, many nonprofits are planning to increase online fundraising this year, according to two new surveys from Kintera Inc. |
AFP eWire May 29, 2012 Derrick Feldmann |
You Get More With Facebook Than You Give -- Is Your Organization Stepping Up to the Challenge? Here are three suggested applications for non-profit organizations that use Facebook. |
AFP eWire August 28, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: September Is Boom Time for Donors, Google Says (August 28, 2013) Year-end Fundraising: Tips to Maximize Your End-of-Year Fundraising... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: Crowdfunding is the New Donation... Donors: How to keep new donors... |
AFP eWire September 8, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 8, 2014): Strategic Strategeries on Strategy! Donor Retention Strategies from Nonprofit Experts... Silent Auction Strategies that Increase Revenue... Find Out if Your Fundraising Writing is too "Latin."... |
AFP eWire November 17, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of November 17, 2014): What to Leave Behind During a Major Gift Ask The Only 6 Things You Need to Take/Leave When Making the Ask... The Great Mysteries of Donor Retention... 10 Steps to Create an Appeal Letter That Brings in the Money... |
AFP eWire March 26, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (March 26, 2013) Nonprofits Taking Steps to Adapt to `New Normal', Survey Finds ... Money Woes Plague Charities Struggling to Meet Demand... 7.4% Of World Workforce In Nonprofits... |
AFP eWire April 25, 2005 |
Nonprofit Sector is an Economic Force in Massachusetts The State's nonprofit sector generates about $50 billion in salaries, goods, services and expenditures for the state, according to a recent study. |
AFP eWire January 5, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of January 5, 2015): Beth Kanter's New Year's Ritual Top ideas for fundraising: Email tips... How different generations give... A donor's advice to nonprofits... etc. |
AFP eWire March 18, 2014 |
ICON Teaser: Fact vs. Fiction: What's New Online that Really Works? Harry Lynch, CFRE is the CEO of Sanky Communications, a leading agency that helps nonprofits leverage the power of the Internet to educate, advocate and raise funds. |
AFP eWire June 19, 2012 |
Websites, Email Newsletters Still Important to Smartphone-Wielding Young People Technology is changing rapidly, but there is good news for nonprofits and fundraisers trying to keep up. For one, websites and email are by no means obsolete, a recent survey of young people indicates. |
AFP eWire November 15, 2011 |
Growing Philanthropy: Building Greater Trust in the Sector (Part 2 of 3) Trust and confidence in the nonprofit sector is paramount. We need to empower the public to have high expectations of charities, and ensure that each organization reports accurate and meaningful information. |
AFP eWire August 4, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of August 4, 2014): And the Best Subject Line Is... How to Turn Audience Emotion into Action... What to Look for When Hiring a New Fundraising Staff Replacement... One Hand Washes the Other: Making Connections for a Fee... |
AFP eWire June 7, 2004 |
U.S. Nonprofit Employment Rate Increasing Faster Than Business, Government Employees at nonprofits now represent 9.5 percent -- 12.5 million individuals -- of all employees in the United States. The total number of employees working in the nonprofit sector has doubled in the last 25 years. |
AFP eWire April 2, 2014 |
Mobile Impact 101 - Guest Blog by Darian Rodriguez Heyman Darian shares some insights around how AFP members can leverage the fundraising potential of mobile. |
AFP eWire October 20, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of October 20, 2014): Influencing Donors' Gut Reactions to Solicitations Is Your Annual Report Brilliant, or Boring?... New Fundraising Study Provides Data on Impact of Technology... Helping Board Members Become More Effective at Fundraising... |
AFP eWire July 24, 2013 |
Attention Small Nonprofits -- Donor Screening Services Are More Tangible Than You Think Even the smallest nonprofit can benefit from the resources available to the larger nonprofits, if they create a set of reasonable goals and expectations. |
AFP eWire July 3, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (July 3, 2013) Five Fundraising Approaches That Won't Frighten Your Board... How to Make Giving Feel Good... Is Your Nonprofit Ready to be Super Relevant?... |
AFP eWire September 22, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 22, 2014): Can a New Governance Model Help Your Organization? 9 Best Practices for Distributing Nonprofit Content on Social Networks... Super Short Storytelling that Hooks Digital Donors... 3 Steps to Year-End Fundraising Success... |
AFP eWire September 1, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 1, 2014): 5 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Reach Millennials Do you have a #GivingTuesday Campaign?... Lack of Pay a Growing Challenge for Nonprofit Interns... When It Comes To Reaching Your Target Audience, Personality Goes A Long Way... |
Job Journal April 11, 2004 Jennifer Corkery |
Fundraisers & Grant Writers Fundraisers and grant writers prove indispensible to nonprofits. |
AFP eWire February 11, 2015 |
Blackbaud Report on Online Giving While not all online fundraising was quite as engaging as the Ice Bucket Challenge, buoyed by improving fundraising platforms, online fundraising as a whole saw significant growth in 2014. |
AFP eWire October 14, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of October 14, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Have You Mastered Nonprofit Video Yet?... Rekindling Organizational Passion Through Your Case for Support... Fundraising For Your Future... |
AFP eWire August 21, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: 25 Situations Only Nonprofit People Can Understand (August 21, 2013) Fundraising Research: Raising Money in a Changing World... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: You Have 6 Nonprofit Story Types to Tell... Donor Psychology: The Static State of Philanthropy... |
AFP eWire February 11, 2014 |
Five Powerful Social Media Experts Lead You To Social Change at the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising There's a reason that these five social media experts have more than a collective 422,000 followers on Twitter -- they are leading the nonprofit world to social change through their social media efforts. |