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AFP eWire
November 24, 2009 |
Most Nonprofits Experimenting With Social Media, But Struggle to Measure Value for Organization While seen as a good way to communicate with broad audiences and mobilize volunteer support, nonprofit executives are skeptical about social media's ability to reach donors, media and policy makers.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 14, 2005
Manda Salls |
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands Coca-Cola, move over. Many of the world's best-known brands belong to nonprofits, but the brand management issues these organizations face can be quite different. |
AFP eWire
July 31, 2012
Kim Fuller |
Let's Talk About Branding As the nonprofit landscape gets increasingly competitive, it's important to brand yourself by clearly conveying your organization's focus, credibility and unique contributions. |
AFP eWire
February 23, 2009 |
Lasting Impression: Moving Your Brand Beyond Logos and Letterhead An effective brand is inspiring and unique to your mission. If properly developed, it has value far beyond marketing, guiding mission-based services, communications outreach and development activities. |
AFP eWire
January 4, 2011 |
What is Branding, Anyway? A breakthrough nonprofit brand "convinces the head, touches the heart and engages the hands." |
AFP eWire
May 9, 2005 |
Strong Trustee--CDO Relationship Can Have Huge Impact on Fundraising When key players in a nonprofit---the CEO, board chair and chief development officer (CDO)---all share a common vision, the organization can function and fundraise more effectively, according to a recent research study. |
AFP eWire
August 18, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of August 18, 2014): 7 Favorite Topics of Boring Fundraisers Year-End Fundraising Decisions to Make Now... 7 Favorite Topics of Boring Fundraisers... 8 Nonprofits Lessons Learned from the 2014 FUSE Conference... |
AFP eWire
June 27, 2005 |
Taking the Mystery (and Misery) Out of Branding With almost a million nonprofit organizations in the United States alone, how do you make yours stand out? |
AFP eWire
March 20, 2006 |
Five New Books in the AFP Fund Development Series Cause Marketing for Nonprofits: Partner for Purpose, Passion, and Profits by Jocelyne Daw... Nonprofit Essentials: Major Gifts by Julia Ingraham Walker... Nonprofit Essentials: Managing Technology by Jeannette Woodward... etc. |
AFP eWire
November 29, 2011 |
Raising Awareness With Cause Marketing Done well, a cause-marketing issue promotion campaign can heighten awareness of your cause in the broader community, well beyond your current base of supporters. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2005
Gerald R. Solomon |
The New Conversation for Capacity Building Looking beyond institutionalized definitions can help the nonprofit sector reshape its approach to capacity building. |
AFP eWire
January 8, 2014 |
Creating Successful Nonprofit Boards, Staff and Programs--Take a Cue from Successful For-Profit Businesses Borrowing from for-profit best practices, Keith Jennings explains how you can revamp your nonprofit board, staff and programs in 2014 for your most successful fundraising year ever. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 12, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards Service on a nonprofit board can be a frustrating experience for executives grounded in a for-profit world. |
AFP eWire
September 16, 2015
Ingersoll & Gamble |
Five Steps to Stronger Succession Plans in Nonprofits The departure of long-time leaders, especially founder/CEOS, is particularly challenging in the nonprofit sector. |
AFP eWire
September 8, 2008 |
Recruit and Retain Quality Nonprofit Employees Organizations hoping to hire quality employees need to sell prospects on the big picture - focusing on rewards that come in other forms than a big paycheck, according to a recent roundtable of nonprofit recruiters, workforce experts and nonprofit practitioners. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 22, 2004
Manda Salls |
What Potential Donors Want to Hear from You Accountability and individual donors are becoming increasingly important in the world of fundraising, according to experts at a panel discussion. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 27, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits Nonprofit boards and executives are confronted by a confusing landscape of conflicting demands, rapidly evolving rules, and changing opportunities for finding resources. |
AFP eWire
March 20, 2011 |
Building Board Buy-In for Fundraising The first rule of board leadership in fundraising is to make sure that all board members understand and accept the concept that resource development is the responsibility of each and every member of the board. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2006
Kathleen P. Enright |
Philanthropy's Greatest Asset Grantmakers' success depends on the performance of nonprofit leaders. Committed people are at the heart of every innovation and every bit of progress the nonprofit sector makes. |
Job Journal
November 30, 2008 |
First Steps on a Nonprofit Career Path Inside insights on how to be in the right place at the right cause. |
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. |
CRM
August 12, 2015
Gabe Cooper |
Why Nonprofits Deserve CRM Innovation With charitable giving exceeding $298 billion in the U.S. alone, it's time that software companies gave nonprofits the attention they deserve by creating technology that truly serves their needs. |
AFP eWire
December 13, 2011
Mark Blumberg |
What Should Fundraising Cost? While most in the nonprofit sector are aware that fundraising is necessary, much of the public at large sees it as a distraction from a charity's main purpose, rather than a function requiring investment. |
AFP eWire
May 13, 2014 |
Four Current Annual Giving Trends and How to Incorporate Them into a Fundraising Plan Just as every spring brings with it the promise of renewal and the start of a new fiscal year, it can also inspire renewed annual giving programs. |
AFP eWire
September 10, 2007 |
Fundraising No Longer Confined to Development Positions More and more nonprofits are asking non-development staffers to get involved in the fundraising process. |
AFP eWire
September 1, 2009 |
The Vicious Cycle of Low Overhead Nonprofit leaders say it's time to break the cycle of unrealistic expectations for overhead spending. |
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... |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2005
Lee Draper |
Where the Money is: Tapping Overlooked Sources of Support for Nonprofits Where will the funding come from to enable nonprofits to serve more people? How can nonprofits find the capital to reorganize for greater efficiency and economies of scale or to invest in new ways to address growing social needs? |
AFP eWire
May 1, 2012 |
Creating Volunteer Opportunities -- The New Role of Fundraisers Think your organization's volunteers and its development office are two separate worlds? Think again, says Emily Davis, author of Fundraising and the Next Generation, new from the AFP Fund Development Series. |
AFP eWire
May 31, 2004 |
IRS to Examine Nonprofit Executive Pay The director of exempt organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said that the agency plans to take a close look at how much top executives at nonprofit organizations are being paid. |
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
January 25, 2011
Brydon M. DeWitt |
The Power of the Volunteer Working with volunteers is not easy. With the right support, however, volunteers can do more than any number of staff can do -- it's just a matter of harnessing their potential. |
AFP eWire
December 17, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of December 17, 2014): You Need Data Nerds! Here are some of the top items, articles and ideas you need to know so you can keep up-to-date and help your charity succeed. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 29, 2005
Manda Salls |
How Organizations Create Social Value A recent study on the factors that contribute to successful high-performance social enterprises finds a connection between enterprises that link economic value with social value. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 25, 2003
Stever Robbins |
The Essence of Leadership Rather than just study leaders (thousands of books on leadership cover that ground), I've asked hundreds of people who they follow and why. They say leadership is emotional; it's about inspiration, motivation, and connection. |
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
May 24, 2011 |
Six Things I Wish I Had Known at the Beginning of My Fundraising Career Here are six basic fundraising principles that I believe are fundamental to philanthropic giving and fund development. |
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. |
AFP eWire
January 15, 2013 |
New Study Questions Level of Fundraising Skills, Organizational Support for Philanthropy A new study of American charities and fundraisers raises strong concerns about the number of skilled professionals available for jobs and the lack of infrastructure in most nonprofits to support effective fundraising and philanthropy. |
AFP eWire
June 10, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of June 10, 2015): Five Questions to Help You Collect Stories from Staff Members Five Questions to Help You Collect Stories From Staff Members... Why I support 12 different charities... Five Tiers of a Corporate Relationship... |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 15, 2008
Roger Thompson |
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise Social enterprise as an entity is primarily in the business of creating social value, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. |
CIO
August 26, 2009
Thomas Hoffman |
Legal Considerations for Shared Services Choose a corporate model that reflects the mission of your shared services group |
AFP eWire
July 14, 2009 |
New Report Measures Nonprofit Brands A new study found that several leading nonprofits may not be sufficiently leveraging their brand to further increase their revenue. |
AFP eWire
March 14, 2005 |
Website Back to Basics: Core Content Think a solid, interactive and even innovative website is just for the bigger charities? Think again. Here begins a five-part series on how smaller and mid-size organizations can get back to website basics and develop sites that resonate with donors. |
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 14, 2008 |
Fundraising Strategies: Make Time for Innovation In fundraising and the nonprofit sector as a whole, the sky is the limit for new ideas and better methods. But the trick, say the authors of a recent W.K. Kellogg Foundation report, is to incorporate a culture of systematic innovation. |
AFP eWire
September 29, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 29, 2014): How to Handle List Removal Requests 6 Ideas for Dealing with "Take Me Off Your List" Requests... Millennial Givers and a Movement Approach to Giving... The No. 1 Fundraising Skill Your Board Members Need to Master... |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2004
Lee Draper |
Achieving Impact Without Giving Cash Grantmakers are trying to stretch dollars, but there are limits to their budgets' elasticity. How can we achieve broader impact with limited dollars? |
Foundation News & Commentary
Sep/Oct 2004
Allison H. Fine |
Blending the Bottom Line Nonprofits and grantmakers must meet each other halfway to move toward outcomes-focused approaches to collaboration. |
AFP eWire
May 14, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of May 14, 2014): 7 Things Every Nonprofit Should be Sharing on Social Media 7 More Philanthropists Sign Giving Pledge... Anatomy Of An Ask... 5 Tips for Nonprofits to Host Effective Walking Meetings... |
