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Not Your Mentor's Nonprofit Sector Conference
It has been two weeks since the Social Enterprise Summit/World Forum conference in San Francisco. I am still following up on contacts, good and crazy ideas, and only now looking through scores of handwritten notes for highlights. Where I imagine I will uncover even more cool ideas. Find more...
Friend and colleague (ok, Trusted Critical Friend and Good For Me Pushy Colleague) forwarded me a link to Christine Martell's recent post on restarting a neglected blog. Part part reflection, part confession, part checklist, and part nudge, it struck home because I've been been feeling mighty guilty about being behind...
Not a Joke: Foundations That Abuse Their Superpower, Convening
Mark Rosenman’s new report Caring to Change reminded me of my own scattered but at times impassioned critique of foundation practice. Note: Who's Zooming Who post, which shines a spotlight on the inherent power differential between nonprofits and funders. Inherent, no matter how honorable program officers are (and there are...
Foundations: Innovation, Really?
Among interviewees and participant advisors to the project that resulted in the report Caring to Change, many see foundations as embodying double standards for innovation and risk. With all the trendy and appealing chatter about “innovation” and game-changing, scalable solutions (see White House, see new journals, see social venture philanthropy),...
Caring Enough to Change Philanthropy
I just finished reading a new report on bettering philanthropy, Caring to Change: Foundations for the Common Good, the result of a project developed by Mark Rosenman in collaboration with the Aspen Institute's Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. A veteran researcher and thought leader in the nonprofit and philanthropy...
Been meaning to get around to promoting your nonprofit's cause through video, have ya? Well, no more excuses for you! YouTube has a Nonprofit Program with tips and tricks to help you get you started, such as:Reach Out. Post videos that get YouTube viewers talking, and then stay in the...
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Fundraising: Creating A Page On Facebook
Social sites are very popular and Facebook is an attractive option to market your fundraiser. If you’ve decided you’re ready to take the plunge, here are the steps to creating a Page for your non-profit. Set up a Page for your group on Facebook: The easiest way to do a Page on...
Template For A Donation Request Letter
If you need some help with a donation request letter for your group, feel free to use the following template to create your letter. (Or click over for complete donation request letters and thank you letters to copy and modify with your own information.) [date] Dear [potential donor], Thank you for...
This is an article by Larissa Long. For guidelines about sending a guest post, click here. Social media has taken over the world. It is used for everything from socializing to news. It has become a necessity in marketing and advertising, and non-profits are no exception. Social media is crucial to...
Guest Post on FundraisingIP.com
If you’re interested in sending an article and have us publish it as a guest post, please refer to following guidelines: We’re open to any topic that will be useful to our readers: anything related to fundraising, non-profits, volunteers, donations, social media marketing etc. - only send original articles that have...
Is An SMS Fundraiser Right For Your Group?
With close to $40,000,000 in donations, the Haiti SMS fundraiser is a great example of people coming together to help those in need. This effective and inventive fundraising effort by the American Red Cross was the perfect way to raise money quickly and from many different demographic groups. ...
Relay For Life Fundraising Ideas
Coming up with new ways to raise money can be a hassle, but when it comes to Relay For Life, fun ideas which are easily scalable are still the way to go. Whether you choose to just use one of these ideas or all of them, you’ll be sure to...
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Six $5,000 Awards for Excellent Nonprofits
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To celebrate rebranding from the Christian Children’s Fund, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund receives. These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. There is no...
Save the dates! Aug 17-23 = Restaurant Week
KRLD Restaurant Week presented by Central MarketAugust 17-23You’ve waited all year – and it’s almost here! Select from any of the over 120 restaurants and enjoy a fabulous three-course dinner for just $35 per person. For each prix fixe dinner purchased, participating restaurants will make a...
Deficits - Coming to a town near you?
From the revolutionaries at the V3 Campaign: This week is a big week for state governments. The majority of state legislators are dropping their budgets today, and nearly all of them are coming up short. Forty-seven states will be posting over $130 billion in red...
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How do donors choose which charities they support?
A report by Beth Breeze for CGAP, I haven’t had a chance to read this but will be taking a look at it over the next few days, so you may see a follow up post. Thanks to Mark Phillips for posting the link to the PDF of this report...
£40m Lottery cash to support Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable people
The Big Lottery Fund yesterday launched its Reaching Out programmes – Empowering Young People and Connecting Older People – which aims to invest up to £40 million to support older people and young people most at risk. Empowering Young People is a £20 million programme to support some of Northern Ireland’s most vulnerable young...
PFRA announces 2009/10 F2F sign up figures
The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association – the self-regulatory body for all types of face-to-face (F2F) fundraising in the UK – today announces the end of year activity results for F2F. With the final few weeks of 2009/10 still to be compiled, F2F sign-ups on the street and door are recorded at...
You arent what you say you are
You are what your donors and supporters think you are, you are what your donors feel about you and most importantly, you are what your donors say you are. Nestle say they are “the world’s foremost nutrition, health and wellness company”. Do you think thats what most people say, think...
I had a discussion a few weeks ago about a lot of things to do with the non profit sector and one of the things that cropped up, really briefly, was about the need for/existence of non profits. But not in the sense of “there are too many” etc…. The...
Communities and Business Working Together
I missed this when it came out, so in case you did to, here is a link to a guide from Business in the Community Ireland. They say it is “a guide on how communities and business can work together and mutually benefit from a partnership with one another. The aims of the guide are...
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Your Student Advisory Council (SAC) set its goals high at the beginning of September 2009 and the Mc...
Sonstrust Quiz Night - 30th Oct 2010 OUR tenth annual – yup, our tenth (wow) – Quiz Nigh...
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This month’s been a bit of a whirlwind for us here at Mondo. With the Loup Garou ready for its...
“The best things in life are free, But you can keep ‘em for the birds and bees; Now give...