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Your nonprofit wants to ratchet up its brand visibility but who do you ask for the money?

Amidst all the recent financial gloom and doom, I thought it’s worthwhile to report a blip of good news on the fundraising front and relate the lessons that can be learned from it. The New [...]

This entry is in response to an op ed piece by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times on December 24, 2008: The Sin in Doing Good Deeds. Easing our insistence on low overhead ratios for [...]

How do nonprofit organizations address long sponsor names in their programs? As more nonprofits turn toward individual and corporate donors, they face the issue of how to acknowledge these [...]

NEWS FROM GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS Most foundations are not making changes they and their grantees say are essential to supporting nonprofit success, but there is evidence of a [...]

As the member of a grant allocations committee of a nonprofit, I was tasked with rating each grant application on a score card that posed the following questions:

Why don’t nonprofits value intellectual capital, particularly marketing expertise, when it can prove crucial to the success of their cause? I encountered that question when I learned about [...]

In light of current economic conditions, the nonprofit sector can’t afford to continue in a “business as usual” manner. This was the message that NYU Professor Paul Light delivered at the 6th [...]

After the three-day Nonprofit Congress in May, the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA), which produced the Nonprofit Congress, organized a lobbying day to create awareness about the [...]