Fundraising sucks. Fundraisers suck too. That’s the general gist of yet another sobering report coming out of the nonprofit sector by CompassPoint looking at challenges facing nonprofits. Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog has a good recap and summary if you…

Amazon recently launched a new initiative, just in time for the holidays, called AmazonSmile where a percentage of what you purchase can go to a charity of your choice. Awesome for charities right? Wrong.

Have you ever wondered why people don’t give? Or why people don’t give more? A frustrating question that took on a new meaning for me after I had visited a project in Zambia I was working on with Spark Ventures. After coming back I felt so passionate, so broken, so…

There’s a great debate within the charitable sector around the value of a “Like” or if it really helps a cause in the long run. This is usually a debated around “slacktivism” and a recent study has brought it to the surface again. The study finding is summarized…

53% of donors leave due to the charity’s lack of communications. That’s according to the latest findings from Bloomerang and their guest post on the Non-Profit Marketing Blog. I’ve talked about how donors don’t care about you and why you should care…

I’ve gone on record with why I hate Giving Tuesday but I’m curious to know what others thought. Were you bombarded with appeals? Were any of them good? Did you volunteer or get involved in a different way? If so, what was your experience?

By Solving The Acquisition Problem Are You Creating Retention Problems? This is another good question you may not have asked yourself but it is work considering. Donor acquisition is one of the hardest…

I believe we are undercutting the potential of the nonprofit sector by the constraints we impose upon it, intentionally or not, but are we killing the creativity of the actual people who are working for a nonprofit or with nonprofits as well…