Canadian economist and author William Watson recently commented, in an Ottawa Citizen article entitled The dying-technology charity pitch, on the absurdity of receiving address labels as part of charity direct-mail fundraising…

That’s what I thought after I read through a recent email from charity: water. I’m sure many others received an email just like mine but it felt like I was the only one in the world. And because of that…

Mashable recently published a great post covering 6 Apps That Fit Charity Into Your Daily Routine and building on that, HubSpot had a similar rundown in their 5 Mobile Apps Nonprofits Can Use to Boost Donations. So instead…

As I’ve been doing some research and writing around crowdfunding for #GivingTuesday I came across the following infographic from Craig Newmark on his site craigconnects. It’s a pretty solid infographic summarizing a lot of the data from around the web. In particular…

Crowdfunding according to Oxford Dictionaries:

The practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet:

Question: Which charity saw 89% growth in contributions in 2012 and now ranks as the 2nd largest nonprofit organization in the United States? If you guessed Fidelity Charitable then you win the prize (I’ll give it to myself for now and send to you later, that joke will…

Social fundraising can be a cost effective, successful fundraising strategy with long-term benefits, but it does take some time and effort to do it well. So, let’s dig in to how you can go about running your own social fundraising campaign.