Giving is good and makes people happy. That’s the short summary of my science of giving posts and infographics, but I recently saw another great infographic around this topic. The good folks at Happify cover different studies and stats around giving — not just to…

The good folks at Branded4Good recently had a post with lot’s of visuals and example websites titled, 14 Ways to Modernize Your Nonprofit Website for 2015. As more and more people use nonprofit website’s to find information, make donations and…

The former Director or Digital at charity: water, Paul Young, described the value of peer-to-peer fundraising best in his post 5 Biggest Lessons From Leading Digital At charity: water:

The majority of charity marketing uses…

A few months back, I came across a great Branded4Good post on 14 Ways To Modernize Your Website For 2015 and I picked out three key themes from their analysis:

1. Story & Impact
2. Simplicity & Action

Do you know what a pomelo is? I didn’t until the Heath brothers used two examples of how you could try to describe a pomelo to explain how simple communication can exist with complexity in their book Made to Stick. That’s a…

Why do people give (or why don’t they give)? It’s one of the most, if not the most, fundamental questions in fundraising. And perhaps more specifically, why does that person give? Donors can often get lumped into big buckets…

I want to be a charity nerd. Not in the “foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious” way but the “single-minded expert in a particular technical field” way (thanks for the definitions Google).