A Personal Touch Helps the Y Recruit Affluent Donors to Its Cause
By showing donors how kids take advantage of Y sports facilities and youth programs, local Y’s spread the message about what their organizations do and encourage greater giving.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Nonprofits Hope for Holiday Fundraising Boost on #GivingTuesday
November 27 will mark what charities hope will become a new philanthropic tradition.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Lance Armstrong Charity’s Supporters Remain Upbeat After Doping Fight Ends
Corporate supporters as well as individuals were quick to show they wanted to continue to give to Livestrong.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Charities Learn to Turn Away Support Offered by Donors Who Are Overcome With Sympathy
Nonprofits are urged to think hard about what to do with an unexpected outpouring of contributions and devise steps to take when people offer unwanted donations.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Colo. Charities to Get First Funds to Aid Shooting Victims by Week’s End
Nonprofits helping the victims of the shooting rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., will receive $200,000 from the Community First Foundation.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Getting Support From Big Companies: 8 Tips for Fundraisers
Nonprofits need fundraisers who speak corporate donors’ language and can back up their pitch with strong data, say leaders of the giving units at America’s biggest companies.
10 Companies That Gave the Most Cash in 2011
Learn about the giving priorities and 2012 forecasts for companies such as Wal-Mart Stores, Goldman Sachs Group, and ExxonMobil.
Training Teachers to Become Fundraisers Pays Off
Youth Speaks, a nonprofit that brings poetry and spoken-word performances into schools, realized teachers were the group’s best cheerleaders.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Donors Say They Would Give More If They Saw More Results
A study of 15,000 donors finds young people are especially eager to give more but frustrated they aren’t asked often enough, while other donors say they are asked too often.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gives With No Strings
In his first public talk about his philosophy of giving, the technology guru said that when he donates money to charity, he likes to get involved as a volunteer, too.
By Raymund Flandez
Contributor