Prospecting: Help Craft an Appeal

An AmeriCorps Vista volunteer who is working at a nonprofit legal clinic in Indianapolis seeks advice on how to craft an appeal the charity plans to send this summer, as part of Prospecting, The Chronicle’s fund-raising blog. We encourage you to share you ideas on how to improve the appeal — and to learn from the suggestions placed by others.

Plus:

• A charity in Singapore finds a way to give donors easy access to all of its financial records.

• An American fund-raising software company expands in Europe.