Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The proceeds from the sale of honey and herbs, combined with donations raised through fundraising events, were used to assist local residents in need. nafda Schools Connecting to Civil Society Organizations Each nafda school was allocated a small block grant based on its size.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Image Credit: PeopleImages on iStock When Amy Neugebauers third-grader son came home from school one day, he ran upstairs to raid his piggy bank for an American Heart Association fundraiser. While children are increasingly involved in school-based fundraising, this is often framed as the haves giving to the have-nots.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

voluntary [third sector, civil society]) groups that manifest substantial voluntary altruism as groups and use the associational form of organization and, thus, have official memberships of volunteers who perform most, and often all, of the work/activity done in and by these nonprofits. But this does not explain why AVOs exist.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Throughout the region, civil society and philanthropy efforts have long operated within various forms of constraint, whether legal, political, or cultural. Navigating sensitivities and working within boundaries is not new, but neither has it stopped these efforts from advancing.

Philanthropy

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 24, 2025

For more than 50 years, our program at Drexel University in Philadelphia has helped train thousands of students for careers in arts management, fundraising, community engagement, and cultural planning. For instance, I help run one of the leading university-based arts administration departments in the country.

Foundations

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 13, 2025

The corps received seed funding from attorney Jay Sadd, former president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and is fundraising the rest of its program costs. The nonprofit law firm Washington Litigation Group opened in August to provide pro bono representation to “defend the rule of law” and challenge governmental overreach.

Civil Society

Candid

MAY 8, 2025

Across rural America, civil society and the public and private sectors are coming together to actively engage local leaders in planning, delivery, and refining efforts to drive lasting positive change. To address these challenges, its key to consider local complexities. Thats where community-led impact comes in. positive change.

Civil Society

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Maybe you relied on your database manager, digital fundraising specialist, or volunteer coordinator. Yet all of these strategies are fundamentally important if you want to be a successful fundraiser. Now is the time to re-evaluate your primary fundraising strategies. You can no longer ignore or “back burner” them.

Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. By Paul Clolery Making a donation to charity or volunteering time would seem to be relatively simple acts.

Civil Society

Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Innovative technologies helped mobilize fundraising campaigns and increase donations to support these efforts.

Civil Society

The Agitator

AUGUST 19, 2013

“Don’t blame the economy” seems to be a popular mantra among some fundraisers lately. Somehow, lower disposable incomes will be overcome by clever social networking tactics.

Civil Society

Philanthropy 2173

APRIL 23, 2020

These days I'm not just writing and teaching about digital civil society, I'm watching as people all around me come to realize they're living it everyday. These are (simultaneously) problems of the fortunate, signs of grief, life-altering though not threatening, and opportunities. elsewhere ).

Civil Society

Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In so doing, we have enclosed civil society within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector. Digital threats to democracy run much deeper than digitally influenced elections and include the demise of independent civil society.

Civil Society

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

By Rafia Khader , Program Manager at the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and Managing Editor of the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society. Faith and giving are intrinsically tied with one another.

Civil Society

Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 22, 2024

Between board meetings and fundraisers and staff management, it’s easy to forget why we’re working so hard (hint: to change the world!). Between navigating power dynamics, dealing with the fear of making “the ask,” and worrying about cash flow, fundraising can feel overwhelming. They are the donor. They are the donor.

Nonprofit Leadership

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civil society,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified. Phase one, per Gigauri, included the use of propaganda to discredit against civil society, USAID and other U.S.-based

Civil Society

Jeff Brooks

AUGUST 20, 2024

To state your fundraising offer in one sentence. Use my donation to improve infrastructure, bolster civil society, and encourage community-based economic development, Accurate, I suppose. A quick way to turn a good offer into a bad one is to over-complicate it. The quick way to make a bad offer good is to make it simpler.

Civil Society

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

Among the above mix of content the team at Water.org maintained some of their core fundraising content like their annual Mother’s Day campaign , however the messages reminded users of the connection access to safe water has to improving health for families in need.

Non-Profits

The Agitator

JULY 30, 2015

Not only is their financial survival important, but also a significant part of our civil society fabric is at stake in their future. Of course, that’s not news, but what they’re doing by way searching for life rafts is indeed important and worthy of attention. If they win, we win. Same with lose/lose.

Civil Society

NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2019

At its core, fundraising is a persuasive craft. While fundraising communications are often counterintuitive to people outside of the field, the reality is that it most of its best practices are grounded in time-tested techniques and principles of classical rhetoric ? Pre-Suade” Before You Persuade. Conclusion.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

For example, quickly getting on the ground to distribute food, conduct rescue operations, and fundraise, the Oath Keepers showed up in full force in 2017: when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Hurricane Irma hit Florida, and Hurricane Harvey hit Texas.

Governance

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It is its own ecosystem and now an independent entity,” says Curran, who serves on the board of directors of the Scout Film Festival, and is a a Fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab within the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.

Civil Society

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Charitable dollars are essential to maintaining a healthy civil society, vital to both nonprofit charities and local governments that depend on these resources to achieve their critical missions. For 2020, more than 25% of all non-itemizers claimed the special $300 deduction or 42.5 million more taxpayers participated.

Civil Society

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies. Clinic In A Can :: @ ClinicInACan.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits by Kevin Barenblat & Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink This kick-off article to an in-depth series Introducing AI-Powered Nonprofits shares a taxonomy of how nonprofits are leveraging AI for social good: Nonprofits and civil society belong at the forefront of AI. Should We Put Out a Statement?

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But the sector has shown signs of weakening in some areas, notably in fundraising. The findings suggest nonprofits are playing a diminished role in some facets of civil society, namely lobbying government and working with government on policies. Donor contributions to nonprofits fell by 10 percent.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 15, 2024

Next is fundraising. Nonprofits and civil society belong at the forefront of AI. A recent Google.org report suggests organizations can get started by seeing where they can leverage AI in a couple of main ways. When used effectively, AI is turbocharging nonprofits’ ability to serve their beneficiaries.

Curriculum and Teaching

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Generate groundbreaking findings on fundraising, volunteers, equity, and management. A researcher at Texas Tech University , for example, explored more than a million e-filed 990s to overturn long-held assumptions about the role of cash in fundraising. million from sham charities and redirected funds to legitimate groups.

Public and Social Policy

Philanthropy 2173

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Alt Headline: Thoughts on Non-public digital infrastructure for civil society. There are some efforts underway to change this - hats off to GivingTuesday's data commons and the work of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (donor software working group). But these users don't have access to data from the companies.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Today, nonprofit fundraising and especially large capital campaigns emphasize naming opportunities to attract seven-, eight-, and nine-figure donations from high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Less than one percent of major gifts are offered anonymously , not surprisingly, as fundraisers encourage public acts of charity.

Ethics

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 13, 2023

In this case, the inquiry highlighted adjustments and areas for growth not only for the locally led organizations, but for funders of local civil society as well. Consider all the assets you can bring to a partnership Individualized plans require resources.

Collaborations

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Whether those revenues are just to portray the executive director as a fundraiser—this is good clout, social capital in this nonprofit world—or is it about the people that [are] being served? And I think sometimes we lose that aspect. AQ: Dean Spade, the lawyer who does trans law, he had a great point. JH: I agree.

Public and Social Policy

The Agitator

MARCH 13, 2018

I can’t remember who said it and thus can’t cite it, but there’s a great quote along the lines of “I know that taxes are the price I pay for civilized society and I am honored to pay them. (I assume almost everyone is trying to minimize, not maximize their bill. I also could be just as honored for half as much.”).

Taxation

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Want to start a fight in a fundraising comment section? 1] Another writes, “Fundraisers need to focus MORE on creating memories and moments with their donors … and LESS about hitting those wacky metrics or year-end goals.”[2]. Yes, they’re all talking about fundraising. But fundraising isn’t one thing. Fightin’ words.

Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 9, 2016

Not quite, I say—as do The Fundraising Mythbusters and a little thing called reality. As far as dollars, that’s a lot of money, but it’s not the most money, and it’s certainly not the first place I would ever think to look when I have my fundraising cap on. your board member suggests, bubbling with enthusiasm. And I wear my cap often.

Foundations