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

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

To maximize our impact, the Cherry Fund will expand our fundraising methods, strengthen our partnerships, and engage new audiences through innovative and transparent practices. We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Help us help the world.

Volunteerism

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 21, 2024

By subscribing to World Vision instead, consumers can help tackle the causes of poverty and injustice and make a lasting impact. A leader at donation and donor relationship platform Fundraise Up was not as coy. and invites them to put the money spent here to better use. times their initial estimate.

Public and Nonprofit Management

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

per share during the recent 52-week period. ** Feed The Children Selects RKD Group RKD Group in Dallas is the new direct response fundraising agency of record for Feed The Children in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Blackbaud stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange with a stock price ranging from $66.47

Children

Candid

JULY 16, 2025

lived in poverty The economic indicators of child well-being showed little improvement in 2023. While down slightly from 17% in 2019, the child poverty rate was unchanged from 2022 at 16%—or nearly 11.5 Fewer children lived in high-poverty areas Only in the area of family and community did all four indicators improve or hold steady.

Poverty

Candid

JUNE 4, 2025

They can immediately focus on key priorities, including fundraising and programs, while benefiting from the fiscal sponsors tax compliance, accounting, governance, and finance functions, including accepting gifts and approving and administering program expenses.

Nonprofit governance and management

Jeff Brooks

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A ten-week series on things you should know about fundraising. If your fundraising is built around statistics — like the number of people living poverty, or the number of people diagnosed with a disease — you are actively priming people to ignore your message. That’s why fundraising is built on stories.

Poverty

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Whether you celebrate Lent or not, now is a good time to think about something you can afford to give up in your nonprofit – your poverty mindset. Poverty mindset stunts a nonprofit’s growth. Once the number is identified, fundraising goals should be based on it. A vision was cast and the adventure began.

Poverty

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 26, 2021

They found hunger and poverty groups had a 173% increase in online revenue and nonprofits that provided COVID relief had 40% increase in online revenue. Unless you are in the hunger and poverty sector which reported a 946% increase in Facebook Fundraisers revenue.). An organic post on Facebook only reaches 4% of followers.

Poverty

Fundraising Coach

MAY 12, 2011

For the record, that type of fundraising appeal sucks. Nonprofits crying poverty. I know fundraising can be uncomfortable. Know you should be fundraising but just need a little kick? Sign up for the weekly Fundraising Kick ! Sadly, it’s the third time I’ve heard it in as many months.

Fundraising

Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

If you’re one of my private coaching clients, you’ve already heard me ask: what preparations are you making for the possibility that your fundraising event might be canceled due to the coronavirus (now officially called Covid-19)? What are you doing to mitigate its impact on your fundraising? Jeopardizing your fundraising events.

Fundraising

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 18, 2023

This includes having children fundraise for school needs by selling things and the duality of teachers being superheroes who are just ordinary people. In these reaction videos, Jackson talks about the real policy issues and situations referenced in the hit sitcom Abbott Elementary.

Culture

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 16, 2017

Do your fundraising and communications staffs work together well? The Right Ways and Wrong Ways for Communications and Fundraising Staff to Work Together. Register now to learn how to create a successful partnership between your fundraising and communications staff. Five things communicators need to understand about fundraising.

Marketing

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Angela fights homelessness and poverty by day through powerful storytelling and strategic fundraising. What we did not learn: Where to get cute burrowing owls. Maybe next time ? Angela Crist is the CEO Findlay Hope House. She chases her dogs and small children by night.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 27, 2016

As a result, a piece about why people should support your organization or attend your fundraising dinner isn’t likely to fly. If you’re working on anti-poverty initiatives, for instance, consider writing about the root causes of poverty or effective programs. Instead, you need to focus on an issue or problem.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Whether you celebrate Lent or not, now is a good time to think about something you can afford to give up in your nonprofit – your poverty mindset. Poverty mindset stunts a nonprofit’s growth. Once the number is identified, fundraising goals should be based on it. A vision was cast and the adventure began.

Poverty

Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Fundraising Coach blog readers may remember her from last year's Stewardship Tutoring Hour. The Most Important Story Fundraisers Can Tell (and it’s probably not one you’ve thought about). Philanthropy is also all about connections and relationships, so it is easy to see how stories have found a thriving home in fundraising offices.

Non-Profits

Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Source: Data from GivingTuesday Fundraising Effectiveness Project. Conversely, states with higher poverty levels receive less, raising important questions about how equitable current methods of philanthropic distribution are. How can philanthropy better support states with higher poverty levels and lower household incomes?

Poverty

NonProfit Leadership Center

MAY 1, 2023

The M+R Benchmarks Study is an annual report that highlights the latest nonprofit data and trends in digital fundraising and marketing. Here’s how to harness the 2023 insights to help move your nonprofit’s fundraising, marketing and mission forward. When thinking about your monthly giving program, start with “why.”

Disaster Relief

Ann Green

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Year-end fundraising time is here. Here’s an example from the Southern Poverty Law Center. 11 Ways To Segment Your Donors To Improve Your Fundraising. I’ve already started receiving appeal letters and I know this is just the beginning. . This is annoying. Maybe I’ve donated for at least five years.

Retention

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. While many of these fundraising event staples are great, such as fancy galas and golf tournaments, circumstances aren’t always ideal for in-person gatherings. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event. 7) Shopping. 11) Live entertainment.

Fundraising

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Kirsten McIlvenna is the Communications Director for International Child Care (USA), a nonprofit seeking to change the conditions of poverty in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by promoting health and empowerment. – Draft an article for the website about upcoming Race for Grace fundraiser.

Communication

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 21, 2012

Southern Poverty Law Center sent me one email in April asking for a renewal. Southern Poverty Law Center also stood out for me, but not in a good way, because of the annoying plastic mail and phone call. Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation sent 8 emails in 8 months, but 4 of them came in May. One direct mail ask.

Retention

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Simon said “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” For nonprofit fundraising, maybe a better measure is not dollar raised, but your donor retention rate or how many times you contact a donor. Pick Just Three KPIs and Let Everything Else Fall from That.

Communication

Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 28, 2013

I''ve always said my best Halloween costume was to dress as a fundraiser! Witches, Goblins or Fundraising? What’s scarier than fundraising , headless horsemen and spooky ghosts combined? Is fundraising scarier than doing what needs to be done to solve these problems? Fundraisers ask when needs are apparent.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 26, 2010

Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now is hosting the next Nonprofit Blog Carnival with an April Fool’s theme, so I decided to share with you those times during my week when I am most likely to think, “This is a joke, right?&#. Don’t ask me to develop a marketing plan for your fundraising event.

Production

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

When they do not have access to funds, families in poverty depend on getting the water they need through temporary, charitable fixes, or they walk hours to find it from natural sources, or they may pay up to 20% of their income to buy it. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty.

Non-Profits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

After giving to mosques, the second highest category of giving is toward domestic poverty alleviation and education. Houses of worship, or mosques, are the top recipients of Muslim giving. This is comparable with other faith groups in the U.S. Again, this is not very different from other faith groups in the U.S.,

Civil Society

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance. So, let’s look at the key pieces in detail so you know how to write fundraising emails that get results.

Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 17: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr. 5: World Environment Day — #WorldEnvironmentDay.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Population Council conducts research worldwide to improve policies, programs, and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health. The American Nicaraguan Foundation is a nonprofit that provides basic needs and tools for people to help stop poverty in Nicaragua.

Poverty

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Those who register and attend all three webinars in the series will earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. Those who register and attend all three webinars in the series will earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. 17: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Homelessness

The Kindful Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Host a fundraiser. Mission: WINS (Women In Need Society) is Calgary’s homegrown thrift charity founded in 1992 to provide basic needs to women in poverty and their families. Impacting: Poverty. Women’s Impact Initiative – Association of Fundraising Professionals. Impacting: Human trafficking. Thrive Women’s Clinic.

Poverty

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and then add them to your 2020 editorial calendar. 16: World Food Day — #WorldFoodDay.

Poverty

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Furthermore, many inner-city students face a range of social and economic challenges outside of school, such as poverty, crime, and family instability, which can make it difficult for them to succeed in school.

Leadership

Jeff Brooks

AUGUST 27, 2024

That’s good advice in fundraising too. Some think fundraisers have nothing to sell but a tax deduction and a bit of “warm glow.” A rich fundraising offer reminds donors of some of those benefits. Maybe your social service agency will decrease poverty, which will improve the economy and quality of life for everyone.

Fundraising