Blue Avocado
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
But as climate change is manmade, it may have not just ecological but also sociological tipping points. As the planet heats up, the tundra thaws and oceans warm, ice floes will melt and forests will wither — leading to even hotter temperatures and ever more dramatic weather shifts, in a vicious cycle of catastrophe.
Blue Avocado
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Grant writing, like any fundraising, is about match-making a donor’s interest in impact with your organization’s mission and outcomes. A client tried that a few months ago, producing 26 pages of good-looking but empty words and research citations that sounded great, but didn’t exist. David Patt from the National Assn.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 10, 2025
David Horton Smith, a leading researcher of AVOs and emeritus professor of Sociology at Boston College, prefers the term “grassroots association” and proposes this definition : locally based, significantly autonomous, volunteer-run, formal nonprofit (i.e., But informal hierarchies may be the dominant—if inexplicit—system in place. (Of
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Each position uniquely plays a vital role in fundraising. So the real question that needs to be answered is: why are we in service to fundraise? Together, our organization’s marketing, fundraising and strategy should be grounded in the well-being of humanity. The answer should simply be “ For the love of humankind.” .
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MAY 22, 2017
Stacy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Ball State University and studied Women’s Studies at Mankato State University. It is Midwest Environmental Advocates’ mission to support citizens’ efforts to protect public health and the environment using sound science and the law. to 12:00 p.m. – Check email.
Fundraising Coach
JUNE 21, 2017
Today, the fundraising think tank Rogare published "Less Than My Job's Worth." In this important "green" paper - a paper created for discussion - Rogare's director Ian MacQuillin exams the questions "is fundraising a profession?" and "does it matter if fundraising isn't a profession?" So fundraising is a profession, right?
Fundraising Coach
JANUARY 21, 2009
And as fundraisers, I think it’s important to keep informed on this research and keep wrestling with how it should or shouldn’t impact our work. hour fundraising seminar you can learn from right at your desk! Tags: donor motivation philanthropy economists sociology giving 2. It feels downright manipulative.
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