NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 8, 2025

To answer that question, let’s look at the roles of nonprofit staff, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropy. Support volunteer recruitment: Many organizations give a small bonus to a staff person who recruits a new staff member. These same organizations should give a small bonus to staff who recruit volunteers.

Volunteerism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 14, 2025

I also think we can expand our influence by example, by continued experimentation and innovation, and by speaking up to change how others in philanthropy approach their work. Trust Is Essential All our co-leaders have been recruited internally.

Leadership

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

Candids Philanthropy News Digest and the Chronicle of Philanthropy covered 24 nine- and 10-figure gifts from U.S.-based What can we learn from last years largest gifts from individuals about the latest giving trends and what to expect in 2025? based donors in 2024, down just one from 2023. billion from $5.4

Medical

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Since they already believe deeply in your cause and have positively responded to recruitment efforts , volunteers are naturally predisposed to support your organization financiallyif you approach them correctly. These ideas can help make giving simple for volunteers: Leverage corporate philanthropy opportunities.

Public and Nonprofit Management

The Charity CFO

MARCH 12, 2025

” Structured philanthropy helps them engage employees, strengthen company culture, and build a socially responsible brand. Why Nonprofits Should Care Corporate volunteer programs like this exist everywhere, but they need nonprofits to partner with. If your organization isnt reaching out, they probably dont even know you exist.

Volunteerism

Candid

MARCH 19, 2025

Awarding initial funding to small but innovative organizations, listening to and trusting grantees, and being flexible in their application requirements can achieve what traditional large-scale philanthropy cannot. Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change.

Leadership

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Plus, 84% of survey participants say theyre more likely to donate if a match is offered, demonstrating how corporate philanthropy programs can motivate new donors to get involved. Then, these supporters can recruit other new donors by sharing their fulfilling experiences, creating a cyclical process.

Nonprofit Organizations

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Need for a Systemic Alternative Despite the prevalence of gig work, workforce agencies’ training, support, recruitment, and data-gathering efforts remain focused on traditional, standard employment. Philanthropy also enabled an initial pilot with the workforce agency covering Long Beach, CA. Funders—including the Annie E.

Nonprofit governance and management

Get Fully Funded

JULY 7, 2025

With the right amount of gamification and a theme your audience enjoys, you’ll recruit more participants and introduce your nonprofit to new prospective donors. Plan event logistics after you choose the challenge, and create marketing strategies for recruiting participants and boosting event attendance.

Participation and motivation

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

One early critique of the nonprofit sectors ability to impact large-scale change appears in the 2001 paper, The Decline of Progressive Policy and the New Philanthropy by Robert O. Bothwell charts the arc of American philanthropy over the prior 40 years with a focus on progressive, issue-oriented advocacy work. More Power.

Public and Social Policy

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Providing your nonprofits volunteers with the same recruitment, training, mentoring, and appreciation as your employees can reduce turnover and create a better overall volunteer experience. You want a good volunteer to stick around!

Nonprofit governance and management

Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 6, 2025

Aly Sterling Philanthropys nonprofit strategic planning guide outlines three strategic plan types intended to help nonprofits solve different challenges: Issue-based strategic plan. Although most organizations default is a standard plan focused on long-term goals, thats not the only type of strategic plan available to your team.

Homelessness

Selfish Giving

JULY 16, 2025

“Don’t get too excited about what’s in an attractive-looking box until you unpack what’s inside,” advised Curt Weeden , author of Corporate Social Investing , Smart Giving Is Good Business , and several other books on business philanthropy. It’s that FMV which often gets included in the tally of a company’s overall philanthropy.

Non-Profits

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

Which is why today we are announcing a public solidarity sign-on campaign to support philanthropys freedom to give. Philanthropy is often slow by design. And when we tell our story, lets do it in plain languagenot philanthropy speak. Foundations must leadnot just with grants, but with guts. We convene. We deliberate.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Progress Alliance describes how this board consciously invests in building a healthy culture and recruiting board members that reflects the movement leadership it aims to support in this article.

Governance

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2025

Drawing from her recent viral essay in eJewish Philanthropy , she also unpacks “the vibe shift” in Jewish communal life and what it means for fundraisers, marketers, and mission-driven professionals everywhere. And the more you raise, recruit, and retain, the more good you can do. We’d give teachers non-apples and fly non-cars.

Nonprofit Leadership

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2025

Start now by recruiting Next Gen representatives for boards, committees, and important assignments. The essential role of planned giving in philanthropy is nothing new. Ive been in too many meetings where family elders excitedly announce gifts they are making and have witnessed the suspicious expressions of heirs.

Public and Social Policy

Bloomerang

JULY 4, 2025

Some of them (mostly recruited by the founder/E.D.) Often the candidates you’d most like to recruit (the tech billionaire; the head of the local bank; the law firm partner; the serial entrepreneur; the marketing guru, etc.) have been around a long, long time. They’re lovely people, but they’ve long since used up their contacts list.

Recruitment

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 10, 2025

With federal programs and resources being cut or weaponized, philanthropy must be restless and relentless. The initial 40 community reviewers recruited others to reach our goal of 60. Collaborating with fund leaders proved invaluable, particularly when determining outreach strategies and recruiting community reviewers.

Foundations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Or maybe the ability to recruit just the right kinds of partners, with specialized skills and friends in high places? Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc. Do coalitions succeed when they have deep pockets? All of these things matter.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2025

Credit: Worawee Meepian on iStock The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) recently released its third annual report on the state of nonprofits. Nearly half of nonprofit leaders acknowledge issues with staff recruitment or retention, while 66 percent indicated at least some difficulty with filling staff vacancies.

Governance

Clairification

JANUARY 2, 2025

Its easier when you reframe fundraising as philanthropy facilitation, enabling board members to come from a place of love. When you recruit effectively, role-model asking and provide board members with ongoing support, the transformation youll see both in giving and getting will be amazing.

Recruitment

Dennis C Miller

MAY 2, 2025

Miller Discussion Topics: The Four Stages of Board Governance The Importance of the CEO and Board Partnership Creating Your Vision Engaging Your Board The 50% Rule Board Committee Structures Effective Board Recruitment & Reappointment The Tri-Partnership of Philanthropy Good Boards Evaluate the CEO: Great Boards Evaluate Themselves Register Now (..)

Leadership

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to new data from National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP), in collaboration with and support from Bank of America, the number of funders with annual grantmaking greater than or equal to $1 million has grown from 23% to 36% during the past decade. It’s not all great news. There has been a decline in impact investing.

Foundations

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

So far he’s supported student aid, new buildings, efforts to recruit and retain faculty, and more at 22 nursing schools, including Catholic University. The Catholic University of America Bill Conway (center) is about a third of the way toward his target of giving $1 billion to nursing.

Universities

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 11, 2024

By Vincent Robinson Getty Images A veteran recruiter of nonprofit leaders offers insights, tips, and pitfalls to avoid when working with a recruiter, or during any hiring process.

Recruitment

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Environmental advocates say philanthropy can help the drastically pared-down American Climate Corps succeed. Environmental advocates say philanthropy can help the drastically pared-down American Climate Corps succeed.

Recruitment

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By Rasheeda Childress A new survey of fundraisers, data analysts, and other advancement-services professionals found that 46 percent of them have considered and/or been recruited for roles outside the nonprofit world.

Recruitment

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Join Hubspot and me for a FREE webinar on how to recruit more sponsors and corporate partners with inbound marketing this Thursday, December 1st at 1pm EST. On this blog and in Cause Marketing for Dummies I talk a lot about how blogging , social media and SEO can help nonprofits land more sponsors and corporate partners. ” The Results.

Recruitment

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Thanks to everyone who came out to my workshop at the Philanthropy Midwest Conference yesterday. How to use Prospecting Circles to recruit partners. As promised, here are my slides and some links to some key posts that will enhance your learning. My Presentation: Cause Marketing 101. What is Cause Marketing? A Primer on Pinups.

Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 24, 2023

Prest Texas Woman’s University A $15 million grant from the Doswell Foundation will go toward creating an aviation program at Texas Woman’s University to recruit and train more women to fly planes and address a shortage of pilots in the airline industry.

Recruitment

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 27, 2024

Prest Also, Price Philanthropies gave $10 million to accelerate training for mental-health professionals in California, and Girls Who Invest received $2 million to recruit more women and nonbinary people for careers in the investment-management industry.

Foundations

NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A new focus in the nonprofit sector is the importance of organizations building a culture of philanthropy, and recruiting board members requires a balanced approach. This brings us to the age-old three Ts on nonprofit involvement: time, talent, and treasure.

Recruitment

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By Sara Herschander A new study finds that half of nonprofit leaders say they can't find enough volunteers, a sharp contrast from two decades ago. At the same time, far more chief executives say volunteers help them become more efficient than felt that way in the past.

Recruitment

Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2021

This post on adopting a culture of philanthropy is part six in a six-part series. Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Organization-wide internalizing and externalizing an attitude of adopting a culture of philanthropy.

Culture

Selfish Giving

JULY 9, 2012

Every nonprofit wants to recruit new corporate partners, but your best bet to raise more money is to find new ways to work with your existing partners. Too many nonprofits spend too much time dealing with the philanthropy arm of a business. It just might lead to a new partner. Be insanely helpful. That’s not where the money is.

Recruitment

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Remember, you can join Hubspot and me on Thursday at 1pm for a FREE webinar on how to use inbound marketing (blogging, social media, SEO) to recruit more sponsors and corporate partners. Here’s a copy of my presentation. Here’s my case for why inbound marketing is critical for causes.

Philanthropy