Fantasy baseball is my weakness. I love baseball and one of the things I love most about it (besides hot dogs and beer) is the numbers. This helps make it a great fantasy sport (you know the nerdy games that are now a $3 Billion industry) and fantasy baseball is something I have been doing for...

One of my favourite fundraising blogs, and fundraising bloggers, Jeff Brooks named this blog, re: charity, a Best fundraising blog for 2014. It was a great honour and very humbling to have such an experienced pro enjoy some of my writing (and I hope you do too). It also got me thinking about...

I was listening to the radio the other day when the DJ’s were talking about New Year’s resolutions. I was about to switch stations when the host stated his new strategy for resolutions; be a bit better. He doesn’t pick just ONE area or set some big audacious goal (although...

Where people transact can be different from where they interact. The value of the a nonprofit website is that it offers you the ability to interact and engage with donors on a more powerful and frequent basis than ever before. And that’s in addition to a cheaper, easier way for donors to...

Question: Which charity saw 89% growth in contributions in 2012 and now ranks as the 2nd largest nonprofit organization in the United States? If you guessed Fidelity Charitable then you win the prize (I’ll give it to myself for now and send to you later, that joke will be way better...

How can you help improve the technical skill development of 11 year old soccer players? Change what you measure for “success”. That’s the theory of a friend of mine, Willie Cromack from Champions in Sport, who, instead of preaching winning at all costs or individual goals,...

Mashable recently published a great post covering 6 Apps That Fit Charity Into Your Daily Routine and building on that, HubSpot had a similar rundown in their 5 Mobile Apps Nonprofits Can Use to Boost Donations. So instead of rehashing or covering those more in-depth, I’ll try to give...

Well 2014 is here and in the coming weeks I’ll be posting a series of “5′s” looking back on 2013 and looking forward to 2014. To start it off, here were the top posts from 2013 on re: charity. Enjoy! 1. 6 Reasons Why People Don’t Give More Building off Peter...

Somewhere between 20% to 40% of online giving happens in December and as much as 25% happens in the last few days of the year. This means there are many donors choosing a charity to support right now. And accordingly, there’s a lot of posts around what you, as a donor, should be thinking...

Never read the comments section on blogs. Okay, that’s maybe a bit too extreme but it can be one of the most frustrating things you can do. Occasionally I like to subject myself to the nonsense because you can get a real sense on how people feel. Fairly or not, perception is reality and...

I’ve gone on record with why I hate Giving Tuesday but I’m curious to know what others thought. Were you bombarded with appeals? Were any of them good? Did you volunteer or get involved in a different way? If so, what was your experience? While I saw a lot of unthoughtful,...

Is benevolent buying good or bad for charity? That’s the question I discuss in my latest post on HuffingtonPost Impact Why Amazon Is Smiling and Charities May Be Losing. Taking from arguments against slacktivism you can sure make the case that the business and consumer benefit but the...