Earlier this week I asked Does Working For A Nonprofit Kill Your Creativity? and that our sector, the nonprofit sector, is in a lot of trouble unless we can get more creative. Well instead of just raising the flag and stating the problem, I wanted to share a few of the best ideas I’ve...

I believe we are undercutting the potential of the nonprofit sector by the constraints we impose upon it, intentionally or not, but are we killing the creativity of the actual people who are working for a nonprofit or with nonprofits as well? After reading The 5 Most Dangerous Creativity...

It’s benchmarks season!  I’m a little behind actually but there are some good reports already out and some more to come. Here’s the latest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M + R and NTEN. It skews a little on the large side, in terms of organization size included in the...

… not by themselves at least. Let the great slacktivism debate start again! Does “Liking” a page on Facebook or a video or a picture really do anything to help causes? Are we underselling the real needs of an organization by doing this? Do we do this because we are starved...

Last year I attended the Millennial Impact Conference (MCON12) online and found their report on Millennials, giving and trends to be a great resource in my work and trying to understand what motivates the next generation of philanthropy. Well I’m happy to say it’s time to get...

We’ve all seen it. Something starts to trend on Twitter and some company jumps in on the hashtag as an attempt to try and “pimp” their product. A disaster happens and your inbox gets crammed with emails asking for help and some are great (like relief organizations actually...

Have you ever played that game “Would you rather”? Maybe on a road trip or at a bus stop or a house party? Somebody throws out some random question starting with “Would you rather…” and finishes it with two scenarios, neither one more inherently right than the...

The video below is why I started re: charity and began writing. I graduated with a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Administration young and full of ideals, energy and optimism. But in just a year I began to realize how backwards much of the system called charity we’ve created was. How...

The Millennial workforce and nonprofit organizations should be a great marriage. Millennials are often passionate about causes, educated on issues and want their work to be about something “more than money”. Nonprofits are in need of new ideas, constant passion and, for better or...

Have you ever wondered why people don’t give? Or why people don’t give more? A frustrating question that took on a new meaning for me after I had visited a project in Zambia I was working on with Spark Ventures. After coming back I felt so passionate, so broken, so desperate to...

An infographic on the value of infographics for nonprofits? That’s very Inception like… I’m a big fan of infographics and have been for a while so it is encouraging to see some more quantifiable data lining up with what I believe to be useful and what nonprofits should do...

By Solving The Acquisition Problem Are You Creating Retention Problems? This is another good question you may not have asked yourself but it is work considering. Donor acquisition is one of the hardest things to do in the fundraising world which is why we spend so much time, energy and money...