I had the privilege of attending the AFP International Conference here in Vancouver just a couple weeks back and found it… interesting. I was there with my work with the Seacrest Foundation so it was great to learn more about what is out there from a technology/vendor perspective, meet...

fo·cus (noun), a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity. Do you think nonprofits or charities suffer from a lack of focus? I do. Not in lacking what they ultimately do (help the homeless, eradicate poverty, etc.) but in how they attempt to get there namely through raising the...

Blog friends of re: charity, charityexecutive.com, recently had a post titled “Changing Your LinkedIn Profile Into an Infographic” that shared a site, vizualize.me, I hadn’t seen before. If you’ve been on re: charity before you’ll know that we love us some...

One of the lessons learned from blogging in 2011 was how hard it is to produce regular content all by yourself so… here’s the first guest post of 2012! Darian Kovacs is hard to describe and I continue to find out new things he does and people he’s connected to. If you had to...

With 2012 well underway, I was taking a look back at the year at re: charity and the blog. It was my first year of blogging and I have learned a great deal. I hope to be a bit more consistent in 2012 and find ways to get others more involved. That being said, here were the top 5 posts of...

Good post awhile back from the good folks at For Impact called “If it is important, do it every day.” that got me thinking in terms of fundraising, what is important and how could I do it every day? So here it goes, 5 things you should do every day (and some ideas on how you can do it). 1....

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In the latest post I discussed some of the “psychic benefits” of working for charity and touched on some motivations on why we work. Below is a great animated video from RSA Animate giving a visual run down from Dan Pink’s presentation on his book “Drive” and what...

There was a great article written last week on the SSIR blog titled “The Limited Returns on Fundraising Support for Nonprofits” and focuses on spending to increase fundraising efforts is only part of the picture. As i read it, I thought it was a great reminder that in the midst of...

I pseudo read this book when it first came out but am finding the topic more and more relevant so I snagged the audio book and it is my commute listen now. Good stuff....