Given the emphasis placed on year-end fundraising, it’s no surprise organizations will start planning many, many months before (it’s never too early to start planning!). But given the magnitude of year-end, and necessary planning,...

IRS goal of making Form 1023 interactive to increase accuracy and transparency – as well as make it easier for tax-exempt filers – is finally moving forward. The Exempt Organizations Division director credits fast-changing technology environment that is making once impossible tasks “very doable today.”

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In the fourth Trend Spotter survey of nonprofit leaders at small organizations across North Carolina, the majority of respondents say they received training in the past two years designed to improve the way they lead their nonprofit organization. Whether it was formal or peer-to-peer learning, the experiences built confidence and capacity that enhanced agency success as well as improved the overall work environment.

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I wanted to expand the Nonprofit Blog Carnival concept in May. So, I reached out to real nonprofit people and asked them to also write an anonymous letter to their board volunteers. These people are executive directors, fundraising...

As the Senate poises to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, catalog sellers prepare to invade Washington to head things off in the House.    

For soccerloco, email automation is a game-winning strategy.    

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Digitas made two major partnership announcements at its NewFront event held May 2 in New York City.    

CVS Caremark awards $1 million to 21 community healthcare centers; John Ruskey to step down from UJA-Federation of New York; fund created to aid victims of West, Texas, explosion; Millenial Impact Conference set for July 18 in Indianapolis, and more.

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If your board has a long history of fundraising “failures,” what lessons have you learned from those “failures”? If you haven’t stopped long enough to examine what’s behind those disappointing results and...

Not all donations need to be of the direct monetary variety. Donors are tighter with their money and are becoming more concerned about where the money is spent. As a result, they sometimes want to give in different ways, and sometimes they...

Three months ago, I would have told you that I know my audience well. Yes, we’re targeted, we survey them, capture data in our CRM, segment our lists, etc. And it’s not that it wasn’t true. Rather, we had no idea how much we...

Challenges posed by multiple channels and a surfeit of analytics have 40% of them back on their heels, says a poll of more than 400 chief marketers.    

Much of the most valuable programs and services of the federal government are delivered by nonprofits. That goes double for U.S. humanitarian and development assistance, where NGOs are critical players in delivering foreign aid to countries in need. Shouldn’t the USAID budget be a top priority advocacy item for the U.S. nonprofit sector?

Well, you can, because being first can be rewarding. Solve the puzzle and snag a free ticket to the Marketing&Tech Partnership Summit on June 20 in San Joes, CA.    

Well, you can, because being first can be rewarding. Solve the puzzle and snag a free ticket to the Marketing&Tech Partnership Summit on June 20 in San Joes, CA.    

Well, you can, because being first can be rewarding. Solve the puzzle and snag a free ticket to the Marketing&Tech Partnership Summit on June 20 in San Joes, CA.    

I like e-mail. I like sending text messages. And I use both extensively. Yet neither of them grabs my attention like seeing someone’s handwriting on an envelope or note card that I receive. This is one reason I don’t believe direct...

If you don’t already have a mobile-friendly version of your website, chances are that somone has told you that you should. Beyond those occasional comments from your website visitors, here are 11 data-driven reasons that a mobile website...

Musicians have pledged more than 20,000 concert tickets to the Global Poverty Project to spur activism.