Be a Sport
Established more than 50 years ago, Alyn Hospital is a nonprofit facility in Israel devoted to the rehabilitation of children and young adults with physical disabilities, regardless of their religious or ethnic background....
One Word: Streamline
Recently, my colleagues at Big Duck and I met with Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 , a firm using video, audio and photography to help nonprofits create deeper relationships....
Planned Giving Primer
The concept of planned giving is nothing new — churches began the process many years ago — but too many nonprofit organizations don’t have sufficiently organized planned-giving programs. If you’re one of them, here’s something of a primer....
Grooming Your E-list
In my inbox this week was an e-mail advertisement for a new, all-natural approach to dealing with hair loss. Fortunately, that’s one thing I don’t need to worry about....
Leadership Series: Is Change an Uphill Battle?
Editor’s note: This is the third in a quarterly series of stories we’re calling “The Leadership Series,” where leaders in the fundraising sector speak to big-picture issues fundraisers need to think about, over and above the day-to-day details of their...
Take
Remember the old days, before Al Gore invented the Internet? Direct mail was king in the direct-response fundraising world. Then came the Web and the predictions that it would dominate all other media, making books, magazines and newspapers obsolete. And,...
Preached, Practiced
I was chatting with L.W. Robbins’ Lynn Edmonds, DMANF’s Jill Murphy and my daughter by the pool at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., the day before the official start of the Leadership Summit last month. The weather was...
Special Report: Multi-channel Fundraising
Nonprofit direct-response fundraising programs historically have centered around one channel, usually direct mail. But as other channels become more viable and new ones emerge — can you say W-E-B? — innovative organizations have become aggressive in incorporating them into their...
