Salsa Lessons
At Crazy Jose's Mexican restaurant recently, a friend and I did a fine job of scarfing down respectable portions of our meals. But the gut-busting CJ's Special — two cheese enchiladas, a tamale, beef taco, bean chalupa, chile con queso,...
Fundraising From Yourself
It's lurking. It's close. And it's deadly. It forces hundreds of nonprofit organizations out of business every year. It robs even more organizations of their resources and leaves them foundering, unable to fully accomplish their missions. It destroys the careers...
Out of the Trenches
If you love thinking about how social media and technology can be used to raise money, increase visibility and create social change (is there an app for that?), there's no better place to be than the annual NTEN Nonprofit Technology...
Books: ‘Fundraising for Dummies'
Gulf Coast residents dealing with the oil that's spilling in the Gulf of Mexico . Haiti's homeless earthquake survivors seeking shelter for the hurricane season. Actors starting a nonprofit theater company . Whether fundraisers plan to solve environmental or humanitarian...
Divine Integration
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews , established in 1983 to promote understanding between members of two major, often at-odds religions and build broad support for Israel, was one of the first nonprofit organizations to devote a full-time position...
Are You a Relationship Wrecker?
There is a lot of talk these days about the importance of relationship building for successful fundraising, marketing and communications — especially in the online world. But what if you're a terrible relationship builder? What if you're actually better at...
