Pablo Eisenberg’s jeremiad on charitable giving in the Wall Street Journal misses the mark in a variety of ways. First, of his nine recommendations, only one of them deals with the more than 80 percent of philanthropic giving that is made by individuals – and that one only marginally. He is beating a tired, lame [...]
Scott Pansky’s story in this week’s Philanthropy Journal makes a strong case for nonprofits to build mindshare as they struggle to raise dollars in an economic recession. Pansky’s point is valid—but it’s not enough.
Last week, we hosted a group of Chicago-area development officers who shared their opinions on the challenges of raising money during [...]
As The New York Times reported recently, a study performed by Blackbaud Analytics appears to suggest that donors who give online don’t always give online again. Alarming! Especially in the midst of a recession!
But hold on—that sentence is fairly packed with qualifiers. Retaining donors is always hard. Would we be surprised to learn that the [...]
An accelerated integrated marketing(AIM) and enrollment services client, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) made headlines today as one of the beneficiaries of a mystery that is unfolding in the world of college fundraising: During the past few weeks, at least nine universities have received gifts totaling more than $45 million, and the [...]
Forget the futures market. Turn off Bloomberg. Hold off on those put and call orders. You’ve got a report to read, first.
The 2008 Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy – researched and written by staff at The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, with sponsorship by Bank of America – suggests that the nation’s high [...]
When Curt Simic kicked off his afternoon plenary at the CASE Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations by saying he was going to quote from my earlier session (see presentation below), I was both delighted and – potentially – worried. Where was he going to go with this? He might quote my new aphorism, “If frugality [...]
How did we come to treat “charitable giving” as one homogenous phenomenon? And what’s lost when we gloss over the nuances of a sector as large, complex, and vital as ours?
These are important questions in the midst of the largest economic downturn in decades—and they go to the very heart of how well nonprofits will [...]