(Sarah Durham is the president of Big Duck, a communications firm that helps nonprofits connect with supporters, build awareness, and raise money. This post originally appeared on the Philanthropy Front and Center - Washington, D.C., blog.) Rebranding processes can be miraculously transformative or deeply unproductive; I've seen several examples of both.
Launching online fundraising campaigns around cause awareness days is good strategy. Social network communities are highly responsive to giving and promoting your nonprofit's cause on cause awarene...
When aligning your fundraising strategy, you focus on two major paths: donor retention and donor acquisition. These are the everyday struggles for any nonprofit. While projects emerge from passion and commitment towards a cause or purpose, finding the proper support to get you there and even further is a true quest based on determination and perseverance.
We train dozens of outstanding students each year to implement Social Enterprise projects. These students need partners with whom to work and design a project that will benefit all involved: You, them, and the community you serve. Consider adding your name to our database of changemakers.
Over the past two weeks, we've been asking leading thinkers from a number of charities to tell us how they predict the sector will change over the coming decade. In a live Q&A, we discussed how an increase in social media, changes to the economic climate and an increasing digital presence would alter the face of fundraising.
Café Impact is democratizing access to careers of conscience. Jonathan Lewis brings together nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to give you the career-building skills you need to change the world. Are you a social sector job-seeker? Feeling frozen out of your future change-the-world job? Reluctant to enter the fray?
Slowly but surely a revolutionary idea is being put into operation in the most unpromising area of the world. While more than 100 years ago the Red Cross established the right to healthcare in conflict zones, the right of refugee boys and girls to continue their education, irrespective of borders, has yet to be won.
Start the month with six solutions to some of the world's toughest problems. Every day we learn more about who's solving what and how they're doing it. Sometimes these stories are brought to you by Dowser.org. Other times we see inspiring, compelling reporting about people's responses to social problems elsewhere.
"The challenge is that nonprofits and professionals don't know how to easily find each other." - Reid Hoffman How does your nonprofit find and recruit volunteers? One of the most powerful tools is LinkedIn for nonprofits. In partnership with the Taproot Foundation, Catchafire and BoardSource, LinkedIn recently launched a new initiative called Volunteer Marketplace.
In the era of the 24 hour news cycle, news is breaking every minute. Take advantage of breaking news by using a nonprofit marketing tactic called "newsjacking." Newsjacking, a term made popular by author David Meerman Scott, is the act of taking a breaking news story and inserting your own angle.
Financial education and vocational training As part of its non-financial services, Al Majmoua's Business Support Services Unit regularly offers Financial Education and vocational trainings to women beneficiaries like the program conducted, in November 2013, in the Choueifat branch. Pi Slice, online microcredit platform in Middle-East and North Africa: lend from $20 and support projects of micro-entrepreneurs to reduce unemployment.
Financial education and vocational training As part of its non-financial services, Al Majmoua's Business Support Services Unit regularly offers Financial Education and vocational trainings to women beneficiaries like the program conducted, in November 2013, in the Choueifat branch. Pi Slice, online microcredit platform in Middle-East and North Africa: lend from $20 and support projects of micro-entrepreneurs to reduce unemployment.
Last November, I had the great privilege of joining Women's World Banking's closest supporters on a trip to India. Our agenda was ambitious: four financial institutions; five cities; eleven days. Throughout the trip, we met the inspiring women entrepreneurs who are at the heart of every product introduction, piece of research, and leadership training led by Women's World Banking.
By Cindy Nawilis, community & operations lead Lack of electricity is a dire problem that not only affects millions of households in developing countries, but also thousands of public healthcare facilities worldwide.
Crowdfunding, as the darling of startups and new product launches across a wide range of industries, has been incredibly powerful for raising awareness and demand for all sorts of creative projects.
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It's one thing to engage in charitable giving in order to help out another human being, or a cause that we support - that's as easy as reaching in our pockets and pulling out some cash.
Nora Neale Hurston (1891-2960) was one of the pre-eminent authors of African-American literature during the 20th century. She once observed, "Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose." I would argue the role of nonprofit research and grant writing professionals is also to be, "poking and prying with a purpose."
How one African country is changing how we feed the world. Last year, a bipartisan group of 23 members of Congress, hosted by the Aspen Institute, travelled to Ethiopia to get a firsthand view of the progress the country was making in modernizing agriculture and smallholder farming.
