Fundraising Fundamentals
How to Turn Event Participants Into Long-Term Donors
Susan Paresky, chief of fundraising at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, explains how to figure out which participants in walkathons and other events are charitably inclined and have the resources to give and how to pursue them.
Live Discussions
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How Nonprofits Can Prevent Fraud
Join us on Tuesday, June 5, at noon U.S. Eastern time, for a live online discussion on ways to deter employees from stealing a charity's money.
Podcast: Fundraising Fundamentals
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Five Words That Helped a Local Nonprofit Raise More Money
Women tend to give more money to charities that use words like "caring" and "compassionate" as they pitch the gift, an Indiana radio station learned. But the approach doesn't...
Podcast: Making Change
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Building Connections to Improve Aid to the Needy
The creator of an online social network for humanitarian-aid providers describes how the effort is allowing people to share what works best to lift communities out of...
Podcast: Social Good
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Using Pinterest to Raise Money: One Charity's Experiment
Ian Haisley, director of online strategy at Opportunity International, discusses a Mother's Day fundraising campaign based on an online quilt board inspired by Pinterest.
Podcast: Tiny Spark
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Buy One and Give One: Inside Toms Shoes
Toms Shoes, founded by Blake Mycoskie, is among the hottest entrepreneurial efforts in the country, largely because of its promise to give one pair of shoes to a child in the...
Opinion
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Don’t Let Congress Keep Stomping on Advocacy Rights
New restrictions on nonprofit free-speech rights are a sign not just of growing power by conservatives to quash popular democracy, but also that charities and foundations...
People
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Innovative Grants to Aid the Poor Draw Top Honors
Michele Prichard, of the Liberty Hill Foundation, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Council on Foundations.
Face of Philanthropy
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A Charity Helps Students Aim for Higher Education
First Graduate prepares students academically for college and helps their families navigate the admission and financial-aid process. Its goal is to help students whose family...
New Books
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Sharing Innovations Is Key to Social Entrepreneurship, Says Author
Social entrepreneurs describe how their innovative projects affected communities.
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