fundraising

As a nonprofit or association, you will need to fundraise and draw in support from as many as you can. Storytelling is a great way to do this. If you follow these tips you are bound to increase your success rate in gaining funds and garnering support for your cause.[read more]

Did you know that nonprofits as a whole have a retention rate of 49%? That’s staggeringly low compared to the for-profit retention rate of 94%. Why the huge gap? To help shed some light on this, I called Marc Pitman, an expert on fundraising.[read more]

There are few things more fulfilling than finding someone doing something for a good cause or raising money or awareness for something important. I'm participating in Movember, which is a male cancer awareness effort to follow October, which has a breast cancer awareness focus, mostly for women. (You can help shave my goatee by...[read more]

We get asked all of the time, “who should I call to raise money for my latest idea?”  We usually point them to the Texas Startup Blog's Venture Capital Directory, but more recently we have been excited about the work Jeff Williams of Hunt Ventures has been doing.  Read more about, ‘Jeff Williams, hottest VC...[read more]

In another fine report by Heather Havenstein at Computerworld we learn today that charities are adopting social media technqiues and technologies faster than U.S. businesses, big and small, and colleges and universities. Go figure! The data comes from a survey conducted by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Just one of...[read more]

Ron Paul and his band of online insurgents did it again — they mobilized online support to gin up tons of cash (a cool $4.2 million) and make the mainstream media take notice. Outside the Beltway has a good wrap-up of news coverage, and of course the online politics crowd has weighed in as well. Writing in tPrez and his own site, for...[read more]

Very interesting article from Tuesday's New York Times highlighting the trend for “paid volunteerism.” The article highlights Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., the retired Cravath Partner and heir of the F.A.O Schwarz fortune. Stated Schwarz:<?xml:namespace prefix="o"?> <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--...[read more]

From Jeff “Buzzmachine” Jarvis comes news that YouTube is expanding its recent moves into political media — which I wrote about earlier here. In addition to CitizenTube, where all the political clips are aggregated, YouTube has launched a feature called Spotlight, and is asking the political candidates to upload videos of...[read more]