Member Posts
By Dan Dickson, Global Advancement
Your firm has been contracted to conduct a capital campaign feasibility study. That’s a smart move on the part of administrators and trustees of the charitable organization that brought you on board. Why is a feasibility study critical? Because “readiness is the...
Russ Hodge, CFRE, The Hodge Group
The most overlooked relationship in the not-for-profit sector is between the CFO and the Chief Development Officer. Their ability to communicate effectively is critical to the overall health of the organization. Far too often, CFOs believe their ability to count gives them an understanding of...
by Angela White
The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong – That is the title of Dan Pallotta’s TED talk which has created quite a buzz in the nonprofit sector and beyond. Since Pallotta’s talk was posted in March 2013, it has already been viewed more than...
By: Keith Curtis, President, The Curtis Group
Over the past few months our firm’s vice president and I taught a course on the board’s role in fundraising, and we hosted a webinar on the same topic. The role of a nonprofit board is a subject we have spent a lot...
By: Julia Emlen
Provide by: Marts & Lundy
A number of years ago, when I was flying from Providence, Rhode Island, to Missoula, Montana, I read an article in the airline magazine about hiring decisions and the importance of knowing whether you are looking for a “pirate captain” or a “bursar.” The crux...
By Jeffrey Byrne, Jeffrey Byrne & Associates
As a longtime California resident, Phil Mickelson vented after shooting a final-round 66 for a 17-under-par 271 total and tie for 37th in his 2013 debut at the Humana Challenge (January 22, 2013).
Recently Phil also made headlines in the business sections of newspapers...
Submitted by : Blackbaud
Overall giving grew by nearly 2% in 2012 and online giving increased close to 11% compared to 2011. That’s the latest findings from 2012 Charitable Giving Report which was published by Blackbaud and includes 24 months of overall giving data from 3,144 nonprofit organizations representing $7.9...
By: Hank Goldstein
Oram Group Inc.
In the current political climate the greatest uncertainty before philanthropy is whether the charitable deduction will be preserved with no, or very limited, change. Overlooked in the discussion is that total US philanthropic through-put has hovered at just above or just below 2% of GDP, year...
By: Rick Dunham, Dunham+Company
Political pundits are absorbed with the fiscal cliff facing America if the spending cuts and tax increases set to go into effect January 1 are not somehow addressed. To be sure, we all feel a sense of impending doom if this crisis is not averted.
But there is...
By: Robert I. Evans, Avrum D. Lapin, and Benjamin Ginsberg
With barely four weeks remaining in 2012, we focus on a challenging prospect for charitable gift planning: the possible expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts coupled with other potential changes to the U.S. tax...
