NonProfit Pro
February 5, 2015
Tweets from the Direct Marketing Association's Email Evolution Conference 2015 (#eec15).
February 5, 2015
(Press release, Feb. 4, 2015) — The MacArthur Foundation named nine organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The award, which recognizes exceptional nonprofit organizations that are engaged in the foundation’s core fields of work and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with $350,000 to $1 million, depending on the size of its budget.
February 5, 2015
(Press release, Feb. 5, 2015) — Innovairre Communications, a world leader in fundraising, introduced Innovairre MC, a fully integrated fundraising platform that leverages a social database framework and acts as the central nerve system for a nonprofit's operations.
February 4, 2015
These five insights will help you approach your next ask from a more comfortable, authentic and successful standpoint as a fundraiser!
February 4, 2015
(Press release, Feb. 3, 2015) — Leveraging findings from The Blackbaud Index, Blackbaud Inc. released its Charitable Giving Report, providing the nonprofit sector with the latest data on overall and online charitable giving in 2014, as well insight from industry experts and case studies. The report includes overall giving data from nearly 5,000 nonprofit organizations representing $16.2 billion in total fundraising and online giving data from nearly 4,000 nonprofits representing $2 billion in online fundraising from 2014.
February 4, 2015
If your answer is no to any of the following questions, it is too soon to ask for a major gift.
February 4, 2015
Recent tweets on fundraising (#fundraising).
February 4, 2015
The mother of a mentally disabled woman claims a Southern California nonprofit was negligent in hiring a job coach who would eventually plead no contest to molesting her daughter. Rosie Clinton said a moment in October 2010 changed the course of her daughter's life forever.
"This incident changed her whole persona," Clinton said of her now 43-year-old daughter, who four years ago had been getting services through PathPoint Inc., a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit agency specializing in helping disabled adults assimilate to ordinary life.
February 4, 2015
The wife of a Navy SEAL was sentenced Monday to a year and six months in prison for stealing more than $120,000 from a charity that helps SEALs and their families during times of crisis. Tammy Mason pleaded guilty last year to embezzling from her employer, the Navy SEAL Foundation. Prosecutors say she used the money for lavish personal expenses.
February 4, 2015
PayPal processed $212 million in charitable donations during December 2014, including $8.6 million raised through its Give Cheer campaign, the online payment-processing company reported. That’s an increase of nearly 50 percent over the $142 million in donations the company processed in December 2013.
During Give Cheer, PayÂPal matched 1 percent of each contribution made to participating nonprofits as well as those registered on the Canadian online charity hub CanadaHelps and crowdfunding website Razoo.
