How to talk about your nonprofit mistakes
I’ve been watching Givewell for the past couple of years, because I think they’ve been trying to take on a serious issue with accountability and transparency for nonprofits.
Are you ready to fail? You better be!
Are you friends with failure? I remember at one of my old nonprofit fundraising jobs, making the smallest mistake was the cause for disciplinary action, reprimand, and dire accusations of waste and thoughtlessness. Imagine if we encouraged our fundraising staff to make mistakes. What if their job was to try 3 new things every year? […]
7 steps to succeed with crowdfunding
Have you ever thought about doing a kickstarter or indiegogo campaign for your nonprofit? Recently I was approached by a board member of a nonprofit to give them feedback on their indiegogo campaign for their nonprofit. I looked at their campaign text and it was terrible. They were trying to get operating funding for their […]
INTERVIEW: Engaging Younger Donors with Devin Kelly, Founder of Oregon Active
How can you engage younger donors? Listen in to find out what one scrappy young nonprofit is doing.
How to Market Your Nonprofit’s Earned Income Streams
What were your goals with the plan?
In addition to the general goal identified by the organization, our team identified further goals of the marketing plan as 1) formulating a strategy for identifying potential customers across the country, and 2) contacting those agencies to create and improve awareness of the program in an effort to increase product sales.
Do we really have too many nonprofits? Citation needed!
I mean, come on! We have tech for-profits starting up every day, and no one says to them, “There are too many tech startups! Cut it out already, there’s not enough need!”