Thriving on Failure
Engineers Without Borders’ new website, Admitting Failure, gives new life to “good failures.” It aims to help organizations learn from others’ mistakes.
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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Deserves Top-Level Focus and Resources
Peer-to-peer communication leverages the personal networks of members to disseminate messages.
Invite Your Listener to Share the Story
Sharing a story will likely to trigger a story in the mind of your listener. Be intentional about the stories you choose to share.
How Does Celebrity Impact Fundraising?
Celebrities are out; trust is in. So just how do organizations earn the trust of Millennials?
The Benefits of Building a Narrative Organization
The value of narrative in your organization extends well beyond telling stories in your annual report and newsletters.
Four Steps to a New Online Fundraising Strategy
In four steps Global Press Institute was able to revamp the online giving culture and more than triple the number of monthly online donations.
Most Messages Fail. Send Ones That Work.
Many nonprofits send out scores of “updates” and other messages that are really just thinly disguised pitches for money.
Reflections on Jumo & Need for Co-Creation
If I have an idea to change the world, I should be just as welcome and have equal access to the spaces where I can share the idea and find others to help me make it come to life.
Philanthropy’s Buzzwords of the Decade
The 10 phrases I have chosen to show the steady rise in market-based solutions for social problem solving, technology’s infiltration of all things fund raising, and a shift in attention from local to global.
Podcast
Social Innovations
The Role of Social Norms in Energy and Water Conservation
UCLA Professor Noah Goldstein discusses how the power of social norms can been used to promote energy conservation and other prosocial outcomes.