Driving Medical Research through Major Giving
Nonprofit organizations that invest in fundraising fundamentals can drive major gift donations that lead to transformational change.
Nonprofit organizations that invest in fundraising fundamentals can drive major gift donations that lead to transformational change.
The independence of foundations gives them the unique ability to communicate uncomfortable truths to entrenched power. When it comes to strategic communications, however, there are three things of which every foundation could do more.
When collaborating on systems transformation, we must include both program beneficiaries and institutional leaders.
Nonprofits need to use more-sophisticated client- and program-tracking platforms to meet the expectations of today’s funders.
When seeking solutions to social issues, we must look to new horizons but stay true to our values.
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.