What is a Campaign Anyway? | Essay 5
In the fifth installment of Changing Our World’s 2019 essay series, we explore how fundraising campaigns are changing and must continue to evolve to meet the continually shifting expectations of donors. How can a nonprofit move the focus away from its own wants and needs, toward the problem and its solution(s)? We explore these topics […]
Redefining Volunteers | Essay 4
In the fourth installment of Changing Our World’s 2019 essay series exploring current trends in the nonprofit sector, we dive into the changing nature of volunteerism. What are volunteers’ expectations of the organizations to whom they give their time? What role does volunteering play within the broader donor journey ecosystem? What does it take to […]
How Changes in the Financial Ecosystem of Nonprofit Support Will Impact Campaigns | Essay 3
In the third installment of Changing Our World’s 2019 essay series exploring new and better ways to ensure the growth of the nonprofit sector, we expound on giving as an ecosystem. Gone are the days of simplicity. Private support of cause-based organizations – whether pure nonprofits or market hybrids – flows in increasingly complex ways. […]
The Changing Face of America’s Millennials and Gen Zers and its Implications for Fundraising Campaigns | Essay 2
Is your organization refining its fundraising strategy to represent today’s Millennial and Gen Z Americans? Along with a changing U.S. donor base, which is becoming younger and more diverse, the entire world of philanthropy is growing and engaging other sectors. Today’s corporations are expected to give back, CEOs are speaking out on global issues, and […]
Tap Into The Money: DAFs and The Future of Fundraising | Essay 1
Recently, our CEO, Brian Crimmins, sat down with President and CEO of National Philanthropic Trust, Eileen Heisman to dive into the impact of donor-advised funds (DAFs) on the philanthropic sector. In the last eight years alone, donations to DAFs grew from 4.4% to 10.2% of total individual giving—and in the one-year period 2016-2017, the number […]
A Time for Boldness: A Series on Philanthropy in the Modern World
American philanthropic behavior now defies convention. It is shape-shifting, fluid, ever cutting new channels with eddies and currents of innovation. Giving flows through bank accounts and internet accounts, which can be one and the same. Giving is attached to passions and to purchases. Giving comes from an originating person, and from accounts whose originating person […]