Last week I was able to attend the Washington Planned Giving Council’s annual Planned Giving Day and enjoyed connecting with many professionals that I hadn’t had the opportunity to talk with in several months and meeting others for the first time. In this time of tight budgets, often resulting from decreased endowment earnings, many nonprofits [...]
Is there really a recession underway? I am a benefit luncheon junkie. I attend an amazing amount every year and I never fail to be inspired, renewed, and rejuvenated at the impact I can have in making our world a better place. Last week I attended the annual luncheon for Hopelink. For those of you [...]
When I moved to Seattle 20 years ago, I gave up access to the New York edition of The New York Times. My Saturday and Sunday mornings are punctuated by the delivery of the national edition but…it’s just not the same. I read the online edition regularly, especially for stories that didn’t make the national [...]
Last Wednesday the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over 10,000 points for the first time in, well, a long time. I had a hard time getting excited about this milestone (Would it really last? Is this THE sign we’ve all been waiting for? Is it time to dance in the streets in the again?), but [...]
For nonprofit organizations in every sector and every region of the country, 2009 has been a challenging year for fundraising. And with the great majority of personal contributions given in the last quarter of the calendar year, staff and board members are feeling significant pressure to secure needed funding. A new study commissioned by Campbell [...]
A current TCG campaign client, the Methow Conservancy, put a big challenge out to its community this summer. It wasn’t the typical fundraising challenge, where raising a certain dollar amount would unlock a challenge award. This was the Every Donor Counts Challenge. The Methow Conservancy’s Imagine the Methow Campaign received a $100,000 challenge from a [...]
This week’s Movie Monday video features TCG Vice President Kate Roosevelt as well as the University of Washington’s Associate VP of Individual Giving Programs, Lee Heck. Kate and Lee discuss the best ways to respond to donors who find themselves unable to fulfill a pledge. Click the link below to watch the video: http://www.501videos.com/mm2009/10/mm_2_pledges.html?awt_l=DH1HV&awt_m=1ZjoVgwZ1mSBtP Share and Enjoy:
While giving tends to increase in the wake of a well-publicized emergency, such as a natural disaster, this fact doesn’t necessarily extend to the kind of emergencies many nonprofits are facing today as traditional revenue sources – government aid, earned income, etc. – are suddenly drying up. Following are six tips for making the best [...]
I admit it. Like many other people I know, I’ve ignored the statements from my retirement account for nearly a year now. But even though I never opened them, my financial managers kept sending them. They even sent other things to me, which I didn’t open either. I’m not really proud of it, but I [...]
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