We here at The Collins Group are big fans of Christopher Davenport’s Movie Monday series – but not this week. In this week’s video, Spokane-based consultant Jeanne Ager explains her style of “mini-feasibility studies.” You can view the video here. Ager’s approach to a “mini-feasibility study” would indeed be less costly and less time-consuming than [...]
The results of the new Money for Good report will surprise you. The Money for Good initiative seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the behaviors, attitudes, and motivations of affluent Americans with respect to impact investing, charitable giving, and international entrepreneurship. Focus groups and an online survey (Hope Consulting conducted the research) tapped the [...]
A number of emerging trends are converging, and the result will likely be a “tipping point” in how we view the impact of philanthropy in our Northwest region, across the country, and globally. This past week’s headlines are pointing to this pending sea change. Like any movement, the change didn’t start this week with the [...]
TAM is ready to launch a campaign! Want to join the team? The Collins Group is serving as their campaign counsel, so there will be fun all around. CAMPAIGN MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION ABOUT TACOMA ART MUSEUM Tacoma Art Museum is a public-spirited institution with nationally recognized exhibitions and innovative educational programs that attract tens of [...]
Turns out you need to do more than just have a Facebook page to capture the interest of younger donors. See what our very own Jim Hopper has to say on this subject — he’s the featured speaker on 501 Video’s Movie Monday this week. Way to go, Jim!
In recognition of an amazing $25 million grant from the Tateuchi Foundation, Performing Arts Center Eastside (PACE) has been renamed the Tateuchi Center. The center is named in honor of the late Atsuhiko Tateuchi, a Japanese-American humanitarian, entrepreneur, business leader, and co-founder of the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation. The Collins Group is honored [...]
Giving USA 2010: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2009 was released this morning. The report details giving trends over the last year and analyzes those results with information from the last couple decades. For the third year in a row, giving exceeded $300 billion even though overall giving declined 3.6 percent in [...]
TCG client Rig Riggins, CEO of the YMCA in Spokane, is the star of today’s Movie Monday from 501 Videos. Rig’s team was able to turn an otherwise uninterested corporate CEO into an excited major donor. How did it do it? Click here to watch the video and hear his story.
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