Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during Nov/Dec 2005, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. For years, the response rate for direct mail fundraising has been gradually declining, due in part to increasing volume: more and more organizations sending more and more mail. If you’re not raising as much as you
Arts sector institutions struggle with the myriad changes, financial and otherwise, that the pandemic imposes, but are coping with their trademark creativity.
Even with CARES legislation in place, some students are having their wages garnished for student loan debts. Legislators are looking to halt the practice and ensure refunds.
It may be anathema to some that people would be considering new civil sector startups, but we think it makes perfect sense.
North of the 49th parallel, a very different policy response to the arts reminds us that a decimated arts sector is a policy choice, not a requirement, of the pandemic.
Some organizations serving low-income and marginalized communities have been left out of relief because they are just too big. Is that the right standard?
With activists and advocacy organizations calling for the release of prisoners to slow the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, could we end mass incarceration for good?
We reiterate that sitting out this advocacy moment is a dereliction of fiduciary duty. The policy proposals in play will deeply affect nonprofits and the lives of those they serve.
Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during Nov/Dec 2001, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. “I think we are ready to go public with our capital campaign!” “Let’s launch!” For many of us in the fundraising business, these phrases are uttered with a feeling that combines joy, relief, and a new
Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during Mar/Apr 2003, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. Fundraisers in rural communities working on local causes face a number of unique challenges, including fewer services, higher costs, and less advanced technology (for example, limited high-speed Internet access). In many rural areas, jobs are few
Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during Mar/Apr 2003, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. As you add up all the money you raised in 2002, and evaluate how your fundraising program worked and what you should do differently, I hope one of the items you will add to your plans
Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during Nov/Dec 2003, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. You may remember a controversial practice of the early 1990s called “outing.” As the name implies, someone would find out that a famous person was gay or lesbian and would “out” this person by telling the