Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during February-1993, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. Many mail appeals fail because, although much attention has been spent writing an effective letter, it is enclosed in an envelope that no one opens. Mail appeals are called “packages” because they are more than letters in
Unless Congress acts to extend appropriations, funding for the nation’s system of community health clinics will run out on May 22nd.
Report for America commits to increasing the number of Native American journalists it supports from 10 to 19.
The National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia seeks bankruptcy protection to restructure its debts.
The student debt monster continues to grow, putting millions in default. Roughly 15 million borrowers report they are “finding it difficult to get by” or are “just getting by.”
Two months after earthquakes began rattling Puerto Rico, FEMA falters again, and community groups and residents must take up the slack in disaster response.
How can we be in right relationship with the planet and our environment? One way to begin to answer this question is to listen to the voices of indigenous communities.
Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during October-1994, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. I was recently asked to give a talk at the annual conference of the Women’s Funding Network. I decided to share with the group the ten biggest mistakes I have made during my seventeen years of fundraising.
Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during February-1994, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates. Recruiting new board members can be a relatively easy task. The existing board figures out how many members it needs and everyone brainstorms the names of friends, people who owe them favors, lonely people, people who just
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Sometimes nonprofits feel obliged to take the deals offered them, but in the case of the new contracts for homeless services in Salt Lake City, that’s not so.
The state of Florida may wish to invest a little something in making sure a reasonable infrastructure is in place to protect its nonprofits from frequent fraudsters.