United Way organizations all over the country are trying to re-engineer their roles to fit the new ecosystem of philanthropy. Since everything connects to everything else, as they change, so must many nonprofits.
The state employees’ workplace-giving campaign in Florida has finally been formally pronounced dead after years of headlines related to its decline and management.
In New York City, restaurants are now required to pass voluntary donations from their workers to nonprofits that are supporting them. As cities seek to empower workers in a transformed economy, this new labor model is likely to spread.
Companies seek to recruit millennials by offer social responsibility programs, but nonprofits don’t have to if they remember where their treasure lies.
There are a number of contributing factors in the epic fail of the state worker campaign in Florida this year but underneath those are just the declining numbers. Are workplace solicitation campaigns mostly a thing of the past?
The 26th annual “Philanthropy 400” ranking of 501(c)(3) organizations by how much they raise is an awkward exercise in a number of ways.
Corporate employees don’t like being coerced to make charitable contributions that corporate managers call for, and they increasingly don’t like being pushed to make contributions to their corporate bosses’ favorite political candidates, either.
