Building your monthly donor base through telefundraising

The key role of telefundraising in building and maintaining a donor base.

Spring cleaning: Revamp! Refurbish! and Renew! Your volunteer program

Key tips for getting jobs done that have been sitting for too long on your backburner.

Researching to improve results: Getting to the heart of your prospect

If you want to write winning proposals and increase your organization’s rate of success when fundraising, then conducting thorough research is key.

Sector leaders consider how to tell our story

The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy’s (CCP) 7th Annual Symposium had the them of “Telling Our Story: Communicating the value of philanthropy and the voluntary sector.” The events’ speakers focused on two key messages: know your story and tell it.

Bequest Income: working effectively with executors

How a good planned giving officer can act as a resource and guide for the executor rather than as an adversary.

Motivators and Barriers to Giving by Entrepreneurs in Canada

Researchers Guy Mallabone, Vice-president of Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Calgary) and Tony Myers, Associate Director of Development at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) conducted this national study as part of their master’s thesis in Philanthropy and Development at Saint Mary’s University in Minnesota.

Startling Research: Donors want information, not recognition

Throw away those pewter pins and plaques and get out your phone books. New research shows that donors don’t want formal recognition, just information.

Book Review: The Cathedral Within: Transforming your life by giving something back

Bill Shore, founder of Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger, anti-poverty organization, profiles community leaders throughout the United States who are successfully tapping the private sector for community building initiatives.