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September 7, 2019

Major Gift – How Do You Quantify One?

Intuitively, we all know what a major gift is: It’s simply the top stratum of charitable gifts received by your nonprofit organization. The relative impact of any gift depends on an organization’s mission, operating budget, community, and fundraising base, but what does the overall fundraising landscape look like when it comes to size of donations? To answer this question, the Major Gifts Fundraising Benchmark Study contacted more than 600 organizations in 2017 and learned that: […]

October 3, 2019

Maxie Carpenter Development Systems International

Maxie Carpenter Has a New Take On Nonprofits

Maxie Carpenter and Development Systems International have a new take on nonprofit leadership. Maxie asks the question, NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP: EFFECTIVE OR EFFICIENT?” Effectiveness has always been a driver of Leadership and nonprofit success, particularly since Peter Drucker formulated the rules and required habits of thought in 1967’s The Effective Executive. This book had an enormous impact on all kinds of leaders in all kinds of sectors, not just the for-profit marketplace because Drucker identified that doing the […]

October 7, 2019

Positive Solutions – Tell a Better Nonprofit Story!

Positive Solutions’ core philosophy reminds me of American entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian activist Dan Pallotta and his famous TED Talk that rippled through the charitable sector and had every nonprofit veteran executive nodding their heads in a resounding, “YES,” including me. It was aptly titled, “The Way We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong.” In his famous talk, Dan argued that there exists a double standard between the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Especially in the […]

October 18, 2019

Little Green Light – Donor Management With Integrity

As an early adopter of Little Green Light and now a long-time Little Green Light Staffer, I love having the opportunity to share how our donor management system can truly impact fundraising outcomes for hard-working, small nonprofit organizations. But what I love even more is the fact that our users are just as passionate about using Little Green Light as I am and often go out of their way to share their experiences with others. […]