Politicians are recipients. And like any recipient, they will likely feel inclined to give back to contributor that helped get them elected. This is why it’s absolutely critical that campaign donations be not only public but easily accessible information.
The Hope Consulting study Money for Good showed that most donors are driven by emotion rather than analysis when making their choices about where to give. This is because the vast majority of donors give in order to make a connection, not to make an impact. Meanwhile, the philanthropic sector is urging an increase in [...]
Tags:connective giving·high impact·Hope Consulting·Money for Good
Not crazy about interrupting my self-established rule of dedicating consecutive posts to the Spectrum of Giving. But I’m doing it anyway because there is some important stuff out there that you must see. Also, if I put the post title in parentheses, it’s like it doesn’t really exist. Right. Over at Good Intentions Are Not [...]
Tags:fundraising
All that stuff about whether nonprofit staff should give to their organizations also applies to the nonprofit fundraising staff. Except quadruply so. Fundraisers hear the pitch for support constantly. The pitch is even coming out of their own mouths. People can only make a persuasive argument so many times before they’ve convinced themselves. So if [...]
Donors and funders are always on the lookout for signals that indicate how a charity operates. Fundraisers are always on the lookout for people committed to the nonprofit’s mission, and especially those already part of their community. And so both have taken a looksie at the Cinnabon-ly sticky question of: Do the staff of the [...]
Tags:(The sneaky stuff you can say in parens!)·nonprofit staff
Dear Gentlemen Donors, You guys give lots. And it’s appreciated. But there are occasions when you hand over money to an organization and then behave in a way which immediately negates all the Giftyness of your donation. For example: When you tell President of a nonprofit that you came to donor event “because the staff [...]
Tags:We're all rolling our eyes at you·You're not fooling anyone including your wife
