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Kathleen Rogers works with nonprofit prospect researchers, development directors, major-giving officers and fundraising consultants to support fundraising campaigns with Blackbaud’s NOZA Philanthropy...
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Studies Abound. What Do They All Mean?
Over the past couple of month so many studies, research reports and survey results pertaining to the fundraising landscape have filled my inbox that it’s getting hard to process all this great data!...
View ArticleThe Real Power of the Purse
As a grown up Girl Scout who also served as a camp counselor, assistant troop leader and staff person, I’m a certified geek for all things girl power. Imagine my excitement when I read “Women exert new...
View ArticleYoung Volunteers: Make it Easy for them to Serve You
My oldest son began high school this fall. I can’t quite believe I’m old enough for this to be true, that he’s already at this milestone moment, taking a step into a much larger world. But, alas, it...
View ArticleToday’s Workforce: Millennials + Boomers = Learning for All
Back when I was in school, we always used to call the work world “real life.” After school, we would enter “real life,” get a job, get a car, do what grown ups did. Somehow, I became a grown up, and...
View Article#GivingTuesday is December 3rd: Are you ready?
I can’t wait for #GivingTuesday! Seriously, December 3rd can’t come soon enough. As a professional who focuses on corporate social responsibility, philanthropy and all forms of giving every day,...
View Article#GivingTuesday: A Great Day for Business to do Good!
#GivingTuesday 2013 might over, but no it’s not! Technically, it’s not December 3rd anymore, so the day itself has passed for the year. But, in my mind, #GivingTuesday is so much more than a day....
View ArticleDecember 2nd: It’s Time To ‘Break The Internet’ With Social Good.
The Tuesday following Thanksgiving: for the majority, it’s just another Tuesday. We’re finally waking up from our Thanksgiving food comas. We’ve taken advantage of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday...
View ArticleJoin Me: Help Good Take Over
Good is a huge part of my world. Seriously. I think about good, the concept, all the time. I talk about good. I work to do good. I strive to help others join in. Why? Because I share in the belief that...
View Article#GMN2016 Annual Conference| Observations from Day 3
As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference, we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring...
View ArticleLessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking
In case you missed it, last week was the second annual International Grantmaking Symposium (IGS), presented by CAF America in partnership with UNDP. CAF America launched the IGS last year around the...
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Philanthropy Is a Leadership Issue
One of the things I love most about fundraising is that it is completely dependent on leadership. In an ideal world.. Leaders cast vision that grabs the attention of donors Donors fund work that allows...
View ArticleYou’re Not Alone in Your Pursuit for Better
It’s easy to feel like you’re alone on your mission to do good and create real change in the world. You think you’re making progress only to realize that your work is nowhere near finished. A simple...
View ArticleRevitalizing Global Partnerships to Further the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present us with a great opportunity to address the world’s most pressing issues and, as we are quickly learning, we need to work together across sectors and...
View ArticleThe Era of Corporate Social Responsibility is Ending: Why That’s a Good Thing
People who do what I do for a living spend their lives championing what we call “corporate social responsibility.” Traditionally, Corporate Social Responsibility has been for the “big guys”—the Fortune...
View Article#IMPACT2030 Sets Sights on Change and Transformation
IMPACT 2030 is the Global Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. It’s the only private sector-led coalition aligning employee volunteering in the services of the Sustainable...
View ArticleThe Ecosystem of Good: How We’ll Revolutionize Philanthropy
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, my assumption is it’s because you’re someone working to build a better world. That means I probably know at least two things about you: You’re driven by passion...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact
Today, we announced the newly minted Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact. This is a project that we’ve been thinking through for some time as we consider how we, as a company, can better serve...
View ArticlePhilanthropy and Sustainable Development: Our Role as Interlocutors for Good
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected” – an inspiring thought on how we will achieve the formidable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is how Natalia Kanem, Assistant...
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How to Design Your Nonprofit Website for Better User Experience
I bet most people you know have made some sort of a New Year’s resolution and are excited about executing it (at least for a while…) I am one of those people. Mine was to be a better designer this year...
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