Recent changes to the tax law provide opportunities – at least temporarily – to increase charitable giving. Download the latest insights, looking at what this
About the Leadership Series Good leadership is easy to spot, but hard to define. Popular idioms point to leadership as influence, or hope, or the ability
Your organization has reached a milestone: making an impact for ten years, twenty years, one hundred years. So what? Anniversaries are frequently the genesis for
By Laura MacDonald and Megan Simmons As originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly In early October, Donald Trump’s fundraising campaign promised supporters their gifts would be
Some thoughts on decolonizing philanthropy in America In June, our neighbors were moving and offered us one of their potted fig trees. We had no
Chicago, IL – Laura MacDonald, CFRE, Principal and Founder of Benefactor Group, has been named Chair of Giving USA Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by
Tracking your organization’s fundraising return on investment (ROI) is one way to monitor the value of different fundraising techniques. It can help guide future investments in your fundraising infrastructure. But, as a growing body of research suggests, constantly comparing your returns to other organizations—or focusing exclusively on your own highest-return initiatives—is not the best lens for evaluating effectiveness. Why?
