February 20, 2020
Happy Thursday & hope you’ve had a great week so far! Roots 2 STEM nonprofit, in partnership with Community Care Builders, has an incredible Fundraising Coupon Book for only $25 with 42 coupons worth over $1000 in value; so not only would you and/or your associates be getting great value, you would be supporting […]
January 14, 2020
New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of January is often marked as a national holiday. A short search on Google highlights a plethora of rituals such as: The Winter Solstice for many is the turning point of […]
December 18, 2019
December is a month full of happy days. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Three Kings Day, St. Lucia Day, or Ramadan, December offers great opportunities for teaching about our multicultural world. What do the holidays mean to you? It seems like there is so much pressure to give gifts, we end up buying “something […]
November 30, 2019
I looked at some of these statistics in 2012 and have revisited them again for this Blog posting 7 years later. 2012: 81,601 registered charities in Canada; 2018: 86,000 registered Canadian charities. Canada’s charitable sector is still the largest in North America. Canada’s charitable and non-profit sector is still the second largest in the world. […]
October 31, 2019
From July 27 – August 2, 2020, the Calgary Blues Music Association presents the 16th Annual Calgary International Blues Festival, a full week of the best in blues in a variety of downtown settings and formats, including workshops, noon-hour live music performances, blues history panels, and more. The week culminates in 4 days & […]
September 26, 2019
If businesses have embraced a “value based”approach to managing since it is imperative to make decisions that enhance and improve value for all stakeholders, than why can’t nonprofits too? 1. Generating a return for investors is important but what about a return for supporters for nonprofits? 2. If employees need to be empowered […]
August 20, 2019
Do you ever wonder why some people give to one cause over another? Being a professional fundraiser, I think about this almost every day of my life. Why would one person and/or organization choose one charity, and someone else (and/or organization) support something completely different? I believe that whenever anyone donates to specific cause, they’re […]
July 31, 2019
A difficult question, and often calculated in a variety of ways. Benchmarking between organizations is not standard so costs per dollar raised can vary widely depending on interpretation and exclusion/inclusion of such things as facilities costs, the percentage of the CEO’s salary that would be related to fundraising, and many other items. Benchmarking is often […]
June 30, 2019
Investing in STEM education is critical for the future of our youth and the Canadian economy. The term STEM originates from a UNESCO initiative that recognized the need to utilize human ingenuity and talents to help solve the tough global […]
May 31, 2019
I often asked the question, “what nonprofit fundraiser would be the best to raise the most money?” Nonprofit fundraising ideas come in all shapes and sizes. For many organizations, raising a regular amount of money is vital to keep going. Coming up with novel fundraisers not only helps to bring in much needed cash but […]