July 20, 2020
I revisited an older article I was looking at and reached out to Sumac / Silent Partner Software to see if it would be okay to include in my latest Blog post and social media. I have been using Sumac as a Donor Data base with several clients as it is easy to use and […]
June 16, 2020
Excel is a great tool and has many great uses, but if you want to bring your mid-size nonprofit to the next level, you really need a Donor Data Base. Here are some reasons why: – You waste a ridiculous amount of time entering information again and again because your data is in multiple spreadsheets […]
May 12, 2020
These are difficult times in the world at present, however, I hope we will not lose our optimism that things will turn out alright. The world is incredibly challenging, especially, for nonprofits given that donors and sponsors are also struggling. These are important times to think outside the box as we struggle with social distancing […]
March 4, 2020
Inviting your Business to join us in Making Change Possible THE GOAL This spring on April 19, 2020, from 10am until noon, The Doorway is hosting a 3/5 K Run/Walk to help raise community awareness and to fundraise $30,000. These proceeds will enable us to welcome and commit to supporting 8 young Calgarians working to […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]