Funding
Funding Innovation: Top Tips
How can you fund innovation when your nonprofit continues to struggle to keep the lights on? Here are some ideas.
What I Learned as a Funder: Frank Tips for Nonprofits
Funders and nonprofits should keep sight of the fact that human beings are on the other side of the table. Social sector work is about people.
Funder’s Corner: Finding Your Data Path to Success
Interview with Ken Doane of SH Cowell Foundation, one of the remaining funders committed to supporting capacity building.
3 Things We Know About Engaging Millennials in Your Nonprofit’s Cause
Millennials trust people like themselves more than nonprofits, government, and business. They want to improve the world.
Want Equity? Then It’s Time to Break the Rules!
Do not buy into the idea that things will never change. The work is too important, the consequences too severe, for us to let fear stop us.
Empowering Next Generation Leaders through Crowdfunding
Launching a crowdfunding campaign is the easy part. The real work is building a community of supporters, a movement of change-makers.
Scarcity or Abundance? An Experiment in Collaborative Fundraising
With a scarcity mentality, we are competing for a slice of pie. Collaborating with a mentality that there’s enough to go around, can we grow the pie?
Show Me The Money! A Step Toward Solving the Problem of Operating Support
The nonprofit sector is undercapitalized, and one organization is trying to solve this problem.
Branching out: Raising more dollars by understanding donors’ differences
Broaden your fundraising tactics to be more inclusive of multigenerational giving. Employ technology to save time and resources.
Financial Focus: You Told Us
Blue Avocado readers share thoughts on how the current political landscape will affect your organization’s funding.