A close friend of mine frequently makes significant gifts to her favourite causes. I sit on the board of a charity; how do I get her to support mine? Ask and you shall receive is a good place to start!...
Last month in our series about summer arts festivals run by nonprofits, we looked at the partnership between Toronto’s Luminato festival and The New Yorker Magazine. This month, we head way up north, to the town of Inuvik on the...
What should my charity focus on over the summer to strengthen our fundraising program? July and August are good months to refocus your fundraising strategy so you can hit the ground running come the autumn. While June is often taken...
Marilyn Struthers, province-wide program manager for the Ontario Trillium Foundation, speaks largely in nature metaphors. "I sit at the top of the high tree overlooking the sector," she says of her job overseeing millions of dollars of grant applications each...
In October 2010, CharityVillage® and Give Green Canada jointly launched a survey to gather information about a subject in dire need of more data: bequest opportunities for the international charitable sector. More than nine hundred people partook in the survey,...
Summer's here, and as the song says, the time is right for dancing in the streets. It's also right for just about every other type of creative endeavour, and that's because the arts-festival season is kicking into high gear. This...
There's an attitude out there that online fundraising hasn't quite arrived yet in Canada. Almost every nonprofit does it, but most just don't devote much in the way of time or resources to it. I have met many traditional fundraisers...
In 1953, Ramón Rivero took to the streets in Puerto Rico. As the main participant and organizer for the first-known walkathon, Rivero walked 80 miles from San Juan to Ponce and raised the equivalent of $85,000 for the Puerto Rican...
What should I include in our charity's annual report? While the name "annual report" seems self-explanatory, let me just clarify. Corporations (for-profit businesses) need to report to their shareholders annually and outline the preceding year's activities, whereas Canadian charities don't...
High quality photographs can help nonprofit organizations bring their stories to life in a way that engages supporters, builds relationships and improves lives. But sourcing great photos can be challenging. Few nonprofits have professional photographers on staff or dedicated budgets...
