Governance Q&A: Balancing a community’s needs with your organization’s ability to deliver

A look at the values-based decision-making options available to organizations when facing new opportunities.

The little loan that could: Microcredit yields macro effect

The Global Microcredit Summit is being billed as a watershed event for the microcredit community and will have ramifications for hundreds of millions of people over the next decade. So why might this summit be one of the seminal moments in world history?

How to market your event

This article offers some suggestions for advertising and marketing an event. (out of date? Misses social media)

Boost direct mail donations without asking for them

How well you steward your direct mail donors is key to whether they will keep giving.

Key ingredients to a successful government grant application

Three key ingredients to add to charities’ formulas for successful business grantwriting

Tips for frugal fundraisers

This article offers suggestions for cutting the costs of hosting large fundraising events.

Do your donors hear voices (in your donation request letters)?

Fundraising letters are about people. People talk. So your fundraising letters should include the voices of people.

State of the Arts Nation: Philanthropy in Canada’s cultural community

How often does the average Canadian reach into her pocket and make a donation to a favourite arts organization? How are arts organizations expected to thrive when faced with a highly competitive and saturated funding pool and ever-diminishing public funds?

Making your event stand out from the crowd

This article provides some tips to make your fundraising event unique

Your not-for-profit fundraising letter program has three goals

Your direct mail fundraising program should have three goals: Acquire, Renew, Upgrade.