Fundraising Q&A: What should I include in my annual report?

This article reviews the purpose of the annual report and helps you decide what to put in it.

Why run when you can walk? The evolution of walkathons

Using a walk for the dual goals of generating awareness and raising money has become a strategic choice for many charitable organizations. But is the competition too much?

Picture perfect: 10 tips for taking great photos

Photography is one of the areas where program staff and volunteers can use their creativity to enhance the organization’s communications materials. Here are a few tips to help you along the way.

Ten keys to working with corporations – without selling your soul

The work you do to find the right corporate partners can help make you a stronger, more creative, more focused organization — even before you receive the cheque.

Human Resources Q&A: A micro-managing employee

Advice on how to deal with a micro-managing employee.

Seven ideas to engage prospects

Providing prospects with a wide variety of engagement opportunities is critical to stemming leaks once they reach the cultivation stage of the development cycle.

Social media: What’s your policy?

If you’re an avid devotee of social media, chances are you’ve already heard about this infamous gaffe: a Red Cross employee uses HootSuite to send out an otherwise-innocent tweet about her alcohol-induced evening in the company of a specific beer. She thought she was sending it from her personal account. But she was wrong. As we all know, mistakes like that are not easily repealed and once you’ve hit that send button it’s hard to take things back.

New beginnings: When to quit your job

Here is a suggested list of factors that may point to the need to get on with that next chapter in your professional career.

Five characteristics of a healthy prospect pipeline

How do you know if your pipeline is healthy? We’ve identified certain core characteristics of a healthy prospect pipeline.

Straight from the source: A crowd-sourced article about Millennials by Millennials

This experiment saw three article coordinators reach out to their Millennial networks to collaborate on a series of questions about engaged citizenship, work, social media, and stereotypes.