Fundraising

Camera phones are here and growing fast. Two million will be sold in the US this year five million next year. The phones can snap a picture and instantly send it to an email address, weblog or media outlet. Questions of corporate espionage and individual privacy are being raised. New specialty areas in ethics and law are developing. For an ...

Charities are hearing increasing criticism that their slowness to adopt the Internet for fund raising needlessly increases fund raising costs. This raises the question how exactly would charities go about using the net as a low cost fund raising vehicle. If a low percentage cost is the goal the answer is easy to see. SPAM yes-significant amounts of SPAM. Internet ...

Fourteen Grand Challenges In Global Health Announced in $200 Million Initiative :: PNNOnline :: Bill and Melinda put out another $200 milllion for 14 grand scientific challenges to health in the developing world. They evidently still have too many communicable and infectious disease problems to worry about cancer.

The McKinsey Quarterly: In-kind donations for nonprofits Here’s a rather interesting article about in-kind donations written by a publication that is primarily business-oriented. It has a useful model of the process of developing an in-kind donations approach. It also mentions the ACS.