Fundraising

Restricted gifts are a unique topic in our business. Imagine buying a tank of gasoline and saying that you want your profits only to go towards green energy research, or buying a T-shirt and insisting that your portion of profits only go towards subsidized medical coverage for the employees. In non profits restricted gifts work just like that and they ...

Albert Einstein said ‘The most powerful force in the Universe is compound interest’. To that I say ‘the most powerful force in philanthropy is compound interests.’ The ability to bring people together based on a common interest and to make an impact is, in my opinion, the most important skill for a philanthropy to develop and hone. Superficially this flies ...

On of the questions I get asked all the time is ‘How do I start my own Non Profit’. I often shudder and then ask what they want to benefit, what their passion is and if their is an organization that fills that need already. The balance that we are striving for is personal connection vs. economy of scale. I’ll ...

I just finished the book Microtrends and was really impressed with the diversity of examples. What really grabbed my attention in the greater sense was how easy a micro trend can bubble up from something obscure to something significant. One trend that I think the author missed was the rise of the one man non profit. In my travels and ...