Fundraising

As a result of the discovery we made that there are a lot of bloggers out there mentioning Relay For Life an intern at NHO, Christopher Dover, has started a blog called RelayBlogger. Chris will be doing research on the best way to work with the people mentioning Relay in their blogs and using RelayBlogger as a kind of blogging ...

Last Friday I had a good meeting with Billy Bicket of CompuMentor. Billy was referred to me by Randy Moss. Randy met Billy when he was working for Meetup.com. CompuMentor is a nonprofit technology assistance service that’s been around the Bay Area since ’87. The big thing they do is manage the distribution to nonprofits of software and hardware from ...

The oldest of the 77 million Baby Boomers turned 59 1/2 on July 1st.  They can retire without a penalty.  They can also  start to have more time to volunteer and donate towards major and planned gifts. Michael Finke, assistant professor of personal financial planning at the University of Missouri, my old school, researched some facts on these boomers that ...

John Nisbitt in his book, Megatrends, in the late ’80, said that for every new high tech development you had to remember to high touch the people involved.  Race forward to the present and introduce fundraising on the Internet.  What about high touch? In the NonProfit Times, May 15, 2005, there was an interesting article on that subject.  It was ...