WHEN YOU WANT TO GIVE BUT DON’T HAVE CASH
Try this on: You’ve decided to scale back your holiday hoopla this year by spending less on gifts, giving more to charity and getting closer to the spiritual side of celebration. Joy to the world feels right. Glitter and tinsel do not. The problem is that many of us are feeling cash-poor. So instead, consider […]
HOW DONORS CAN MOVE THE NEEDLE ON RESULTS
Increasingly, as donors back their dollars with hands-on involvement, they are joining forces with organizations they support in order to leverage contributions and advance the mission. Like any relationship, though, establishing an honest, effective donor-charity alliance built on trust and understanding takes time and compromise. While the third sector is clearly trying harder these days […]
HOW TO MEASURE A NONPROFIT’S SUCCESS
A conventional rule of thumb for measuring a nonprofit organization’s effectiveness is to compare its operating and administrative costs to its spending on programs. When the operating costs top 40% of the annual budget — which puts spending on programs at 60% — many pundits and experts argue that it signals that the organization is […]