2025, September
Featured Cover Preview Best in Show: How the Wisconsin Humane Society Unleashes It’s Fundraising Potential Lizzie Covington, Vice President of Development,... Read more.
How to Fight Back Government Cuts
When the Classical Theatre of Harlem lost $60,000 in NEA funding, outrage followed. But let’s strip away the emotion and apply business logic: if your organization... Read more.
7 Pillars That Keep You Standing
Nonprofits rarely collapse from bad intentions. They collapse because the foundation is cracked. Seven pillars determine survival: strategy, packaging, focus, prospects,... Read more.
Many Colleges Fail in Teaching How to Think — And Donors Are Catching On
In 2017, the Wall Street Journal warned: “Many Colleges Fail in Teaching How to Think.” Eight years later, was it prophecy? Alumni giving is down. Public confidence... Read more.
2025, August
Featured Cover Preview Small and mighty: The GOSUMEC Foundation proves that you don’t need to be a big nonprofit to achieve sizable results Dr. Sanjay Bindra,... Read more.
The $117 Million Mirage: Why Most Legacy Gift Lists Are Illusions
A nonprofit celebrated 1,270 bequest commitments worth $117 million. Reality check: filtering for actual prospects yielded 55 names. Calling those 55? They reached... Read more.
Would You Donate to Harvard?
Harvard: citadel of brilliance or fortress of privilege? For decades, liberals slammed it as an elitist gatekeeper—legacy admissions, donor perks, and wealth dressed... Read more.
New Law, Same Panic
On July 4th, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) became law—prompting predictable panic in the nonprofit sector. Critics decried lower top-tier deductions and... Read more.
2025, July
Featured Cover Preview Operation Contagious Philanthropy: Finding That Eureka! Narrative to Engage Navy SEALs Kim Rhinehelder, CFRE, National Director of Development... Read more.
Built to Break: How Nonprofit Culture Creates Its Own Crises
Many nonprofits operate like unsuspecting turkeys, assuming past stability guarantees future safety. Built on feel-good events, crisis-driven appeals and compliance-focused... Read more.