Ignorance Is Not a Fundraising Strategy
Do you know how wealthy donors think? Can you explain the gap between a millionaire and a billionaire? Have you checked LinkedIn before your last donor meeting?... Read more.
2025, October
Featured Cover Preview The Future of Philanthropy Is Unrestricted: MacKenzie Scott showed what’s possible. JobsFirstNYC and others are proving it every day. Marjorie... Read more.
Strategic Planned Giving: Why Online Will Planners Fail Nonprofits
Digital will platforms are expensive, slow, and aimed at the wrong donors. High-net-worth households use attorneys; faith-based institutions dominate bequests without... Read more.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Philanthropy.org LOGO Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Country: United States About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation... Read more.
2025, September
Featured Cover Preview Best in Show: How the Wisconsin Humane Society Unleashes Its Fundraising Potential Lizzie Covington, Vice President of Development, Wisconsin... Read more.
Money Allergy
Fundraisers often suffer from a “money allergy.” When terms like “capital gains” or “charitable trusts” arise, the conversation shifts to emotional stories... 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.