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If Your Charity Has a Strategic Plan, Don’t Put it on the Shelf – Market it!

Nonprofits need to have a strategic plan and, more than ever, need to share and market that strategic plan with potential corporate funders and partners.…

Crowdfunding for Charitable Causes: Advice from BBB Wise Giving Alliance

BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s CEO Art Taylor notes our digital culture has introduced many new ways of contributing to charitable causes. Crowdfunding presents opportunities, but…

Protect Charitable Giving Incentives in the Tax Code

A number of critical giving incentives included as part of the annual tax extenders package expired on January 1, 2014 along with other provisions. These included the…

New Study Looks at Corporate and Employee Giving for Nonprofits

When you compare the nonprofit fundraising landscape of today with a generation ago one of the most significant changes that you’ll see is the constant growth of…

Highlights from Membership Assembly 2014

On May 15, 2014, America’s Charities hosted its annual Membership Assembly.  Member charities from across the country and special guests gathered to discuss the “Overhead…

Charities strain to meet corporate engagement expectations

By Dan Cook For-profits and nonprofits are doing a better job of forging partnerships to support one another, but they still struggle with fully meeting…

Corporate Giving ROI & Bottomline

Just like nonprofits, corporations are also trying to do more with less.  How can corporations get the ROI they want, while also making sure the…

Creating Meaningful, Long term Engagement Between Companies’ Employees & Charities

Going beyond one-time events of having employees go out and volunteer at a charity, how can corporations form deeper, longer term relationships with charities that…

MCON14 To Gather Leaders and Experts On a New Wave of Cause Work

Indianapolis, Ind. — Achieve, in partnership with The Case Foundation, has announced information for MCON14, the nation’s premier conference for corporate, cause and public leaders who…

The NGO Sector: Thoughts on Shifting the Mindset of Donors

By Shujaat Wasty I was introduced to charity at a young age. My parents encouraged my siblings and me to put aside a portion of…

Pro Bono Australia Reports Key Findings from America’s Charities Snapshot 2014

Charities are facing a rising tide of expectations from corporate and employee donors, while at the same time admitting that maintaining these corporate partnerships is…

Employer Charitable Endeavors Can Boost Efforts to Attract and Retain Top Employees

By Caryn Freeman   Employees want more giving and volunteering opportunities, and companies are responding with more and varied philanthropic endeavors. According to a new report from…