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Measuring Impact

When it comes to working with funders and corporate partners, nonprofits serve two masters: (1) the programatic imperatives and (2) what the funder wants or…

The Importance of Including Employer Names in your Nonprofit’s CRM System – Double the Donation

Here’s a very interesting way to tap into larger donations. Find out if your donors’ employers offer matching gifts. This is what Double the Donation…

The New CFC Rules Lay a Path to Expanding Giving and Cutting Costs

BY ANTHONY DECRISTOFARO NPQ has published a number of articles recently about the Combined Federal Campaign, which took a very dramatic 19 percent drop this past…

Digital Data Further Blurs Boundaries Between Sectors

By Lucy Bernholz The White House released its report, Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values, yesterday. The only place the word “nonprofit” appears in the report…

Companies Expect More From Nonprofits, Report Finds

When it comes to corporate philanthropy, corporate and employee donors expect more from charities these days.  And in a digital era defined by greater transparency, charities…

How Do We Solve the Obvious Gap Between What Companies Offer and What Charities Need?

Tom Watson, President and Founder of CauseWired and a Forbes Contributor, was a panelist at America’s Charities annual Giving Under The Influence symposium last week…

America’s Charities 2014 Membership Assembly

Where: The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Conference Center 901 E Street, NW (entrance on 9th Street), Washington, DC 20004Date: May 15, 2014Time: 9:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. America’s Charities…

Empowering Movements for Global Education Reform

By Wendy Kopp Some time ago, I attended a gathering of social entrepreneurs who went around and around debating whether attaining significant scale was important, or whether social…

What Do Corporations Want and Expect From Nonprofit Partnerships?

What do corporations want and expect out of their relationships with nonprofits? In the video clip above, Emily Simone, Director of Community Relations for Lockheed…

Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Earns Top Honors for Best-in-Class Cause Marketing

>> Watch This Video The Cause Marketing Golden Halo Award (Nonprofit), the highest honor for companies and causes that collaborate to produce business and social…

Nonprofit Impact & Effectiveness

How do we go from just sharing charities’ financial documents on the Internet to really evaluating the work of nonprofits so that donations and funds…

Charity Navigator Introduces Results Reporting: The Third Dimension of Intelligent Giving

Charity Navigator plans to launch CN 3.0 – an effective tool for measuring results reporting in 2016. The charity validator is moving to incorporate results…