Financial Independence: Six Approaches. © Gabriel Shaffer, Mutiny on Wood County, 2006 Editors' note: This article was originally published in the fall 2006 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly.
Organization A has control over Nonprofit B to the extent that B is dependent on A for resources. This common relationship is the essence of resource dependency theory: the idea that organizations are not simply free actors, but are subject to the powers of outside forces. Why Long Fundraising Letters Outpull Shorter Ones. In Phoenix, Carwashes Help Groups Raise Money. Thank You To the Max: Minnesota Give to Max Day Raised $13.4 Million in 24 Hours. Reader (1000+) Minding the Gap (July 22, 2010) From the Annals of Unusual Fundraising. Delivering Aid to People Who Are Rarely There. Smart Money: Is Your Favorite Charity Spying on You?
Business Model. Donor Research. Texting and Online Giving. Grants. Donors That Give More to Church Give More Elsewhere. CARE to Offer Virtual Packages. Jonathan Palmer for The New York Times Dayton Edie, left, with his wife Marta.
Among the marvels it contained were canned bacon, margarine, flour, sugar, Maxwell House coffee and peanut butter. “We didn’t know what peanut butter was for,” Mrs. Charities Rush to Help Japan, With Little Direction. But wealthy Japan is not impoverished Haiti.
And many groups are raising money without really knowing how it will be spent — or even if it will be needed. The Japanese Red Cross, for example, has said repeatedly since the day after the earthquake that it does not want or need outside assistance. But that has not stopped the American Red Cross from raising $34 million through Tuesday afternoon in the name of Japan’s disaster victims. Roger K.
The Most Generous Online Cities Are . . . January 19, 2011; Source: Convio | Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass. and Arlington, Va., for the second year in a row have topped the list as the nation’s most generous large cities based on online giving in 2010, according to Convio, a provider of Internet marketing and business management applications for nonprofits.
The report ranks the 273 cities with total population of more than 100,000 based on per capita online giving and total amount donated online through Convio online fundraising tools. The current rankings come from donations processed between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2010. The average gift size increased from $62 in 2009 to $65 in 2010 as more than $389 million was donated in the 273 major cities included in the report. Donors in the most generous cities increased their total online contributions by more than 27 percent over 2009 totals, according to Convio.
Other cities in the top 10 include: Seattle, Washington, Berkeley, Calif., St. Mississippi Wants to Know if All Charities Are Toeing the Line. Artwork donation not appreciated. DEAR MISS MANNERS -- I own an artwork purchased from a major New York gallery and I wrote twice, to both the former director and present director of a city-owned art museum to which I financially contribute, that my will says that I leave the piece to the museum.
I never received an acknowledgment. Recently, a literary magazine had a long essay on the artist on the occasion of a show of his art in a major American museum. Stanford Social Innovation Review : Opinion Blog : The Heartache of the Failed Hail Mary (April 9, 2010) Arizona: Squeezing Nickels and Dimes from Nonprofits. April 13, 2010; Sierra Vista Herald | Nonprofit Quarterly readers are invited to read this newswire as an intemperate, frustrated rant.
Every week we cover news items concerning states and municipalities trying to eke nickels and dimes of revenues from tax-exempt entities (student taxes, bed or patient taxes, payments in lieu of taxes, registration fees, and so many more). It’s as though state legislators and city council members imagine the nonprofit sector is brimming with surplus cash, hoarding dollars so that vital services will starve and taxpayers will be slammed. The truth is this: State and local governments (and the feds) give away far more as tax abatements and tax subsidies to the business sector, not even counting the nation’s recent bank, insurance, and automobile bail-outs, than they ever forego in taxes or fees to nonprofits. Harlem School of the Arts Too Important to Fail.
April 21, 2010; New York Times | A group of donors has decided that New York City's Harlem School of the Arts, which has been training young people in dance, music, theater and visual arts for nearly 50 years, is too important to fail.
After the school was forced to shut down on April 1 because its money had run out, The Herb Alpert and Starr Foundations and two anonymous givers stepped forward on Wednesday with a $1 million lifeline. In addition, the singer Mary J. Blige will lead a group of celebrities that have pledged to raise more funds that the troubled school needs to keep operating. The New York Times also reports that New York City will continue to support the school by investing in its building and making grants.
Getting Going: When to Dump a Charity. Five-Digit Giving (June 14, 2010) On Jan. 12 at 4:30 a.m., James Eberhard was woken by a telephone call from a U.S.
State Department representative with the news that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake had struck Haiti. “Can we turn up a text relief effort?” Asked the representative. Volunteer Nation. Smart guide to charitable giving. Should School Return Donation from Strip Club Owner?