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Stop Rolling the Nonprofit Fundraising Dice

April 8, 2013 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

It happens all too often. A nonprofit executive director called me the other day because they have just completed a beautiful strategic plan with some exciting goals and a new direction for the organization, but they don’t know how to bring the money in the door to make the plan a reality. They don’t have […]

Financing Not Fundraising: Find and Keep a Great Fundraiser

January 23, 2013 By Nell Edgington 9 Comments

The news is not good lately about how effective the head fundraiser is at nonprofit organizations. A new study by CompassPoint reveals some startling realities about the fundraiser role in the nonprofit sector: 25% of executive directors fired their last development director 33% of executive directors are lukewarm about their current development director More than […]

Financing Not Fundraising: 7 Mistakes in Your Nonprofit's Fundraising Plan

October 17, 2012 By Nell Edgington 6 Comments

I can’t tell you how often I hear nonprofit leaders complain about how difficult it is to raise money, how tired they are of banging their head against the wall, how difficult this economy is. Well, there really is a better way. And it starts with a really good money plan for your organization.  But […]

Calling All Nonprofit Social Entrepreneurs

October 4, 2012 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

There is a really interesting research study about social entrepreneurs going on at the University of Massachusetts and you may want to join in. John Walker, Finance Director at Echoing Green and Nardia Haigh, Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Management at UMass Boston are investigating social entrepreneurs who went through a process of […]

Solving Urban Food Deserts: An Interview with Dennis Morrow

August 7, 2012 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Dennis Morrow, the Executive Director of Janus Youth Programs, a multi-service nonprofit agency that works with children, youth, and families in Portland, Oregon and Southwest Washington. Janus Youth caught my eye a few months ago when Village Market, a nonprofit inner city grocery store they […]

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