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Corporate Partnerships – Money … Or More?

Latest Fundraising Success mag offers a series of articles on corporate sponsorships, the best of which offers seven tips on how to approach and structure mutually beneficial partnerships. Historically, corporate sponsorships were just a fancy name for corporate contributions, like buying a table at the annual fundraising dinner. And there's nothing wrong with hitting on […]

Learn More September 7, 2006

What’s a Trillion or So $$ Among Friends?

For the past decade or so planned giving folks — hell, fundraisers in general — have been citing several economic forecasts that indicate as much as $41 trillion (yes, “T”) will be inherited by Baby Boomers over the next two decades. Of course, the follow-on assumption is that if the Boomers' parents don't leave part […]

Learn More September 6, 2006

Network for Good Studies Online Disaster Giving

Network for Good has released a study based upon the $24.5 million in online contributions that it channeled in response to three major disasters: the December 2004 tsunamis, hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and the Pakistan earthquake of October 2005. Key takeaways: Disaster giving follows a “fast but fleeting” pattern, spiking in a short 2-6 […]

Learn More September 5, 2006

You Tanned, You Missed

If you spent the end of August sunning, you might have missed a flurry of media discussion about how online tools are impacting political and issue campaigning. As we hunker down for the 60 day or so sprint to Election Day 2006, here's some of the prognosticating about online campaigning. Guess what, TV still rules […]

Learn More September 4, 2006

Weekly Quiz #4

Once again, the Pew research engine has released a hugely important study on American attitudes. This time on the mix of religion and politics, from the Pew Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. We scarcely know where to begin in commenting on the importance of […]

Learn More September 2, 2006

And The Angels Fight

Quietly, but persistently, competition among the three major recipients of planned gifts private family foundations, community foundations, and commerical donor advised funds is heating up. The reason? Money, of course. Or to be more precise, the hundreds of billions of $$$ in capital assests which in turn yield hundreds of millions in investment […]

Learn More September 1, 2006