It’s blog round-up time! I have compiled a few blog posts that interested me during June and I wanted to share them with you. Read on.. Sending on Behalf, from Jason Dick’s A Small Change Blog, discusses how to utilize your board members and volunteers to introduce your nonprofit to new individuals. Generating referrels is proven [...]

Note from ProspectResearch.com: The below article was previously published in Blackbaud’s Fundraising Well newsletter. Things are not always as they seem.  When a prospect researcher searches a database for prospect information and finds nothing, is there truly nothing to be found?  When the researcher finds something, are the data comprehensive and accurate?  The answer to [...]

There are many ways for fundraisers to stay connected with each other in the realm of social media.  I have to admit to being a PRSPCT-L junkie.  This listserv has been around keeping prospect research professionals connected way before the term “Social Media” and “Social Network” became part of the worldwide technological lexicon.  I check [...]

School ended recently in the area where I live and everything seems to be in slow-mode.  The hustle and bustle of cars leaving driveways at 7:30 a.m. to get the kids to school is missing; around Noon the local fast food parking lot is filled with stationary carloads of teenagers; and, my neighbors are busy [...]

According to the Fraser Institute’s 2010 Generosity Index, Canadian’s tend to be less philanthropic than Americans.  Based on 2008 tax filings, the average Canadian tax filer donates only .73% of their aggregate income per year to charity, whereas Americans give an average of 1.38% of their income.  In fact, Manitoba, the most philanthropic province in [...]

Recently I offered reasons as to why Peer Screening—the use of volunteers to evaluate a list of their peers’ donor potential—could benefit your organization.  To follow up, I wanted to share a few insights into ways to do this effectively.  Just like virtually every other tool, there is no absolute “right” way—other development professionals may [...]

The tone around real estate since 2008 has not been very positive.  I don’t think there is one of us who has not experienced a decrease in property value whether it is our own property or that of someone we know.  Real estate of course is one of the publically held assets that we use [...]