Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach, also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a major gift fundraiser who wants advice on whether it’s better to ask for too little or too much. Dear Charity Clairity, I’m new to major gift fundraising, and struggle with
How is an economy built in which ownership is truly shared and in which we all co-own the future? To addresses this question and many others, four authors from NPQ’s summer 2022 economic justice magazine issue on “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future,” build on the articles they wrote and challenge viewers to rethink the
Image Credit: Tammy Brooks on Unsplash How can a local United Way chapter change its behavior to be an effective partner with BIPOC community groups seeking to dismantle structural racism? We ask ourselves this question often these days. We know the national data. To date, only 1.8 percent of philanthropic dollars goes to Black-led organizations
Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future.” In the past two years, the U.S. economy has revealed an undeniable truth: it runs on care work. The essential work of
I had the pleasure recently of teaming up with my fundraising bestie and copywriting guru Julie Cooper to host an “End of Year Appeal Writing Made Easy” workshop. We had close to 2,000 fundraising friends sign up, and we kicked things off by surveying the audience about their year-end fundraising goals (which we defined to
