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In the next few weeks, major networks and cable channels, such as CNN and NBC, will be running a $2-million television and radio advertising campaign by the American Red Cross. The campaign will not mention the name of a major disaster. Instead, it’ll simply ask for your donation. Full text article by Raymund Flandez is available via The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 7/30/10. …
…issue for you is to focus on those handfuls of companies and their shareholders in non-cyclical industries that are likely to do well in 2008, including utilities and household nondurables. Stay in touch For those donors with major holdings in stocks that are under pressure or whose year-end bonuses disappeared (see Wall Street Journal article), it is important for you to not expect the enormous gift that has, up until now, arrived yearly. Howeve…
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…rting to a Roth IRA. Nonprofit organizations that want to increase charitable giving from persons converting traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs should consider taking the following five actions now. Educate Staff. Make sure your major gift and planned giving officers understand charitable giving opportunities for person converting traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs. Review Prospects. Review your major donors and other constituents to identify those who m…
…d as vice president for university advancement at the University of Buffalo and as vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Vermont. The scope of her oversight at these institutions included major comprehensive campaigns and annual, major and planned giving, constituent development, prospect research, advancement services, development communications, donor relations, and alumni and parent relations programs. …
San Diego philanthropist Conrad Prebys is giving the San Diego Zoo $15 million to launch a major redesign of its big cat and koala areas. This gift, announced Sunday afternoon, follows Prebys’ 2007 donation of $10.1 million to revamp the polar bear plunge and elephant care center. Not only is this new pledge the largest single gift in the history of the Zoo, but CEO Doug Myers said Prebys is also the largest single donor to the Zoo at over $25 …
Health-care providers in 2010 saw slow recovery from the recession years of 2008 and 2009, when they saw fewer new major-gift pledges and planned-gift commitments, as well as smaller gifts from individual donors, although the commitment of individual donors has continued, a new report says. At the same time, individual fundraising programs have experienced improved efficiency and effectiveness in raising cash gifts, and organizations are getting…
Do you have a succession plan? A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article highlighted the number of presidential turnovers that will occur relatively soon at major institutions. It is not just the president’s departure that causes issues for fundraising across the non-profit community, but board member and development professional departures as well. This is exacerbated when there is the confluence of continually high development turnover an…
After Jennifer and Chris Brown make their standard charitable donation on an unsuspecting organization’s Web site, they expect to get a phone call asking them if perhaps they meant the last two zeroes to be cents. No, they didn’t; they meant to give $100,000. “With our generation, it’s going to be more online giving in the future,” she says. They have advice for charities that want to see major online donations increase: Make sure the organizati…
There was a time when senior Amy Roth — now a psychology major heavily involved in research and several on-campus groups — was unsure of whether she would even be attending college.“I needed to have something magical work out, if it was going to happen at all,” Roth said in an interview. Maybe magic isn’t the word, but something extraordinary certainly happened for Roth, as she ended up becoming an Alan and Jane Handler Scholar, meaning an expe…
