Give Millions While You’re Young: a Plea to the Wealthy - Opinion - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Give Millions While You’re Young: a Plea to the Wealthy - Opinion - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Wealthy people often wait until middle age or even retirement to begin thinking in earnest about giving. Of course, this is sometimes necessary—it often takes time to earn wealth before one can consider investing it in worthy causes. But age should not be the determining factor, and philanthropy, no matter when one starts, will yield successes and failures that offer lessons for one’s future giving. Effective philanthropy is not an easy undertaking, and postponing one’s engagement can mean postponing effective giving.

Why Can't I Mail It? - USPS Regulations on Booklets : Target Marketing

Why Can't I Mail It? - USPS Regulations on Booklets : Target Marketing: s you know from Part One of "Why Can't I Mail It?" with postcards and Part Two with self-mailers, there are many times that a design element causes a mailing to go at a higher rate of postage. This can be frustrating as well as expensive. In order to help you stay away from potential issues, here are some things to keep in mind as you are preparing a direct mail campaign.

Nonprofit finds revenue stream in its lobby | Crain's New York Business

Nonprofit finds revenue stream in its lobby | Crain's New York Business: The 145-year-old charity is leasing out a 745-square-foot shop at its headquarters at 590 Sixth Ave. in Chelsea to Coffeed, a two-year-old Long Island City, Queens-based caf�chain with four locations. Slated to open in October, the store will be the Coffeed's first Manhattan location. The expansion into Manhattan was made possible by New York Foundling agreeing to charge Coffeed about $6,000 a month—about half the going rate for such space in the neighborhood—in exchange for getting a percentage of the store's sales, publicity for the hospital's mission and a promise to interview

Create a speech on a community issue � Philanthropy North Carolina

Create a speech on a community issue � Philanthropy North Carolina: To help raise awareness about the need your nonprofit addresses, develop a speech that your CEO and board chair can deliver at civic events in your community.

Rather than touting your own nonprofit’s work and the difference you make, focus on a community problem, its causes and symptoms, and strategies and part

Inspired by Webcomic, Elon Musk to Give $1M to Tesla Museum - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Inspired by Webcomic, Elon Musk to Give $1M to Tesla Museum - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: Combining a mutual love of science, innovation, and early twentieth-century inventor Nikola Tesla, technology magnate and billionaire Elon Musk has responded to an appeal from web artist Matthew Inman and agreed to donate a million dollars toward the creation of a museum honoring the early twentieth-century inventor.

Corcoran Gallery to Shed 150 Jobs as Part of Merger Plan – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Corcoran Gallery to Shed 150 Jobs as Part of Merger Plan – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: About a third of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s 465 employees are slated to lose their posts next month as part of the financially strapped museum’s planned merger with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University, according to Washington Business Journal.

The Top 10 Largest Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events in the U.S. : FundRaising Success

The Top 10 Largest Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events in the U.S. : FundRaising Success: Social fundraising provider RallyBoundOpens in a new window recently released this handy infographicOpens in a new window of the "Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events," all of which include peer-to-peer fundraising. The list is based on the total fundraising results from 2013 for each event.

Balancing Philanthropic Travel and Voluntourism with Family Time | GuideStar Blog

Balancing Philanthropic Travel and Voluntourism with Family Time | GuideStar Blog: he tourism industry represents one of the largest service industries in the world, employing 102 million people around the globe in 2013, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council, and generating $2.1 trillion in economic output in the U.S., claims the U.S. Travel Association.

Red Nose Day will be shown in the US for the first time next year

Red Nose Day will be shown in the US for the first time next year: The British fundraising institution Red Nose Day is being exported to America for a three-hour show in May next year.

The television fundraising event will be shown on the US network NBC, which is working in collaboration with Comic Relief to bring the show to the States for the first time.

Red Nose Day raised �100.2m in 2013 and has been running in the UK for 25 years.

Fundraisers’ salaries down by 18 per cent in the North East

Fundraisers’ salaries down by 18 per cent in the North East: The salaries of fundraisers in the North East have fallen by an average of 18 per cent since 2009, according to a report released last week.

The Voluntary Organisations' Network North East (Vonne) has released a report showing that the salaries of people working in the charity sector in the North East have fallen by an average