Many of Frogloop's readers are professional nonprofit fundraisers who watch trends like a hawk -- at least when those trends affect fundraising results across sectors and channels. Of the different trend-spotting resources, few are as important and authoritative as the "donorCentrics Index of National Fundraising Performance" published quarterly by Target Analytics, a division of Blackbaud. ...

In an age when an individual can improve or harm an organization's brand in 140 characters or less, having a clear understanding of the social media law of the land has never been more important. "It's understood by employers that employees are going to use social media," Eric B. Meyer, an employment lawyer based in Philadelphia, recently told the Wall Street Journal, "but...

Over the last few years, eight- and nine-figure gifts like those received by New York University's Langone Medical Center and Sandford Health have obscured the fact that not-for-profit hospital revenue is growing at its slowest rate in two decades. Indeed, a new report from Wilmington Trust suggests that one of the drivers of revenue growth in the sector, however modest, has been high-net-wor...

Those of us who work in the nonprofit, “make the world a better place” sector, talk a lot about good storytelling. That’s because the craft of storytelling is hard, and takes practice. When you get good at it, though, it can transform your communications and fundraising. But if all we ever do is talk about good stories – without telling some actual stories of our own &ndas...

The bad old days of the '70s and '80s are a distant memory for many, but New York City in 2012 isn't without problems. The list includes a public education system that fails too many kids, a chronic shortage of affordable housing, immigrant populations that lack basic protections, and rising income inequality. The city is home, however, to roughly ten thousand nonprofit organizations...

So you've acquired them. Now what?! Converting new subscribers to donors of course depends on the RIGHT communication strategy; but maximizing the return on your online constituency growth investment depends on the RIGHT data and the RIGHT interpretation. Do you have a plan?  Do you know what to look for? ...and what it all means? Join Janna Chan of the Center for Reproductive Right...