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Continued Consolidation in Q2 2024 as the Sector Sees More Dollars from Fewer Donors

While charitable giving increased moderately in Q2 2024, we are seeing a worrying decrease in both the smallest and the most frequent donors, indicating that the increase in dollars is due to a consolidation of large gifts.

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Mike's Message Takeover: Navigating the New Normal: Compensation, Benefits, and Flexibility in Fundraising

According to the 2024 Compensation and Benefits Report, the average fundraising salary in the U.S. saw a modest increase of 0.8% in 2023, rising from $95,841 to $96,621. This figure pales in comparison to the robust 6.7% increase seen in 2022, reflecting a slow growth trend that fails to keep pace with the 3% inflation rate over the same period.

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03 Oct 2019

Individual Donations: A Postal Issue?

How much does individual giving in Canada depend upon Canada Post? And, conversely, how much does Canada Post depend upon the nonprofit sector? Should...

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01 Oct 2019

Ethical Relationships: Ethical Considerations for Storytelling and Fundraising

Prevalent misconceptions about the impact of operating support make fundraising hard enough. Even if your organization miraculously has all the...

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01 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: What the Public Hears—and Doesn’t Hear— About Fundraising Ethics

Journalists have had plenty to cover in the past year about ethical issues at nonprofits, and as they put the spotlight on philanthropy, trust in...

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01 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: What I’ve Learned as a Survivor of Sexual Harassment

In January 2019, I wrote an op-ed for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on my personal experience of sexual harassment as a nonprofit...

01 Oct 2019

Ethics, Fundraising, and Leadership: The Relationship-Driven Approach to Ethical Fundraising

Every fundraiser I know has a story they can tell about a time they felt their ethics were being put to the test. The pressure to secure donations to...

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01 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: The True Power of Your Technology Is in What It Communicates

If your technology could talk, what would it say to your donors? One of the most important functions of a nonprofit is to educate and engage its...

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01 Oct 2019

Ethics, Fundraising, and Leadership: Keeping It Above Board

There has been an increasing amount of scrutiny of nonprofit and public sector organizations for several years. This has spawned an outcry for greater...

01 Oct 2019

Ethics, Fundraising, and Leadership: Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Fundraising

You’re a good person. At the very least, you try to be a good person. However, that’s not good enough. Effective fundraising demands more of us. Every...

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01 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: The Ethics of Self-Care

An hour at the spa. A facial. Sleeping in late on a Saturday morning. These are the types of things that have become the baseline for what we consider...

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01 Oct 2019

Ethical Relationships: Donors ARE Data—The Ethical Implications of Data Hygiene

Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion. —Excerpt from the poem...

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