How to Ensure Your Charitable Donations Do the Most Good
With thousands of charities worldwide in need of contributions, it can be difficult to determine where your philanthropic dollars can do the most good. In order to ensure your funds […]
Category Archives: Charitable Giving
Our Friends in Oklahoma, Hearts and Heads Together
Not too long ago, we were sharing a suggested vehicle for philanthropy in response to the Boston Marathon bombings. Today Facebook, Twitter, online news, television and radio will no doubt continue to […]
Online Fundraising and the Top 10 Most Generous Online Cities of 2012
The following is a guest post by Steve MacLaughlin, director of Idea Lab, Blackbaud. 2012 Top Ten Most Generous Online U.S. Cities from Blackbaud Online fundraising continued its double-digit growth […]
Gender Norms: A Key to Maximizing the Return on Charitable Investment
The following is a cross-post by Riki Wilchins, executive director of TrueChild, an organization that helps donors, policy-makers and practitioners reconnect race, class and gender through “gender transformative” approaches that […]
The 2012 Charitable Giving Report
The following is a cross-post by Steve MacLaughlin, director of Blackbaud’s Idea Lab. You can read the original post here. The 2012 Charitable Giving Report includes 24 months of overall giving […]
What Does Giving Back Mean to You?
The following is by Cody Cassady, GuideStar’s marketing associate. At GuideStar we are always striving to do more listening then we do talking, and the last quarter of the year […]
Together, We Can Make an Impact
The following is post by Lauren Walinsky, GuideStar’s membership director. You can email Lauren directly at lwalinsky@guidestar.org. The end of the year is a great time for reflection. I tend […]
16 Top Nonprofits Fighting Bay Area Homelessness Named by 100 Experts
The following is a post by Jasmine Marrow, GuideStar’s manager of philanthropic research. Jasmine Marrow “We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just […]
Watch to Watch: How to Spot a Good Nonprofit
Is your nonprofit organization “good”? We recently co-sponsored a webinar with VolunteerHub, a leading volunteer software for nonprofits and other organizations, to help answer this question. Based on your feedback, we are now […]
Restricted: A Sector Held Hostage to Good Intentions
The following is an excerpt from Grow, Spring-Summer 2011, by Anne Olin, CEO of The Olin Group. If you have a short article of relevance to the nonprofit community that […]
