Five Reasons to Decline a Donation
By Roxanne Tackie What? Turn down a gift? You may spend hours developing a relationship with a donor, or if you’re lucky, you may even receive a surprise call from a donor looking to make a substantial investment in your organization. Given how much time and energy it takes to …
Four Factors in Fundraising Success for 2021
By the FundRazr Team If there’s anything 2020 showed us, it’s to expect the unexpected. Before last year, many professional fundraisers considered event-based fundraising like galas and marathons to be a tried-and-true method they could always rely on. For the fundraising community, COVID-19 provided quite the rude awakening — but …
Ten Virtual Fundraising Campaign Ideas for Lockdown
By Kristina Brunnler The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a massive shift in the day-to-day operations of nonprofits across the country. You’re likely wondering how your nonprofit is going to continue fundraising for your mission during this uncertain time. If your mission isn’t directly related to coronavirus, it may be tricky …
Investing in Mental Health Matters
By Sarah Chamberlin At its core, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is more than a hospital. It’s a catalyst for transforming the way the world views and responds to mental illness, including addiction. As Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world’s leading research …
The Opportunity of a Lifetime
By Kathleen Provost As a professional fundraiser, I always question myself to make sure I explore all possible options to do my best work. I ask myself: am I just repeating something I know that I am comfortable doing, or is what I am doing an innovative way of trying …
Charity Armageddon?
By Malcolm Burrows Chicken Little thought the sky was falling. From the beginning of the pandemic last winter, the doomsayers predicted that the charitable sector would be hit especially hard. We’d see mass closures and bankruptcies. But when and how? Is COVID-19 an acorn or a harbinger of charity armageddon? …
The World Around Us
An Island Paradise Confronts a Pandemic Many times, the test results for Bermuda showed no new cases of COVID-19. None. On the entire island. Just under 700 total cases since the outbreak, and 12 deaths. By early February, about ten thousand residents had been vaccinated. And help was in place …