July August 2024 Issue

Inside AI – George Irish By George Irish The promise of ChatGPT for fundraisers is tantalizing – a super-intelligent fundraising assistant ready to boost your efficiency and lift your fundraising performance. However, many first-time ChatGPT users are disappointed with results that can be off-target, incorrect, or unhelpful. Like any new …

The Leadership Challenge – Julie Quenneville By Julie Quenneville The journey from a ground-breaking medical discovery to a treatment or therapy that can improve or save lives is long and fraught with challenges. It involves years of development, refinement, validation and testing. We know that donors play a key role …

By Nicholas Palahnuk Nick Palahnuk, Founder of PhilanthPro, talks with experts about strategic philanthropy as part of a series with Foundation Magazine.  This edition features storyteller and philanthropy activist Jen Risher, cofounder of #HalfMyDAF and author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth. Besides her work as an …

OVERVIEW Under Pressure is the fourth installment in a series initiated by a partnership among Vantage Point, Vancouver Foundation, Victoria Foundation, City of Vancouver, United Way British Columbia and Vancity Community Foundation. In this year’s state of the sector survey, they surveyed 558 non-profit organizations across BC to check-in around …

Our understanding of the survey respondents is based upon Section 3, which pertains to organizational characteristics. The number of respondents in this section ranged from 477 to 482, due to some respondents choosing to skip certain questions. The descriptions in this overview are expressed as percentages of the total number …

By Steve Lloyd, Foundation Magazine         Foundation Magazine speaks with Ann Fellman, Chief Marketing Officer, Bloomerang. The company began about twelve years ago in the U.S. as a donor management software to help nonprofits. The company was instilled with a vision to empower fundraisers to do what they love and build …