Fair Game? An Activist Group Targets Fundraising Claims to Pressure a University

Fair Game? An Activist Group Targets Fundraising Claims to Pressure a University

As part of an aggressive campaign to shut down a campus research lab that uses dogs, PETA has accused Texas A&M University of inflating its fundraising tallies. 

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Asking and Getting: Behind the Surge of Philanthropic Support for the National Park Service

Asking and Getting: Behind the Surge of Philanthropic Support for the National Park Service

The National Park Foundation has become a fundraising powerhouse. How did it achieving soaring levels of private support and what might that mean for the park system? We asked NPF Director Will Shafroth.

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Sexual Harassment Is Common In the Fundraising World—And Often Goes Unpunished

Sexual Harassment Is Common In the Fundraising World—And Often Goes Unpunished

An Inside Philanthropy survey found that all too often, donors, trustees and nonprofit executives sexually harass the fundraisers at their organizations with impunity.

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Fundraisers: Stop Talking About Your Organization. Start Listening to Donors

Fundraisers: Stop Talking About Your Organization. Start Listening to Donors

A development veteran argues that the most successful fundraising efforts are those that find the sweet spot where donor aspirations and organizational needs converge. Step one: better listening. 

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Want to Get More Big Estate Gifts? Try This

Want to Get More Big Estate Gifts? Try This

More than 2,000 donors have made bequest pledges to Planned Parenthood totaling some $325 million. Here's how the organization pulled off this remarkable fundraising feat. 

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The Long Game: Here's What It Really Takes to Win These Large Gifts

The Long Game: Here's What It Really Takes to Win These Large Gifts

Planned gifts are the biggest contributions that most donors will make in their lives. Landing these gifts is about much more than just patient cultivation, according to experts. 

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The New Power of the Purse: Younger Women and the Future of Philanthropy

The New Power of the Purse: Younger Women and the Future of Philanthropy

Women are quietly slipping into the driver's seat of philanthropy and it affects how every fundraiser will do their job in coming years, not to mention what actually gets funded.  

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Cooking the Books: How Nonprofits Make Inflated Claims About Their Fundraising Success

Cooking the Books: How Nonprofits Make Inflated Claims About Their Fundraising Success

Development veterans say that embellished campaign claims, misleading fundraising reports and downright falsifications are a fact of life in the charity world. What's driving such deception? 

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Behind the Fight Against Modern Slavery in Los Angeles

Behind the Fight Against Modern Slavery in Los Angeles

The first anti-trafficking group in the U.S., working locally with survivors who've escaped bondage, is now going stronger than ever. Where does its funding come from? 

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What Does it Take to Raise Big Money?

What Does it Take to Raise Big Money?

To be a top fundraiser, you have to both win the head game with yourself and connect more authentically to others. Here's an honest look at what raising the big money really takes. 

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"Be a Little Crazy." A Top Fundraiser on What It Really Takes to Succeed

"Be a Little Crazy." A Top Fundraiser on What It Really Takes to Succeed

Reflecting on a long and varied career in development, Dyan Sublett shares her insights about how to thrive in a field filled with tricky relationships and intense pressure to achieve results. 

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Welcome to Fundraising Hell: When Relations With Colleagues Turn Toxic

Welcome to Fundraising Hell: When Relations With Colleagues Turn Toxic
It's hardly a secret that things can get ugly in development land. With the help of experts, we take a deep dive into the key drivers of dysfunctionality and misery.
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A Fundraising Luminary Shares His Secrets of Attracting Wealthy Supporters

A Fundraising Luminary Shares His Secrets of Attracting Wealthy Supporters

For decades, Jerold Panas has been one of the brightest lights in the development profession. Here's his advice on how to succeed in a fundraising terrain that keeps getting tougher. 

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Forget the Gala. Giving Circles Are Where It's At for Women Raising Money

Forget the Gala. Giving Circles Are Where It's At for Women Raising Money

Women's giving circles are on the rise, and for good reason: they work. We talk to one of the early stars of this growing national movement for women givers. 

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Here's a Bit of Advice: Fundraisers Talk Shop and Trade Tips

Here's a Bit of Advice: Fundraisers Talk Shop and Trade Tips

We dropped in on a conference with leading fundraisers about what works to get out the message and bring home the bacon. This is what we heard. 

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Are Fundraisers Really "Cooking the Books?" Here's What Some IP Readers Think

Are Fundraisers Really "Cooking the Books?" Here's What Some IP Readers Think

Inside Philanthropy received numerous responses to an article about how fundraisers and other charity leaders exaggerate the amount of money given to their organizations. What did people say? 

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A Home of Their Own: How a Nonprofit Raises Money for People With Disabilities

A Home of Their Own: How a Nonprofit Raises Money for People With Disabilities

As part of our ongoing look at fundraising strategies, we hear from the head of a nonprofit that helps people with developmental disabilities live independently. Bringing in the bucks isn't easy. 

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All About Impact: Behind a Community Arts Agency's Startling Fundraising Success

All About Impact: Behind a Community Arts Agency's Startling Fundraising Success

Cincinnati's ArtsWave shows that by demonstrating the effectiveness of arts programs, organizations can create an expansive donor base that includes previously untapped community partners.

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Meet the Top New Fundraisers in America (Maybe): Barack and Michelle Obama

Meet the Top New Fundraisers in America (Maybe): Barack and Michelle Obama

If the Obamas come out swinging with their new foundation, offering hope for building the "new American majority," donors will respond. That won't be true if their "ask" is to fund a bowl of civic mush. 

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Standing Behind At-Risk Students, With the Help of Powerful Funders

Standing Behind At-Risk Students, With the Help of Powerful Funders

Debra Montanino, chief strategy officer at Communities in Schools, tells us how the group raises serious money for a far-flung operation aimed at keeping kids on track to graduate and succeed. 

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