Category Archive: 321 results for News & Research

Silicon Valley isn’t the only hub for tech start-ups these days. The Washington D.C. area is quickly becoming a solid alternative for attracting highly-educated, ambitious and talented people in the technology sector. DCA Live has highlighted a key list of thought-leaders, innovators, and drivers of change in various… Read More

Hurricanes. Earthquakes. Famines. Wars. When disaster strikes, nonprofits are often the first to respond, coming to the aid communities in need. But they can’t do it alone. Nonprofits that work in disaster and crisis relief have a tough job. They have to be ready at a moment’s notice to help communities sur… Read More

Here at Network for Good, we’re continuously innovating our platform. The best way we do this is by immersing ourselves in the lives of our nonprofit users to understand the everyday problems they are trying to solve. Last week, during a quarterly business review meeting in Baltimore, our team was challenged to m… Read More

How do you fund your mission? A healthy nonprofit has multiple sources of funding, including individual giving. Depending entirely on grants or public funding is risky, as either could be lost without any control on the part of the nonprofit. A robust fundraising program provides needed financial security, expands… Read More

Data-master Heather Yandow is the brains behind Third Space Studio’s annual Individual Donor Benchmark Report (IDBR). This report offers a detailed analysis of fundraising data collected from small organizations nationwide whose total revenues fall under the $2 million threshold. Not a numbers fan? Not to worry. In … Read More

Grant writing is hard. You know it, and so do we: effective grant writing takes up valuable time and needs extreme attention to detail. It requires nonprofit staff to get out of the mindset of day-to-day programming and instead focus on making a case for their mission and the impact they want to bring to the… Read More

In 2016, Network for Good’s blog covered topics ranging from fundraising planning and capital campaigns to leveraging a donor database. Here are the top posts of 2016. 10. Are You Ready to Launch a Capital Campaign? 3 Questions to Answer This post by guest blogger Barbara O’Reilly gave nonprofits a reality … Read More

The first-of-its-kind online learning series designed specifically for Executive Directors and Board Chairs.… Read More

What does digital fundraising look like in your organization? For the 500-plus nonprofit organizations (88% are small- or medium-sized, like yours) surveyed in the 2016 Digital Outlook Report, the picture is pretty dismal: Insufficient budget (76%) Insufficient staff (76%) Unable to prove ROI to colleagues and leadersh… Read More

Do-It-Better Takeaways: 2016 M&R Benchmarks Study Every year, I look forward to the findings released in the annual M&R Benchmarks Study on online fundraising, advocacy, and list building. They’re fantastically useful for fundraisers as guidelines against which to assess results and prompts for data-fueled ex… Read More