President Biden’s decision to not seek re-election completely reshuffles the race, setting up a likely contest between Kamela Harris and...

The annual nonprofit benchmarking study by M+R is an amazing resource on communicating with donors and, to quote from a 1990’s song, it...

So, you just finished your big fundraising event of the year. All the long hours. The countless details. The near disasters fixed in the...

We are wrapping up the third quarter of 2023 and it has been a tough year for most nonprofits. How tough? Take the Sierra Club, for...

This week NonProfitPro published an article I wrote about the slightly wacky power that matching donations seem to have on nonprofit...

People who are happy give more to charity. That was the conclusion from a new study of donors' mindsets before they make a contribution....

Ahh, sweet July in Houston. The temperature is higher than most of our IQs right now. Donors have all escaped to Colorado. Nothing to...

Recently mega-philanthropist MacKenzie Scott picked up the phone and called Melanie Johnson, the head of Houston’s Collaborative For...

First, I am very pleased to report that I will be providing a regular column for the NonProfit Pro website. The first one deals with the...

I wanted to share something I’m kinda proud of. Recently I was able to help a client place an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle about an...

“Things work until they don’t.” I have no idea who first said that, but it might have been Captain Obvious. In the fundraising world, we...

How many people visit your website? If they go to your donation page, do they actually give? How many visitors find you through Facebook?...

I saw a recent article on the odds of winning a grant. The short answer was, “Not Good.” The author pointed out that there are 1.5...

One of the most persistent carry-over effects from COVID is the damage it did to volunteer programs. A couple of recent studies bring...

It’s been a bad week for Facebook’s parent company META, which announced 10,000 more layoffs and froze 5,000 unfilled positions on top of...

If one phrase could combine dread and hope in equal measures, it would be “Redo Our Website.” I go through periods where every potential...

The first email was sent by an engineer named Raymond Tomlinson in 1971. He sent it to himself, and, to the best of his memory, it said...

A new report that looks at the state of nonprofits in the state of Texas will be out soon. The organizations behind it have just released...

It was one year ago when the announcement came that a new nonprofit news outlet would come to Houston. It didn’t have leadership, any...

During the pandemic we saw foundations respond by: Funding more nonprofits, Focusing on programs that helped people who were struggling,...