What a Harris Vs. Trump Race Means To Nonprofit fundraising (And It Has Nothing To Do With Who Wins)
President Biden’s decision to not seek re-election completely reshuffles the race, setting up a likely contest between Kamela Harris and...
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Ken Wells
- Jun 11
- 1 min
They Find You On Their Phones. They Donate On Their Laptops!
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...
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Ken Wells
- Jun 11
- 2 min
Six Steps To Keep Donors Coming Back After Your Nonprofit Event.
So, you just finished your big fundraising event of the year. All the long hours. The countless details. The near disasters fixed in the...
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Ken Wells
- Sep 26, 2023
- 2 min
What Houston Nonprofits Need To Know About Fundraising In 4 Charts
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...
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Ken Wells
- Sep 21, 2023
- 5 min
Inside The Weird, Magical World Of Matching Donations
This week NonProfitPro published an article I wrote about the slightly wacky power that matching donations seem to have on nonprofit...
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Ken Wells
- Jul 19, 2023
- 3 min
Happy People = Happy Donors
People who are happy give more to charity. That was the conclusion from a new study of donors' mindsets before they make a contribution....
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Ken Wells
- Jul 17, 2023
- 2 min
6 Things That Should Go Into Your Nonprofit Mid-Year Tune-up
Ahh, sweet July in Houston. The temperature is higher than most of our IQs right now. Donors have all escaped to Colorado. Nothing to...
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Ken Wells
- Jun 14, 2023
- 4 min
What MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos & Larry David Teach Us About Giving
Recently mega-philanthropist MacKenzie Scott picked up the phone and called Melanie Johnson, the head of Houston’s Collaborative For...
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Ken Wells
- Jun 12, 2023
- 1 min
Countdown To July 1: Get Ready For Web Tracking To Change.
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...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 18, 2023
- 3 min
Pitching To The Media
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...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 18, 2023
- 3 min
Fundraising Gets Ugly - Falling Revenue and Donor Numbers
“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...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 5, 2023
- 1 min
On July 1st, The Way We Track Websites Will Change. What Does It Mean To Nonprofits?
How many people visit your website? If they go to your donation page, do they actually give? How many visitors find you through Facebook?...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 28, 2023
- 2 min
Make Sure Your Grant Proposals Beat The Odds!
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...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 28, 2023
- 3 min
Need Volunteers? Try These 6 Steps
One of the most persistent carry-over effects from COVID is the damage it did to volunteer programs. A couple of recent studies bring...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 15, 2023
- 3 min
Facebook Has A Message For Nonprofits, But Are We Listening?
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...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 15, 2023
- 4 min
When Do You Need To Redo Your Website?
If one phrase could combine dread and hope in equal measures, it would be “Redo Our Website.” I go through periods where every potential...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 1, 2023
- 3 min
Are You Upping Your Email Game? Why Not?
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...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 1, 2023
- 1 min
Snapshot of Texas Nonprofits
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...
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Ken Wells
- Feb 8, 2023
- 1 min
Much Anticipated News Organization Hits Houston
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...
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Ken Wells
- Feb 7, 2023
- 1 min
What Are Foundations Looking To Fund?
During the pandemic we saw foundations respond by: Funding more nonprofits, Focusing on programs that helped people who were struggling,...
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