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...

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...

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 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,...

Proud to report that one of the leading news sources for nonprofits, Nonprofit Pro just published an article I wrote about the uses and...

2023 will not be a year for the faint of heart in the Houston nonprofit world. However, the thing we know about this sector is that,...

I wish I could remember where I first heard this saying, but it goes, “if you don’t want to be replaced by a robot, stop behaving like...

There has been a lot in the news about Americans “quiet quitting.” At its worst, quiet quitting includes workers who have completely...

Nonprofits like the idea of videos but are often skittish about deciding to make a video. Too expensive. Too much time. Too many...

A few years ago, I put together a video for an organization I headed. It was emotional. It tugged at your heart strings. We showed it at...

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News came this week that century-old Family Houston is moving to smaller digs to adapt to changes in work schedules. The nonprofit will...

Are we headed to a recession? The question has real implications for nonprofits. An economic slowdown, a sustained bear market on Wall...