Can you think of a more-high stakes fall fundraising season than the one we face this year? After two years of COVID, I can hardly...

Or Is It Tail? I live within an easy drive of Highway 69 and I-10. If I just want to go to Louisiana, I can take either route. But one...

Do you ever feel like you are spending all of your time raising money for your nonprofit, but you never seem to get ahead? Your...

The bad news just keeps coming and leaders are trying to assess what it all means to their nonprofits. There's the stock market. And the...

But Didn't The Post Office Just Raise Rates? Postal rates are going up on July 10th and, yes, they did just go up. The last increase was...

What are the five scariest words a board member can hear? You need to raise money! No one is happy with board fundraising. Seriously!...

Y’all, we’ve got to change our ways. Here is a sampling of things I have seen Houston nonprofits do: Hold events without a communications...

Last week StoryBoard HTX released a survey of Houston communications trends. One thing really caught us by surprise. The top priority for...

StoryBoard HTX Houston Nonprofit Newsletter, May 2022 In this week's newsletter: We release our first ever poll of Houston nonprofit...

Ever had a VIP donor who didn't honor a gift pledge? How about a $3.5 million pledge? I really tried to not pay attention to the civil...

Nonprofits are raising pay at rates we haven't seen in 20 years. Monthly donors are on the rise in the country. If you want to know how...

Greater Houston Community Foundation (GHCF) is the star of a new study on how to reach next generation donors. GHCF started its Next Gen...

Measuring the effectiveness of your nonprofit's communications can feel like trying to find your car keys in the dark while wearing...

Houston does love its nonprofit galas, but it may be time for a makeover. That and more in the latest edition of the Houston Nonprofit...

Too many times we think about nonprofit events as a standalone part of our fundraising. We need to use them to propel repeat donors and...

Here's what's new: New video: Communications, Marketing and Branding...Oh My! Longtime local nonprofit leader to retire Technology ought...

I've been reading a terrific book, Do More Good, by nonprofit marketing pioneer Bill McKendry. After nearly 30 years of working with...

When I first started out in TV news, I worked with a photographer who had landed on Iwo Jima as a navy medic in World War II. He never...

Nonprofits are hard to kill. There were predictions when the pandemic started that more than a third of nonprofits would close as a...

After two difficult years facing the challenges of COVID, nonprofits are dealing with yet another threat, inflation. Combined with the...