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How Nonprofits Get Really BigSince 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 of them have reached $50 million in annual revenue. Most of the members of this elite group got big by doing two things. They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder such as corporations or government – and not, as conventional wisdom would recommend, by going after diverse sources of funding. Just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources

Survey: 72 Percent of NPOs Don’t Have A Tag Line

productivity could be a powerful way for nonprofit organizationsto multiply the impact of their work, the authors explore how three nonprofits succeeded in reducing costs without sacrificing the quality of their services

10 Tools and Strategies to Market Your Nonprofit on a Shoe-String Budget

Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations

When creating a cross-sector partnership with a company a nonprofit should:

Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits,however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.

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Loud and ClearCrafting messages that stick—What nonprofitscan learn from urban legends

A United Way affiliate has boosted its fundraising by breaking the rules

A Bold Idea Takes ShapeCorporate Cornerstones resulted from a fact-finding project that UWCNM launched in 1997. The project’s mission was to find out why people object to donating to charities in general, and to the United Way in particular. The agency found that two concerns top donors’ lists: nonprofits might use part of the gift to cover administrative costs, and donors might have no say in who benefits from the remainder of their pledge