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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

This guide is a great place to start to generate ideas for items and packages that will captivate your audience at your next auction event. In a wine-tasting experience, participants sample a variety of wines while evaluating them using criteria such as appearance, smell, and taste.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

Despite this small sample size and lack of evidence for success, the concept has captivated politicians and Wall Street alike. There are less than 40 known SIBs across the globe (Gustaffson-Wright et al, 2016).

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. If you’re hiring a grant writer, request samples of grants he’s written. If you’re hiring an operations manager, request samples of strategic plans , program assessments, board reports, or other documents she’s written. Takeaways.

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3 Tips to Get Millennials to “Look Down” on #GivingTuesday

Connection Cafe

Recently, I polled Blackbaud employees, and while not the largest sample set (44 respondents), it yielded some interesting results. For more static content , include a captivating visual using Facebook, Instagram , or Snapchat. How can we use this phenomenon for social good and philanthropic growth and not just cat videos? .

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

In this show, he’s joined by The Agitators’ Roger Craver, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward, True Sense Marketing’s Jeff Brooks, and Blackbaud’s Chuck Longfield and goes deeper into the topics that matter. Steve Maclaughlin’s 10th episode of npVoices rallies some of the nonprofit sector’s brightest minds.

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