ASP News & Resources

We have to admit, we weren’t expecting much “new” in the 2014 Giving USA numbers released last week. But then we reviewed them and listened to the analysis. And it was pretty exciting to see that young donors and a recovering economy are directly impacting the nonprofit world. We’ve boiled these trends down into four key points that every mission can put to use…

Capital campaigns. You love ‘em and you hate ‘em. This is because few other fundraising endeavors are capable of eliciting excitement and a little fear at the same time. For fundraising professionals, running a successful capital campaign is like competing in the Ironman Triathlon…

Like many people, I receive all kinds of requests for donations in the mail. And there are certain ones, mostly local, that I support every year with a gift of $25 or $50. When tax season rolled around this year, I tallied up my various donations from the previous year and was surprised by how much I’d actually contributed without feeling like I’d done anything important…