Monthly Archives: July 2010

Moving Beyond Donor Recency-Frequency-Monetary to Capability

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

Isn’t there something even a little bit sad about the little old lady in your donor file who has been giving to your nonprofit every month for thirty years…but who is no more skilled at impacting the cause now than she … Continue reading →

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Donors Are the Nonprofits of the Future, Part II: Support the Kid Who Buys the Crayons

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

In our June 30 Donors are the nonprofits of the future post, we wrote about “donor” Pamela Abdallah and one of her charitable “vehicles”, the Salvation Army, and how the Salvation Army is best described as a supporter of  Abdallah … Continue reading →

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Haiti update: $627 million of donations spent, $1 billion of “urgently needed” donations remain in NGO bank accounts

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

Six months after the quake, how much of the $1.6 billion raised by NGOs for Haiti has been spent? $627 million, or 39% of the $1.6 billion raised. As Holden Karnofsky notes, $627 million is roughly equivalent to the amount … Continue reading →

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