Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Nonprofit Bubonic Plague Syndrome, Part II: The Stats

In the preceding post we wrote about the Nonprofit Bubonic Plague Syndrome–the propensity of today’s donors to bail on even a favored charity when they sense that it is in financial trouble. Today we take a look at the stats … Continue reading

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The Nonprofit Bubonic Plague Syndrome, Part I: The Symptoms

Traditional transactional fundraising (ttf) is dying a slow and particularly gruesome death in this present recession. Stats on that later this week. It still holds appeal, though, for some nonprofits who continue to bloody their knuckles clinging fiercely to the … Continue reading

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Corporation relations means more than selling banquet table sponsorships to area businesses

Great post by Nathaniel Wittemore at Social Entrepreneurship on the story of ZURB, a San Francisco design house whose corporate philanthropy takes the form of an annual “coffee fueled marketing marathon” in which they do an entire pro bono marketing … Continue reading

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