By Sarah K. Nathan, Ph.D., and Heather A. O’Connor As former fundraisers and “pracademics,” we care deeply about supporting the fundraising profession though evidence-based practices. We are also educators energized by young people choosing philanthropy as their careers. So when recent reports on fundraisers’ job satisfaction sounded a familiar alarm about high turnover rates, we… Read more »
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Fundraising from the business sector
How can fundraisers form relationships and raise funds from corporations? Read a transcription of a podcast produced by The Fund Raising School, narrated by Bill Stanczykiewicz, assistant dean for external relations and director of The Fund Raising School, and featuring Dr. Dwight Burlingame, Glenn Family Chair in Philanthropy and professor of philanthropic studies. Bill Stanczykiewicz (BS): I’m… Read more »
Philanthropy in America: Rural, empowering, collaborative
In our final post about philanthropy in America, Dr. Matthew Ehlman shows that philanthropy is not only found in urban environments, but it also plays an important role in rural America. Where government and business have left, philanthropy has stepped in. According to The Bridgespan Group, rural areas between 1994 and 2001 received between $401… Read more »
Philanthropy in America: Resilience, accountability, transformative
In our second post about philanthropy in America, online master’s degree student Amanda Weitman had the opportunity to learn that incarcerated individuals can be philanthropists, giving their time, talent, treasure and testimony to writing a newspaper that informs its readership about life in prison and the good that happens behind bars. A wealth advisor for… Read more »
The difficult art of engagement
By Dr. Gene Tempel Hank Rosso, founder of The Fund Raising School, said in his first edition of Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising (1991), that fundraising is the gentle art of teaching (people) the joy of giving. Today, cutting edge research substantiates that there is, indeed, great joy in giving. Sara Konrath, my colleague here… Read more »