Stanford Social Innovation Review : Informing and inspiring leaders of social change

Corporate donors prefer the opera to the soup kitchen.

An excerpt from The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success.

Four guidelines provide a road map for leaders to identify and develop the right funding model for their organization.

The End of Fundraising: Raise More Money by Selling Your Impact by Jason Saul

“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.

Foundation Source Access, the new eHarmony for family foundations, gives smaller donors access to a wide variety of innovative funding opportunities.

Nonprofits must have influential board members who connect them to the communities they serve.

The more money a person has, the less generous, helpful, compassionate, and charitable he is toward other people.

For-profit companies preach and employ diversification—and it would behoove nonprofits to have diverse revenue portfolios, as well.

Chris Hughes, Facebook’s cofounder, has created a social media platform called Jumo designed specifically for nonprofits.

The rapid spread of social media has catapulted the possibilities and scale of relationship-building into the stratosphere.

While earned income currently may not play a big role in your funding picture today, it’s well worth exploring.

A national study of alumni explores attitudes, motivations, and behavior associated with giving.

Campbell and Co. sponsored a study to determine the impact of increased marginal tax rates and a cap on the charitable-giving deduction on giving.

Measurement can attract money. A nonprofit that can demonstrate results and improvement is more inviting to potential donors than one that can’t.

Many donors have also realized that social media can help them become significantly more effective in pursuit of their philanthropic goals.

Unmotivated donors didn’t materialize out of the ether when social media started taking over the world.

In the wake of the announcement of the intent to GOOD to absorb Jumo, questions arise about form, functions, policy, and societal value.

The growth of the Internet opens new avenues for collaboration between foundations and nonprofits, but it's a changing landscape.

The nonprofit sector has become infected with the shortsighted, quarter-to-quarter thinking that addles Wall Street.

How to identify and develop a funding model that will allow your organization to achieve its programmatic aspirations.

Principles nonprofit leaders can use to help them achieve their organization’s long-term fundraising goals.