Results will not be the same regardless of how you execute a strategy Rick Dunham, President+CEO of Dunham+Company, blogging about leadership challenges for fundraisers: I think I may just have a new addition to our Top Ten Fundraising Mistakes. And that’s the assumption that different inputs will produce the same output. Let me explain what ...

2012 Convio benchmark study provides important findings for Christian ministries Online fundraising and constituent engagement services provider Convio recently released their 2012 Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark Index Study. The study was conducted across more than 700 Convio client organizations, 51 of which are Christian ministries. Dunham+Company has distilled the following findings from the Christian ministry ...

Cap on tax-free giving set to be lifted to appease ‘furious philanthropists’ From Philanthropy.com: Nick Clegg, Britain’s deputy prime minister, told a private gathering of wealthy philanthropists this week that the government will amend its controversial plan to cap tax deductions on charitable gifts, according to The Telegraph. The daily newspaper says a compromise proposal ...

Seth Godin says two things disqualify someone from being heard Author and marketing expert Seth Godin: When you walk up to an artist and tell her you don't like her painting style, you should probably be ignored. If you've never purchased expensive original art, don't own a gallery and don't write an influential column in ...

Social media gaining for personal communications, but email still the most popular marketing channel From Business Wire: A new study released today by global interactive marketing provider ExactTarget (NYSE:ET) found two thirds of online Americans have made a purchase as a result of email, nearly twice the percentage who have purchased after receiving marketing messages ...

Sophisticated spam filters raising the stakes for e-fundraisers From Philanthropy.com: Inactive e-mail lists have always posed a challenge to fundraisers, but as spam filters get more sophisticated, the stakes are getting higher, Dan Atherton, a consultant at Chapman Cubine Adams + Hussey, told participants in San Francisco at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. He said e-mail ...

There’s no doubt that Jesus cared for the down and out. He healed the sick, fed the hungry and poured His life out for the outcasts of society. And His teaching was filled with challenges to His followers to do the same. President Obama is right; Jesus does want us to love our neighbor as ourselves.

But that raises the question of who exactly is our neighbor. Evidently, President Obama believes it is the bloated government bureaucracy which is massively in debt. Actually, I don’t believe Jesus had the government in mind when He said “neighbor.”

Survey indicates any changes to system would face strong opposition

With the White House signaling it will preserve the charitable tax deduction for high net-worth households, the Administration is aligning itself with what the American public wants, according to a study conducted by Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research on behalf of Dunham+Company.

According to our annual New Year’s Philanthropy Survey conducted by Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research, Americans continue to show an increasing willingness to financially support charitable organizations.

For the second year in a row, more Americans indicated they planned to give more (18 percent) to charity in the coming year than those who plan to give less (13 percent). Most Americans (68 percent) plan to give the same amount to charity in 2012 as they did in 2011, which is two percent higher than last year.

Organizations below $3 million in expenditures experiencing greatest challenges PREFACE: “It is no surprise that many charities, especially smaller ones, continue to struggle,” said Rick Dunham, President+CEO of Dunham+Company. “In a climate of cutting budgets, charities need to guard carefully those expenditures that generate revenue to ensure their situation doesn’t worsen. And they must focus ...