Nonprofit Essentials: Early Considerations
Party politics can be big. Yuge. And the bigger the contest, the more ambiguous the teams become. It’s a numbers game that, at the …
The Election in Three Numbers
Presidential elections in the U.S. are an ever longer, outrageously expensive, politically complicated proposition. And on top of the ordinary level of complexity, this …
The Future of Voting Machines
In one of our nation’s narrowest and most derisive elections, the competition was fierce to say the least. Even before the vote began, rumors …
The Psychology of Giving, Part 2
Fundraising is quite literally a give-and-take relationship requiring a lot of attention along the way. The initial ask is just part of this relationship. …
Getting Started with Online Fundraising
In politics and in baseball, it was a surprising year. Deep emotions were stirred. A back-and-forth competition left the nation biting its nails. And, …
The Psychology of Giving, Part 1
From the outside, fundraising seems like a very straightforward process. You target the people who have the most money, and who are most likely …
What’s Next?
What a long, strange election season it’s been. It’s not every day you see riots in Portland or a Republican take Pennsylvania. Roughly 26.3% …
The Social Side of Election 2016
The initial shock wave has passed, but pundits all over the airwaves are still scrambling to find missed clues pointing to the surprising Trump …
The Tale of the Tape
Tomorrow is Election Day, and the nation will finally determine an unprecedented presidential contest that began about 20 months ago and spent well over …
Getting Started in Your Community
Maybe you’ve seen something in your community that you can’t ignore, some need that no one else is properly addressing. Maybe some vital element …