by Lauren Brownstein | Dec 4, 2019 | donation, Fundraising, Nonprofit
Instead of going into a year-end fundraising panic, why not set your nonprofit up for some easy fundraising wins? The end of the calendar year still reigns supreme as the time when Americans make most of their charitable gifts, and a substantial number of...
by Lauren Brownstein | Aug 4, 2019 | Fundraising, Nonprofit, Writing
Picture this: You’re meeting with a potential donor (It could be an individual donor, or it could be a foundation representative.). The meeting is going GREAT. You understand each other. Your organization’s work is in alignment with the potential...
by Lauren Brownstein | Apr 21, 2017 | Fundraising, Nonprofit, Writing
Over spring break, my daughter and I visited the Tenement Museum in New York City’s Lower East Side. This inventive museum, housed in a tenement apartment building that housed more than 7,000 working class immigrants over many decades, tells the story of America’s...
by Lauren Brownstein | Aug 26, 2016 | Fundraising, Uncategorized, Writing
An October 2015 opinion piece in the Chronicle of Philanthropy noted that 72% of US charitable foundations do not accept unsolicited grant proposals, a significant increase from just four years ago, when that number was 60% (“Let’s Require All Big Foundations to Let...