Have you started thinking about your year-end appeal yet?
You might be seeing some social media posts and emails that will make you think you need to do a deep dive into your data, or order your special labels early to avoid disappointment, or undertake some kind of online integration exorcism in order to get on top of your workload and your life.
I call “reindeer sh!t” on that.
In a recent email about charity auctions, a small nonprofit simply said that if you want to make serious money for your organization, go online (as opposed to the traditional silent auction). I agree. It’s tough to overlook the power of an online platform, unless you are content with leaving significant money on the auction table.
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After gaining a better understanding of donor behaviour among affluent Canadians from its 2014 research study (see part one), Imagine Canada decided to take a closer look into what is known about charitable giving with this cohort of Canadians. Is there a potential to reawaken - or perhaps even awaken – philanthropy among Canadians?
Though philanthropy and traditions of community caring and sharing long-predate European arrival in North America, the first record of an act of philanthropy in what was to become Canada occurred in the winter of 1535-36. Cartier and his men, so sick that they did not have the strength to bury their own dead, received a gift of medicine from the women of a local Indigenous community referred to as Stradacona near the site of current day Quebec City.
