What’s up with Online Average Gifts?

One stat that popped out at me in this year’s Benchmarking Project presentation is that online average gifts are lower than those from Direct Mail. Why is that? The simple answer is that we’re not asking people for the right amount of money.

Launch Forum 2024: High Value Giving

Can you grow your High Value philanthropy portfolio?

Australia for UNHCR is known for its Face-to-Face RG fundraising, but they are a lot more than just that. 

Elizabeth Grady, Director of Philanthropy and Partnerships at Australia for UNHCR has overseen a doubling of income from gifts over $1,000 in her channel in the past ten years.  

Launch Forum 2024 Panel: Acquisition is hard

Acquisition is hard … we know. And for some, it seems to be getting harder.

The 2024 Launch Forum gave us an opportunity to get some brilliant fundraising minds with overachieving campaigns together to share the best mechanisms and practices to engage and inspire new donors to give.

The Reframe Overheads Initiative

Dan Pallotta started his Uncharitable activity back in 2008 with his first book that highlighted the inequity that exists for not for profits – the unjust focus not on what they get done, but how little they spend doing it. In the 15 years since there have been multiple conversations and activities to highlight and explain the ‘not for profit starvation cycle’, but overall it has remained unsolved.