by Rachel Brookhart | Oct 3, 2015 | Development
It’s Day 3 of my challenge and I am already cheating. In my defense, my fiancee made me grout tile for 8 hours today and I can barely keep my eyes open. So today, I have nothing new, and instead will share a blog post that I wrote for the Center for Nonprofit...
by Rachel Brookhart | Jun 23, 2015 | Development
Learn With Me is a new series where I research some stuff and then blog it out in order to help 1) solidify the concepts in my own mind and 2) share these learnings with you. Lately I have been spending a lot of time trying to wrap my head around SEM or Search Engine...
by Rachel Brookhart | Apr 12, 2015 | Development
I’m raising money for k9 Connection, a great organization that pairs shelter dogs with at-risk youth. Why? Because I like to use my voice for those that don’t have one. Some animals are beaten, abused, or forgotten. Many spend their days in a shelter, caged, only to...
by Rachel Brookhart | Mar 20, 2015 | Development, The Nonprofit Sector
Originally published on www.cnmsocal.org Scenario 1 Imagine you are trying to build an innovative new car. It’s cool, luxurious, runs on your leftover garbage, and will be sold to the public for only $12,000. You need money to rent a space, buy supplies, hire...
by Rachel Brookhart | Mar 10, 2015 | Development, The Nonprofit Sector
Originally published on www.cnmsocal.org In a 2012 article Misplaced Giving Priorities of America’s Wealthy, author Pablo Eisenberg argues that billionaire philanthropists shouldn’t be lauded for any amount they give to any cause. Instead, they should be pushed to...
by Rachel Brookhart | Mar 1, 2015 | Development
I recently tried to download a report about millennial donors, but, being a millennial, I couldn’t afford the $199 price tag. *sigh* There seems to be a lot of talk these days about what millennials want, how nonprofits should engage them, and how to get them to...
