Back-to-school season is upon us yet again, as is the rush of excitement and change that comes along with it. Approximately 77.2 million students - both children and adults - are expected to return to classes (from nursery school all the way through college) between the months of August and September. According to one study, Americans are expected to spend a combined $27 billion during this period on shopping alone, with much of that money going towards necessities like clothing, school supplies and tech purchases like tablets and new computers.
How Will the Back-to-School Rush Affect Your Fundraising Efforts?
Topics: Fundraising Ideas
Every year we like to take a half-step back and look at the status of the social work profession. How are social workers faring in the workplace? What do future job prospects look like? How’s the pay? Working conditions? What are the main challenges?
Putting Donors at the Center of Your Fundraising Program
This week's Movie Monday's Fundraising Tip is here. Enjoy!
Do you ask yourself the following two questions?
Topics: Fundraising Ideas
Like Rodney Dangerfield, millennials get no respect. It’s a stereotype you’re probably all too familiar with: the “spoiled, narcissistic millennial.” When perpetuated, it leads to some sweeping generalizations about the work ethic, mindset, and values of millennials. They are discounted as the entitled generation, criticized for never leaving home, playing electronic games, taking no interest in anything outside themselves, having no manners, and basically thinking they are not compelled to do anything.
In a recent Time magazine article, author Joel Stein wrote: “In the U.S., millennials are the children of baby boomers, who are also known as the Me Generation, who then produced the Me Me Me Generation, whose selfishness technology has only exacerbated.” Stein went on to assert that “this new Me Me Me Generation has become damaged due to an overdose of self-esteem.”
Topics: Fundraising Ideas
Do you struggle with starting a gifts program at your agency for fundraising?
This weeks' Movie Monday's fundraising video has some great strategies to share - enjoy!
Topics: Fundraising Ideas
Long Term Care - Global Vision Technologies' Annual Update
In January 2015, Global Vision Technologies reported on the impending avalanche overhanging the long-term care industry as the baby boomer generation began to reach retirement age. At that time, we reported that by 2030 sixty-one million baby boomers aged 66 to 84, along with more than nine million of the “oldest of the old” born before 1946, will require some form of long term care services. Congressional Budget Office estimates suggest that total long-term care expenditures will increase at a rate of 2.5% per year compounding to $270 billion in 2030.
Topics: Elderly/Aging Long Term Care
The X Factor in Growing Your Nonprofit's Fundraising
This week's fundraising tips video is in from our friends at Movie Monday's! In today's video Peter Drury rides in the Nonprofit Story Bus and reveals:
Topics: Fundraising Ideas
Visions Server Upgrade Announcement - August 2017
Dear Client,
Global Vision Technologies (GVT) will be conducting an upgrade to Visions Server - the platform behind the FAMCare and/or ClinicalPURSUIT systems on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - between the hours of 6pm and 3am EDT.
Topics: Software Upgrade Notices
This weeks Movie Mondays Fundraising video tip is here.
Is it hard to get your board members to say “Thank You” to donors?
Topics: Fundraising Ideas