by Ephraim | Nov 25, 2025 | Board, communications
As I meet and speak with nonprofits, I always ask what their biggest pain points are. More and more the Board is mentioned as a friction point. Let’s start at the beginning: The Board gives their time, effort and know how to managing the organization and making sure...
by Ephraim | Nov 6, 2025 | communications, impact, salaries
Take a look at this image: I asked my enewsletter subscribers to evaluate the image. A bunch of them were very skeptical of that 98% program number. Are they playing games with how they define and calculate overhead? Some wondered what “other” actually means....
by Ephraim | Oct 23, 2025 | communications, crowdfunding, online donations
In short: GoFundMe (GFM), the largest crowdfunding platform, created 1.4 million “donation pages” for U.S. nonprofits without consent or any contact with said nonprofits. In the bottom left of most of the pages is a CTA to claim the page. They want NPOs to claim the...
by Ephraim | Jun 12, 2025 | communications, crisis, strategy
It was one week before the gala event, the biggest fundraiser of the year for the institution I worked at. I was in charge of fundraising which included managing all aspects of the dinner- honorees, journal ads, catering, hall, table seating charts etc. And while...
by Ephraim | Feb 27, 2025 | building relationships, communications, retention
Only 57% trust nonprofits. 40% donor retention rate. Household giving is down. If you ran a store and only half of your customers trusted you, if people didn’t come back to purchase again, if people didn’t even bother shopping at your store, you’d close down. Quickly....
by Ephraim | Jun 10, 2024 | communications, nonprofit
It was ten days before the gala event. I was the alumni director and fundraiser for an educational institution in Israel. I was in the U.S. managing the annual dinner, the biggest fundraising event of the year. My phone rang. It was an alumnus. Alumnus: Is the dinner...
