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POSTED BY PARTNERSHIP RESOURCES GROUP Andy, you’ve spent your career working with nonprofits. Tell us about that. I enjoy being able to use my 40+ years of experience in youth work, employment training, health care and disability services to help PRG’s clients. Our team often discovers things about a client that were not apparent at […]

POSTED BY MELISSA IRISH The end of the calendar year is still one of the best times to raise money. Here are PRG’s top six tried and true approaches to increase your ROI. 1. Find your hero – The most effective appeals help readers understand why your organization matters. Find that one story—one client—that shows

POSTED BY ELLIOT LEVIN Elliot Levin, PRG, San Rafael office The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act (PATH) is now permanent. This means at age 70 ½ donors can make charitable contributions of up to $100,000 directly from their IRAs each year. An IRA-funded gift is excluded from the donor’s income and therefore not taxable.

POSTED BY ELLIOT LEVIN It’s PRG’s 24th anniversary. We’re celebrating more than 50 successful capital campaigns with Bay Area nonprofits, and the transformation of hundreds of amazing organizations. In every campaign, our clients were surprised to experience these remarkable side benefits: 1. Annual giving goes up. This defies a common assumption that donors will drop

POSTED BY ELLIOT LEVIN At PRG we’ve had the privilege of talking with hundreds of generous donors across our spectrum of clients. Recently, we asked what factors keep their support alive or send them running for the charity exits. Some of their comments surprised us. The top issues Bay Area donors mentioned: 1. Thank me

POSTED BY ELLIOT LEVIN Holly Hall is just plain wrong. In her inflammatory Philanthropy Today article, “Feasibility Studies Are a Waste,” she implies that even solid organizations are naive in conducting assessments of feasibility for major and often, historic campaigns. She also asserts that these studies are merely marketing schemes by consultants, used to secure

POSTED BY ELLIOT LEVIN I recently returned from a conference in Amman, Jordan, where I taught a class for Near East NGO leaders. The topic was trends in global philanthropy for providing basic health and human services in developing countries. Participants included leaders of organizations providing vital services to the hundreds of thousands of Syrian