Blueprint Fundraising

Link jumble for July 8, 2007

Fire A few miscellaneous links:

What does it take to get the Detroit Zoo board of directors to fire their CEO? Apparently something worse than lying about having a doctoral degree.

Handy tool: an automatic gift range calculator.

A new study “Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Giving” finds that a significant portion of alumni giving is not motivated by altruism, but rather by a hope for a reciprocal benefit: the admission of the donors’ children to the school. Slate has detailed coverage.

The Toronto Star has been digging up dirt about the charitable sector again. This time they look at the Canada Revenue Agency. “Charity scams bust public trust: Toothless watchdog lets rogue agencies prey on donors and threaten a sector that raises billions of dollars a year.”

Check out Google Earth Outreach, “a program designed to empower non-profit groups with the resources, tools, and inspiration that they need to leverage the power of Google Earth for their cause.” Fly your supporters to your work, anywhere on the planet.

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