Get Them to Volunteer and They Will Give

Offering meaningful volunteer opportunities to prospective donors—like serving on your board—may help generate more and larger charitable gifts, according to the latest results of two ongoing research studies. Both studies found a significant increase in volunteering over the past decade—and statistical correlations between volunteer work and charitable giving:

Avoid the Hazards of Writing by Committee

“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?” asked Alfred Whitney Griswold, then president of Yale University, in a 1957 baccalaureate address. His answer: “Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.”

Pentera Leads Industry in Understanding the Unique Needs of Women Donors

New statistics reported by The Chronicle of Philanthropy add to the cavalcade of recent research documenting the burgeoning role of women in philanthropy—which makes it more crucial than ever that nonprofit organizations know how to reach women donors. And that means working with experts in the field such as Pentera President & CEO Claudine A. Donikian, JD, MBA.