Rasheeda Childress

Congress have been too preoccupied with getting the tax bill passed to focus on investigations, said Armstrong. But that's about to change.

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While the new tax law doesn’t go into effect until next year, fundraisers might want to change the way they’re talking to donors about year-end giving, say fundraising consultants. “It’s an interesting year for a lot of donors, both at the everyday level and at the major-donor level,” says Lynn English, president of the fundraising […]

Giving to nonprofits increased by a modest 2.9 percent in the second quarter of 2025, according to new data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. “It looks like we’re seeing some softening at the higher end, so from the larger donors,” says Woodrow Rosenbaum, chief data officer for GivingTuesday, who works on the report. “That’s concerning […]

After a week of backlash from nonprofits angry that donation pages GoFundMe created for their organizations were showing up high in searches by donors, the company has announced it is making the pages opt-in and removing and de-indexing pages that have not been claimed. Tim Cadogan, GoFundMe’s CEO, also issued an apology to nonprofits for […]

The company has made the donation pages it created for organizations opt-in and will remove all unclaimed pages. It also issued an apology.

Alex Szebenyi saw a post on LinkedIn that said GoFundMe had created fundraising pages for 1.4 million nonprofits without their consent. His initial response wasn’t the outrage, anger, or even sense of violation that have percolated on social media over the past week. It was just curiosity. He searched for the page for Acquaint, the […]

The pages launched by the company to help nonprofits have left some feeling they can’t control their organization’s message. Experts offer advice on what to do if you have a page.

Removing friction in the giving process and employing strategic nudges can boost your organization’s fundraising revenue.

A common problem online is people not completing the checkout process — whether that’s buying a product or finishing a donation form. To help donors, or shoppers, complete the transaction, organizations try to remove things that make people pause the process, often called friction, according to Yana Gutierrez, head of platforms at payment processor Stripe. […]