“But I don’t know any rich people” or “I hate asking for money:” How to get your nonprofit’s board to help fundraise:  http://learn.networkforgood.com/npt-eblast-060617-how-to-manage-and-inspire-your-nonprofits-board-landing-page.html?utm_medium=3paemail&utm_source=npt&utm_campaign=stock__how-to-manage-and-inspire-your-nonprofits-board

Foundation funding will increase in 2017-18, but there is a bias in favor of older, more established nonprofits: ...

No nonprofit is too small or too “grassrootsy” to engage in some kind of major donor fundraising—it’s all relative:  http://www.ravelainsights.com/2017/05/15/major-gift-fundraising/

Individual donors can be your nonprofit’s most sustained source of funding—if you treat them right, which is easy:...

Few big foundations are shifting resources toward contesting Trump initiatives that run counter to their priorities:  https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/06/01/foundations-part-resistance-challenges-elite-donors-neo-populist-age/?utm_source=Daily+Newswire&utm_campaign=d78df9250b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_94063a1d17-d78df9250b-12442753

Finally!  An alternative view in favor of the repeal of the Johnson amendment—I agree with Robert Egger:  http://blueavocado.org/content-influence

Another look at the role of big philanthropy and how it sets the agenda in our democracy: https://nonprofitchronicles.com/2017/05/31/the-givers-philanthropy-power-and-democracy/

Even the button-downed folks at the United Way believe in the power of nonprofit advocacy to advance systemic change: https://www.ncrp.org/publication/responsive-philanthropy-spring-2017/rebuilding-the-middle-how-united-ways-and-foundations-can-get-in-the-fight-to-bring-communities-together

Now is the time for small advocacy nonprofits to cash in on “Rage Fundraising”—check out this basic tutorial on starting a major gifts program (2 links): https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/05/26/starting-a-major-gifts-program-part-i/  Starting A Major Gifts Program, Part...

10 ways philanthropists make “big bets on social change”—do they work?  https://ssir.org/articles/entry/ten_ways_to_make_a_big_bet_on_social_change

Is anyone actually opening and reading (let alone acting upon) your nonprofit’s emails, be they for fundraising or advocacy? https://act.everyaction.com/email-deliverability-study-2017

The National Council of Nonprofits continues to oppose repeal of the Johnson Amendment—I disagree: https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=743