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What a Harris Vs. Trump Race Means To Nonprofit fundraising (And It Has Nothing To Do With Who Wins)

Jul 223 min read

What a Harris Vs. Trump Race Means To Nonprofit fundraising (And It Has Nothing To Do With Who Wins)

President Biden’s decision to not seek re-election completely reshuffles the race, setting up a likely contest between Kamela Harris and...

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They Find You On Their Phones. They Donate On Their Laptops!

Ken Wells

Jun 111 min read

They Find You On Their Phones. They Donate On Their Laptops!

The annual nonprofit benchmarking study by M+R is an amazing resource on communicating with donors and, to quote from a 1990’s song, it...

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Six Steps To Keep Donors Coming Back After Your Nonprofit Event.

Ken Wells

Jun 112 min read

Six Steps To Keep Donors Coming Back After Your Nonprofit Event.

So, you just finished your big fundraising event of the year. All the long hours. The countless details. The near disasters fixed in the...

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What Houston Nonprofits Need To Know About Fundraising In 4 Charts

Ken Wells

Sep 26, 20232 min read

What Houston Nonprofits Need To Know About Fundraising In 4 Charts

We are wrapping up the third quarter of 2023 and it has been a tough year for most nonprofits. How tough? Take the Sierra Club, for...

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Inside The Weird, Magical World Of Matching Donations

Ken Wells

Sep 21, 20235 min read

Inside The Weird, Magical World Of Matching Donations

This week NonProfitPro published an article I wrote about the slightly wacky power that matching donations seem to have on nonprofit...

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Ken Wells

Jul 19, 20233 min read

Happy People = Happy Donors

People who are happy give more to charity. That was the conclusion from a new study of donors' mindsets before they make a contribution....

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6 Things That Should Go Into Your Nonprofit Mid-Year Tune-up

Ken Wells

Jul 17, 20232 min read

6 Things That Should Go Into Your Nonprofit Mid-Year Tune-up

Ahh, sweet July in Houston. The temperature is higher than most of our IQs right now. Donors have all escaped to Colorado. Nothing to...

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What MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos & Larry David Teach Us About Giving

Ken Wells

Jun 14, 20234 min read

What MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos & Larry David Teach Us About Giving

Recently mega-philanthropist MacKenzie Scott picked up the phone and called Melanie Johnson, the head of Houston’s Collaborative For...

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Countdown To July 1: Get Ready For Web Tracking To Change.

Ken Wells

Jun 12, 20231 min read

Countdown To July 1: Get Ready For Web Tracking To Change.

First, I am very pleased to report that I will be providing a regular column for the NonProfit Pro website. The first one deals with the...

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Ken Wells

Apr 18, 20233 min read

Pitching To The Media

I wanted to share something I’m kinda proud of. Recently I was able to help a client place an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle about an...

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Fundraising Gets Ugly - Falling Revenue and Donor Numbers

Ken Wells

Apr 18, 20233 min read

Fundraising Gets Ugly - Falling Revenue and Donor Numbers

“Things work until they don’t.” I have no idea who first said that, but it might have been Captain Obvious. In the fundraising world, we...

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On July 1st, The Way We Track Websites Will Change. What Does It Mean To Nonprofits?

Ken Wells

Apr 5, 20231 min read

On July 1st, The Way We Track Websites Will Change. What Does It Mean To Nonprofits?

How many people visit your website? If they go to your donation page, do they actually give? How many visitors find you through Facebook?...

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Make Sure Your Grant Proposals Beat The Odds!

Ken Wells

Mar 28, 20232 min read

Make Sure Your Grant Proposals Beat The Odds!

I saw a recent article on the odds of winning a grant. The short answer was, “Not Good.” The author pointed out that there are 1.5...

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Ken Wells

Mar 28, 20233 min read

Need Volunteers? Try These 6 Steps

One of the most persistent carry-over effects from COVID is the damage it did to volunteer programs. A couple of recent studies bring...

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Facebook Has A Message For Nonprofits, But Are We Listening?

Ken Wells

Mar 15, 20233 min read

Facebook Has A Message For Nonprofits, But Are We Listening?

It’s been a bad week for Facebook’s parent company META, which announced 10,000 more layoffs and froze 5,000 unfilled positions on top of...

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Ken Wells

Mar 15, 20234 min read

When Do You Need To Redo Your Website?

If one phrase could combine dread and hope in equal measures, it would be “Redo Our Website.” I go through periods where every potential...

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Are You Upping Your Email Game? Why Not?

Ken Wells

Mar 1, 20233 min read

Are You Upping Your Email Game? Why Not?

The first email was sent by an engineer named Raymond Tomlinson in 1971. He sent it to himself, and, to the best of his memory, it said...

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Ken Wells

Mar 1, 20231 min read

Snapshot of Texas Nonprofits

A new report that looks at the state of nonprofits in the state of Texas will be out soon. The organizations behind it have just released...

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Much Anticipated News Organization Hits Houston

Ken Wells

Feb 8, 20231 min read

Much Anticipated News Organization Hits Houston

It was one year ago when the announcement came that a new nonprofit news outlet would come to Houston. It didn’t have leadership, any...

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Ken Wells

Feb 7, 20231 min read

What Are Foundations Looking To Fund?

During the pandemic we saw foundations respond by: Funding more nonprofits, Focusing on programs that helped people who were struggling,...

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