A Positive Outlook for Catholic Fundraising – Part 1 of 3
By William Miller, CCS Executive Director For hundreds of years, arch/dioceses and parishes have offered assistance and services to community members as well as the underprivileged. Many of the early...
View ArticleA Positive Outlook for Catholic Fundraising – Part 2 of 3
By William Miller, CCS Executive Director Championing Inspirational Causes at Home and Abroad Our recent experience with numerous arch/dioceses and parishes is just as encouraging as the aforementioned...
View ArticleA Positive Outlook for Catholic Fundraising – Part 3 of 3
By William Miller, CCS Executive Director The Future Bodes Well for Catholic Organizations For those Catholic organizations that are concerned that current economic and financial conditions will impact...
View ArticleDonor Data Suggests Planned Giving Readiness
by Dave Smith, President, Heaton Smith Group A Legacy Planning Consultancy While charitable giving continues to recover from its lows in 2009, current donors still express caution about giving away as...
View ArticleThe Correlation Between Political Giving and Philanthropy
By William Miller, CCS Executive Director As we enter a presidential election year, competition for the charitable dollar will certainly increase and become even fiercer than it already is. In addition...
View ArticleRaising Money Rurally
By Lindsay Walker, CCS Associate Director As fundraisers, we can oftentimes find ourselves in settings where the existence of prospects is slim or the assumed presence of wealth is not apparent. This...
View ArticleDoes Your Organization Have “Relationship Capital?”
By Kelly C. Albanese, CCS Assistant Vice President, Marketing Communications Relationship capital represents the quality of your interactions and the bonds that you have developed with your donors, and...
View ArticleGive Now, Hope for Later
By Jennifer Damiano, CCS Alumna We are ever grateful to the visionaries who started our nation’s first diocesan foundation in 1955 in Dallas, Texas. These leaders envisioned that the Church would...
View ArticleInternational Giving Increases 7.6% Year-Over-Year
By Rick Happy, CCS Principal and Managing Director Today, Giving USA released its 2012 report on giving in the U.S. for 2011. The new report estimates that charitable giving in the U.S. increased by...
View ArticleWomen Give 2012
By Lindsey Humes, CCS Vice President Continuing their important research and report published two years ago, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University just...
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