Social media. Love it or hate it, I doubt it will go away anytime soon (until something else replaces it!).

As a development professional, you can strategically use social media to augment your traditional fundraising methods to identify donors, solicit contributions, and educate the community about your programs and mission.

But using social media for development purposes differs from how you would use it as an individual for your own personal reasons.

How can you best leverage the power of social media to augment your fund development efforts and prevent it from becoming a time suck? These six tips will get you started.

How can you make your thank-yous more engaging so your donors want to give again?

Your board chair can make or break your organization. Do you have a good one?

Last week we talked about taking an other orientation for fundraising; this week we talk about the importance of discussing your project to a grant funder in terms that match their values, beliefs, and priorities.

A few weeks ago we wrote a blog post about the importance of taking another orientation and how nonprofit organizations by their nature do. Learn more about the concept of being other-oriented and how you can apply that to your fundraising to be even more successful.

The federal government is investing more than a billion dollars in the nation's infrastructure over the next 5 years. But this act defines "infrastructure" much more broadly than you might think, making many nonprofits potentially eligible. Learn what types of projects are included for funding and how you can find out more.