By Sedora Tantraphol Hoping to give more meaningful gifts this holiday season? Consider adding a twist to your usual White Elephant gift exchange with White Elephant for a Cause! The rules are simple: 1. Choose your cause Each person chooses…
By Sedora Tantraphol If you’re in the nonprofit world, you’ve probably heard the big news that Foundation Directory Online and GuideStar — two leaders in the social sector known for their information, tools, and resources critical to fundraising — merged…
By Bri Baker ‘Tis the season for meaningful messaging! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but for marketers, it can also be the busiest time of year. Brands both big and small are competing for the same space…
By Lauren Tamboer With 30 percent of all annual donations occurring in December, end-of-year appeals are a crucial fundraising strategy for many nonprofit organizations. To maximize your success, start planning your year-end strategy early — our team begins high-level planning with…
By Sedora Tantraphol The holidays are quickly approaching, and while that usually signals a chaotic time of cooking, family time, holiday shopping, and general stress, for those in the nonprofit sector, that also means the added workload of year-end fundraising. Here…
A question and answer session with experienced board member Shiva Berman By Sedora Tantraphol For our second guest blog post, we sat down with Shiva Berman, who has served as a nonprofit board member for over 18 years and has…
By Emily Mata From our inception, Moonsail North has been dedicated to giving back to the community. Each team member has a different cause they’re passionate about — for Moonsail North co-founder and principal Rose Tantraphol, it’s making sure people…
By Sedora Tantraphol There are many ways to practice acts of giving along a philanthropic spectrum–from donating knowledge, time, or money to building the capacity of grantmaking organizations–and we at Moonsail North try to make an impact at different…