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22 articles published
— March 4, 2026 — 4 min read
Straw donors, missing employer data, a personal credit card, one sentence in a 501(c)(3) email, and a termination report nobody filed. Five patterns from FEC and IRS enforcement, and the intake habit that stops each one.
Category: Compliance
Read more— March 2, 2026 — 4 min read
Count the subscriptions on your card statement, then count the ones staff opened last week. Here is the three-tool stack a development office needs, the optional fourth, and the five subscriptions most organizations can cancel this quarter.
Category: Technology
Read more— February 24, 2026 — 3 min read
Texting can raise serious money from small donors. Autodialed texts to mobile numbers are where federal law gets strict. Campaigns stay inside FCC and TCPA lines when every opt-in is logged with a timestamp and every STOP is suppressed across every list the same day.
Category: Compliance
Read more— January 12, 2026 — 2 min read
You don't need a law degree. You do need a clear picture of who can give how much, and which committees may coordinate. A practical map for staff who touch money.
Category: Compliance
Read more— January 6, 2026 — 8 min read
Five donor groups you can build from five fields already in your CRM, one message per group, and the single metric that tells you whether each one is working.
Category: Strategy
Read more— November 30, 2025 — 3 min read
Charitable dollars can't buy electioneering. Appeals, events, and ads are still fair game once the comms team knows which IRS line each one sits on.
Category: Compliance
Read more— October 18, 2025 — 2 min read
Employer match programs turn one donor gift into two. The second gift goes missing after the donor has already said yes: a moved portal, a passed deadline, a form nobody filed.
Category: Strategy
Read more— September 4, 2025 — 2 min read
When supporters collect checks or several committees share a stage, separate FEC rules apply. Joint activity stays reportable when the split and the solicitation language are written down before the room fills.
Category: Compliance
Read more— July 22, 2025 — 2 min read
Stock and DAF payouts are routine now, and crypto shows up often enough to need a policy. Intake, acknowledgments, and a written gift acceptance policy matter as much as the asset itself.
Category: Strategy
Read more— June 7, 2025 — 2 min read
Grants pay for programs and end when the program officer moves on. Individual gifts are smaller and mostly unrestricted. Three board questions and three numbers to keep the mix deliberate.
Category: Strategy
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