While capacity is important, there are other equally important tools you can use to rank prospects.

http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/going-beyond-capacity-ratings

The NEDRA Board's own Tara McMullen thinks you are!

http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/are-you-ready-for-analytics

This blog post describes an approach to prospect management that's focused on strengthening relationships.

http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2015/05/what-is-donor-centered-moves-management.html

What leads donors to give their support to capital projects? This blog post offers some perspective.

http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2015/05/scanning-the-skyline-lessons-from-thirty-years-of-capital-grantmaking.html

The expected exit of large numbers of veteran nonprofit executives, many of them baby boomers who shaped the charitable sector and whose departures, is looming, creating the risk of a widespread leadership vacuum.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/05/17/nonprofitretirements/QkFp8drbL4YsMExtwlGnuJ/story.html

The Internal Revenue Service may issue, as early as June, new draft regulations governing political activity by tax-exempt organizations.

http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/irs-to-propose-regulations-on-political-activity-by-nonprofits

Are the salaries going to foundation heads excessive? Or are they what's needed for philanthropic success?

http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/5/7/top-philanthropoids-are-paid-over-600-million-a-year-is-that.html

While headlines have, in some cases, touted the “tremendous growth” in giving by younger donors, a closer examination of the underlying data may be helpful.

http://wealthmanagement.com/philanthropy/philanthropic-age-divide

A new estate-planning trend among the wealthy: trusts for their children that encourage them to behave in positive ways.

http://wealthmanagement.com/estate-planning/ultimate-dead-hand-control-incentive-trusts-part-i

Well-meaning supporters can undermine their own good works with certain annoying actions.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/annoying-things-donors-do-that-nonprofits-wish-they-would-stop-1428894145