Once you've identified some excellent prospects for your organization, here's how to get the front-line fundraisers to act on your recommendations.

http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/prospect-identification-5-steps-get-action

Foundations and the nonprofits they support seem to have different ideas on how transparent the foundations are, and how transparent they should be.

http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2014/09/are-foundations-and-nonprofits-seeing-eye-to-eye.html

This blog post discusses factors beyond mere funds raised that indicate whether a nonprofit is doing well.

http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2014/09/-four-key-indicators-of-nonprofit-success.html

CNN Money presents some facts and figures on today's billionaires.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/16/luxury/global-billionaire-report

Although Larry Ellison has been quiet about his giving, the nonprofit world can learn a lot from him about philanthropy's inconsistencies.

http://associationsnow.com/2014/09/larry-ellison-teaches-nature-philanthropy

All In For Her: A Call To Action puts a direct request before the women it says have the capacity to give $1 trillion a year globally: apply an explicit gender lens to charitable giving.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/09/18/a-gender-lens-for-giving-women-in-philanthropy-urged-to-invest-more-in-women-and-girls

Despite their reputation for being entitled, needy and self-absorbed, many millennials want to make the world a better place and are committed to giving back, advisers and experts say.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/talking-philanthropy-with-millennials-1411132805

If you've mostly focused on researching individuals and have only just waded into corporate and foundation research, here are some tips to get you started.

http://fundraisingcompass.com/2014/07/28/research-alert-corporate-and-foundation-profiling-is-easy

How--and how much--do a donor's politics matter?

http://fundraisingcompass.com/2014/08/11/politics-the-ask-and-prospect-research

The UK's largest firms are giving more as the economy recovers.

http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/study-big-u-k-firms-giving-has-nearly-doubled-since-crash/89279