Check out this post over at the Donor Power Blog, written by Stephen Ferrando.  It raises some interesting questions about the sustainability of the 1.5 million charities in the United States.
The pot of charitable dollars that the U.S. population is willing to contribute annually is rapidly approaching its threshold, which means that either charities need to redefine what a successful year means – where growth from one year to the next might not be possible – or larger organizations may need to begin to consider acquiring or absorbing smaller organizations …

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I’ve preached this sermon. Over and over again, as I’ve worked for one of the nation’s largest nonprofits, I have pushed us to move into the new millennium. As I have spoken to groups and fundraising professionals, I have hear them lament the same issues. Well, on behalf of all of us, thanks to Seth Godin for his post today.
We’ll blog about it, forward it to our Nonprofit Boards and Executive Directors and hope that this is the time they listen. Sometimes it takes an outsider with the marketing chops …

Running a non-profit may be one of the most challenging jobs in the country.  Budgets require decisions that impact peoples’ lives and non-profit managers have to make these terrible decisions every day.  With the decline of the dollar, the deep recession we’re in, many non-profits are having to close their doors.
You don’t need to.
There are people with money out there right now – looking to donate that money to charities and non-profit managers who need and deserve it.  These philanthropists are becoming more intelligent and doing a lot of research …

In 1891, Salvation Army Captain Joseph McFee placed an iron kettle at a corner on Market Street, at the Oakland Ferry Landing across from San Francisco. He had a vision of serving a Christmas meal for the destitute and poverty-stricken in the San Francisco area and need the money to do so. Captain McFee placed this pot at a spot where he knew there would be a lot of foot traffic, and that those feet may have some money to spare for those in need—namely sailors landing at the harbor …