Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate’s education committee, is urging the U.S. Department of Education to explain how it will adapt in light of the Chevron doctrine being overturned by the U.S….
Higher education institutions provide high-quality education, cutting-edge infrastructure, highly educated and experienced faculty, and bright students. Transportation has gained a lot in importance due to increased student safety threats. However, higher education institutions need help in providing high-class transportation facilities to ensure better student security. A sophisticated and feature-rich transportation management system is fast capturing…
Former Cameron-Clegg senior policy adviser Michael Lynas – now UK country director of Duolingo – predicted a period of relative calm after a tumultuous few years on higher education policy under successive Conservative governments if Labour takes the largest share of the vote on July 4, as multiple polls indicate. This could make the UK…
At or shortly after the end of each June, the Supreme Court issues a flurry of important decisions to wrap up its annual term and signal the beginning of its summer recess. The public pays more attention to the Court’s work at this time of year than at any other. For that reason, this time…
Unlike lower courts, the U.S. Supreme Court has almost complete discretion to choose what cases to hear. It exercises that discretion mostly to decide important and recurring legal questions. Its primary role is not to correct individual lower court errors but to set and occasionally alter or overrule precedents that will govern subsequent disputes. The…
Bruen and Rahimi Two years ago, in New York State Pistol and Rifle Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court held that the government could justify a firearms regulation under the Second Amendment only by “demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” The government could make this showing only by…
This might be one of the most effective direct-mail fundraising envelopes ever created. It will get opened! (And it’ll get there quickly.) This is the US Postal Service version. Many other countries have an equivalent. Here in the US, you buy the envelope from the Post Office. It costs around $10. The price includes postage….
We are embarking on a series of posts about what is probably the most important and impactful element of fundraising: The Offer. Advertisers often call it the “call to action.” Many fundraisers call it “the ask.” It’s the thing you want your donor to do. The thing you’re “selling.” It can be a seriously complex…
Within 4 weeks after they’ve given. Hands down, without question, the best time to ask a donor to give is soon after they’ve given. A lot of nonprofits operate on the opposite assumption — that recency predicts unwillingness to give again. If you’re avoiding contact with recent donors, you’re losing significant opportunities to bond with…
Want to see a situation where a very small changing wording makes a meaningful difference in fundraising results? You’ll find it on the Better Fundraising Blog, at One Test, Three Lessons. Yes, the post has three very useful lessons. But I want to focus on one of them. You’ll have surf over there to see…