We received a great question from a local nonprofit about their annual fundraising letter. Each December they mail a letter to ask people, most of whom have given before, to make an annual gift.

Nonprofit organizations often use direct-mail solicitation in fundraising efforts. An introductory letter is an opening to a proposal that requests a specific amount of funding for a specific cause.

I really appreciate The Chronicle’s special report on the dysfunctions of fundraising (“Killing Sacred Cows,” February 29). I took particular interest in the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund’s new ...

The Times-Union article on the "strained optimism" with which our community's nonprofit sector is approaching 2012 fundraising activities should inspire us all to do our part. We should support thi… ...