Articles Contributed by Your CharityChannel Colleagues

CharityChannel is a leading source of original articles and book reviews that are down-to-earth, practical, and relevant to the day-to-day challenges of in-the-trenches nonprofit professionals.

There's a reason for the strong flow of articles -- thousands have been puplished over the last 16 years. It's the strong sense of professionalism that leads hundreds of contributors to raise their hands to write for their CharityChannel colleagues.

CharityChannel takes seriously its commitment to working with our volunteer writers and editors to identify article topics and to help them as needed at all stages of the editorial process. With the recent re-launch of the CharityChannel web site, we're now able to devote much more time working with our editors and writers, since the web site features an end-to-end article publishing system that we designed ourselves.

Want to Raise Your Hand to Write for CharityChannel?

The first step is to make sure you are a current member of the CharityChannel professional community. If not, you can instantly join. See the Subscribe or Renew page. If you are a member, please log in, then navigate to the Contributors > Sign Up to be a CharityChannel Contributor page.

The CharityChannel Professional Discussion Forums

The CharityChannel professional discussion forums have hosted thousands of separate discussion threads beginning in 1992. In fact, CharityChannel began as a discussion list, called CHARITYTALK. Today, our forum participants include many of the nonprofit sector's leading experts in the various disciplines that comprise the nonprofit professional community. In March we rolled out our latest state-of-the-art discussion forum system that combines the best of web-based forums and optional listserve functionality.

Why Participate?

Even professionals at the largest nonprofit organizations and institutions sometimes need to reach beyond their own walls to engage their colleagues on an issue they are facing.

CharityChannel was created 16 years ago by a group of nonprofit and higher-education professionals who wanted to share ideas, discuss problems, and even give and receive encouragement with colleagues at other nonprofit organizations and institutions. The concept grew very rapidly – today there are well over 100,000 participants in the extended CharityChannel professional community.

With 16 years of experience in hosting professional-level forums, we have created a forum system that not only is easy to use, but, with our newest forums system that we've just rolled out, satisfies the criteria of many nonprofit executives who may have been reluctant to permit employees to participate in non-monitored, open-to-the-public discussion forums in the past. Indeed, the largest segment of growth at CharityChannel is comprised of group memberships, where organizations enroll their entire organization or, say, their advancement office (colleges and universities) or development offices.

Of course, CharityChannel forums are ideal for colleagues who sign up as individuals because they are not part of a group, or who work in an area where it is difficult to meet and confer with other colleagues.