Greater Giving

MAY 17, 2024

Whether you are focusing an entire event around wine, or looking to include a few fun wine-themed elements in your already successful fundraiser, there is an exact science to both creating the perfect bottle, and to using this expertly-crafted beverage to raise funds that support your mission. Timing is everything!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Many nonprofits don’t put time and energy into SEO because they don’t understand the benefits. Here are six reasons why SEO is worth the time and effort. Once they find you and are engaged, you can teach them your language. 5) SEO can help you get local attention. 1) You can compete with the big guys without a big budget.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) has been part of Candid’s Funding Information Network since 1980, providing local nonprofits and the public with access to Candid’s resources, including Foundation Directory, for free. My role is to contextualize those tools and teach customers how to best use them.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So think about how you can use this time of year to focus on donor stewardship and relationship-building. This multi-channel approach not only helps diversify your funding streams. From there, seek to segment donors in your database based on their interests, preferences, and past giving behavior, like gift amounts and timing.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At a time when higher education is facing public funding cuts, changing demographics and a challenging student debt environment, institutions are facing an uphill battle to sustain enrollments and stay relevant. Unfortunately, it continues to rise, spreading from national news down to the local level at an alarming rate.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

These funds are often depleted quickly, so act immediately when opportunities are announced. The need for local pest control, insurance, copier lease, or related services may change, therefore you should re-evaluate annually. However, I am amazed each time I walk through cutting costs with a nonprofit that’s struggling.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The grants will fund nine new CER studies, including three focused on telehealth and mobile health strategies. Bezos Earth Fund awards $443 million for climate justice, conservation. Bezos Earth Fund awards $443 million for climate justice, conservation. Grants totaling $23.5 Grants totaling $23.5 December 8, 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. What a great way to teach your children to become more thoughtful and responsible about the world we live in.

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Qgiv

APRIL 13, 2022

If you need to fund your activities but need a little inspiration to come up with ways to get folks giving, try these 10 youth fundraising ideas for proven and innovative fundraisers you can host at your youth nonprofit. Kids have a lot of time and a lot of energy. That’s an important task that’s deserving of support. Chores for cash.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. Eggers & Kettl : Innovation takes funding, regulating, and doing. Eggers and Donald F.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The weeklong celebration only grew in popularity over time and eventually, President Gerald R. Take the time to educate yourself about the contributions of Black communities to the history of your nation. These nonprofits rely on funds from generous donors to keep their work going and to provide support to the Black community.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you skip on preparation, you will end up with a house of cards that can come tumbling down at any time. Your local United Way or similar organization may have a bank of qualified people seeking Board roles, saving you some time and work to find the right person. But you can’t self-fund your nonprofit.

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Achieve

MARCH 31, 2021

These intensive campaigns are all about scaling up your operations by funding major investments that will help you better pursue your mission. For example, giving through donor-advised funds has. Specifically, COVID-era capital campaigns will need to carefully adapt in three key areas: Timing. Consideration #1: Timing.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. In contrast to for-profit organizations, nonprofits rely on donations, usually a combination of individual donations, grants, sponsorships, and corporate donations, to fund their operations and further their charitable missions. In the U.S.,

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

These tangible projects like facilities and equipment are easy for donors to conceive, fund, and experience. Transportation: MHP has a long-standing partnership with a local transport system, ShelbyGo. People really have a good time, and it sets a very good tone for the rest of our posts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

It’s the gift of having my children teach me that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Children are teaching their parents that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Tenacity — Climate change is not a quick-fix problem, and building a movement takes time. Pictured: Devi Thomas’ sons.

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DipJar

AUGUST 6, 2020

We know that DipJar and Spark will help you raise more funds, but we also understand that purchasing a DipJar subscription might seem like an obstacle. It’s time to take it out of the closet and put it to work! Ask a local coffee shop to place your DipJar on their register counter for a Charity Month. Put your Jar to Work!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

These highly interactive experiences allow your nonprofit ample time to engage with supporters face-to-face. Community partners like local businesses and civic organizations can support your nonprofit by donating auction items or funding event overhead costs. In fact, 81% of nonprofit donors attend fundraising events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. How about you?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 26, 2019

Federal, state and local governments increasingly depend on Social Service nonprofit organizations and, because of that dependency, have been willing to help fund them. government funding accounts for approximately one-third of the annual revenue received by nonprofit organizations, primarily through grants and contracts.

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Greater Giving

MAY 12, 2021

If that’s the case, it may be time to create a “culture of fundraising” within your nonprofit. This takes a little bit of time and a whole lot of listening as you get to know them and their style of giving. Once a donation has occurred it is time the donor journey has entered the stewardship phase. The Solicitation Phase.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. We just wrapped a fundraising campaign and for the first time ended without opt-out numbers that were abnormally high.”.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

Managing several of these channels can easily monopolize your marketing team’s time and resources. For example, nonprofits with technical expertise or that work with technology consultants may create optimized online spaces for donors that make giving easy and teach supporters about their nonprofit through interactive content.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Knowing that your food service operation meets the highest standards for cleanliness, or that you source your foods from local providers as much as possible helps your volunteer tell your story to their friends, family, and work colleagues. Teach Them About the Program, Too. But don’t just make it an arbitrary goal or number.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it’s time to take a look at what your team is doing and how you’re faring based on the metrics that matter most to your nonprofit. The funds you’ve raised have stayed the same or decreased year over year. Think about your movement, not the current moment in time. . Just start. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time. 8-10pm: Entertainment time – television, social media. To encourage consumption of local information.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

I had the opportunity to participate in the launch of the new Kansas City Digital Inclusion Fund. I say thorny because despite the nearly $300 million in stimulus funding awarded by the U.S. Google Fiber is roughly 100 times faster than ordinary broadband, but costs about the same or somewhat less. The Community Driven Fund.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

They are called "next gen major donors," and according to a recent report issued by the Johnson Center at Grand Valley State University and 21/64 , they will "have tremendous influence on the direction of and support for efforts to improve local communities and solve global problems over the next several decades.".

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Borrow from political organizers to build a grassroots movement at scale by empowering supporters locally with the right messages and tools to spread your mission. Host a virtual phone bank for supporters to contact local businesses and grocery stores requesting excess food donations. Not enough funding from Federal / state government.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

This month''s theme is building community, on and offline - a perfect time to interview Bethany about her inspiration for working in nonprofit technology and more! It was like looking around and realizing, not only is there an entire buzzing ecosystem right under my nose, but it has been there the whole time! We teach this.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The campaign, which is currently underway, protects coral reefs in Southern Guam by influencing local communities to prevent and report wildland fires in order to reduce harmful sedimentation. “We Elaina says that Miradi helped her determine what knowledge was needed by local residents to adopt behaviors that promote clean water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

In our family, I have involved my kids in fundraising activities from the time they were old enough to walk. My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2010

One of the common things I hear when teach workshops on social media is “We don’t have the time.&# We make the point in the book that if nonprofits make the shift from scarcity to abundance thinking – they will be able to leverage their networks. Leveraging the Network. But reframe it.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Finding time to sit down and read isn’t always easy in people’s busy lives. However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff.

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