In a few days – right after #BlackFriday and CyberMoney, the internet will be buzzing with #GivingTuesday. Even the White House is talking about it! And if you’re one of the 7,837 participating #GivingTuesday partners, you’ve probably put together a solid game plan. Even so, in the thick of the hustle and bustle of year-end […]
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It’s Thanksgiving week, and while I’m consumed with visions of turkey, cranberry sauce (canned, not homemade) and pumpkin pie, I bet you’re less focused on your appetite and more on how you can give back this week. That’s why we love our readers! Looking for ideas? Here are seven. Add your own in the comments
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Hello! We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday for those who celebrate. This time of year is often a time when individuals focus on how to improve the world by supporting special causes. However, choosing just one or two organizations to support can be difficult. Prioritizing who needs the most help can be daunting.
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Initially, Thanksgiving was created by Abraham Lincoln to create just a glimmer of light and hope during the Civil War. Since then, Thanksgiving has become the start of shopping season for Christmas. Black Friday sales have increasingly led to Black Friday deaths as people beat each other up for that valuable game console. Amidst all
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Human beings have been sharing stories for thousands of years. In fact, there are cave paintings in France that are 30,000 years old! We are hard-wired for storytelling, which is why storytelling in nonprofit communication works as well as it does. Effective storytelling centers on people, NOT ideas or statistics. Apartheid is a powerful story partly because of
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Jennifer Maher knows how crazy nonprofits are. She’s been working for and with them for twenty years, and she knows all about “managing the crazy.” That’s the goal behind her new book Nonprofit Nonsense: How to Survive and Thrive in the Crazy World of Nonprofit Business. This is a great book that will embolden the
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Boxes filled with Santa costumes, 4-inch high heels, and cocktail dresses landed in tsunami-affected areas. In some places, open tubes of Neosporin, Preparation H, and Viagra showed up. The aid community has coined a term for these items that get shipped from people’s closets and medicine cabinets as SWEDOW—Stuff We Don’t Want. From “Please Don’t
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What I’m about to tell you in this post, my most dearly held fundraising gems, will probably not be new to you at all. So why mention the obvious? Because some things cannot be overemphasized, especially when it comes to fundraising while the clock begins to countdown to the year’s end. Double if you’re the
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GivingTuesday is on December 3, 2013 – 5 days after Thanksgiving, and 4 days after Black Friday. Blackbaud and Mightycause saw a 50% increase on #GivingTuesday in 2012 over the previous year (http://www.npengage.com/event-fundraising/eat-shop-and-then-givingtuesday/). Participation on #GivingTuesday this year will most likely be even bigger, so you don’t want to miss out on it! $100,000 from
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Your typical college grads aren’t interested in turning American History into a business opportunity. But Kenn LoBianco and Joe Klepacki aren’t your average entrepreneurs with visions of tech stardom. They share a passion for history and a love for stylish clothing. To this they added management training and graphic design skills. The result is a
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