I’ve been following the rise of the Pay it Forward movement, a worldwide effort by do-gooders to help others. It often helps the needy, but not always. Sometimes it’s just a stranger helping the person behind them by buying them coffee or paying a toll. Some companies, like Starbucks, have sought to formalize the effort–at […]
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It may seem like every company does something to support nonprofits, but there are still many hold outs. Is your company one of them? Here’s the good news. Companies are more likely to start a giving program when employees ask for one. Here are four giving programs you should tell your boss about. Competitions Nothing
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Are you trying to cultivate a greater commitment to charity and generosity in the New Year? Me too. Here are ten ways you can get off on the right foot in January. 10) Call now to volunteer. Everyone wants to volunteer over the holidays–me included. But what about January when it’s cold, and snowy, and
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The other day I read something on my Facebook wall from a friend who is a television reporter in Nebraska. His station was doing stories related to the school shooting in Newtown, CT, and how people are reaching to help out. In his comment, he noted that they had spoken to one woman who had
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Meghan Young grew up in Lancaster County and attended schools in the city of Lancaster. Despite leaving the area to attend culinary school in Baltimore, then working as a chef in London and New York City, Lancaster was always home. So when she returned to the area in 2011 with her business partner Jose Fuentes
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A colleague recently sent this video from Michael Norton’s TEDxCambridge talk whether or not people can buy happiness. See what Michael had to say. It’s interesting to see that people were happier when they were social with their money, and that wasn’t about the amount of money they spent, just the fact that they spent
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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is concluding the Cultures of Giving Donor Challenge this week on Mightycause. The Cultures of Giving Donor Challenge is a 10-day online giving campaign to support nonprofits that address high-priority issues in communities of color across the country. Our goal is to get thousands of community donors to support the projects
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Minorities are traditionally under-served by larger philanthropic institutions in the United States as well as underrepresented inside their walls. But this is changing. A strengthening movement to create philanthropic funds for this community–identity-based funds–now raises and distributes nearly $400 million each year, says the W.G. Kellogg Foundation in its recent Communities of Giving report. The
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Every nonprofit and super ambassador is fundraising right now. It’s the big push to get the year-end 40% of annual donations. Compounding this distraction is all of the commercial marketing from companies looking to attract holiday shoppers. As a result, donors are getting inundated with solicitations from dozens of charities and hundreds of companies. How
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You don’t have a plan for fundraising this December yet, and are feeling squeemish. With as much as 40% of your online donations coming, you could even be starting to panic. Perhaps you’re an individual fundraiser, and you agreed to help out a favorite cause and have no ideas. Our friend Allyson Kapin at the
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