Funding your nonprofit organization and making a difference in your community is not an inexpensive feat. So, you start fundraising! And hopefully, you are successful in finding people who want to donate. But what does that look like in your…
Mixing business and charity seems like it’s all the rage. Done well, it can be an effective way to both further the mission and raise financial support. In this post, we’re going to explore examples of each.
The holidays are a wondrous time for fundraising (and finding new donors!). People are more generous during the holidays and you can easily raise much-needed funds for your nonprofit plus build your donor base with new supporters. A big, loyal…
Over 30% of annual giving occurs in November and December. With Thanksgiving and Christmas being right around the corner, you might already be planning your year-end donation campaigns. Although some people will give money to their favorite nonprofits (we are…
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving that has grown into the world’s biggest giving movement and gets bigger every year. Donors in the United States gave a whopping $2.47 billion to nonprofits on Giving Tuesday in 2020, up…
Most people, or at least me, like lists of facts. Like the height of Mount Everest is 29,032 feet high. Although it was considered to be 29,028 feet high until December of 2020, when the official height was changed. Facts…
No matter how much most of us want it to be, the year continues, and it isn’t gone yet. Part of 2020 remains there on the plate waiting to be eaten. However, that’s not necessarily all bad. It means that…
The CARES Act that Congress passed in response to the COVID-19 crisis is best known for its Payroll Protection Program SBA loans and other measures of cash relief. Getting less attention are the provisions that increase the tax-deductibility of donations…
Nonprofit compliance can be complicated business. That’s been true for as long as there has been a Section 501(c)(3) in the US tax code. That complexity has only gotten more burdensome since the states have stepped up their solicitation registration…
You have seen the videos from stores during Black Friday: mass amounts of people funneling into a store to grab anything and everything they can. People go on day-long shopping sprees to cross off everything on their list for the…