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Securing Corporate Sponsorships for Nonprofits: 10 Expert Tips

Neon CRM

For example, take a nonprofit like Friendship Circle of Michigan that raises money to provide adaptive bikes for families with special needs children. These details will help you and your staff make effective proposals instead of wasting time and energy reaching out to sponsors that don’t fit what you need. Easy, right?

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

Get Fully Funded

It can be tricky, though, AND time consuming if you aren’t sure where to look…and your time is valuable. That clarity will save you a ton of time and effort. So if you’re reading this article thinking “We’ll just go get a grant for what we need,” I highly encourage you to question that intention. Rough out a timeline.

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Research Friday: Senior Arizona volunteers -- how do they stack up against the rest of the nation?

ASU Lodestar Center

Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and we in the nonprofit sector are thankful for their involvement any time we can get it. Over 3,500 households in Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan were asked about their giving and volunteer behavior. percent and the average volunteer time by 22.8 Like this article? Get another!

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What is Slacktivism and is it Even Helping?

NonProfit Hub

If your friend Sue shares an article on Twitter about helping kids in your community who are on reduced lunches, your inclination might be to ask Sue how she got connected and what you can do to help. Sparking conversation. Slacktivism in the real world. Lack of skin in the game.

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BIGGER! BETTER! FASTER! CHEAPER!

ASU Lodestar Center

These requests require a high level of expertise, time, and output, and they often come with unreasonable expectations about costs, complexity of design, and other essential ingredients to successful inquiry and deliverables. Like this article? The challenge arises when stakeholders come to us for customized research. Get another!

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One Small Step for Detroit, One Giant Leap for Museum Ethics (Maybe)

Museum 2.0

And now, in the past month, Michigan''s Attorney General and State Senate have blocked the emergency manager of Detroit from seizing the DIA''s collection to pay off the city''s debt. But this argument for the public value of the art is tough to uphold in a time of severe challenges.

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Can you use social media to spread thought leadership? Yes you can!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter. With my short time Scholar in Residence, I've been exposed to a gold mine of incredible thinking, discussions, and resources on topics related to my field.