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Make This a More Inclusive Season of Giving: Tips for Diversity in Your End-of-Year Fundraising Appeal

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By broadening your definition of the Season of Giving, your nonprofit creates an opportunity for more meaningful connections with all your constituents, showcasing your support of ethnic traditions while asking for support of your cause. Donors have little patience and limited free time in this season. The Acknowledgment.

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Forward Unto the Breach: Don’t Rest on Nonprofit Laurels

Bloomerang

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it may be time to either hang up your shingle or look around and see what other problems you might address. Here are signs your work may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time, or it has shrunk.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How to be Appropriately Kind to In-Kind Donors?

Bloomerang

Little Green Light : Suggests assigning the gift type as “in kind ” and recording a tax-deductible amount of $0, unless you have a verified third-party appraisal or the donor provided documentation of the fair market value dollar amount. . But definitely list them! And, in so doing, think from your donor’s perspective.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. You may need to get rid of sticky notes and embrace digital tools, better time management, and more efficient processes. Do you feel drained of energy all the time? Most importantly: Is this tool going to save you time?

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Tips for monetizing your nonprofit work

ASU Lodestar Center

A close examination of these tactics reveals several strategies that other nonprofits can use to monetize the work they do every day and add value to their time and output in corporate terms. For example, while many businesses have resisted building more energy efficient buildings, it's now clear that doing so reduces their costs over time.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs

Have Fun - Do Good

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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Big Paycheck or Service? Is There a Middle Way?

Have Fun - Do Good

The New York Times recently published an article, Big Paycheck or Service? Hat tip to Echoing Green for the link). Whenever people make choices about the work they do, there are three variables that they balance: time, money and passion. What you do definitely impacts the world, but who you are while you are doing it does too.

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