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Save the Children Alternative Gift Catalog: Amazing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. Save the Children. What is your favorite alternative gift-giving site or program?

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What To Do When A Donor Says “No”

Bloomerang

Is it children? Offer an opportunity to name a child therapy room or to fund an endowment for at-risk children. Offer some other relevant alternatives. I understand exactly how you feel, and … I’ve felt that way myself … and what I’ve often found is … (offer an alternative way to look at or manage the situation).”

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

It can also mean a certain rigidity in how things unfold alongside a tendency to insist that things be done as you envision them, even when there are alternate routes that may play to the strengths of staff more successfully. It is a bit like the conflicts that emerge when our children are beginning to separate from us.

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Bright Idea: Hybrid Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser

Qgiv

We make meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 13, in communities across Central Kentucky. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass had to find a socially distant alternative to their annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser. What they did.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s The Best Way To Share Tax Information With Donors?

Bloomerang

Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Suggest tax-beneficial giving alternatives when speaking with major donor prospects. Catholic Charities of Des Moines. Catholic Charities Galveston-Houston. Community Foundation of Western Nevada. Kansas City Symphony. Do they want to give you cash?

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What a great way to teach your children to become more thoughtful and responsible about the world we live in. I reached out to my readers for suggestions about how to raise more charitable and socially aware children. One of their donors was a class of kindergarteners at the Berwick Alternative Elementary School.

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6 Alternative Birthday Gift Ideas

Have Fun - Do Good

A friend of mine's mom has been giving the gift of time to her grandchildren and children for years. What are alternative birthday gift ideas you've given or received? In our fast paced world, spending time with someone can be more valuable and memorable than a physical gift. A donation.