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Why You Should Stop Relying on Grants to Fund Your Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

They tend to prefer organizations with more history of success and a set of results to base decisions off of. Your startup nonprofit probably won’t be able to rely on grants, so here are some alternative routes you should pursue. So many first-timers think grants are the way to go as their main funding source. Build a donor base.

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Why You Shouldn?t Rely on Grants to Fund Your Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

They tend to prefer organizations with a history of success and a set of results to base decisions off of. Your startup nonprofit probably won’t be able to rely on grants, so here are some alternative routes you should pursue. So many first-timers think grants are the way to go as their main funding source. Build a donor base.

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No Tricks, All Treats: 18 Spooktacular Halloween Fundraising Ideas

Qgiv

If you live in an area with some morbid history or well-known ghost stories, you can add a few stops on your scavenger hunt related to those creepy tidbits for your more daring donors. If you’re committed to hosting a WNO but seek a virtual alternative, check out the St. John Center for Homeless Men’s virtual house parties event.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another cluster evaluated the alternatives and determined that my son (who was also without power on the 23 rd floor of his apartment in lower Manhattan) had the best shot of making his way to them. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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The 4 Words that Make Donors Forget Your Organization

Achieve

Alternatives: Enable, provide opportunity, make possible. Our president, Derrick Feldmann, has a long history with this word.) Alternatives (nouns): Result, power, influence, effect; (verbs) change, transform, help. Alternatives: Feasible, viable, enduring, continue, preserve. As a verb, it’s awkward and unspecific.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. It is a much more complex and nuanced history. That actually wasn't the case at all.