article thumbnail

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

sgEngage

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. Generosity is, after all, a mandate for every faith. Bodhi Day: A Buddhist Tradition.

Giving 93
article thumbnail

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

Bloomerang

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. There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people and enrich more people’s lives.

Artist 112
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

[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.

Donor 105
article thumbnail

Tips for monetizing your nonprofit work

ASU Lodestar Center

Sustainability advocates are now starting to have success showing corporate leaders just how costly it is to run a business without green, environmentally friendly practices in place. If your nonprofit works to teach adults to read, for example, you are definitely working on a natural capital issue.

Palau 40
article thumbnail

Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

Get Fully Funded

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Teach yourself to be more productive. If you are spending time entering gifts into a spreadsheet, you can save a lot of time with a donor database like Little Green Light or Bloomerang and a form that automatically enters your donor data.

Product 124
article thumbnail

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. Your blog shouldn't include only news about your organization, but it should definitely include some. Example: Green for All posted about how Green for All Supports Local Green Jobs Corps in Tennessee.

Green 42
article thumbnail

Big Paycheck or Service? Is There a Middle Way?

Have Fun - Do Good

Hat tip to Echoing Green for the link). According to the article, Harvard professor, Howard Gardner, is teaching “reflection” seminars at Harvard, Amherst and Colby, "which he hopes will push undergraduates to think more deeply about the connection between their educations and aspirations." Flickr photo credit: Middle.

Service 40