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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

Classy

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. Each campaign supports stronger policies and improves enforcement while also inspiring public support for stronger conservation, including sustainable choices to protect wildlife habitats. A $10 billion Great American Outdoors Act passed in July 2020.

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Where do Board Members Disappear to Between Meetings?

ASU Lodestar Center

Have you ever made an announcement at a board meeting and everyone is excited and pledges to be involved in this new plan or initiative? So whether you had a great discussion, made a key decision, agreed on next steps for a project or set a new policy – get the minutes out within a few days. Where did everyone go?

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

Nonprofits Source

You collect pledges from family and friends based on the number of miles you walk. After the walk-a-thon is over, you gather all the pledged donations and contribute them to your cause of choice. Disney also has a generous matching gift policy, matching employee donations up to $25,000 at a 1:1 ratio.

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Integrating Development and Finance through Technology and Best Practices

Connection Cafe

Create policies together. A great change management technique, build (or re-engineer) your policies in a collaborative way.? Creating (or re-engineering) policies together results in buy-in, clarity to the donor and greater efficiency.???? . Looking to empower your development and finance teams to better collaborate?

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Event & Auction Fundraisers Shine the Light on your Charity

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You may even get additional donations through this process and also facilitate pledge payments. Thanking supporters now is an insurance policy for asking for support again later. This is a great way to build a closer relationship with your key supporters.

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7 Must-Haves for Major Gift Success

NonProfit Hub

Gift Acceptance Policy. A gift acceptance policy is a written description of the types and forms of gifts your organization accepts and how it will use the gifts. This policy can be a great tool for managing donors’ expectations regarding the assets they might consider gifting to your organization.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

Forum One

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. The project uses online debates, blogs and social media to engage future leaders interested in substantive foreign policy issues. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C.