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How to Use Data to Reduce Your Direct Mail Marketing Costs

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Most organizations maintain valid home addresses, while email addresses and phone numbers may be less trustworthy. Quarterly National Change of Address (NCOA) updates should be run every 90 days on your entire house file even if you are not mailing in this period. Ask for phone numbers and email addresses in face-to-face interactions.

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Do You Need to Register to Fundraise Online? A Crash Course

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As a nonprofit leader, you are likely familiar with donation solicitation laws. In order to solicit donations, you’ll need to follow your state’s filing requirements and properly register before collecting donations. Just file Form 8868 prior to your deadline instead to give yourself some extra time. What is online fundraising?

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Online fundraising: Leveraging compliance as a development strategy

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When it comes to compliance with state laws, online fundraising initiatives have created a regulatory challenge for nonprofits everywhere. Approximately 45 states have laws regulating charitable solicitation activity. Almost every state requires nonprofits to file annually to renew their license to solicit.

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Online fundraising: leveraging compliance as a development strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

When it comes to compliance with state laws, online fundraising initiatives have created a regulatory challenge for nonprofits everywhere. Approximately 45 states have laws regulating charitable solicitation activity. Almost every state requires nonprofits to file annually to renew their license to solicit.

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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Location and hours: Share the nuts-and-bolts information a volunteer might need in a pinch, including the location of all program sites, hours of operation, the main phone number, your mailing address, and your website. Include email addresses of all employees and phone numbers of those who work directly with volunteers.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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DAISY Audio and MP3 formats offer Bookshare members more choices to read on the go In this case, we upgraded the Bookshare website to allow direct downloads of accessible MP3 files for a small number of Bookshare ebooks. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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5 Tips for Finding a Nonprofit Lawyer

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They draft documents, file forms and help you with any legal questions or problems that might occur. And when you’re asking around, check to see if any local law firms perform pro bono work for nonprofits. You could also open up the phone book (yes, those still exist) and look in the Yellow Pages. Look Outside Your Board.

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