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How can nonprofits adopt social enterprise strategies to create sustainable revenue streams?

ASU Lodestar Center

A recent survey of Arizona’s nonprofits conducted by the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits found that, as a result of fundraising and program cancellations due to the pandemic, Arizona nonprofits have lost an estimated $53 million in revenue. foreign policy.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. CARE Packages: CARE has a very unique holiday gift program that allows you to compile care packages to send to women entrepreneurs and girls worldwide.

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The Blue Sweater 500

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book. After reading it, I did a book giveaway on my blog asking readers to suggest ways they might apply the ideas in the book.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the age of automation and it implications for fundraisers, Leveraging the Power of Bots for Civil Society on SSIR Blog and The Robots Have Arrived: How Nonprofits Can Put Them To Work on Guidestar.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The video producers, a husband/wife team, started their company after doing some volunteer work in Peru with CARE. Susan Ellis, one of the founders, raised some good points and questions related to use of video in fundraising activities: Most fundraising videos are made to go along with a live presentation or one-on-one meeting.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. The first two offices were great trials and so now, we are hoping to be able to expand more quickly, which is of course fundraising dependent, but that's increasing as well, so that is going well too. BB: How will you know when you have succeeded?

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Drive Attention and Gain Donations on Facebook with Video Storytelling

NonProfit Hub

Using a handful of photos and video clips shot entirely on a mobile phone, ShelterBox created a video days after the landslides hit Peru and Colombia in an effort to drive donations in the wake of the devastation. This video created by Animoto customer ShelterBox USA drove $3200 in donations with just a $100 Facebook video ad spend.