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Holding a Golf Tournament This Summer? Here are our Top Reminders!

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Consider offering sunscreen for sale or for free as part of a player gift pack, so guests don’t leave your wonderful event happy and then discover terrible sunburns at home. An Auction ON and OFF the Green. Use a mobile bidding platform to host your auction so guests can bid on items anywhere on the green, at any time during the event.

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

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For instance, have you considered including winter solstice celebrations in your holiday gift appeal? When you can authentically rejoice in special days across religions and cultures, you’re giving a gift of recognition and welcome to all of your constituents. Yalda is a winter solstice celebration for Iranian-Americans, Dec.

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7 of the Best Giving Tuesday Campaigns We’ve Seen

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Chicago’s Green City Market Program. Chicago’s Green City Market Program kept it simple. This made it easier for donors to see the impact their gifts will have. Additionally, by keeping it short and simple it made it easier for more donors to complete their gifts. What they did. Islamic Relief USA. What they did.

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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

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For example, if you are taking a volunteer for your homeless shelter that offers overnight accommodations and food service, you want to familiarize that person with the food service program, since that’s where they will be serving. Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray?

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Why You Didn't Hear About Cyclone Ivan's Destruction in Madagascar and How To Help Support Relief Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She was the recent winner of my son's Green Geek Charity Contest and we contributed a small amount to the charity of her choice, SOS Children's Villages. but I enjoy saying " I am only 20 ") I this is the best gift ever! So I had great time eating my favourite chocolate waffle when watching Harry my favourite green geek.

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Should You Accept ANY Type of Nonprofit Donation? (And How Should You Gracefully Decline a Gift?)

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It’s hard to imagine turning down a gift. These gifts are simple and easy to deposit and use. Donations via third-party platforms like Facebook, online donation tools like QGiv or Little Green Light, and employer matching platforms like Benevity, aren’t always straightforward. Facebook is a great example of that.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts.

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