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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

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In the first blog post of this series, we discussed the basics that need to occur to onboard any volunteer at any level. We took the process from greeting the fundraising volunteer at your door all the way to helping them connect with your mission, and quite a lot between. Your Program Volunteers.

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

Greater Giving

Staff the station with a volunteer who has swag to sell, such as: Branded hats or shirts. 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. Branded water bottles. Sell snacks, drinks, cocktails, or even mulligans.

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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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Symbols and language to make your appeal more Kwanzaa-inclusive: Candle-lighting is central to Kwanzaa, in the colors of red, green, and black. Include the color green, popular with many cultural traditions but especially to Muslims, for whom paradise is depicted as a garden. Bodhi Day: A Buddhist Tradition.

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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. They included links to volunteer as well, which empowered those who are passionate about helping the homeless get involved. The result was a huge success. What they did. Islamic Relief USA. What they did.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. Little Green Light is great for startups, as is Bloomerang, which has a free version that might work for your organization in the very early stages. Next, donor management.

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Veterans Organic Garden: An Off-the-Grid Jobs Program

Tech Soup

There are also many homeless and disabled veterans in the area. She told me, "With our homeless vet situation, and so many disabled vets coming back, I just asked myself: How can I make a dent in this situation?" " Lovay is an unpaid volunteer executive director. I don't see myself taking a salary. spanhidden.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: June 29th

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From the interwebs this week, I've heard about these NTEN members doing their nptechie-thing: Amy Sample Ward reports on the new opportunity on YouTube to connect nonprofits with video volunteers, with the help of allforgood.org. Nonprofits can submit needs; video-savvy volunteers can connect with a cause.

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