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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

Candid

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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6 Sustainable Ways to Bring More Money into Your Auctions

Pamela Grow

Sell tickets and tables While selling tickets might seem like an obvious way to bring more money in the door, there are a few creative ways that nonprofits cna make the most out of the practice: Bundles or packages: Offer different ticket tiers or packages to cater to a broader range of budgets.

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Apps for Going Green

Tech Soup

From helping you make informed purchases to saving you money on your electricity bill, these apps make it fun and easy to go green. Green Outlet. The GoodGuide (Android and iPhone) mobile app helps you find safe, healthy, and green products while you're out and about. Can you out-green your friends?

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4 Examples Proving Nonprofits Should Offer Trust as a Service (TaaS)

Whole Whale

Here are four examples of major players who successfully sell trust as well as the details on how they make their money, what we can learn from them, and how selling trust drives revenue. LEED built a brand on trust by becoming the gold-standard rating for green buildings. Green Building Council, the group that LEED is a part of.

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Cool Apps Roundup: Green Apps

Tech Soup

This inaugural post will cover a variety of green or environmental apps that are already out there. In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. searches for green businesses near you.

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5 Essential Free Online Courses for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alec Green , Chief Marketing Evangelist at NonprofitReady.org , an online hub of 400+ free online courses in topics ranging from fundraising to grant writing, leadership to program management. This video from Candid provides easy-to-follow best practices for raising more money online.

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A Nonprofit Staffer's Guide to Green Investing

Tech Soup

But it's hard to get motivated to save for retirement when you're worried that your money will end up invested in a big oil company or some other planet-wrecking giant. Fortunately, by using a green investing approach, you can find ways to save for retirement and also save the planet. You need better options!

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