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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Help disseminate news releases or produce news events to get coverage. Identify key influencers with audiences on social media, email, or via the news media and spend time cultivating the relationship with the goal of eventually seeking promotional support or a collaboration on a project. Canvas door-to-door.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

The average Ivy League school received 178 times more funding than the average HBCU To understand the philanthropic funding disparities HBCUs face, we examined funding to Ivy League schools as a proxy measure of philanthropic funding capacity. By comparison, funding to HBCUs averaged $61 million from 2015 through 2019.

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3 Key Compliance Reminders for 2021 and Beyond

Bloomerang

The good news is that we at Labyrinth are here to help. On-the-ground fundraising measures. On-the-ground fundraising measures. Most states do not have specific laws covering online fundraising, making online fundraising compliance a grey area in most places. Or, worse yet, criminal or civil charges.

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Online Crowdfunding: A How-To Guide

NonProfit Hub

We’ll show you how to set up an effective campaign that brings in the money while staying within the bounds of the law. The first step is choosing a project with a specific, measurable and time-oriented outcome. Check state laws. The good news is that you likely won’t have to meet the requirements of all 50 states.

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What we know about MacKenzie Scott’s 2020 grants

Candid

Her grantmaking in 2020 appears to follow a regular pattern of proportionality—perhaps a “power law distribution,” a mathematical pattern found across natural and socioeconomic systems where one quantity varies as a power of another. Scott’s gifts to regranters is good news for smaller nonprofits that did not receive grants directly from her.

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An Open (Online) Book: What SB 272 Means for California Public Records

Byte Technology

Johnson signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a sweeping measure that suddenly allowed all American citizens access to public records that where previously out of reach to anyone but government employees. It may seem hard to imagine but it’s been 50 years since President Lyndon B.

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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Most volunteers don’t know the law exists. You may have applicable good samaritan laws in your state. Media: If there is any possibility that volunteers will be photographed by a news outlet or by someone on your staff for use in marketing materials, have volunteers sign a media release that covers video and photos.

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