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Fundraising for your nonprofit in the start-up phase

Candid

Reprinted from NEO Law Group. A safer (although potentially more complicated) way to fundraise before receiving exempt status from the IRS could be to fundraise under a Fiscal Sponsor —in this context, a nonprofit organization and 501(c)(3) public charity that can receive donations and grants to support your organization’s charitable mission.

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3 Ways Businesses Can Maximize Their Nonprofit Sponsorship Agreements

NonProfit Hub

It’s one where benefiting organizations, sponsoring business, and—ideally greatest of all—the community being served all win. It’s a violation of SPAM law for a nonprofit to give out a list that hasn’t opted-in to hear from you, and you don’t want to be known for spamming. Sponsorship, at its best, is a win-win-win scenario.

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What is Corporate Philanthropy? What Nonprofits Need to Know

Nonprofits Source

Corporate sponsors can offer much-needed donation influxes, whether cash or in-kind gifts. Businesses can sponsor your organization’s events to help cover these costs and ensure more of your event revenue goes directly toward your projects and programs. Salesforce promotes an integrated philanthropy approach called the 1-1-1 model.

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Lucy Bernholz Named Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A thought leader in the intersection of philanthropy, law, policy, and technology, Bernholz writes about the business of giving in books, articles, and her award-winning blog, Philanthropy2173.com. She will continue in this role in addition to her work with the Packard Foundation.

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Your Complete Guide to Planning Your First Special Event

Get Fully Funded

Especially look for people with experience getting event sponsors, as this is the key to putting on an event that brings in money! Plan at least six months out to give yourself enough time to work and to allow time to nail down sponsors. If you can find sponsors to cover all your expenses, you’ll make $7,000. A wine pull?

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18 Successful (Yet Untapped) Fall Fundraising Ideas

CauseVox

Trivia can easily be adapted to a hybrid or virtual model. To help mitigate costs, ask local businesses if they’d be willing to sponsor your event. You could also have custom race t-shirts designed to feature all of your teams and sponsors. Try hosting an Oktoberfest party and get sponsors to donate food and drinks.

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Earn $2 per vote! (Fundraising)

Forum One

In this case, paying for votes is not against the law -- simply click on your favorite charity from a long list of organizations, and the campaign sponsor donates $2 to your choice. When looking at the campaign's page, you quickly feel that this is an online-community effort.