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How to Use Your Website to Promote Your Nonprofit Online

Ann Green

Thats completely normalafter all, when you first launch your website, youre also busy with plenty of other responsibilities associated with starting a nonprofit. Generally, the first few versions of any website, nonprofit or not, leave much to be desired. Depending on your audience, you can get creative or playful with your content.

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Calling All Donors (and Would-Be Donors): The Vital US Nonprofit Sector Is Under Threat and Must Be Protected

NonProfit Quarterly

We should try to communicate something like this: Have youor perhaps someone in your familybeen helped through addiction, abuse, illness, or homelessness? More than a century later, Gardner observed that, our tradition of voluntary association is still vital. It very likely was a nonprofit that helped you or your loved ones.

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5 Engaging Holiday Fundraising Ideas to Wrap up the Year

Top Nonprofits

Host eCard fundraisers for other holidays associated with greeting cards, like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Easter. Outside of fundraisers, you can also use eCards as event invitations or donor thank-you messages. Then, after the winter holiday season wraps up, continue to use fundraising eCards year-round.

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Restoring Our Capacities: How an Asset Lens Can Serve Movements Today

NonProfit Quarterly

The Power of Associations: ABCD emphasizes the value of resident-led associations for organizing strong communities and supporting hyperlocal, sustainable innovation. ABCD argues that, rather than separating such people off from the community, the focus should be on identifying the strengths and dreams of these community members.

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How to Issue Donation Receipts for Different Types of Gifts

Get Fully Funded

In-Kind Gift Donation Receipts Whether you run a food bank, thrift store , homeless shelter, or disaster relief organization, any nonprofit that collects physical items (or accepts in-kind services) must know the differences between cash and in-kind donation receipts. For example, lets say a company sponsored your recent 5K.

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From Fixers to Builders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It introduces civil rights attorney, Nobel Prize nominee, and American history maker Desmond Meade as, Homeless and suicidal, with a felony record I pointed out to Meade that there were times in Martin Luther King, Jr.s He had climbed out of homelessness, incarceration and addiction. Its exhausting.

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19 Creative Volunteer Recruitment Ideas You Should Try

Bloomerang

Fellow community organizations, such as civic clubs and associations, can be excellent resources when your organization needs volunteer support. Clubs and associations often require their members to participate in a certain number of volunteer hours, and your organization could help members meet their personal goals.