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A Banker’s Case for Public Banking

NonProfit Quarterly

If you had asked me 20 years ago about public finance, I doubt I could have told you what a public bank was. How Finance Currently Reproduces the Racial Wealth Gap The racial wealth gap is as entrenched as ever—a chasm of earnings power, savings, and investment that threatens to leave behind another generation of Black and Latinx households.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Climate finance partnership to fund community-led forest conservation. A partnership aimed at addressing the climate financing gap for Indigenous communities has been launched with the goal of mobilizing $20 billion a year by 2030. Foundations, charities report $352 million in 2019 disaster funding. November 11, 2021.

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The Red Cross and Glass Houses

Fundraising Coach

We could debate whether the Red Cross experienced mission creep - trying to go beyond their strength of disaster relief and trying to move into the unfamiliar territory of rebuilding. Or we can rise to the challenge and learn to tell the story of our finances.

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5 Ways To Make Your Nonprofit Brand Stand Out

Bloomerang

Think of the organizations that see an uptick in giving after major crises like civil liberties in jeopardy, disaster relief and emergency response. It is a form of organizing and power building, not merely a strategy for financing the organization’s work. They all sound as if they are doing the same thing.

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Why Propensity Fails at Helping You Pre-Qualify Major Donors for Outreach

iMarketSmart

Many recurring donors are, in fact, quite ordinary in their finances. It does a disaster relief nonprofit little good to reach out to a donor who has a history of giving major gifts to opera houses. They choose to give, and their gift entails a degree of sacrifice. It’s not enough to have wealth (capacity) to make a major gift.

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How the Benefit Concert is Shaping Philanthropy

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, Wyclef Jeans charity, Yele Haiti, came under scrutiny about its finances. disaster relief) make sure that all charity participants agree to this restriction and are able to carry out this work as soon as possible. Be transparent about finances.

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WGN’s Bill Leff Show: Keeping donors safe, and a little Stanley Cup smack talk

Fundraising Coach

Marc: Totally true, especially when you see disaster reliefs. The creativity that we’re funneled for good would be powerful, because they’ll take any disaster relief and then they’ll create their own little charity. There’s a lot of good disaster relief organizations out there. Yes, I would say stay away.