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How to Use Your Website to Promote Your Nonprofit Online

Ann Green

To meet those needs, start with these key pages: About Mission/Values Donate Volunteer If youve already created these pages, start your website refresh with some spring cleaning. Create high-quality content with natural keyword incorporation to provide value to readers and signal to search engines what your content is about.

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6 Unique Volunteer Opportunities to Offer Supporters

Ann Green

In-kind donations keep many types of nonprofits going, from homeless shelters to thrift stores. For instance, to properly issue donation receipts, you’ll need to calculate the fair market value of the items donated. Donation organizer and cataloguer. Peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Or think about a housing nonprofit realizing that its primary bank engages in predatory lending practices that push families into homelessness. Tools such as Bank.Green or the Global Alliance for Banking on Values can help mission-driven organizations identify values-aligned banks. These scenarios arent hypothetical.

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This reality shouldn't justify exploitation but rather highlight that our current economic systems fail to value forms of labor that are critical for community health. Art is work, however, it isn't entirely the same as other jobs; like caregiving or community work, many artists are compelled to create whether theyre paid or not.

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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

Three developments, in particular, worry me: a drop in rates of giving to nonprofits; widespread staff burnout; and an increasing effort to target nonprofits based on their missions and values. First, I would suggest that we desperately need a campaign to help educate Americans about the value of the nonprofit sector. We can volunteer.

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How to Raise Funds for a New Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

While there are a lot of tasks on the Nonprofit Fundraising Success Path, the underlying principle is simple and unchanging: value your donors. Instead of targeting people because of their income, approach people because of their values and interests. How many homeless people will get a meal because your donor chips in $50?

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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. Estimated value.