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GuideStar sponsors a free webinar on Jan 20: "Stay Ahead of the
eight Ball in 2010, Tips from the Experts." Some big names here
with Katya Andresen of Network for Good, Larry Checco, branding
guru, and Terry Axelrod from Benevon. More info and registration.
As we get ready for next year's fundraising campaigns, it is useful
to remember what giving should be all about. The Reverend Eric
Foley of the Transformational Giving blog writes about the
differences between transformational gifts where "the head, heart,
and hand come attached to the check" and a transactional gift that
is simply a "financial transaction" and where "what changes hands
can fit on a recei...
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Webinars for a Great Start to the New Year
January is a wonderful month for brushing up on all the
fundamentals, as well as attending to your long organizational
to-do list. Here are some webinars that you will want to consider
this month: Care2 reminds us that activists on your email list are
seven times more likely to donate than non-activists. So what is an
activist? And how do you find them? This free webinar, Connecting
Advocacy to Fundraising will reveal key benchmarks and trends for
online advocacy and fundraising plus much more. The date is January
26. More info and to register... GuideStar presents Stay Ahead of
the Eight Ball in 2010. It is a free webinar on January 20,
featuring the likes of Katya Andresen, of Network for Good, Larry
Checco, author of Branding for Success, and Terry Axelrod, Benevon
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Eric Foley, of Transformational Giving, tackles this conundrum in
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Buddy, can you spare a dime? So far the recession has not much
improved for nonprofits. Philantopic discusses the outlook for this
year and provides some excellent tips for where best to put your
resources while we wait for the upturn. If not now, when? Tony
Martignetti, in an article at GuideStar, says Make 2010 the Year
You Start Planned Giving. Martignetti outlines how to do it and
where to find prospects. This is the first of three articles on the
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For Job Seekers: 4 Ways Nonprofit Work Is Different from For-Profit
Kurt Aschermann, president and chief operating officer of Charity
Partners, pointed out to the TheNonProfitTimes recently that there
are some things potential employees seeking work in the nonprofit
world might not think of when they are considering a sector change.
Aschermann suggests that both job seekers and nonprofit employers
make sure that they understand and/or explain these common, but
often overlooked differences between for-profit and nonprofit
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How to Handle End of Year Tax Receipts for Your Donors
Justin Wandro of the blog, Nonprofit Success, has clearly explained
how to make those tax receipts for your donors another step in the
thank you and cultivation process. Even though you've likely sent a
receipt right after getting a donation, there nothing wrong with
sending a year end summary to the donor as well. Wandro says that
summary should meet IRS requirements and also connect with the
donor. Read Wandro's excellent instructions about how to do that.
You'll also want to bookmark his blog for a steady stream of very
practical advice about how to do those chores in your office that
should be routine but actually bug us a lot...mail merge,
anyone?...
