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Empowering OTHER people to raise money for your cause

Empowering other peopleto raise money for your cause Read time: 5 Minutes How can you inspire other people to fundraise for your nonprofit? If you could do that, it would be like growing your fundraising team by 5, or 10, or 50. Can you imagine?! 😮 Peer to Peer fundraising can be an effective strategy for expanding the capacity of your fundraising efforts – but it won’t be successful without some key things in place. In this issue of Changemaker Mondays ☀️ ☕ 🌍, let’s go over a few tips for…

It’s December. 😮 5 Nonprofit Focus Areas to End 2024 STRONG

5 Focus Areas to End2024 STRONG Read time: 5 Minutes December is a big month for nonprofits. But with some intentionality and focus, we can make it through this busy season without feeling overwhelmed. That’s the dream, am I right? 😅 If you’re feeling frazzled, I thought it might help to focus on a few items you might consider prioritizing in the coming month. So in this issue of Changemaker Mondays ☀️ ☕ 🌍, let’s work together to turn chaos into strategy. Changemaker Mondays is brought to you…

6 Creative Ways to Showcase Your Impacts

6 Creative Ways toShowcase Your Impacts Read time: 5 Minutes Impact is our WHY. We’re all in this because we believe our work will make the world a little (or a lot) better than it was. So how can we tell the story of those impacts in a way that will grab our community’s attention? And inspire continued support? In this issue of Changemaker Mondays ☀️ ☕ 🌍, I wanted to share some creative ideas for showcasing your effort’s impacts to wow and excite your stakeholders and supporters. Changemaker…

People still don’t know what social entrepreneurship is (and why that matters)

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People still don’t know whatSocial Entrepreneurship is.(why that matters) Read time: 3-4 Minutes Social entrepreneurship is a promising way to make an impact while generating sustainable revenue, but the majority of people still have no clue what it is. You might even be a social entrepreneur and not even know it! I met a lady like that recently. She was using her business to solve problems for nonprofits with affordable software, innovating ways to keep costs low while meeting a need. “You…

3 things successful Nonprofits do before they file their paperwork

Starting a Nonprofit

3 things successful Nonprofits do before they file their paperwork Read time: 3-4 Minutes Throughout my own work starting a nonprofit – and helping advise dozens of others on launching or growing nonprofits – I’ve seen a few commonalities between the organizations that thrive and those that flop. A few years in, the organizations that are thriving – making a big impact, securing funding – are the ones that did 3 things in particular before they even filed their paperwork for official…

What is a 501c3 Nonprofit Organization? Your Guide to Tax-Exempt Status

Starting a Nonprofit

If you’re an aspiring nonprofit founder, you might be wondering: What exactly is a 501c3 Nonprofit Organization? Nonprofit tax designations can be super confusing (and there are a lot of them), so in this blog post, I’m going to break the 501c3 Nonprofit status down...

Grants for Nonprofits: 6 Grant Types and How to Find Them

Fundraising, Grant Writing

Grants are just one of the many ways that your nonprofit can find funding to launch or expand a program. But where do you find grants for nonprofits? And who are the organizations giving them out? In this blog post, I’ll share some basics for six different types of...

Starting a Nonprofit: Do you need a Fiscal Sponsor?

Starting a Nonprofit

Thinking about starting a nonprofit organization? If you’ve started to delve into a little research on the process, you might have come across the term: Fiscal sponsor. But what exactly is a fiscal sponsor? Do you need to consider finding one when starting a...

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