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How to Manage your Nonprofit Bank Account I have the privilege of helping a number of organizations, large and small, serving on nonprofit boards in various capacities. Recently, I made the jump to the executive board in one of them, and a result, was partially responsible for the group’s finances. Since our treasurer was also […]
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275,000 Nonprofits Lost Tax-Exempt Status in 2010 My first reaction when I read about the IRS revoking the tax exempt status of nonprofits who had not met the required filing requirements for three consecutive years was that most of the organizations were probably defunct. However, when I looked at the list in our area (easily […]
Telephone Donation Solicitation Best Practices This week I received a call from a breast cancer charity. The organization was new to me. And clearly I was an unknown to them as well. Within the first fifteen seconds, the professional paid solicitor asked if I would make a pledge. She said that they would follow up […]
Where Does Social Media Fit into Fundraising Development? One of the biggest challenges to today’s professional fundraising operation is fitting social media into the development mix. It is not enough to just “friendraise” or even just to ask people to click a link and give. We must also obtain their contact data, acknowledge their support, […]
Nonprofits Forget Etiquette on Social Media If fundraisers are good at anything, it is remembering to say, “thank you!” So why is it that nonprofits seem to lose all their manners and etiquette when it comes to social media? Most of our offices have a rule, whether written or just generally understood, that a gift […]
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