Fundraising

Never Apply for a Grant Without Contacting the Foundation First This guest blog post comes to us from the authors of the newly published Nonprofit 101 book edited by Darian Rodriguez Heyman. This resource comes from one of the book’s contributors Tori O’Neal-McElrath As much as you might want to believe that grants are awarded simply due to the fit of the program and the excellence of the application, it simply isn’t true. In fact [ continue reading ]

The recent article in the Wall Street Journal on small charities being forced by bigger ones to change their names, colors and other portions of their branding really disturbed me. So now we, compassionate servants of social missions, are colorists? I do understand the need to have a strong identity, but if you are constantly suing the other charities and keeping them from their mission, something’s horribly wrong. Let’s not forget that we are social [ continue reading ]

The biggest challenge I’m facing in my chapter right now is finding a good and available finance director. The one I have is great, but has a lot of other activities in the community. I’ve had another express interest, but once again, he’s also very busy in the community. In theory I could get along without having a finance director. Most of our events are at places where we reserve the space for free and [ continue reading ]