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Vote with Your Mission Campaign in California
We like the new campaign to get 100% of nonprofit staff and volunteers to vote: the Vote with Your Mission campaign at the California Association of Nonprofits. After all, if 100% of the people who work and volunteer for the arts voted, we'd have b …
What Nonprofits Can Teach About Economic Stimulus Packages
As all nonprofit people know, some types of charitable giving have a higher impact on the sector — and on our contributions to society — than others. And it just so happens that different approaches to the economic stimulus package are different in s …
Special Offerings from Blue Avocado
Rarely we make some special offerings for Blue Avocado readers:* Free webinar for readers on ___* New book on Nonprofit Sustainability discounted rate* Donation premium* Discount on Board Network product (sent email to Pamela 9-25 about it)
Word on the Street About . . .Bicycle Parking
The technology! There are these new bike parking machines that are bike carousels, 3 – 4 stories tall. You swipe your pass; the pass corresponds to a parking space. The machine turrets you and your bike up this concrete structure – which is really secu …
What You Should be Getting Out of Being on a Board
There are enough books and articles to fill a library on the subject of how board members can contribute to the nonprofits on whose boards they serve. But what about the other way around? What should we board members get out of board service? And as ex …
Word on the Street about . . . Hospice
Two things. We aren’t getting as many family volunteers as we used to. We still have so many volunteers–but fewer of them came from having a family member who died in our hospice. We’ve heard that from other hospices, too, but I don’t know what it mea …
Donor-Advised Funds Background
This brief introduction to donor-advised funds (DAFs) accompanies the Blue Avocado article “Donor-Advised Funds: Non-Transparent Tax Shelters for Good.” In 1931, a New York community foundation created the first donor-advised funds (DAFs). But a …
Hammer Factories, Carpenters, and Pigs . . . editor notes issue #97
These days there are so many people creating tools for nonprofit leaders and for activists. Foundations fund online tools, research studies, websites that analyze and present data, convenings on new tools, and so forth. We have a million factories maki …
Take a 1-Minute Vacation to Full Year
Like so many, the end of the year is a time for reflection of the previous year, and a look ahead. I tend to look at my major accomplishments in 2012: Finally cleaning out the little girl toys that my 15-year-old daughter will never play with again, ta …
Weighing Table Example
Fees Set Up Per Transaction Monthly Yearly Google Checkout — 1.9% – 2.9% + $0.30 — — PayPal — 1.9% – 2.2% + $0.30 — — Amazon Simple Pay — 1.9% – 2.9% + $0.30 — — Network for Good Donate Now Lite — Min 5.0% passed onto donors — — JustGive — …
