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by Beth Johnson Filed Under: Worth Reading
A major Richmond-area foundation is leading an effort to help nonprofits stay afloat in the face of the economic downturn.
The Community Foundation for Greater Richmond and two partners have launched a $3 million relief fund to support local nonprofits as they work to provide services amid the coronavirus outbreak.
by Beth Johnson Filed Under: Worth Reading
Many nonprofit organizations are struggling with the question about fundraising in this COVID 19 environment.
How long can your organization hold its breath? Donor support is the air that all nonprofits need to survive. Some organizations have deeper lungs. They can be sustainable for a temporary time. Others need that steady flow. The reality is fundraising is vital to keeping your organization alive. It cannot be ignored during this difficult time, but it does need to be adjusted.
It’s time to F-A-C-E it!
by Beth Johnson Filed Under: Worth Reading
Yes, this is a tough time for all. My heart goes out to the many organizations and businesses that are in full crisis mode. But I speak to those nonprofit leaders who are experiencing a slower pace due to this pause in normal activity.
I encourage you to take a deep dive!
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by Beth Johnson Filed Under: Worth Reading
Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia partners with the Central Virginia USO for council-wide Sharing Program – affectionately known as Cookie Share.
Our goal each year is to donate 20,000 boxes of cookies from the Girl Scout Cookie Program.
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Enjoy this great milestone for Cardinal Newman Academy as it starts its 3rd year!
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Over half of nonprofits (54 percent) raised more money in 2018 compared to 2017, according to AFP’s 2018 Year-End Fundraising Survey, while 28 percent raised about the same and 18 percent reported raising less money.
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In 2017, an estimated 1.4 billion people around the world gave money to a charity, a billion volunteered their time to a nonprofit, and 2.2 billion helped a stranger in need, a report from Gallup finds.
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Before leaving for the long Thanksgiving weekend and after eating fistfuls of gluten-free sweets, 4-year-old Ty Dorion slung his jacket over his shoulders and walked over to the adults.
He was ready to leave after an hour spent carousing around a Faison Center classroom, singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” into a toy microphone and smiling with friends and his little brother.
“Bye, everybody!” he shouted again and again, waving two tiny hands that hold his mother’s heart.
by Beth Johnson Filed Under: Worth Reading
Not-for-profits have a new way to get financing.
NPX, a company that is developing a model for nonprofit investment, announced on Tuesday the creation of a financial instrument that ties donations and investments in charities to performance. The idea is the brainchild of Lindsay Beck, a two-time cancer survivor who I wrote about in 2013 and co-founded NPX with Catarina Schwab, and Anna Pinedo, a partner at Mayer Brown.
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Earlier this week, the public school crowdfunding platform DonorsChoose.org, which lets teachers ask for contributions to fund important classroom needs or projects, had 35,647 open campaigns. Now all of them were fulfilled by a $29 million donation from Ripple, a cryptocurrency startup, which contributed that equivalent value in XRP, the digital coin that it uses in transactions.
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