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8.4 Report Back from PTO conference
I just returned from the Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed pre-conference institute, “Beyond Silly Games:” Popular Education as a Methodology for Political Education, Leadership Development, Grassroots Organizing, and Movement Building
6.21 Did you miss the deadline?
Re-posted courtesy Nonprofit Association of Oregon: On June 8, 2011, the IRS released a list of 275,000 organizations that the IRS says are no longer tax-exempt because they did not file legally required documents. If your nonprofit is on this list, your tax-exemption status has been revoked! How do I know if my organization is [...]
6.16 Greetings from GIFT’s new executive director
Hello GIFT Family, I am honored and humbled to be writing to you as the new executive director of GIFT. I look forward to beginning dialogues with those of you I haven’t met, and continuing already established relationships. I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you a bit more about myself and to speak [...]
Goodbye from Claudia
This is my last post on the GIFT blog, at least for now.I’ve been at it for a year and am about to embark on a 4-month sabbatical. It is courtesy of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation which awards 5 of these to nonprofit leaders every year, and it couldn’t come at a better time [...]
5.24 Help GIFT Finish Strong!
We need you, yes YOU! As we head into the final 7 days of our Generate::Participate::Liberate campaign, we’ve raise just over $10,000, but we still have a ways to go to reach our $30,000 fundraising goal. Your support is critical and there are so many reasons to give and celebrate with us. This year marks [...]
5.10 Social Media and Fundraising: Our Great Experiment
May/June 2011 Technology & Communications: Creative Strategies for Grassroots Groups Social Media & Fundraising: Our Great Experiment by Darshan Khalsa The constituency of Choice USA, a youth-led organization working for reproductive justice, is online 24/7. Challenging itself to keep up, the group turned to social media to turn out a record number of attendees for [...]
5.3 Ask for Money Face to Face
Join GIFT for our webinar with Russell Roybal next Tuesday, May 10th at 10am PT. Learn key principles and strategies for how to ask people for money. This interactive webinar will provide you with step by step tools for identifying prospects, strengthening your organizational message, setting up a meeting with a potential donor, and making [...]
4.19 Launching Generate :: Participate :: Liberate!
2011 is a momentous year for us. The Grassroots Fundraising Journal turns 30 years old and GIFT celebrates its 15th anniversary! It’s also the 5th anniversary of our decision to merge these 2 great organizations. This year also marks my 5th (and final) year as director of GIFT. To celebrate, we’re launching a fundraising campaign [...]
4.15.11 Giving thanks
I am self-employed, which means that April 15 (or this year, April 18) is always an important day for me. I have to pay any tax I owe from last year, and also make the first of four payments on the money I will earn this year. We call these payments, “estimateds” for short. Usually [...]
4.7 Raise $50,000 in Six Weeks
How to Raise $50,000 in 6 Weeks A GIFT Webinar Featuring Kim Klein April 27, 2011 10am PT/11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET In this fast paced webinar, Kim Klein details one of the most important ideas in fundraising today: bringing volunteers together for a short specific intensive campaign, and then letting them go for the rest [...]
