by Cindy Lauren | Apr 18, 2019 | Commentary, development and fundraising, Fresh Eyes, fundraising, Protecting Yourself, Uncategorized
The idea of charity gets abused all the time. ?Someone donates a nasty old pair of pants and claims $50 in value for the donation.?? Robocallers target lonely older people to pressure them into giving money to starving kids in Africa or moms with cancer, with 5 %, at...
by Cindy Lauren | Dec 6, 2018 | communications, development and fundraising, Financial Reporting, Fresh Eyes, fundraising, Nonprofit operations, office workflow, Operations, Protecting Yourself, Strategic Planning
We are all breathlessly waiting for the end of this year. Cranking through Giving Tuesday and and the run up to the End -Of-The-Year fundraising push is lots of hard work and hopefully will provide you with big dividends. January is right around the corner when you...
by Cindy Lauren | Sep 19, 2018 | annual gala, Commentary, communications, Emergency Planning, Nonprofit operations, Operations, Protecting Yourself, Strategic Planning
Plan for bear, hope for squirrel Let?s face it, something is going to go wrong. Plan on it;? you won?t know what, when or how, but reliably something will screw up at the event. There will be acts of God, weather, earthquakes, accidents, and my all time favorite,...
by Cindy Lauren | Aug 21, 2018 | communications, development and fundraising, Fresh Eyes, fundraising, Making Money, messaging, Nonprofit operations, Protecting Yourself
I’m sorry, its going to be a no.? As fundraisers, we spend tons of time working hard to get donor prospects to say yes to our solicitations. We crave the check in the envelope and watch the online donor daily totals get larger and larger.? I’ve been there,...
by Cindy Lauren | Mar 3, 2018 | development and fundraising, Emergency Planning, Financial Reporting, fiscal management, Nonprofit operations, Protecting Yourself
The organization was a small self defense program, teaching real world self defense skills to women, children and men. Most of the instructors were volunteers and the office was managed by the Executive Director who was the founder and a board member as an...
by Cindy Lauren | Mar 26, 2017 | donor advice, fiscal management, Nonprofit operations, Protecting Yourself
Its tax time and many are looking around to see what charitable donations they have made that can be deducted against their income tax. While it can be tempting to do some creative calculations here, be careful. The rules about what can be deducted and how much get...
