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Reporting & Recognizing In-Kind Donations: 3 Best Practices

Get Fully Funded

Its no secret that effective fundraising fuels your nonprofits workbut not all of the donations that may be useful to your nonprofit are necessarily monetary. In-kind donations (i.e., In-kind donations (i.e., However, some in-kind donations are easier to value than others. Your nonprofits network.

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‘We’re feeding more people with less’: What food security nonprofits need now

Candid

Across the country, food security organizations are facing a perfect storm of rising demand, plummeting donations, and cascading cuts to federal nutrition programs. Donations are down. Nonprofit leaders are showing up every day with creativity, grit, and deep knowledge of local community needs. Where do we go from here?

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How to Prepare Your Grantmaking for Economic Uncertainty (and Why Now is Different)

Blackbaud

How This Downturn Could Be Different for Grantmakers While recessions typically strain financial resources and increase demands on nonprofits, todays economic landscape is shaped by a few unusual factors, making the road ahead particularly complex. According to the 2023 Nonprofit Workplace Survey , 51.7%

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The Elevator Opens: Are You Ready to Talk Planned Giving?

Planned Giving

Updated in 2003, 2008, 2017 and 2025. But focus your message around your nonprofits vision, purpose, and potential. Pitch: Instead of cash, consider donating stock. Donating real estate can relieve you of maintenance, reduce your taxes, and create a lasting legacy. Originally Written in 1999. The gift is simply the tool.

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The Worried Fundraiser

Planned Giving

But heres the truth: nonprofits that plan strategically, rather than relying on government handouts, are the ones that come out aheadregardless of who is in office. The Data Speaks for Itself During the 2008 financial crisis, bequests and other forms of planned giving remained relatively stable compared to annual donations.

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GivingUSA Reports a Drop in 2008 Giving

Tech Soup

philanthropy is that total giving for 2008 was estimated to have exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row, for a total of $307.65 percent, the largest drop since the group began tracking donations in 1956. The good news from the annual GivingUSA report (PDF) on U.S. But, unfortunately, most of the news was bad.

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The Most Successful Nonprofit Fundraising Strategies

Blue Avocado

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Less is More: Simple Emails Can Boost Donations and Engagement After learning in a webinar that one of Barack Obama’s most successful fundraising emails had the subject line “ Hey ,” I decided I was overcomplicating things trying to develop a perfect campaign.