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How to Organize a Successful Holiday Toy Drive in 7 Steps

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What age groups or demographics will you serve? If you represent a business, setting up a Christmas tree in your lobby, staff cafeteria, or break room is a great way to draw donors. Supporters can donate money, which can be used to purchase toys in bulk and fill the toy gaps for specific demographics.

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Unlocking equity by investing in broad outreach and deep community organizing 

Candid

Foundation program officers and government officials can unintentionally limit the impact of community-based organizations by funding them to serve only a specific demographic group and a narrow set of activities. One reason is that, unlike 501(c)(3) organizations, 501(c)(4) organizations have unlimited lobbying capacity.

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Nonprofit Board Member Onboarding: 12 Things to Cover

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Also, don’t ignore demographics. It could be lobbying for funds from a government source, helping secure a contract with a client who will pay for your nonprofit’s services, or playing a major role in an event or product sales program. Discuss that too. This can be a prickly subject. It’s probably obvious already.

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Black Diaper Bank leaders share struggles and successes

Candid

After its national conference eight years ago, NDBN began collecting membership demographics. NDBN wrote its own survey to explore member demographics, but quickly found that it was getting lost among so many demands on nonprofit leaders. White was uncomfortable about being in that group.