Home Sweet Veterans Home
If your community is not served by a state veterans home, enlist the support of vets and community leaders to explore the feasibility of raising funds and securing land to build one.
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Are you headed for a fundraising crisis?
We survived the fiscal cliff, will your nonprofit avoid a fundraising crisis?
Get ready for the year end!
One size does not fit all. Each year-end ask should be appropriate to the donor. Take the time to figure out the right approach, and hone your message.
The time has come!
The Affordable Care Act is here! Knowing that nonprofits play a key role in connecting people to services, we asked a few questions of Dr. Clarence Davis, a medical director with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.
Encouraged and optimistic: If you build it they will come … good business model?
The African American museums and cultural institutions that have emerged across the United States are a testimony to perseverance. We have fought for our institutions; we now need to strategically ensure their survival and growth.
Encouraged and optimistic: Pressing Questions, Limited Resources and Support of the Arts
Many of our nonprofit cultural organizations, museums, and theaters across the nation are facing financial challenges because the level of support needed to assure their long-term financial, operational, and programmatic sustainability is simply not in place.
Encouraged and optimistic: African American philanthropy and museums
The existence of African American museums and cultural institutions is remarkable in light of the history of enslavement, oppression, and discrimination. But it is not so remarkable in the context of a parallel history of African American civic and charitable giving.
Fundraising: investment or afterthought?
Don’t wait until your organization needs money to build a fundraising program. That’s when it’s too late. Successful fundraising is the result of consistent planning and engagement.
How will you fund your strategic plan?
We encourage strategic planning that answers the question “where will the money come from” as part of the process. Determining future directions without seriously evaluating how they will be funded can create an unhealthy stress for nonprofits of any size.
What’s Your Policy?
Take the guesswork out of fundraising. Define your policies and procedures. Nothing can lose the goodwill of an investor or volunteer more quickly than a situation where the rules are changing constantly.