holiday giving
Will 2019 Be an Inflection Point? We Will Make It So Together!
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Don’t forget…at NPQ, we are who we are because of you. And don’t forget us in your gift-giving as you end this eventful year.
philanthropy trends
The Decline of the Small Giver May Presage Decline of Some Small Nonprofits
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The picture is bleak for organizations like HOY that depend almost exclusively on the generosity of individual working-class and middle-class donors.
Social Movements
Socialism Invades the White House—and Even Holiday Gifts Are Not Safe
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A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers warns that not only is socialism bad, but it also causes pickup trucks to cost more in Scandinavia.
corporate philanthropy
Corporate Bonuses Replaced by Corporate Charitable Giving at End of 2017
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While it’s nice to see companies increase their donations to nonprofits, doing so at the expense of bonuses to their own employees seems to violate the holiday spirit.
Board Governance
Don’t Miss Nonprofit Quarterly’s Celebration of the End of 2017!
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Next week, starting on December 24th, we’ll run a special feature each day to usher out this past year and ring in the next.
holiday giving
A Gift of Low-Cost Toys—and Dignity—for the Holidays
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It would appear that “adopting” poor families is not a good model of holiday giving. Increasingly, nonprofits are challenging dismissive assumptions embedded in the toy distribution scenes we have so taken for granted.
food banks
What Kinds of Donations Do Nonprofits Need for the Holidays? (It Depends but Cash is King)
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A Canadian food bank got an ill-timed lesson in crisis communications after a newspaper columnist called for an end to canned goods collections.
anonymous donations
Googling the Gift Horse: A 21st-Century Nonprofit Holiday Story
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It’s a sad state of affairs, but we must always look an unexpected gift horse in the mouth. So it was when a beautifully wrapped box showed up at the Mission Medical Clinic in Colorado Springs.
Fundraising
Nonprofit Halloween Fundraisers: A Proud Tradition of the Lucratively Weird
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Charity and Halloween have become as much of a duo as PB&J, and each effort gives it their own special twist.