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March 15, 2020

Fundraising During The Coronavirus Pandemic

The coronavirus is causing pandemonium and in the short term may even get worse. Regardless let’s review some steps that will guide us through this difficult period. For starters, let’s agree that panicking and crawling into a hole because of the coronavirus is not a reasonable option. Business goes on, whatever the economic conditions. You can’t not raise funds. You can’t treat loyal and responsive donors like statistics. And you can’t stop building your donor database. […]
March 17, 2020

15 Nonprofit Rules (Not Guidelines) for Slowing COVID-19

15 Rules for Slowing COVID-19 were released by The White House and Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday as a set of “Guidelines” that Americans should follow to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. Today they indicated that these “Guidelines” should be considered “Rules.” Here are the 15 RULES: CLICK FOR THE 15 CORONAVIRUS GUIDELINES RELEASED BY THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND THE WHITE HOUSE Here are the 15 Rules: 1. […]
March 20, 2020

Surviving COVID-19 – Lessons From 2008

Charities can survive COVID-19 by applying what we learned from the nonprofits who survived the Greatest Downturn In The Economy Since The Great Depression. Simply review National Development Institute (NDI) & Clemson University’s clinical study evaluating 2008-2011 charitable outcomes involving 470 nonprofit leaders who completed a ninety-item, online survey examining their capacity building initiatives. We asked nonprofit leaders to consider a specific capacity building effort they were undertaking in the future. We examined their underlying […]
March 26, 2020

Federal CARES Act for Nonprofits – Pandemic Stimulus

Federal CARES Act for Nonprofits skips pleasantries and goes straight to explaining how particular provisions in new coronavirus-related federal legislation may be beneficial to the work of most charitable nonprofits, sector-wide. Other provisions in the bill may help charitable nonprofits operating in certain subsectors (e.g., arts, education, hospitals), but this article does not address those. Federal CARES Act for Nonprofits (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) Last night, the actual legislative language of the […]