Creating Advisory Councils - The Nonprofit Organization's Path to Progress

Advisory Councils are an easy-to-develop, flexible, high-impact means of re-energizing a nonprofit organization's leadership, networking, fundraising, and influence. Learn how to create a council and watch your organization's advancement potential turn into progress.

Non-profit - Or Not Just Not Profiting?

Do you run a non-profit? Do you feel as though you can't use good business practices as a result? Get the low down on using strong, viable business rules to make the most out of your non-profit strategies both online and in other marketing collateral.

Legal Secretary Association - A Non-profit Organization

A legal secretary association includes numerous educational and training programs in the legal profession. These programs are meant for the betterment of their members who are the legal secretaries in different law firms. The secretaries involved in these training programs, learn and share their views and ideas so that the workload is lessened.

Donate Stuffed Animals And Bring A Smile To A Sad Face

Every child has a dream to own toys, no wonder children have their most precious memories attached to their toys. This is applicable to those children who are fortunate enough to buy, play and own toys. But there are also children within the US and around the globe, who have never seen a single toy in their whole life.

How to Raise Enough Funds For Your Non-Profit Group

Learn all about how you can raise more money for your non-profit group. Learn the steps to successful fundraising all the time.

Nonprofit Organization President Search To-Do List

The nonprofit organization President/CEO announced he/she is leaving. What does the Board of Trustees do now? Here's a To-Do list to guide you from "Uh Oh" to "Yipee."

Should The Church Ever Put Professional Services on Retainer?

Senior pastors sometimes need an outside set of eyes to help them find ways to grow the church. Retained professional services can be helpful to that end. When you find a good service provider specific to your need you have found a good thing. When you want to go to the next level, outside help is always a great resource available to you and your church.

Foundations Don't Fund General Operating Costs - Or Do They?

Do you still believe that tired old legend about how difficult it is to find foundations that support general operating expenses? It's one of the grant writing myths that even I bought into. Why not?

Non-Profit Organizations Find Ways to Thank Volunteers

Good volunteers are hard to find. For all the good intentions of most of them, it's rare to find ones who really throw themselves into the cause and go above and beyond expectations. However without a little acknowledgement from the organization, volunteers can feel taken for granted and get burned out.

Marketing Goods Meet Non-Profits

Paradoxically, the non-profit sector is big business. Board members, executives, nationwide conglomerations and franchises... but promotional products and even just marketing in general can seem to be missing from the equation.

10 Key Steps on Starting a Nonprofit Organization

Successfully starting a nonprofit is a 1 in 2 gamble. Among the 30,000 nonprofits created each year in America, 50 percent of them failed. We are not sure how they failed or why they failed, but analysts believe it could all be rooted in the correct planning before start up.

How To Reward Your Incredible Volunteers Throughout The Year!

We have searched the Internet high and low for ideas - both inexpensive and expensive to celebrate your volunteer staffs. I hope that some of the items generate some creative juices in your programs within your non-profit organizations. Listed below is a list of several outstanding suggestions that we thought were "tops" in celebrating your wonderful volunteers.

Five Non-Monetary Ways To Assist A Charitable Foundation

One thing I've quickly learned is that when you launch a charitable organization, you are likely to be approached by friends and colleagues who would like to get involved. It can be a testament to your cause, and one of the most important ways you can honor this is to be prepared to find meaningful ways for them to contribute. Beyond the monetary contributions that are so important, I wanted to list five non-monetary ways to assist a charitable organization that would seem to me to be valued at any time, by any charity.