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Newsletter: Selfish Giving + You: 2025 is Our Year! ; Retail Winners and Losers of 2024 ; How Jimmy Carter Made Habitat a Nonprofit Giant

Selfish Giving

I want to help more small and mid-size nonprofits excel in their corporate outreach and execution. There are two fewer retailers to partner with: Party City and Big Lots close 1,600 stores and declare bankruptcy. Read more on the retail winners and losers of 2024. Since 2015, Big Lots has raised over $28 million for this cause.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Lauren Lawson-Zilai

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. . Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. I worked with the PR manager to brainstorm ideas on garnering media coverage. timeframe.

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Newsletter: How to Identify & Research Corporate Prospects ; Six Retailers to Add to Your Prospect List ; Wounded Warriors Loses $90M

Selfish Giving

This week on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Pam Avesian , vice president at women's retailer Chico’s FAS , about their involvement in Habitat for Humanity's Home is the Key cause marketing initiative that's now in its second year. Nicole Beckley from National FFA Foundation raised her hand! Partnership notes ??. ??

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates. To create change in such a system requires systems leadership. About 20 percent are seated within government.

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Newsletter: Tomorrow: How Sales Coaching Boosted This Nonprofit’s Partner Outreach ; How to Land a Partnership Deal Before Year-End ; Is SantaCon Just a Con?

Selfish Giving

This cannabis retailer encourages customers to recycle the plastic that encases certain cannabis products by offering a $4 pre-rolled joint for every piece of packaging they return. I felt like the last paragraph could just as well be a message to nonprofits hesitant to work with the cannabis industry. Don’t be afraid of cannabis.

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3 Partnership Myths Roasted ; Girl Scouts Partner with Bomb Maker ; Farm Storage Company Puts Your Marketing to Shame

Selfish Giving

Their new report High Expectations: Corporate Partnership Decision-Makers Research Results is full of myth-busting stats on what companies are REALLY looking for in a nonprofit partnership. They've somehow averted the retail apocalypse. Some nonprofits push back when I demand they uncover their strongest emotional message.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action.