We have been seeing it everywhere: prices are increasing, and sections of store shelves are bare or thin. For nonprofits, the price increases and product shortages have hampered the ability of many organizations to meet clients’ needs. In a time of greater need, where more people are struggling with the rising gas prices and rent, … Continue reading Inflation and Shortages: The Impact on Nonprofit Goods
Communities have a unique opportunity to come together and offer support through a donation drive. Donation drives have traditionally been run in person, with collection boxes placed in popular community spots like libraries, shopping malls, or busy supermarkets. Donation drives typically focus on key items like food, school supplies, household goods, and hygiene supplies. By … Continue reading Year-Round Online Donation Drive Ideas
Did your drive just wrap up? Are you expecting a large order to arrive? A small order with just a few items is pretty easy to open and verify its contents, but when it comes to large deliveries, it can be a challenge to unpack and locate everything you’ve purchased. These tips are geared towards … Continue reading Tips for Receiving Large Deliveries
It has been over a year since the pandemic changed our lives. At about this time last year, most of us were locked down, trying to adjust to a new normal. The entire world rushed to stock up on essentials, preparing for an unknown period of uncertainty. We wiped our groceries, sanitized our homes, car/bus … Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Hygiene Supply Drive
School closures in 2020 caught the world by surprise. Low income families not only had to deal with the additional health risks and financial struggles associated with the pandemic, but also to transform their home into a classroom. School supply drives were an absolute life-line to so many children last year. Learning from home and … Continue reading Planning School Supply Drives Amidst Uncertainty
The holiday season is upon us, and many of you are busy collecting, wrapping and delivering last minute items to those who need them. We are thrilled to report that our holiday in-kind programs have been extremely successful this year. Most of our Adopt-A-Family programs have reached 100% days before the end-date, with many families … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr Day Of Service
Although organizations are in the midst of revamping their service model for the remote age, many are also looking beyond the immediate crisis. In particular, we have been discussing the fate of summer school supply drives with our nonprofit partners. One of the burning open questions is whether nonprofits should recruit volunteers to help with … Continue reading Donation Drives in the Age of COVID-19
Are you managing a deluge of in-kind donations you don’t need? Does your organization return items not needed back to well-meaning donors? Some nonprofits have resorted to not accepting in-kind donations at all; others have created processes in the back-end to handle the receipt of items not needed. Donors would like to see their stuff … Continue reading Encouraging Donors To Give Only What’s Needed
Social media has been all the buzz in marketing, but most of the nonprofits we have worked with report mixed results in terms of actual action (donations, volunteer signup, etc). It’s not uncommon to have a lot of likes on a social media post but these likes often do not translate to meaningful action for … Continue reading Best Practices for Nonprofits on Social Media
Recently, we were meeting with a local retail store to discuss how we could partner with them to provide their excess inventory to nonprofits. This discussion prompted us to think about how nonprofits partner with local businesses – especially since many nonprofits like to support their local economy, and businesses like to give back to … Continue reading 6 Tips for Securing Donations from Your Local Retail Store
