One easy step to help your development staff succeed
Today your development staff will: Update event details on your website Arrange for trash pick up at a breakfast meeting for teams Talk with your mail house about whether they should send a 4×6 or a 5×7 postcard Try to identify a donor database an fundraising platform that works with your antiquated accounting system. Pour over ...
Logo4Good – Winner Announced
Update - Habitat Young Professionals of Charlotte logo. Update – Habitat Young Professionals of Charlotte were selected to get the free logo by your votes. We are offering a free logo to one of the follwoing non-profit organizations, and you’re going to help us decide. Read a bit about ...
Logo4Good – Get a free logo design for your Nonprofit
Back by popular demand, we are happy to announce our 2011 Logo4Good Campaign is here! At Phoenixfire Solutions, we believe that good design shouldn’t be relegated to for-profit companies only. Some times all a nonprofit needs is a little help for their idea to come to life. With this notion in mind, we created our ...
Grilled Cheese as Community Action
Recipe for change: 1 Part Converted School Bus 1 Part Locally Sourced Ingredients 1 Part Youth Job Training What you end up with is a food truck dream, gourmet grilled cheese and social change. The Grilled Cheese Bus is a Triangle Area nonprofit food truck that is training youth in entrepreneurship, marketing, financial literacy, and sustainability. Profits from the bus ...
Nonprofit Events – Untapped Marketing for Small Biz
Had lunch with a new small business client this week, and it sparked a great conversation regarding how small businesses can and should be using nonprofit events as marketing opportunities. During my career in nonprofit, I’ve seen some businesses make outstanding connections through this type of marketing, but I’ve also seen many small business who ...
Brand for sale – 8.5 million dollars
Buckets for the Cure, the new Susan G. Komen/ KFC partnership has 50 cents of every bucket of the Colonel’s best going to the breast cancer organization. To date the program has raised 2.35 million dollars for Cancer research. However the fact that Komen would partner with a fast food chain to raise funds, ...
Job Search In Non-profit Requires Elbow Grease
Earlier this week, a friend of mine asked me to give some job search pointers to a young woman who had recently been laid off from her non-profit position. I get similar requests from folks on a regular basis due to my position as a non-profit executive, but also because of my early roots in ...
