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Fundraising Guide White Paper

We at Money to Schools recognise that fundraising for school goals can be hard work. The various ways of achieving these goals usually involves asking parents, and sometimes local businesses, to dip into their pockets. Money to Schools offers the unique opportunity to boost your fundraising efforts by collecting empty printer cartridges and old mobile phones and recycling these items with us. We pay a cash amount direct to the school for each recyclable item received - no points or leaves to collect here! The beauty of fundraising through recycling is that it doesn’t cost supporters a penny, the potential to earn cash can be huge and the environment benefits in the process. Usually schools might limit their collection of these items to the school offices, IT Suite and maybe the odd one dropped off by a good natured parent.

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MCforNC

MCforNC is a 501(c)(3) organization that connects student consultants with nonprofits to provide free solutions for small-scale technical problems. Nonprofits face a catch-22: They need infrastructure to sustain their operations. However, infrastructure often costs time and money which they don’t have. Students also face a catch-22: in order to get a job, they need on-the-job experience. MCforNC can solve this problem. We provide consultants to work with a nonprofit on short-term technical or administrative projects. Our consultants implement a solution, and teach the nonprofit the technical skills required to sustain their operations.

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Mastering Workflow in Nonprofit Management.

whitePaper | December 17, 2021

The ability to create specific approval processes, automate sequential steps, and enable remote employees to complete a variety of tasks, without physically moving paper from location A to location B can be incredibly efficient.

Connected Philanthropy

whitePaper | December 21, 2021

We live in a world that is changing both rapidly and dramatically. Climate change threatens hundreds of millions. Policy changes have reduced or eliminated many of the benefits in healthcare, education, and other areas. Mass migration overwhelms the availability of resources needed as a result of the influx of new immigrants. The public sector can’t keep up, which means that philanthropy needs to work harder than ever to fill the gaps and improve people’s lives. At the same time, philanthropy has a new generation of mega-donors, many of whom come from the tech sector and find the established processes in funding dated and limiting: they lack capacity, visibility, and the ability to collaborate widely. The rapid growth in donors and money flowing through the system, coupled with the increasing demand for nonprofits to meet needs locally and globally, make it harder for all of us to quickly and efficiently connect funders to the boots on the ground.

Disaster Preparedness Manual for Nonprofit Organizations

whitePaper | October 2, 2021

Disaster planning isn’t fun or exciting and it doesn’t directly help the people we aim to serve. However, it is essential for nonprofit organizations who want to remain resilient in the face of the unforeseen. Nonprofits provide a wide variety of services ranging from travel and leisure to educational and informational to health and direct services that may be crucial to their clients’ survival. Nonprofits provide essential services, and need to be prepared for the emergencies that may impact their operations or their ability to serve and fulfill their missions.

How to Staff Your Nonprofit for Success

whitePaper | July 16, 2022

For many years, the charity watchdogs contributed to the myth that nonprofits should be spending 0% of their funding on professional staffing and operations. Nonprofit sector observers and researchers ultimately coined a name for this counterproductive level of frugality: the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle.2,3 In a nutshell, when an organization’s infrastructure is not funded or “fed” to the degree necessary for it to thrive, it cannot accomplish the work it was founded to do, and it chronically underperforms. The nonprofit itself is actually starving.

The State of Artificial Intelligence in the Nonprofit Sector

whitePaper | January 6, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our world on a daily basis. The world of medicine is being industrialized by artificial intelligence, the data you thought you owned is being used to manipulate elections, and everyone is connected, everywhere. Much research has been done on the State of Artificial Intelligence in the world, but less research has been completed in the nonprofit sector. The SAINS report will add to the body of nonprofit literature and accelerate artificial intelligence advancements for nonprofits.

Closing the Deal Moving Your Fundraising Forward

whitePaper | March 30, 2020

Like the rate of failure seen in new business ventures, nonprofits often fail because they cannot secure the funding to be sustainable. This is because many nonprofits focus on their outputs rather than outcomes. Fundraising strategies should emphasize the value of the result expected to be delivered, then emphasize the downstream impact (outcomes) not just focus on the activities (or outputs) of the nonprofit itself.

Fundraising Guide White Paper