Pixel Sweatshop has called for applications for Grant for Change, its unique in-kind program to support eligible charitable organizations. As part of the grant, Pixel Sweatshop will match the organization dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum of $10,000 in-kind support to help the charity increase reach through web, social and print media.
Are you struggling to articulate your unique value proposition? Jonathon Grapsas says your clients or beneficiaries can tell you better than anyone else why your work is unique. So stop second-guessing, and let them create the stories about how you change lives.
"The firsthand account from a service user digs deeper and provides real insights into how peer supports actually help, not how we think they could, in theory, be useful."
Anyone can write a grant request but how do you become a winning grant writer who gets the awards? How about learning from an author who has been doing it successfully for 40 years? Don't let the title fool you, Grant Writing for Dummies is a savvy, thorough exploration of the grant-writing process in a slow, post-recession economy.
It's common sense that giving shouldn't make you financially richer. That's what's wrong with questionable gift schemes - and the tax opinions used in their marketing materials, says lawyer David Thompson of Scarfone Hawkins LLP.
Janet Gadeski reports on how he wrestled an $11 million settlement from the law firm that backstopped the discredited Banyan Tree Foundation giving program. "We do view the Banyan Tree case as an important precedent," says Thompson's colleague.
Four kinds of people are most likely to leave your charity a bequest. Leah Eustace says they're already in your database and tells you how to find them.
Hint: don't "Miss" out on the most productive segment of all.
Four kinds of people are most likely to leave your charity a bequest. Leah Eustace says they're already in your database and tells you how to find them. 
