For the past two decades, a number of companies built businesses rating nonprofits. These ratings have a real-world impact on donors when they are evaluating which organizations are deserving of their gifts. In this episode, we look at these organizations, why they matter, and why they probably shouldn't.

In this episode, we explore the idea of restorative justice with the Founder and Executive Director of the Community Justice Center of Lincoln Nebraska. Over the course of the conversation, we learn about the basics of restorative justice, Jim Jones's path to nonprofit leadership, and some tips for how to grow an organization from idea to well funded and effective program. Check out CJC - https://communityjusticecenter.org/

Video Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFvRkR3muDU

In this week's episode we talk about the findings from One Cause's “Fundraising Through the Pandemic” Report, highlight the ongoing struggles across the nonprofit industry, take a look at the 7 Numbers that show the state of giving in 2020 and wrap up with some good news from none other than Guy Fieri.  To learn more about the stories highlighted see the links below.

Graphic Design is hard, but with these three tools you can create professional visuals for your nonprofit organization. Whether you are trying to source free stock photos, design amazing blogs, facebook, and instagram posts, or manipulating your photos in post production these tools will help get the job done for free.  www.Canva.com www.pexels.com www.unsplash.com www.photopea.com

Link to Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5DL-11LieY

John Jensen is the Senior Director of the Insights Team at Salesforce.org and the author of the most recent Nonprofit Trends Report, a study that measures the trends, challenges, and opportunities nonprofits face with regards to technology. In this interview John discusses the methodology and findings from the most recent report that focuses on digital maturity and the impacts of the pandemic. Check out the full report here - https://www.salesforce.org/blog/nonpr...

Video Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnAFyyQKblA

Weekly news rundown for the week of 12/7/20, featuring Giving Tuesday results, Pennies for Charity report from the New York Attorney General's office, new YouTube Giving feature and an a reminder about some tax law changes that can help with end of year giving. Want to learn more about the stories featured? Check out the links below.  

https://www.philanthropy.com/article/... 

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/new-yo... 

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files... 

https://www.philanthropy.com/article/... 

https://blog.google/outreach-initiati... 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/yo... 

https://time.com/5916772/kid-of-the-y...

Amazon Smile is an Amazon program that donates a small percentage of every dollar spent to a nonprofit of the customers choosing. In this video we explore the basics of the program, the good aspects, the critiques, the ugly side of this operation, and end with advice on how nonprofits can work with Amazon Smile.

YouTube Video of This Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWLqCHypWyo

Amazon Smile Critiques: Why Amazon Smile Doesn't Make Me Smile - https://bit.ly/2JKZK8C

Why Amazon is Smiling and Charities May Be Losing - https://bit.ly/37A6377

Why Charities Need to Stop Falling for the Amazon Smile Scam - https://bit.ly/3ooePvO

Nonprofit News Weekly Rundown Episode 4 - For the Week of 11/30/20 is out now. This week we highlight nonprofit's challenges with Facebook, we take a moment to remember Patrick Quinn, the co-founder of Ice Bucket Challenge, review two reports on the alarming trends of food insecurity from the The Brookings Institution and Feeding America and wrap up with a look at a cool nonprofit The Confess Project

Our first installment of 5 Minute Friday, where you get trips, tricks, ideas, and scorching hot nonprofit takes. This episode we provide a quick guide to nailing your last minute Giving Tuesday appeal.  Maybe you didn't have time this year for a full plan. It's not too late. Check out how you can still pull of a great campaign with only 4 days of planning. 

Patrick Quinn was diagnosed with ALS when he was 30. He dedicated his life to raising awareness and money to fight this disease. In creating the Ice Bucket Challenge, he started the first viral fundraiser and raised over 220 Million Dollars for research. This money produced real results and helped push the science forward by years. On November 22nd 2020, Patrick passed way. This video was created to remember him and the work he did. Donate to The ALS Association Today - https://www.als.org/donate