Money

Save Money Collecting Donations

Recently, one of our newest clients, The Children’s Grief Center, shared with me that they received a large grant from a local foundation. Funding was about to happen, and the foundation preferred to use a credit card to make the payment. In SimplyFundraisingCRM, you can easily collect a credit card payment over the phone, or even send a secure payment…

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PayPal is NOT a Bank and is NOT on Your Side…

This was just recently posted by a nonprofit ski club on techsoup.org, where I help as a moderator: Without warning, PayPal froze our account and our funds telling us their fraud warning processes flagged us. We can’t withdraw our $4000 and they won’t give it back for 6 months – that’s half our current savings and 20-25% of our seasonal…

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Scarcity vs. an Abundance Mindset

I’m 49 years old.  Old enough to remember the oil embargo in the 70’s and remember the recession in the early 80’s, but young enough to be inoculated from these troubles by my parents. And I also remember asking for new toys, a new computer, and my parents saying, “No”. Why? Because my parents instilled in me the value that…

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