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The Pros and Cons of Amazon HQ2 for Denver’s nonprofits

As Denver and 19 other cities throughout North America wait to hear from Amazon about where their second headquarters, or “HQ2” will be...

Earned Income, Cookies, and Nonprofits

We are approaching our favorite time of year – Girl Scout cookie season! We want to buy all the cookies, but we also want to take the...

Tax Reform - How Non-profits Can Succeed

Whatever your political beliefs, the passing of the new tax law leaves many non-profits concerned for the future. The way the bill is...

A Passport to Success: How One Nonprofit Amped Up Colorado Gives Day

Before there was Giving Tuesday, the Centennial State embraced its nonprofits with Colorado Gives Day. Starting in 2010, Community First...

ZIM Crowdfunding 101

Many nonprofits think of crowdfunding as an easy strategy to gain new donors, raise money, and increase awareness of the organization’s...

Best Practices for Grant Attachments

All grant writers are familiar with submitting attachments with their proposals. But, while it is easy to find lots of tips on grant...

Philanthropy Trends to Watch for in 2017-2018

Good news for nonprofits! Foundation funding in the U.S. had an upsurge in 2016 and 2017 and is expected to continue to grow. According...

* Giveaway Alert *

For those who missed our FB post, ZIM is giving away four pairs of Frozen tickets! The performance is September 5th at 7:30pm at the...

Hiring Time: How to make sure you have the right candidate

Finding the Right Person In light of our recent blog series on finding development staff – and the fact that EVERYONE seems to be looking...

Time for a little "Summer Cleaning"

Summer Cleaning For many organizations, summer is a relative downtime compared to the rest of the year. This makes it a great time to do...

Development Staff: An Endangered Species Pt. 5

How to find a great development director? Throughout this blog series, I have discussed the decline of the Development Director, which...

Development Staff: An Endangered Species Pt. 4

How can nonprofits prevent the extinction of good Development Directors? In our last blog, I explained that the decline of the...