Jill Jones, Goodwill Industries of Seattle
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Jeff Riefman, Giftspot.com
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John Doan, Moderator
How can a significant, ongoing income stream be achieved and how is it best distributed to programs or causes that count?
Capacity Building for Sustainability:
- Seek out relationships with businesses that are making a difference in your community
(eg: Mylackey.com in Seattle, Kozmo.com)
- Be creative
- Find ways to create win-win partnerships (PR, new donations, etc)
How are best practices shared?
- Interaction with other nonprofits and for profits
- Learn from others
- Shared information
Goodwill is exploring starting an endowment program by working with counterparts in other communities to network with them.
It is important to have an active board. Include the board's involvement in volunteering and donating as a portion of all fund-raising. (It may take a change of organizational structure to do more fund-raising.)
E-Commerce businesses that may be helpful:
Ebay.com (has a charity-auction area)
ShopforChange.com
Helping.org (a project of the AOL Foundation)
These are providing services beneficial to or benefiting non-profits and they will continue to do so. Many of them are for-profit but they are helpful for non-profits. For a long list, see http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/misc/990804olfr.html. There will surely be consolidation of these services. Some of them will become inexpensive "commodities" available to everyone over the Internet.
To be successful watch your competition and hire appropriate and good people that believe in your mission.
Is there a searchable database of what people/non-profits are doing and what their needs are?
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SEA Change: {http://www.soros.org/sea-change/index.html}
- www.helping.org has many links to other sites of interest
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