To commemorate Black History Month, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal highlighted 200 Black leaders in the Twin Cities region. If you have a subscription, you can view the profiles here (As of this article’s publication):
The First Round of 50 | The Second Round of 50 | The Third Round of 50
Here are the names
NAHC is expanding its volunteer Board of Directors in 2023-2024 and looking for people with effective communication and fundraising talents to head up efforts in areas including (but not limited to):
• Business planning and capital campaign
• Marketing and media/influencer relations
• Corporate, nonprofit,and community-group outreach
• Museum curation and collections management
• Educational coordination with K-12 and college programs
In addition to contributing in the above mentioned areas, Board members should expect to attend monthly board meetings of two hours each. While not required, the ideal board candidate would also have prior nonprofit board member and/or fundraising experience.
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Since 2002, NWAHC has been the Upper Midwest’s only museum dedicated to celebrating commercial aviation, showing how Northwest and its precursors enriched the region’s social and economic fabric, and how the company’s scientific and engineering advances made traveling safer and more reliable. We are a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit currently operating a small public museum location at the Crowne Plaza AiRE MSP Hotel in Bloomington, MN, and maintaining archives at Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, MN.
To better inspire young people to pursue careers in aviation and travel, and attract a new generation of museum leadership, the Board has developed a “Go Big” strategic plan to consolidate and expand at a Twin Cities airport location in the mid-2020s. This facility will be a regional and national attraction with full-size passenger aircraft and simulators, hands-on museum exhibits, classrooms, scheduled activities, and a signature event space and restaurant.
If you have a feeling of awe around flight, a love of history, and want to help us channel those interests into amazing exhibits and programs, we are eager to hear from you. Please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected]. Access Philanthropy helps to advance the mission of nonprofits through expertise in philanthropy, fundraising and nonprofit leadership.
To learn more about the NWAHC, visit the museum Thursdays-Saturdays, and explore our extensive website at www.northwestairlineshistory.org. Business office and archive: 10100 Flying Cloud Drive, Suite A306, Eden Prairie, MN, 55347-4016 Phone: 952-698-4478. The NWAHC has no financial or operational ties to Delta Air Lines, but uses all remaining registered active trademarks with their consent.
This, according to American Charities, a 501(c)(3) membership-based nonprofit that promotes workplace giving. In their Facts & Statistics on Workplace Giving, Matching Gifts, and Volunteer Programs, here is what they gathered on Matching Gifts:
Many funders don’t have a website, this is especially true with small family foundations. So, the 990PFs are often the only source of information about them.* Foundations must submit tax reports to the IRS every year. But lately… well, according to Candid (fka Foundation Directory Online), “before the pandemic, Candid usually received comprehensive IRS 990 data about nonprofits and foundations about 1.5–2 years after the close of a given year. After 2020, the time lag is closer to three years.
Reasons include:
Johnson Center for Philanthropy Reports:
IRS Delays and Other Barriers to Data Mean Real Risks for Nonprofits – Mandatory electronic filing of all 990 tax forms after July 19 has made every field on those forms accessible electronically. The pandemic, however, has caused considerable delays in the IRS release of this data. The Johnson Center report notes, “In September 2022, Candid reported that for 990s filed for tax year 2019 and later, the processing delay for most organizations is now well over 36 months.” Other data concerns include the lack of information about communities and populations served by specific nonprofits and the dependence on private giving at most organizations that track philanthropic data.
*This delay makes it tougher to gather information, so AP has expanded our personal phone and email outreach to foundation personnel and we’re using more foundation website and even Google searches to fill in the blanks
Classy, a leading online fundraising platform and thought leader, highlighted donors’ 2022 Fundraising Event Experience in a survey of 1,000 event attendees:
— 26% attended live events, while 36% went virtual because there was no live event or because they preferred a virtual experience
— In-person and virtual attendees gave roughly the same dollar amounts (beyond ticket sales). 20% of virtual attendees gave $500+ and 22% of live attendees gave over $500.
— 96% of virtual attendees rated the event excellent or good, while only 87% of live attendees thought the event was excellent or good.
Top Five Favorite Virtual and Live Events:
LIVE ATTENDEES
— Endurance Events (43%)
— Performance (38%)
— Auction (36%)
— Galas (36%)
— Competitions (29%)
For years, Grantseekers told grantmakers that the only way they’d receive a grant was if a corporate employee was on their board of directors.
The pandemic sort of wrecked that plan.
Not that Employee Involvement with a nonprofit is less important. It is still worth lots of bonus points when it comes to grantseeking. And, corporations are still working to encourage it – but it is leading some to now look for virtual volunteer opportunities for their employees: Mentors, fundraising, connecting with isolated constituents, and even teaching classes or workshops.
Here at AP, learning of this got us wondering:
Survey Time: Who among our readers has such opportunities?
Please share this with us, and we’ll publish what we learn in the next newsletter.
Tell us about your virtual volunteer opportunities. ——>
The Equitable Evaluation Initiative group recently published a paper in partnership with Grantmakers for Effective Organizations entitled The Equitable Evaluation Framework.
While it’s a little on the academic side, the paper’s work will be very interesting to grantseekers who are now faced with a shower of requests to judge their work within the context of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The EEI paper asks grantmakers and grantseekers to imagine “What might be possible if evaluation was conceptualized, implemented, and utilized in a manner that promotes equity?” Not hypothetically, but really and truly.
This led us (specifically Access Philanthropy Researcher, Laura Wilson) to wonder: If foundations are really beginning to place equity at the center of their work, how can grantseekers effectively demonstrate their work in this area to prospective funders?
That is, if the funder follows the principles behind the Equity Evaluation Framework, and needs to know how your organization’s historical and structural decisions have contributed to the conditions your organization is addressing, how do you support your proposals in the terms of that Framework?
Here are a few take-aways, we pulled from the Framework that can assist grant-seekers:
— Highlight how your organization fits into that specific foundation’s strategic philanthropy plan.
Emphasize your role in addressing the larger issue.
— Showcase intentionality behind your decisions, actions, and program design.
— Demonstrate how your programs address the funder’s core issue; provide services that produce equitable results.
— Reflect on inequities in your approach to providing services to the community followed by specific actions you are taking to grow from those mistakes.
— Offer, implicitly or explicitly, to be closer partners, learning from each other and suggesting new approaches to an issue.
Above all, think reflectively about the work you do.
Have ongoing discussions with staff and board members about what’s working, what isn’t. How can you demonstrate your impact in ways that show it is advancing equity? Can you educate grantmakers on what you want to measure and need to evaluate to succeed? How can the community be involved in evaluating your work?
This is a long-haul process, one that could be very meaningful, if we are all active participants.
When’s the best day and time to ask for a contribution? A Giving Way survey says that Tuesday and Fridays are the best days to ask, and weekends are the worst). The survey also found the best TIME to ask is generally between 9am and 4pm, but especially between 11am and noon