Kris Kewitsch | Executive Director, Charities Review Council | December 2024 Approaching Your Donors as Informed Givers As you engage individual donors in your year-end campaign and as you begin to frame up next year’s fundraising and communications plans, it’s important to consider how donors make their giving decisions. It’s partly practical. Donors are busy…
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Kris Kewitsch | Executive Director, Charities Review Council | December 2024 The Power of Giving Have you ever stopped to think about how powerful your giving truly is? It may be easy to underestimate the impact of a single donation, but what if you thought about the act of giving like the act of voting? …
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KRIS KEWITSCH | Executive Director | Charities Review Council Meet Haiti Teen Challenge! An international organization with Minnesota roots, Haiti Teen Challenge invests in and revitalizes Haiti by providing the country’s only residential recovery program for young men and women. In 2008, a group from Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge (another Meets Standards® nonprofit) visited…
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Smart Giving & Fundraising in the Digital Age Kris Kewitsch | Executive Director, Charities Review Council | October 2024 Charitable giving and nonprofit fundraising have shifted in recent years alongside the significant economic, social, and technological changes of the past decade. It is more common now for donors and nonprofits to “meet” online and for…
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Meet Light of Hope Kenya! By KRIS KEWITSCH | Executive Director | Charities Review Council Light of Hope provides refuge, restoration and redirection for girls experiencing marginalization in Kenya, from poverty to sexual violence to forced labor and marriage. Since 2005, Light of Hope has been providing safety, education, and stability to more than…
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