ONLINE TOOLKIT
Welcome to the Abara House online toolkit. This resource is designed to support Staff, Board of Directors, Committee Members, and Friends of Abara as we work together to embody our mission and vision.
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Generational Impact: As a nonprofit, the future of this 4-acre oasis has strong potential to sustain nearly 60%+ of Abara’s operations through Income Generating Initiatives.
“A Spirituality of Fundraising”
by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Wisdom & Money - How does Love speak to money? How does money act in Love?
“Money as Medicine” by Edgar Villanueva | Stanford Social Innovation Review
“Fundraising in a National Quarantine”
by Chris Horst
“Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer” by Jim Collins
GuideStar’s Six Tips for Busting the “Overhead Myth”
“Nonprofits May Need to Spend a Third of Their Budget on Overhead to Thrive — Contradicting a Donor Rule of Thumb”
by Hala Altamimi and Qiaozhen Liu
“Funders, you want to help build organizational capacity? Then stop trying to build organizational capacity and just give Multi-Year General Operating Dollars (MYGOD!)” by Vu Le, author of the blog Nonprofit AF
“We have to spend 90% of our time nurturing relationships with our major donors, so they will get to know us and our organizations. And we spend less than 10% of the time with donors having asking conversations.” -Gail Perry
How to Engage Board Members in Major Gift Fundraising for your Nonprofit
“Strategic Plans That Learn: An Innovative Alternative To Traditional Strategic Planning” by James C. Galvin