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Category: Giving

  • Giving Season is Here!

    Giving Season is Here!

    It is giving season, with Giving Tuesday coming up after the
    long Thanksgiving weekend. Now is the best time of the year to reach out to
    your Donors and make sure that they are thinking of you as they give thanks for
    the year and give donations into the end of the tax year.  GivingTuesday.org  #GivingTuesday

    First, it is a busy week starting on Thanksgiving.

    Black Friday is named such as a
    target date for companies to move from losing money for the year into profits,
    out of the red and into the black. Basically, if you paid all your expenses at
    the beginning of the year, all future sales after the break-even point would be
    pure profits. Thanksgiving Day, at the end of November is a wonderful target,
    that leaves one month of pure profits. Plus, if the last month of the year is
    disproportionate – like Christmas sales – that is gravy!

    So, let’s see what we have in
    November. Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday. Black Friday. Small Business
    Saturday. Sunday Football (or futbol, same name, different game). Cyber Monday.
    Giving Tuesday. Buyer’s remorse Wednesday. Returns Thursday.

    Well, all right, I made up the
    last two, but they are kinda true.….

    Hidden in the schedule at the end of November –
    before Christmas & New Years season – is Giving Tuesday. This is a perfect
    time to reach out to past donors to thank them, and touch base with prospective
    donors. Everyone (or business) doing year-end tax planning will benefit from
    the reminder to get their donations organized and submitted to their favorite
    charities to make a difference this year. Plus, tax deductions are an added
    incentive to give donors an extra nudge.
    Happy Thanksgiving, Shopping & Giving Week.

    Elmer Hall

    Check out Hall & Hinkelman’s book on Nonprofit Planning and Impactful Giving for more on fundraising and philanthropic ecosystems.

    Hall,
    E. B. & Hinkelman, R. M. (2022). Perpetual
    Innovation™: Strategic planning for nonprofits and the art of impactful giving:
    the gift of giving, the art of caring    . ISBN: ‎ 979-8842614615
    Retrieved from:     Amazon.com/dp/B0BF8MB13X (Available on Kindle eBook as well.)

  • Giving Season and a Sustainable Earth

    Giving Season and a Sustainable Earth

    It is giving season, with Giving Tuesday coming up
    after the long Thanksgiving weekend. Now is the best time of the year to reach
    out to your Donors and make sure that they are thinking of you as they give
    thanks for the year and give donations into the end of the tax year.  GivingTuesday.org  #GivingTuesday

    Black Friday is named
    such as a target date for companies to move from losing money for the year into
    profits: out of the red and into the black. Basically, if you paid all your
    expenses at the beginning of the year, all future sales after the break-even
    point would be pure profits. Thanksgiving Day, at the end of November is a
    wonderful target, that leaves one month of pure profits. Plus, if the last
    month of the year is disproportionate – like Christmas sales – that is pure
    gravy!

    Visit Intellzine.com to see a longer discussion about Nonprofits
    using the Giving Tuesday moment to solicit funds from Donors    . Some of that
    post is repeated here before jumping into a sustainable earth discussion.  The Thanks-Shopping-and-Giving Week is an
    interesting week:

    1. Thanksgiving Thursday (in
      USA)
    2. Black Friday
    3. Small Business Saturday
    4. Sunday Football (or
      futbol, same name, different game)
    5. Cyber Monday
    6. Giving Tuesday
    7. Buyer’s remorse Wednesday
    8. Returns Thursday

    There’s a similar concept
    related to Black Friday, Earth Overshot Day. Earth Overshot Day is the day
    (approximately) during the year when the population of the world has exhausted
    the resources that the earth produces in a year and we move into deficit
    spending (overconsumption). Until a few decades ago, the earth produced far
    more that humans (and other living things combined) could consume. Not so now. Earth
    Overshoot Day is the day of the year – figuratively – where sustainability stops,
    and unsustainable live/living begins for the rest of the year. Guess what day
    of the year Earth Overshoot Day occurs? Before or after Black Friday?

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    … Wikipedia on Earth Overshoot Day.

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    Earth’s “carrying capacity”
    has been exceeded since about 1970.

    …

    Mid-August is now Earth
    Overshoot Day. That is with about 1/3 of the year remaining. We need an another
    third of an earth to continue living as we are.

    Stated differently, we
    are approaching the need for another planet earth to support our lifestyles and
    consumption patterns.

    Quietly in November 2022
    we blasted past 8 billion world population. Estimates are that we will max out between
    9 and 11 billion world population. But, as the rest of the world consumes at
    the rate of the industrialized world, we need 4 to 6 worlds to support us all.
    It is not that the earth cannot support us all; it simply can’t support us in
    the same lifestyle we would like, using the same production methods.

    You might find critics of
    the analysis on Earth Carrying Capacity and Earth Overshoot Day. But the
    concept holds up rather well. There’s sustainable, and there’s non-sustainable.
    If our 8 billion population and all businesses move toward being 100 percent
    sustainable, then Earth Overshoot Day will return to the black, all year, every
    year. And, if we like the planet we’ve got very much at all, moving to all
    sustainable is better much sooner, not later.

    Happy Thanksgiving,
    Shopping & Giving Week.

    Think Sustainable. Be
    Sustainable.
    Elmer Hall (c) SBP
    First Published on IntellZine.com (modified and reprinted here with permission
    of Author).

    Check out Hall & Hinkelman’s
    book on Nonprofit Planning and Impactful Giving for more on fundraising and
    philanthropic ecosystems.

    Hall,
    E. B. & Hinkelman, R. M. (2022). Perpetual
    Innovation™: Strategic planning for nonprofits and the art of impactful giving:
    the gift of giving, the art of caring    . ISBN: ‎ 979-8842614615
    Retrieved from: Amazon.com/dp/B0BF8MB13X (Available
    on Kindle eBook as well.)