Nonprofit consultants and watchdog organizations generally recommend that a minimum of 60 % of
donor dollars go to program expenses.
Not exact matches
Illustrate for
donors and volunteers either where their
dollar goes or how their effort changes the lives of those they love.
Our members,
donors and volunteers provide critical
dollars and work to keep our programs, research, and conservation efforts
going.
The result: tens of millions of
dollars from small
donors, people that the campaign can
go back to over and over for money.
Last week I had the privilege of
going on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups» grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections, largely funded by small -
dollar online
donors.
But Kolb says he knows talks are
going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for
donors who give up to a million
dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.
«Even though you might have only fifty
dollars to give,» says Ilana Goldman, the company's vice president, «we're
going to treat [our
donors] the way the Ford Foundation treats someone who has $ 1 million to give.»
Of course, every charity needs to spend money on overhead costs — it's crucial to keep the lights on, buy office supplies and pay salaries — but most
donors will want the majority of their
dollars to
go directly to the cause, whether it's feed - ing children, finding a cure for a disease, or supporting the environment.
Because let's face it, most
donors would prefer their
dollars go to lean organizations that concentrate on their cause, rather than bloated institutions that soak up donations to support their own operation.
And while many big - hearted
donors love to support dozens of charities, your
dollar will
go farther if you write bigger cheques to one or two, as this reduces administrative costs.
Thankfully, we are excellent stewards of our
donor dollars, with.83 cents of every
dollar going directly to animal care.
They may rescue cats with
donor dollars, but
donors to animal shelters usually give money to «save cats» not «kill cats» and as euthanasia numbers
go up, donation
dollars may
go down.
Most of what is called development around the world is really
donor nation
dollars hiring
donor nation contractors to deliver last century's technologies, in such a way that the jobs and the economic benefit
go right back to the originating
donor country.