Hi all –

Thanks so much for attending our Fundraising Forum last night!

We discussed:

• The importance of a fundraising plan; LWVCO’s is attached.
• The importance of Board involvement
• Resource: 10 Things You Should Know About Overcoming Your Board’s Objections to Fundraising
• Focus on women-owned businesses
• Resource: The Top 100 Women-Owned Businesses in Colorado
• Retailer programs
• Kroger
• Safeway
• Amazon Smile
• Ending each event with a request for donations
• Qualified Charitable Deductions (QCD) from IRAs
• Forbes Magazine’s 8/23/2021 article How To Donate Your RMD Using Qualified Charitable Deductions  states “The Secure Act raised the RMD age for some taxpayers to 72, but didn't raise the QCD age from 70 1/2.”
• Social media post about donating QCDs from an IRA is here.
• Restaurant donations: hold an educational event at a local restaurant on a slow night (typically Monday or Tuesday) and ask the owner to donate a portion of sales -- tax-deductible for the owner, if the League is a 501c3.
• Sales
• Tulips
• League merchandise/swag
• T-shirts
• Hats
• Pins
• Programs/projects that create items for sale
• Books
• Notecards
• Quilts
• Grantwriting -- applying to foundations
• Completed copy of the Colorado Common Grant Application is here for Colorado Leagues to plagiarize when writing grants
• Fundraising Toolkit on LWVCO’s website
• We’ll hold Fundraising Forums quarterly, unless the group decides otherwise; next meeting will be held 12/7/2021 at 5:30pm. We’ll send a registration link in mid-November.

Let us know if we missed anything!

Be in touch as you look at various fundraising options.

Best –

Beth

Beth Hendrix

Executive Director

Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.

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