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starting a nonprofit business

How to Start a Nonprofit [Updated for 2022]

Starting a nonprofit requires thorough planning and dedication. If you're wondering how to start a nonprofit, read on—we've covered the outline for a nonprofit business plan, and included all the steps you need to go through to start a nonprofit, as well as free nonprofit sample business plans.


A Nonprofit’s Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing

This article is part of our Nonprofit Business Startup Guide—a curated list of articles to help you plan, start, and grow your nonprofit business! When it comes to marketing, nonprofits have a few things in common. First and foremost, every nonprofit relies on marketing efforts to attract donors and volunteers. Every nonprofit, no matter how...


How to Start a Food Pantry

How to Start a Food Pantry in Your Community

Wondering how to start a food pantry in your community? Check out these tips from nonprofit experts.


Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

This article is part of our Cafe Business Startup Guide—a curated list of articles to help you plan, start, and grow your cafe business! For many consumers and small business owners in the U.S. and western Europe, the knowledge that the people producing their coffee were usually struggling from poverty, in rural areas, and vulnerable...


social enterprise

What Is a Social Enterprise?

This article is part of both our Nonprofit Business Startup Guide and our Business Startup Guide—curated lists of great articles that will get you up and running in no time! A social enterprise is defined by its mission, specifically that it makes a positive contribution to a social cause. Because of this, the structure of...


How To Fund Your Nonprofit

Funding Sources for Your Nonprofit

This article is part of both our Nonprofit Business Startup Guide and our Business Startup Guide—curated lists of great articles that will get you up and running in no time! Whether you are thinking of starting a nonprofit, or you are running a nonprofit that is looking to expand, you’re bound to have funding sources...


Starting a Nonprofit: Chapter 1 of The ‘RIDE Eugene’ Story

Drunk driving is a problem. But in the moment that it's most preventable—when an intoxicated person leaves a bar or restaurant to drive home in their car—there is no easy or obvious solution. That's where RIDE comes in.


Getting Funded On Kickstarter: The MIUSA Story

Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is a non-profit organization with an idea for a product. They know they have a good idea, but because they're a non-profit, they face all the usual difficulties of launching a new product plus the particular difficulty of launching a product they don't actually intend to sell.


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