Business Community And Local Political Advice For Non-profits, Small Business Owners Are Gold
Often when non-profit groups set up committees for fundraisers, they assign someone the task of going out to get donations, sponsors or assistance from businesses. Immediately, that individual will make a list of all the biggest companies in the region and the major employers and corporations. Next, they visit a few or attempt to contact them to get the much needed help or money, and they are rejected or run into red tape and bureaucracy, unable to even get in contact with the right people at the company who might be able to authorize such assistance.
Believe it or not small businesses proportionally give more to the local communities than any other group, including the churches, government or the corporations. If you stop and think about who supports all the youth sports and who is there for you when you really need them? It’s often a small business person who is there to serve.
Small business people are golden treasures of the community and it is important to assist their businesses when they help your non-profit group. In fact, you need to find a way to plug their companies, send business their way and give them special thanks. Many times the small business owner is struggling cash-flow wise and make great sacrifices in order to help, it is such selfless acts being paid forward that deserve our attention. Please, help the small businesses in your town and do not take advantage of them, because they give proportionally more than their fair share.
Always, always offer to assist those small businesses that assist your group, offer to put their coupons or flyers into grab bags for participants, always mention them in the newspaper, be sure to write a letter to the editor thanking them; their business and the business owner by name.
If you’ll do this, their companies will grow and prosper and they will have more money to give to your group and other non-profit group who desperately need the funds in the future. Think about how you can help them. And to borrow a quote from JFK;
Ask not what your local small businesses can do for your group; ask what your group can do for your local small businesses”
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Tags: Non-Profits, Small Business Owners are Gold, Business Community, Local Political Advice
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Tags: Non-Profits, Small Business Owners are Gold, Business Community, Local Political Advice