FreeWill Newsletter April 2020
The CARES Act, Community Roundtables, and PulseCheck
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Hi Friends,
What a month. In addition to feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and uncertain (sound familiar?), I’m incredibly grateful for and awed by the work that you, our partners, are doing. In the past few weeks, I’ve had conversations with our partners who are on the frontlines of the healthcare response, fighting to maintain access to food banks and shelters, and surging forward on their respective missions.
In short, we’re honored to support you. As thanks, we’re doing our best to provide clarity on what feels like hourly developments as quickly as we can. This month, that means we’ve created a guide to applying for loans via CARES, we’re hosting roundtables for specific nonprofit industries to connect and learn together, and unveiling a new tool to help you understand and communicate with your donors better during this time.
We remain at your service to grapple with your organization’s specific needs and quandaries. Your indomitable energy is buoying us, and we hope to do the same for you.
With all my gratitude and wishes for strength and health,
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Virginia Fay
Director of Partner Success
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How to get a forgivable loan under the CARES Act
A guide for your nonprofit
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We've provided a guide intended to help nonprofits with fewer than 500 employees navigate the loans made possible by the CARES Act. We will be continually updating this resource as new information becomes available. We hope this is helpful as we get through this together.
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INDUSTRY COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLES
Join your peers and FreeWill representatives to discuss how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting planned and major giving in your industry. We're offering roundtables for Environment, Health, Faith, Animals, Higher Education, and Arts & Culture.
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Introducing PulseCheck
In the fastest moving year of our lives, understand where your donors are and how to be effective. We’re here to help you with custom outreach, data collection, and AI-augmented analysis. Interested in learning more? Check your inbox later this week for an announcement and more information!
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Webinar #3: Moving to "Plan B" for Planned & Major Giving in 2020
In this webinar, Patrick Schmitt shares strategies and examples for how nonprofits can adjust their 2020 fundraising plans to keep moving forward. This webinar premiered on March 31, 2020 and was attended by over 670 people.
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Webinar #4: Moving Forward on Planned & Major Giving
In this webinar, Patrick Schmitt covers the CARES Act, how different types of gifts will be affected by a recession, and creative ideas from across the nonprofit landscape so that organizations can move forward and stay top of mind. This webinar premiered on April 7, 2020.
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Now is the time for planned giving
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With your donors worried about what's ahead, one of the kindest things you can do is offer them a way to plan for the future and those they love. Check out the data below on piqued interest in planned giving.
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Now that FreeWill is working from home, we've picked up some new hobbies to round out our workdays! James Ellis, our Senior Data Analyst, on recently baking every type of bread imaginable in his apartment in Queens:
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Top bread tips?
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Buy a scale! And if you need somewhere to let your bread rise, try on top of your radiator.
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What do people under-appreciate about bread?
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People get intimidated or scared off by bread. I think people under-appreciate that...the dough forgives.
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Can you come up with an accurate acrostic for "bread"?
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Bouncy, Regal, Entertaining, Affordable, Delicious.
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