Giving Tuesday: Support These Other Non-Profits + Community Centric Fundraising
11/30/21
For this Giving Tuesday, we want to shift valuing independence for interdependence. We want to foster a more cooperative culture, where established entities that are more established look out for those that are fledgling or more vulnerable, where shared resources are developed and maintained.
So our Giving Tuesday ask is that you get curious about Community Centric Fundraising and consider contributing to a number of the critically important yet under-represented non-profits (both further below).
ArtsGreensboro created shared bookkeeping services, which Elsewhere uses — Chaunte Rankin and Deb Ruffino not only efficiently maintain our financial records, but they apply their learning from doing other arts organization’s books to improve ours. A partnership with Creative Aging Network is allowing Elsewhere to offer resident artists accessible housing for the first time. Elsewhere staff volunteers at The Historic Magnolia House Foundation events and Natalie and Devin showed up as flight attendants at our Extravaganza.
Elsewhere is fortunate to have 18-years under our belt, a 40-year lease that is significantly under market value, and support that comes from outside our immediate community such as The Warhol Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Even with all of that, amazingly, we have still been under-resourced. But we have to break with scarcity mentality and trust in leveraging our visibility, stability, and privilege to bring attention to others that are more vulnerable than us.
Sincerely yours,
Matthew Giddings
10 Principles of Community Centric Fundraising
1. Fundraising must be grounded in race, equity, and social justice.
2. Individual organizational missions are not as important as the collective community.
3. Nonprofits are generous with and mutually supportive of one another.
4. All who engage in strengthening the community are equally valued, whether volunteer, staff, donor, or board member.
5. Time is valued equally as money.
6. We treat donors as partners, and this means that we are transparent, and occasionally have difficult conversations.
7. We foster a sense of belonging, not othering.
8. We promote the understanding that everyone (donors, staff, funders, board members, volunteers) personally benefits from engaging in the work of social justice – it’s not just charity and compassion.
9. We see the work of social justice as holistic and transformative, not transactional.
10. We recognize that healing and liberation requires a commitment to economic justice.
Would you like to be a part doing things differently?
Join CCF Greensboro!
Universal Charitable Deduction is in effect for 2021
The pandemic relief bill extends the $300 universal, above-the-line deduction for non-itemizers through 2021 and also allows joint filers to deduct up to $600. This deduction only applies to cash gifts and does not apply to cash gifts to donor-advised funds or supporting organizations. The bill also extends the temporary increase of the adjusted gross income limits for cash gifts through 2021 (100% of AGI for individuals, 25% for corporations).
Please consider donating to the following non-profit organizations, compiled by our staff, that we admire and choose to support:
Royal Expressions Dance Company creates lifelong values through dance. A gift to this Black-founded and operated arts organization contributes to general operating support, their sponsor-a-child or sponsor-a-woman scholarship fund, or helps them pay their company’s professional artist dancers.
The ReEntry Expert are dedicated to helping men and women achieve success in society after incarceration so they may support their families, become positive people and role models in their communities. With your partnership, they can assist those who are truly looking to change their current situation.
(We’re going to have an event for formerly incarcerated artists in April 2022!)
ACOBE is a POC-led organization dedicated to philanthropy and restorative social justice through the celebration and networking of Black Excellence.
Their annual ACOBE FEST provides a space for all people to participate in celebrating black music, art, and culture –past, present, and future. This festival of LOVE will provide an opportunity for our community to unite in the celebration of culture that spans multiple mediums, genres, and continents.
Donate to A Celebration of Black Excellence (ACOBE) Festival 2022
Uptown GSO, Inc. (UGI) is a Black-founded and operated economic development nonprofit organization focused on stimulating investment activity in the “northeastern section” of Greensboro, N.C. As a nonprofit entity, our mission is to establish a business improvement district (BID) that will have a transformative impact on this communities revitalization. We provide leadership and service in advancing the arts as an additional powerful vehicle to implement positive public health, incremental change, and economic growth through our Arts Uptown Greensboro division.
Piedmont Blues Preservation Society’s mission is the preservation and presentation of the music known commonly as the Blues, this form of music having evolved historically from the work songs and spirituals of the Black/Afro-Black American race. This society will strive to document and preserve both the Black American and North Carolina Blues traditions, to present educational programs, seminars and workshops and to revive interest in Blues in the local Black communities. The Blues Equity Institute – Investigates Black art Culture through a Blues lens.
Donate to Piedmont Blues Preservation Society & Blues Equity Institute
GSO Mutual Aid was birthed in March 2020 in the immediacy of Covid-19's influence on the world. Since then we have shared resources, hosted events and protests, raised tens of thousands of dollars that have gone to residents of Greensboro, and we've heard a lot about the struggles being faced across the city. Drawing on what we've learned and our shared experiences we are scheming up housing alternatives and possibilities, visioning a free store, supporting other mutual aid efforts locally, amplifying information, and building alternative futures that have everyone's needs being met. YWCA Greensboro is their fiscal sponsor
Donate to Greensboro Mutual Aid
Support Magnolia House Foundation to save and restore the structure and operation of Greensboro’s historic Green Book site. Helping them launch their on-site history museum utilizing innovative technology and programs to engage community. The museum will share little known historical experiences/stories of Triad’s African American history, enhance the community's tourism experience, create jobs, and invest in local youth.
Donate to Magnolia House Foundation
FaithAction’s diverse and bilingual staff bring tremendous education and experience to the work of serving and accompanying our newest immigrants, as well as multicultural and interfaith education and bridge-building programs. The people we help at FaithAction face some significant challenges, including: learning a new language and social system, living near or below the poverty line, and navigating shifting immigration policies with the constant fear of detention and deportation. They also come with tremendous gift to offer our community, and we believe in working together to address personal and community concerns.
Triad Health Project promotes sexual health and justice through radical care, love, and equity while working to free our community from HIV, its stigma, and root causes. Our vision is to see a future free from HIV.
Also, check out all of their Red Ribbon Week events happening today through 12/4.
(They table at a ton of our events, including our SaturGays street vending series!)
Donate to Triad Health Project
Compass Greensboro provides life, social, training, and networking skills to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through coaching, connecting, training, and networking
The secondary purpose of Compass Greensboro is to advocate for disability rights, give voice to the disability community, and increase awareness and educate the general public (both in Greensboro and around the world) on behalf of adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
(They are our neighbor!)
Creative Aging Network’s mission is to enhance the well-being of older adults throughout our community. reduce loneliness and improve the mental health of older adults through visual arts classes and other creative programs.
Donate to Creative Aging Network
Northstar's mission is to create community at the intersection of spirituality and creative practice. We offer sacred space for creative expression, spiritual exploration and cross-cultural collaboration.
North-star is Black-founded and operated out of Durham, NC. They are seeking a new ED.
Donate to North Star Church of the Arts
Siembra NC was born in 2017 in response to Trump’s war on immigrants and the gap in support and resources for the broader Latinx community in North Carolina.
We are a community of Indigenous womxn, femmes, and gender non conforming folx who gather on Lenni Lenape land to honor each other and our relatives through art, activism, education, and representation. We, as matriarchs and knowledge keepers, center our intersectional narratives by practicing accountability with community and self-determination. We uplift intergenerational Indigenous voices and welcome mixed race, non-enrolled, Indigenous femme, non-binary, trans, two-spirit people. We denounce colonial power structures of leadership and blood quantum. We are circular and work in harmony with each other. We are defined by those who came before us.
Contribute to Mutual Aid Funds for Indigenous groups through Indigenous Kinship Collective
National Council of Elders was founded to engage leaders of 20th-century civil rights movements to share what they have learned with young leaders of the 21st century and to promote the theory and practice of nonviolence.
Donate to National Council of Elders
Press On is a Southern media collective that catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism.
By providing a diverse set of resources including trainings, fellowships and opportunities for network-building, Press On aims to help journalists and storytellers produce reporting that’s driven by communities that are building power to create transformative social change.
