{"id":395,"date":"2021-10-12T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divi.ameravant.com\/nonprofitkinect\/?p=395"},"modified":"2022-12-14T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T00:00:40","slug":"is-your-nonprofits-gift-acceptance-policy-clear-flexible-and-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonprofitkinect.org\/is-your-nonprofits-gift-acceptance-policy-clear-flexible-and-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Nonprofit\u2019s Gift Acceptance Policy Clear, Flexible and Up To Date?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ongoing pandemic has had a significant impact on fundraising and donor relations. Some organizations are using this challenge to become more creative in their communication with donors and getting better at telling their story to the community at large. Many are scrambling to meet their financial goals.<\/p>\n
However, the increased need for contributions is also tempting some nonprofits to accept donations they may later regret. Increased public scrutiny of donor motives can be confusing to leaders and board members of charities.<\/p>\n
For example, the\u00a0<\/span>Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>reported that, \u201cIn recent weeks, the\u00a0Solomon R.\u00a0Guggenheim<\/a>\u00a0Museum in New York, the\u00a0National Portrait Gallery\u00a0<\/a>in London and the\u00a0Tate museums<\/a>, also in London, have all announced that they will no longer accept gifts from the Sackler family. Some Sackler family members are owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and have been accused\u00a0of facilitating the national opioid epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n The question of ethical gift acceptance may become more and more confusing as time goes on. It is critical to recognize that there are distinct types of challenges facing nonprofits.<\/p>\n While the art museum story may be an extreme example, I have noticed that some social media sites seem to be looking under every rock to find something to complain about.\u00a0<\/span>David Allyn<\/a>, vice president at Graham-Pelton, a fundraising management consulting firm for nonprofits gives us some more practical advice for avoiding these ticklish situations.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe that the rush to reject funds from criticized donors is often shortsighted. Nonprofit organizations serve the public interest and should not readily cave in to pressure to return gifts from controversial sources.\u201d He recommends a more moderate approach.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst, remember that any money given to a nonprofit ultimately is good for society as a whole. That\u2019s why nonprofit organizations are deemed by the Internal Revenue Service to be \u2018public benefit corporations.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n>>Experts recommend a moderate approach.<\/h2>\n