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Why is voting important?

Benefits to Individuals:

  • More active citizenship
  • Stronger connections to family and neighbors, better quality of life
  • Having a voice in shaping the community

Benefits to Nonprofits:
  • More access to elected officials
  • Increased clout on issues
  • Better positioned to advance their mission.
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Most importantly voting gives a community as a whole a voice.

Visit CDW’s Learning Lab to find resources covering how-to guides on voting, engaging people in voting, trends in voting, and more. 


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Why is giving important?

Benefits to Individuals:
  • Promoting generosity in the next generation
  • Personal satisfaction of helping others
  • Ability to take tax deductions

Benefits to Nonprofits:
  • Enhancing nonprofits ability to bring about change
  • Develop a network of loyal supporters
  • Increase revenue

Most importantly giving gives a community as a whole the opportunity to grow.
Visit CDW's Learning Lab to find resources covering how to guides on giving, engaging people in giving, trends in giving, and more.

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CDW Resources on Voting

CDW Resources on Giving

  • Giving USA

    Giving USA is an essential resource in tracking charitable giving in the United States. The report identifies trends, provides data, and illustrates how individuals, corporations and foundations engage to make communities better.
     
    Individual giving rose $10.53 billion to an all time high. All nine major philanthropy subsectors realized giving increases for only the sixth time in the last four decades. Over $390 billion was contributed to U.S. charities in 2016, according to the recently released Giving USA 2017: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2016.

    Visit CDW's Learning Lab to access the 2017 release of the Giving USA Annual Report for free. The report package includes:
     
    • Highlights: An Overview of Giving in 2016
    • Annual Survey of State Laws Regulating Charitable Solicitations
    • Giving USA 2017 PowerPoint
    • Giving USA 2017 Graph Pack
    • Giving USA Data Tables for Charts in The Numbers

    Giving USA data and statistics are a useful planning tool for your nonprofit and can be used for grant proposals, board development, strategic programming, donor relations, and fund development.
     

  • Planned Giving: A Board Member's Perspective

    Planned Giving: 
    A Board Member's Perspective
    by Grant Thornton
     
    Offers an overview on building a planned giving campaign for nonprofit boards wanting to add this to their fund development plan.
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