Thursday, October 31, 2019
Nonprofit Halloween
Happy Halloween! In honor of today, I wanted some sort of Halloween nonprofit story.
Frankly, when I think about holidays and nonprofits, I think about the Thanksgiving-to-Christmas corridor. That seems to be when a lot of volunteering happens and, as the end of the tax year approaches, it also seems to be when a lot of year-end funding requests happen.
Are there any Halloween-oriented charities? Almost certainly. And the one I found quickly on Google was 'Ween Dream, a Louisiana-based public charity that provides costumes to kids who might otherwise not have costumes.
It's a small organization, collecting roughly $10,000 of donations annually. I don't know anything substantive about it, but I like that they're taking a charitable approach to a holiday that, as wonderful as it is, doesn't usually invoke thoughts of charity.
Samuel D. Brunson
Photo by Devers Kerr on Unsplash
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/2019/10/nonprofit-halloween.html
There is also the venerable tradition of trick-or-treating for UNICEF, which I did as a child in the 1950s and continues to this day. (https://www.unicef.org/support/14884.html)
Posted by: PUTNAM BARBER | Nov 2, 2019 7:11:04 AM