Revitalizing Resources

On this day of Live Earth, 07-07-07, and near the 10th anniversary of the passing of environmental messenger, musician, and inspiration John Denver -- for our environment, and other socially responsible missions and organizations, we start this Sunrise Blog from Sunrise Advisors with an example of our style of "real world effective" earned income generation, in research, strategy, branding, fund raising, dataWeb and a range of coordination and management, coaching, and communications. This is truly a new generation, "a new day," in fund raising consulting firm or company, so we hope you find useful, reflect on, and find insightful:

Convince your business donors (or your colleagues as the creative community enterprise you are!) to make loans against their own businesses, and use those funds as tax deductible donations to your nonprofit organizations. This may also be a possibility with self-lending employee-driven personal 401k retirement (or similar) accounts, though I am not sure in that instance (yet) charitable donations are a federally approved use...yes or no? Does anyone out there in caring blogland know more? Any organization or enterprise should get an advisory opinion, ideally pro bono (donated), from a senior tax partner accountant, not just any CPA, explaining how the clients come out ahead in the comparison of the mandated interest rate they would charge themselves in effect, versus the maximum legal, "strategically combined" US federal and state donor tax breaks for giving to your organizations. How many cents on the dollar? Would this work within other countries and their tax codes, and charitable giving to NGO's (what nonprofits are often called outside of the US, "non-governmental organizations"). In our experience in previous employment on a leadership team of a measurably top-performing economic development zone (for four years, and through the nearby, serious challenges and tragedy of September 11, 2001) and nonprofit organization (NGO) in New York...when we were able to "reveal" 70 cents on the dollar (!), many said it was far beyond what any CPA had told them, and it definitely increased interest in "activating donations" to a significant community empowerment project.

So "this" all is what we are MOST interested in specifically, truly new "combos," legal and ethical, yet innovative, in "nonprofit (NGO) investment banking" and "community investment excellence." We welcome and appreciate your interest in doing well and doing good, locally and globally -- together. Please be in touch. Thanks.