Congratulations! You have made it halfway through the first week of the new year! Everyone seems to be looking forward to 2009, or at least hoping things will be a whole lot better than 2008. There have been so many dismal headlines: Stock Market Plunges! Earthquakes in China! Housing Crisis! Economic Recession! Government Scandals!
Isn’t that just happy? No. Not really. So you are looking at your ministry, asking, “how on earth are we going to make it through?” Well, you have come to the right place! But this isn’t a sales pitch. We are here with the best cure for all fundraising blues - a smile. Smiles seem to bring laughter and a little bit of hope. So here is something to make you smile. Sit back, throw away those dismal headlines, laugh, and enjoy:
Here is a list of real foundation and organization names we have encountered in our research. If you know one of the foundations or organizations, send us an email- we’d love to know the stories behind these names.
The List
- Slaughter Young Foundation
- G.A.F.F. Foundation (aka Gosh All Friday Fishhooks Foundation)
- Recycled Pets
- Bang On A Can – a robot orchestra
- The Free Lunch Foundation – they give to wildlife protection
- Roaring Fork Friends
- Gable & Gotwals Mock Schwabe Kible Gaberino Foundation
- The Hertha Thomas-Zagari Giant Schnauzer Rescue
- Licking Valley Community Action Program
- Grumpy Old Men Foundation
- The Imperial Foundation - “they’ve destroyed two Death Stars, and your emperor and Darth Vader, yet you keep trying to raise support. What is up with you? You don’t give up, do you?”- commentary by one of our researchers
- Grandma’s Tennis Toga
- The Hairy Angel Foundation
- KaBOOM!, Inc.
- Grey Plant Mooty Mooty Bennett Foundation
- San Diego Nice Guys
- High County Council on Drugs
- Tigger Foundation – “because bouncing is what they do best”- commentary by one of our researchers
- Sea Pineapples Unlimited
- Franciscan Haircuts From the Heart
- MicrobiaLogic makes charitable contributions of remote toilet bacteria
- Get a Life Foundation
- Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society of Wisconsin
- Military Order of Cootie
- The Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm
- Society of Vacuum Coaters
- Dirty Vagabond Ministries
- Holy Backwash
- Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Memorial Scholarship Fund
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation of…
-- Jessica High and Ashley High are Research Assistants at Christian Foundation Grants (www.christianfoundationgrants.com) which is a subscription database of foundations that provide grants to faith based organizations. iDonate.com is a website (www.iDonate.com) that allows ministries to receive non cash gifts online.