Prepare for a Prosperous End-of-Year (Part 1)

Not to send you blood pressure skyrocketing, but it's only 116 days until 2013. While that gives you plenty of time to make your plans for your holiday celebrations, time is wasting for making sure your nonprofit takes advantage of this wonderful time of year for receiving donations.
The end of the year is, for many of us, a time of reassessing our lives. Part of that reassessment often involves giving donations to charities that we believe in. While some of this giving is spontaneous, much of it is the "harvest" that results from the hard work of cultivation done throughout the year by fundraisers like you and me.