{"id":275,"date":"2015-07-10T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amerilawyer-blog.local\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-03-28T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:47:32","slug":"how-donating-to-a-good-cause-can-help-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/business\/how-donating-to-a-good-cause-can-help-your-business","title":{"rendered":"How Donating To A Good Cause Can Help Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To which kind of charity should your business donate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is easier to create opportunity if the cause is related to your <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a><\/span>, for example, a tutoring services company sending teachers to an under-privileged neighborhood and in turn receiving referrals. If you can\u2019t think of any ideas, then ask your employees or customers. They may be close to certain charities and will return their gratitude when you donate. Using local charities will also help with your business\u2019s visibility in the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get involved; don\u2019t just write a check<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hands-on, face-to-face involvement will create more goodwill than just a donation. Also, volunteering is more affordable than a large cash donation. However, don\u2019t force employees to volunteer. Your employees should not feel stigmatized if they don\u2019t want to help. Similarly, customers may disagree with some charities depending on the cause. If this happens, then <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\" target=\"_blank\">business owners<\/a> <\/span>should simply say they feel strongly about the cause and leave it alone. Keep in mind that customers often want to \u201cshop their values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.AmeriLawyer.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-277\" src=\"http:\/\/amerilawyer-blog.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Community-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Community\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Community-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Community.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about how your business can donate, speak to one of our attorneys by calling 800-743-9900 or visit our website<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.AmeriLawyer.com<\/a><\/span> today!\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,72,6,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entrepreneur","category-legal-services","category-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}