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How the Generosity Commission Report Could Redefine Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The report’s conclusions about the state of giving have potentially troubling implications for philanthropy’s future. By Leslie Lenkowsky Getty Images The report’s conclusions about the state of giving have potentially troubling implications for philanthropy’s future.

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Nonprofit Support for Hurricane Recovery

NonProfit Leadership Center

As Florida communities face the aftermath of back-to-back hurricanes that have caused extreme devastation across the state, nonprofit organizations continue to step in and step up to help individuals, families and communities recover, rebuild and restore hope. Many resources are available to help address the unexpected needs now facing nonprofits and communities in the Tampa Bay region and beyond.

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Who Needs a Foundation? For Melinda French Gates, a $250 Million Contest Keeps Her Philanthropy Lean

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The grants will range from $1 million to $5 million and are meant to support small organizations focused on women's mental and physical health. Lever for Change will manage the competition. By Alex Daniels Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Since resigning from the Gates Foundation in May, Melinda French Gates has shone a public spotlight on women’s issues by making a $1 billion commitment to nonprofits working to improve women’s health and increase their political sway.

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Hacks to Avoid the Chaos and Calm those Non-Profit Marketing Pain Points

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

In the ever-changing world of nonprofit marketing, transitions are a given—and with them comes a unique set of marketing-only pain points. From juggling vendor contacts (wait, who did the last annual report print?) to struggling to access that one social media account your former colleague set up, there’s no shortage of moments that make you want to throw your computer out the window.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Debra Squyres and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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How Will You Thank Your Year-End Donors?

Ann Green

I imagine many of you are working on your year-end fundraising campaign. You may have started working on your appeal letter, which is great, but how much time have you spent thinking about how you’ll thank your donors? Maybe not that much. If that’s the case, you’re making a mistake because it’s just as important, if not more important, to plan how you’ll thank your donors.

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How Effective Board Engagement Can Help You Score Big With Year-End Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

Your board is a critical part of your year-end fundraising strategy. Here are some tips for getting them involved and engaged.

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Detroit People’s Food Co-op: How to Advance Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Steve Dubb Food is the cover story. The real story is Black self-determination. Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Up & Coming Food Co-op C onference panel September 15, 2023 There is a wave of food co-ops opening in majority-Black communities, as NPQ has covered. But organizing a food co-op is not easy. The Gem City Market in Dayton, OH , for example, took six years to organize—and that is faster than most.

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ORG Impact Awards Highlight Worldwide Achievement

The NonProfit Times

Public Interest Registry (PIR) , the organization behind the.ORG domain, unveiled the winners of the .ORG Impact Awards last night at an annual celebration recognizing mission-driven individuals and organizations internationally. The seven winners, selected from more than 1,700 entries from more than 87 countries, were announced at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Are You a Nonprofit COO?

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit COOs are the operational glue that hold our teams together. You foster collaboration, implement robust systems, and ensure regulatory compliance. Your leadership is essential and your impact is changing lives. Yet, many COOs are underutilizing a powerful resource – the nonprofit team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS for nonprofits offers tailored solutions to help you streamline operations, enhance collaboration, strengthen data security, and scale your impact without increasing costs

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How Anonymous Giving Is Changing — and Challenging Fundraising

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Drew Lindsay IStockphoto DAFs and other new giving vehicles promise anonymity for the busy and the privacy-minded. That's introducing new tensions to the nonprofit-donor relationship.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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The value of staff retreats — advice and experiences from our team

Big Duck

Learn how external facilitators, planning sessions, big-picture thinking, and other approaches can help make your team retreat successful.

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How Survivors Are Working to Stop the Cycle of Violence

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Maria Lysenko on Unsplash Crime and public safety are perennial topics of political discussion. This presidential election cycle, the politics of crime are perhaps even more pronounced than usual as the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes faces off against the vice president, a former prosecutor who has leaned into that background during her campaign.

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Putting Homeownership Preservation on Philanthropy’s Agenda

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Ruth Gao For many families, owning a home is not only a source of pride but also the foundation of financial stability and opportunity that can be passed down through generations. Unfortunately, discriminatory systems and predatory actors often prevent heirs from maintaining and building upon these hard-fought gains. This loss can devastate families and disproportionately holds Black and Brown families back from financial growth over generations.

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Nonprofit Generative AI Week (On Demand)

NonProfit PRO

Missed AWS Nonprofit Generative AI Week? No problem. You can now access these sessions on-demand. Discover how generative AI can revolutionize your organization's operations, from enhancing donor engagement to streamlining program delivery. Learn from industry experts and peers who have begun their journey to leverage AI in amplifying their impact on mission.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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To Hell and Back: Polarization and the Nonprofit

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Three leaders whose organizations were battered by the country's divisions talk about the risks they faced and the tough choices they had to make By Ben Gose Timothy Hurst/Denver Gazette When Texas began busing migrants to Colorado, the Village Exchange Center faced a surge in people seeking services and delays in cash reimbursements from the state.

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Key Insights For Nonprofits From The AI Equity Project 2024

Bloomerang

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), nonprofits stand at a pivotal crossroads. The AI Equity Project 2024 offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of AI adoption in the nonprofit sector across the U.S. and Canada. As AI becomes increasingly integral to operational efficiency, decision-making, and outreach, understanding its equitable implementation is crucial for organizations committed to social impact. “The question is no longer – ‘if AI ca

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Insurance in a Climate-Changed World

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images for Unsplash+ Climate change is no longer a future concern; we’re seeing its effects all around us today. Less visible are the financial impacts of the climate crisis—but they too are significant, and intensifying. Individuals, communities, and organizations need to prepare for this escalating financial burden. The first place that most of us will experience the direct costs of climate change is in the insurance market, and the problem has already emerged.

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Be The Best Leader Following Disasters: Strategies To Rebuild Workplaces For Recovery

Fundraising Leadership

Leaders need to manage information and messaging in the recovery process for employees in the aftermath of disasters. Hurricane Helene last month and Hurricane Milton this month serve as tragic reminders to every American just how much climate change and natural disasters affect lives—work lives as well as home lives. In many cases, everything must be rebuilt.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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Calling all CFOs!

NonProfit PRO

As a nonprofit CFO, you navigate a complex landscape of return-to-office plans, compensation pressures, and expanding responsibilities—with the added pressure to deliver on mission without increasing costs. While you know the challenges, you may not know that Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a dedicated team to help nonprofit leaders optimize costs and streamline operations.

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Young Donors Want Opportunities to Volunteer and Collaborate

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

New studies from Foundation Source and Bank of America show millennial and Gen Z donors want to make a big charitable impact by doing more than just give money. By Maria Di Mento Bank of America New studies from Foundation Source and Bank of America show millennial and Gen Z donors want to make a big charitable impact by doing more than just give money.

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Inclusive AI adoption to drive nonprofit missions

Candid

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is evolving quickly and changing the way many of us engage in our day-to-day work. Nonprofits face a critical question: How can we make AI adoption more inclusive and accessible across our organizations? Recent studies show that two-thirds of nonprofits report using either traditional or generative AI or both, most commonly for supportive work.

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Centering Restorative Principles for BIPOC Leaders in Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Nappy on Pexels “As I reflect on the lessons from New Seneca Village , one of the things that really stands out to me is that my body…is home. My body tells me when I’m feeling unsafe or when it’s time to rest. [This experience] has turned me inside out and I feel like I’m becoming more of who I’m meant to be.” This reflection from Kayla Tolentino , a philanthropic and health equity advocate and a participant in the restorative leadership residency at New Seneca Village is so

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.

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When It Comes to Understanding Donors, Does Size Matter Most? (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Cathleen Clerkin , Grace Sato & Edward Moore Individual vs. institutional donors is a fundamental distinction in philanthropy and fundraising. But what if the line is not as clear-cut as we assume?

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What CEOs need to know about Generative AI

NonProfit PRO

As a nonprofit CEO, you're navigating complex challenges while striving to maximize mission impact—and now, Generative AI adds a new dimension. This transformative technology presents opportunities and questions unique to the nonprofit sector. The AWS for Nonprofits team understands these needs and can provide tailored guidance on leveraging AI responsibly, optimizing program expense ratios, and enhancing impact reporting.

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A New Exhibit Hopes to Change Perceptions of Muslim-Led Nonprofits

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The organization that spearheaded the exhibit asked Muslim Americans nationwide to share personal stories of daily giving. There were nearly 200 submissions. By Jie Jenny Zou WF Fund Sasa Aakil and Kae Pershon, art designers for Inspired Generosity, review the exhibit at the Auburn Avenue Research Library ahead of the opening in Atlanta. By spotlighting everyday stories of generosity in the Muslim American community, the creators of a new exhibit hope to challenge harmful narratives Muslim Ameri

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Timing Year-End Fundraising in an Election Year: A Survival Guide

Bloomerang

I was meeting with my friends from Allies Against Slavery the other day to share fundraising ideas when someone said they’d received 147 text messages in just two days about the election. (Worth noting: we’re not in a swing state.) Your phone, email, and mailbox might be blowing up, too. All that noise could have you worried about how to navigate year-end fundraising in an election year, amidst the high volume of election ads.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Hidden Gems: Actionable Lessons from the Untold Stories of Black Philanthropists

NonProfit Quarterly

This exclusive clip offers a sneak peek into our Premium webinar, “Hidden Gems: Actionable Lessons from the Untold Stories of Black Philanthropists.” This discussion was held in celebration of Black Philanthropy Month and the rich legacy and vibrant future of African-descent giving. Philanthropy has always been a fundamental part of the Black experience throughout the African diaspora, and this enlightening session explores the historical and current impact of Black philanthropists on our commun

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Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It

Veritus Group

No matter where you are in your career or with an organization, it's important to take a step back and evaluate. Here's how to do a gut check. The post Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It appeared first on Veritus Group.

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A New Way to Optimize Your P&L

NonProfit PRO

As a nonprofit c-suite leader, you understand that managing your organization's P&L goes beyond numbers. It's about balancing complex expectations and challenges while maximizing impact. At AWS for Nonprofits, we offer innovative solutions to optimize your financial management, streamline operations, and enhance mission delivery. Our tailored approach helps you navigate program expense ratios, impact reporting, and system integrations, ensuring your organization is future-ready.

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Prepared for Any Election Outcome

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Nonprofits are doing scenario planning to make sure they're ready no matter who wins in November. By Ben Gose Getty Images Nonprofits are doing scenario planning to make sure they're ready no matter who wins in November.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.