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Summer is a great time to explore Candid’s collection of free eBooks and audiobooks for titles that can help you achieve your goals as a nonprofit professional. This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions, real-life examples, and templates to help you master the art of writing successful grant proposals.

Altruism and Helping

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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It’s the crew that knows who is on board, what baggage they brought, their feelings about flying, and how to help people cope with turbulence.  When the Captain comes on the PA system to inform everyone about the flight plan, they often sound like ‘the adults’ in the Peanuts specials. But how do you do that? Why is it effective?

Leadership

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How to Elevate Your Fundraising Strategy with Matching Gifts

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This process involves analyzing donor data, choosing the best fundraisers to host, and leveraging strategies that help you easily raise more for your mission. Thanking donors and highlighting their impact will help you build stronger relationships and encourage them to request matching gifts again in the future.

Altruism and Helping

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Webinars

The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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17 Creative Giving Tuesday Ideas to Make a Difference

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Giving Tuesday , celebrated globally on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, embodies the spirit of generosity and altruism. Setting the Stage: Understanding Giving Tuesday A History of Generosity In the wake of consumer-driven holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday emerged as a beacon of hope and altruism.

Altruism and Helping

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Volunteer Matching: Recruiting the Best Volunteer for Each Role

The Volunteer Hub

JULY 15, 2022

Strategically matching volunteers with assignments that allow them to excel can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization achieve its mission. Effectively utilizing your volunteer workforce can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization reach its mission.

Recruitment

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Your mission is the gift. Really.

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 17, 2012

I have enormous respect for Jeff and his thought leadership, and so I asked him to answer that question for me. However, Dooley (and Cialdini, and the Heath brothers, and many others) have also emphasized that reciprocity is, in a real sense, a way to take advantage of people’s altruism. They’ll help you, but they’ll resent you for it.

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Ideology, identity, and philanthropy (PLUS! bonus Blueprint 24 Buzzword)

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Effective altruism, on the other hand, is all three - ideology, identity, and philanthropic approach. In the upcoming Blueprint24 (due out on December 15 - will be free and downloadable here ) - I look at the role of Effective Altruism in the burgeoning universe of AI organizations. But I digress. A self-professed identity.

Philanthropy

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The Power of Heroic Philanthropy: Understanding Donor Motivations

iMarketSmart

JUNE 12, 2023

In time of need, a friend would help. This happened even if the help could never be fully paid back. Getting unconditional help in a crisis is great. It can show the ability and willingness to deliver transactionally unjustified help and protection. This is different than helping those who aren’t in peril.

Donor Motivation

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Dr. James explains what happens when fundraising metrics go bad

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But they aren’t helpful as a short-term metric to guide behavior. Metrics can help, but only a little. Using lots of metrics isn’t leadership. When metrics reflect a top-down distrust of fundraisers, they don’t help.[16] Short-term, transactional behavior signals the absence of a mutual sharing or helping relationship.

Fundraising

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How to be an authentic guiding sage for your donors

iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

She helps along each step of the journey. She introduces the hero to friends and allies that help. She provides magical weapons that help. She helps the donor start the hero’s journey. She helps the donor finish the hero’s journey. Donors are attracted to this helpful, knowledgeable character.

Public and Nonprofit Management

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Giving vs. Sharing: The Power of Community in Major Gifts Fundraising

iMarketSmart

JULY 10, 2023

Giving helps “those people.” Sharing helps “us.” The gift helps those in another country rebuild after an earthquake. In contrast, reciprocal altruism is stable. This is altruism. This is reciprocal altruism. Meanwhile, the reciprocal altruism players will be sharing with each other. It’s not equal.

Altruism and Helping

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Why you must deliver value in fundraising, not just take the money and run

iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

Suppose a friend asks for your help. Even if you think it’s worth that much, that doesn’t help. Philanthropy can help me decide. This might be helpful. If he benefits, he’ll probably help our shared group. Leadership, cheap talk and really cheap talk. Partner choice creates competitive altruism in humans.

Values

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

JULY 17, 2023

Some gifts may help reputation, while others won’t. This helps link the challenge to a victory. The gift helps my group. And it helps my standing within the group. Both of these help link the victory to an enhanced identity. Showing that “people like me make gifts like this” helps. It’s complicated.

Psychology

Psychology Altruism and Helping Public and Nonprofit Management Fundraising

Why you must deliver value in fundraising, not just take the money and run

iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

Suppose a friend asks for your help. Even if you think it’s worth that much, that doesn’t help. Philanthropy can help me decide. This might be helpful. If he benefits, he’ll probably help our shared group. Leadership, cheap talk and really cheap talk. Partner choice creates competitive altruism in humans.

Values

Values Public and Nonprofit Management Altruism and Helping Psychology

Pro-Black Organizations Lead the Way for Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Creating a world that is conducive to everyone’s mental health requires valuing and centering the leadership and experience of BIPOC communities. An example of this work is BEAM’s Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Training , which helps organizations increase their capacity “to transform, reimagine, and refine organizational systems.” [12]

Health

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

In response, I returned to school to study fundraising and nonprofit sector leadership and their relationship to normative ethics. This theory relates to what American economist James Andreoni calls impure altruism , the inherent tension between philanthropy and self-interest.

Ethics

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How fundraisers can help their cause resonate with donors

iMarketSmart

APRIL 24, 2023

4] Giving doesn’t help the donor. But it can help the donor’s genes. Giving is genetically helpful when, My Cost < (Their Benefit X Our Similarity). If a donor identifies with the factor, emphasizing it will help. Sharing similarities can help. It can help specific people. Natural origins In 1964, W.

Race and Ethnicity

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The Power of Heroic Philanthropy: Understanding Donor Motivations

Dr. James explains what happens when fundraising metrics go bad

How to be an authentic guiding sage for your donors

Giving vs. Sharing: The Power of Community in Major Gifts Fundraising

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

Why you must deliver value in fundraising, not just take the money and run

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

How fundraisers can help their cause resonate with donors

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