NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

What motivates someone to dedicate their career to both clinical social work and the nonprofit sector? A Path Rooted in Social Service Keenen Stevenson’s introduction to the nonprofit sector began early in his career when he worked with Court Appointed Special Advocates ( CASA ) for Children of D.C.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Todays question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to raise unrestricted nonprofit funding: Dear Charity Clairity, How do you talk about something specific in an appeal letter, but still raise unrestricted funding for use where most needed? One in four children in our community suffer from food insecurity.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The early childhood education nonprofit, which supports children in underserved communities “from belly to 8,” plans to expand its unique neighborhood-based holistic model.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

From her early experience with AmeriCorps NCCC to her impactful work with the American Cancer Society, Hayley’s journey highlights the power of nonprofit work. In 2017, Hayley earned her Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential, a step that cemented her commitment to the nonprofit sector. Did you enjoy this story?

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NonProfit Leadership Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Nonprofit Leadership Center’s Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide highlights gifts for everyone on your list, with some or all of the proceeds benefiting nonprofits. Gifts in this 2023 guide were curated by the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s nonprofit community through a submission process in November. The best part?

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 20, 2023

CASA of Lexington has tried just about everything to find volunteers to serve as advocates for abused and neglected children with the Kentucky nonprofit. In 2022, 62 completed training, short of its goal of 80.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 27, 2025

While it is rarely acknowledged, parents undergo their own developmental changes alongside their children. Unfortunately, we dont recognize their process in the same ways we recognize that of the children they support.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Jacqueline House, Safe Children Coalition’s vice president of communications and community engagement,and Tracy Vanderneck, president of Phil-Com, join The NonProfit Voice to share the keys to nonprofit messaging.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Each year, we ask you to nominate your top picks for our NonProfit Professionals of the Year Awards — and you never disappoint. This year’s winners have addressed food insecurity, pushed for better healthcare for children, expanded civic participation and so much more. Here are the winners.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 8, 2025

I want to help more small and mid-size nonprofits excel in their corporate outreach and execution. The Nonprofits That Will Lose Out, According to ChatGPT Party City Party City sells co-branded pink accessories and decorations during Halloween, donating 10% of the retail sales price to Susan G. How Gillette Children's Hospital in St.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Most children’s ministry leaders, parents, and teachers would agree that practical application is an effective tool for learning. Nonprofit organizations offer a unique way for the kids in your children’s ministry to practice life application. Many children today don’t understand the word ‘need.’

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Children Curriculum and Teaching Activism Nonprofits 105

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more prevalent across society, its use growing especially quickly in the nonprofit sector. If your nonprofit hasn’t yet incorporated AI into its work, there is no time like the present to get started! In this guide, we’ll discuss three tips for doing just that.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

AUGUST 8, 2024

The project would help those who came to the United States as children. By Alex Daniels UndocuBlack Network The possibility of ramped-up deportations in a new administration has nonprofit leaders like Patrice Lawrence sprinting to counsel as many DACA recipients as possible.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For Florida nonprofits in the Tampa Bay area, critical funding opportunities are now available to support your communities and advance your missions. Current funding categories include: Capacity-building Research Professional development/training Programmatic operations Multi-sector collaboration Nonprofits must serve Zip codes in South St.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A capital campaign is a targeted fundraising effort designed to raise a significant amount of money for a nonprofit within a set timeframe. It typically combines major gifts, public contributions, and planned giving to achieve financial goals that advance a nonprofit’s mission. Did you enjoy this story?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Here is the latest submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series. At SGF, we serve families of children with disabilities by a special gift in the form of opportunity, resources, therapy equipment, monetary contribution, experience, and more. This series lets you describe your workday in your own words.

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Communication Children Collaborations Foundations 281

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Some nonprofits are sharing blunt messages about financial woes in an effort to spur donations By Emily Haynes Oleksii Kozodaiev for Project HOPE Children celebrate St. 5, as part of a program partly funded by nonprofit Project HOPE. Nicolas Day in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Dec.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 20, 2023

A nonprofit organization hires a talented professional. In fact, it’s one of the most significant challenges new managers and nonprofit leaders tell us about. That’s why the Nonprofit Leadership Center created the Certificate in Leadership program. This person is valued by their peers and supervisors.

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Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Homelessness 246

Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Based on my 25 years experience working in global development, here are five tips to help nonprofits be ready to respond to unforeseen challenges. At Save the Children, we often have difficult conversations about exit ramps from communities where we have worked for decades. Is it still relevant? We raise significant funds from the U.S.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 20, 2024

As nonprofit communications has evolved over the years, we started exploring the concept of brand archetypes and how nonprofits can use them. While there are 12 brand archetypes, we think some of them make more sense for nonprofits than others. Example: Save the Children The Outlaw. Example: UNICEF The Everyperson.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I was recently asked to explain nonprofit marketing at its most basic level. Many people in our sector answer this question by describing what I think of as communications: Creating and distributing content to people about the nonprofit and its issues. Sometimes donors give nonprofits money — We call that fundraising.

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Marketing Marketing Recruitment Nonprofits 228

Ann Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

By Carl Diesing Alongside moves management and capital campaigns, grant fundraising is one of the most intricate fundraising activities that a nonprofit organization will undertake. For an in-depth look at grant management and how these tools can assist your nonprofit, explore DNL OmniMedia’s guide on the topic.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Here is the latest submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series. At SGF, we serve families of children with disabilities by a special gift in the form of opportunity, resources, therapy equipment, monetary contribution, experience, and more. This series lets you describe your workday in your own words.

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Communication Children Collaborations Foundations 261

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Yet, they can play a critical role in strengthening community-based organizations by making strategic investments in nonprofits to build the necessary organizational infrastructure, resilience, and power to drive change. However, three of the four nonprofits made significant progress in this three-year cohort in all eight areas.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 4, 2020

This is unusual for me as a journalist, speaker, leadership team member of an advocacy-based nonprofit, and downright talkative person. . My nonprofit wanted to put out a statement. What became important, in my awkward days of silence, was that nonprofits are in a unique position to offer help, healing, and hope. I had no words.

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Nonprofits may need to reimagine their donor engagement strategies to go beyond occasional outreach or standard fundraising appeals and forge relationships that resonate with their values and inspire continued support. Rethinking donor relationships When I started Imani Collective, it was a small nonprofit training program in Mombasa, Kenya.

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Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Participation and motivation Children 106

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Prest All Our Kin Family child care educator Tané Trimble cares for two children in her program at Tané’s Little World Daycare in New Haven, Conn. education at five nonprofit organizations. education at five nonprofit organizations. Trimble is supported by All Our Kin, one of the grantees of Robin Hood.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 26, 2024

These writing ideas for April come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. 4/2: International Children’s Book Day. This works especially well if you have lots of parents with small children on your mailing list. Not sure what to write about next month? 4/4: Tell a Lie Day. Can’t see the form?

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Tony Martignetti

JANUARY 26, 2025

We pull some lessons from her childrens favorite stories, the … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for January 27, 2025: Storytelling → Sarah Wood: Storytelling Sarah Wood reminds us of the value in telling good stories to your stakeholders. Where do you tell them? Which ones are worth telling? Whats ethical storytelling?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 6, 2021

Here is the latest submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series. Emily’s Bio: Emily is the Fund Development Coordinator for Wisconsin Youth Company, a nonprofit that works to engage children in opportunities to be their best selves and help them thrive beyond the school day. Emily Wills.

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Communication Nonprofits Children Universities 280

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 18, 2023

It’s the nonprofit comms unicorn. Can you cover serious nonprofit policy. This includes having children fundraise for school needs by selling things and the duality of teachers being superheroes who are just ordinary people. The post Nonprofit Policy + On Trend Video + Pop Culture + Humor? While being funny.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MARCH 22, 2023

Written by: Doug Scott Reading Time: 5 minutes Nonprofit video stories have the power to evoke an emotional response in prospective donors and compel them to act on behalf of your cause. The most effective nonprofit videos tell stories in a way that photos and written words simply can’t mimic. Let’s get started!

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Deep and Sincere Caring About the Nonprofit’s Mission The most important “quality” in a board member would be a real and heartfelt caring about the mission/goal of the nonprofit they will be involved with.

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Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 107

Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Chances are, if youre a nonprofit professional, youre curious about how mobile giving can improve your nonprofits fundraising efforts. Regardless of what you call it, mobile giving is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise moneyand retain more donors on the go. Well cover: What is mobile giving?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Nebraska receives more per capita from both individuals and grantmakers It’s no surprise that the states with the largest populations and the most nonprofits—California, Texas, New York, and Florida—receive the most charitable dollars overall. Nebraska ranks 37th for population and 36th for the number of nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Here is the latest submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator. When I could re-enter the working world, I parlayed this experience into a position for marketing and development for a small nonprofit. Tricia Maddrey Baker. Tricia Maddrey Baker is still working at home. Let’s see how she is adapting.

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Communication Nonprofits Children Associations 291

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I was recently asked to explain nonprofit marketing at its most basic level. Many people in our sector answer this question by describing what I think of as communications: Creating and distributing content to people about the nonprofit and its issues. Sometimes donors give nonprofits money — We call that fundraising.

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