Mon.Nov 11, 2024

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AI for good: How you can help Candid Labs empower nonprofits 

Candid

AI is no longer just a buzzword—it’s become a cornerstone of every modern business process. The 2024 AI Index Report shows rapid advancements in AI technology. Benchmarks created to assess the performance of AI tools compared with humans on tasks such as image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding show the gaps narrowing. As of May 2024, the MMMU benchmark , which evaluates responses to college-level questions, scored GPT-4o at 60%, compared with an 83% human average.

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A Major Gifts Officer’s Year-End Checklist

NonProfit PRO

As year-end giving heats up, here's a handy list of major giving tips to help make this overwhelming time more manageable and successful.

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How to Cultivate Awe, Gratitude, Altruism and Meaning to Significantly Boost Nonprofit Fundraising

Clairification

Philanthropy is about reciprocal awe, gratitude, altruism and purpose. I’m a huge fan of the Greater Good Science Center at U.C. Berkeley, and often apply their research to nonprofit fundraising and marketing. This particular article really strikes me today, because it talks about times when we feel isolated from others: How to Find Your Purpose in Life.

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Report: It Will Take Until 2034 to Reach Gender Parity in the Boardroom

NonProfit PRO

A report from Altrata found that board representation for women remains a long way from parity, plus other findings.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Increase Giving by Asking for Restricted Gifts

Veritus Group

Donors are reasonable people. Trust in that as you ask for project-oriented giving and permission to use gifts differently in cases of overfunding. The post Increase Giving by Asking for Restricted Gifts appeared first on Veritus Group.

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☑️ Meta Verified for Nonprofits

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

I wanted to share some news from Meta that could impact the way you use their platforms. ( If you want to stay on top of social media trends that impact nonprofits, be sure to come to this week’s Nonprofit Social Media Summit – get your free ticket here ! ) Meta recently rolled out an expansion to its paid verification program, Meta Verified, now open to nonprofits of all sizes on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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**Action Required: How to Turn Your Fear into Power**

Fundraising Leadership

Issue 279 — November 11, 2024 “Don’t ever give up. You have power. And don’t ever listen to anyone who tells you something is impossible because it has never been done before…This is a time to organize, mobilize, and stay engaged.” — Kamala Harris As the dust settles after the November 5th election, many of you are deflated, while others are elated.

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Why the Principles of Bioethics Require Emergency Abortion Protections

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash Bioethics…is grounded in four key principles: respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, women have had limited access to abortion care. States with the harshest and most stringent restrictions on abortion “have increased rates of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, [and] greater anxiety and depression among women of childbearing age.

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