The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Megadonors like Ken Griffin, Paul Singer, Michael Bloomberg, and Reid Hoffman are collectively giving hundreds of millions to candidates and super PACS to influence voters. By Eden Stiffman Chronicle Illustration; World Economic Forum, Paul Elledge/University of Chicago, Jon Tadiello/MIT Media Lab, Johns Hopkins University, Michael Lisnet/Simons Foundation From left, Paul Singer, Ken Griffin, Reid Hoffman, Michael Bloomberg, and Marilyn and Jim Simons.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Despite the rise of digital, traditional channels like direct mail are still crucial. Here's what's going on in nonprofit direct mail now.

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Nonprofits 227

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Not only are people from the U.S. territories unable to vote or access government benefits, they’re also largely ignored by grant makers. By Javier H. Valdés and Winny Chen Chronicle Illustration; Creative Commons, Getty Images Flags of the U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, left, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Residents of the territories are denied basic political rights, the authors argue.

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Joan Garry

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Fundraising is both an art and a science, where preparation and authenticity play key roles. These are my real-life failures in fundraising and the lessons that you can learn from them. The post I Asked For $10,000. He Donated $25,000. appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Speaker: Debra Squyres

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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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Among the things Walker has learned: Leaders need to listen and be inclusive, but ultimately they sometimes have to go with their gut instinct. Among the things Walker has learned: Leaders need to listen and be inclusive, but ultimately they sometimes have to go with their gut instinct.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Charity Navigator unveiled Causeway, a platform designed to simplify giving and increase donor impact on the causes they care about.

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Technology 130

Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to 2023 IRS data, there are about 1.9 million registered nonprofits in the United States vying for charitable giving from individual donors and institutional grantmakers. What do we know about the causes and states each type of funding flows to and the factors that affect giving trends? In this article, we highlight key insights from our report, Dollars and Change: A Look at Individual and Institutional Giving Across the United States From 2015 to 2022 , which combines data from Candid

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Image Credit: Provided by Barni Qasim In my role at Solidaire , a progressive donor network, I have the honor of stewarding our Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund (MPF), which is dedicated to enhancing the legal, physical, and digital security of frontline organizers. Established in 2020 in response to urgent calls from movement partners facing heightened security attacks from the state, institutions, and vigilantes, we’ve since provided $4.5 million to 150 groups facing security threat

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This Article is Certified Gold Avocado Gold never goes out of style — and neither does good advice. The Gold Avocado series showcases some of the very best content that Blue Avocado has for nonprofit leaders, based on overall popularity, reader response, and quality. Creating a draft of your nonprofit’s accounting procedures manual from scratch can feel like a daunting task, and one that may be tempting to put on the back burner for another day… or month… or even year.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

By John Simon Starting with the need instead of the solution can lead to stronger impact.

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Nonprofits 88

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Top Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Millennials (born between 1981-1996) and Generation Z (born between 1997-2012) should be at the forefront of your nonprofit’s efforts to find new donors, volunteers, and advocates. These generations tend to be socially conscious, want to create positive change by supporting causes that align with their values, and can support your organization for years to come—if you effectively connect and build relationships with them.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided two important reminders for both donors and charities regarding qualified appraisal rules governing cryptocurrency contributions. According to Aaron Fox, a partner with Marcum LLP, a qualified appraisal is required for donations of cryptocurrency for which a charitable deduction of more than $5,000 is claimed under Section 170(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).

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Jeff Brooks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

If your fundraising is struggling — not getting the results it should, not doing as well as it did in the past — there’s a good chance it’s because it makes one of the most common errors out there: It’s about your organization, not the people you hope will give. Doing this is hard to avoid. It’s incredibly tempting. But it flattens response.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

By Richard H. Levey Four major donor-advised fund managers oversaw distributions of more than $26.9 billion during their most recent fiscal years. With only rare exceptions, major metrics — total amounts given, number of funders, average grants — increased from the previous year. Fidelity Charitable-assisted funders granted $11.8 billion to charity during 2023, up from $11.2 billion for 2022.

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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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Anedot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Position: Legal Intake Volunteer Start Date/Terms of Employment: Commit to one or ideally two days per week for a one-year term and ideally start in October 2024 or beginning of November 2024. Location: New York Civil Liberties Union, 125 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 Salary: Unpaid position Application Deadline: Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Successful grant professionals are masters of detail. They can burrow into 100 pages of single-spaced, fed-speak instructions and emerge prepared to translate hundreds of granular requirements into a competitive proposal narrative. They can scour several years of a foundation’s 990-PF tax returns and figure out the sweet spot for the budget’s bottom-line and an approach that will lift the request above the competition.

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