Mon.Jan 13, 2025

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How to Make 2025 a Successful Year for Your Nonprofit

Ann Green

Happy New Year!Its hard to believe its already 2025. I hope 2024 was a successful year for your nonprofit organization. If it wasnt, you can work to make 2025 a better year. And if you were successful, you want that to continue. Many individuals make New Years resolutions and set goals. Your nonprofit should do the same. As with personal resolutions, you want your goals to be realistic and attainable.

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Why You Should Mail and Email Your Donors More Often and More Strategically

NonProfit PRO

Some nonprofits are under the impression that sending multiple mail and email appeals constitutes an intrusion in donors lives. Nonsense.

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How to Manage Up — and Reach Your Career Goals

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

These days, workers rarely have a clearly defined path to the top of their organizations. Experts share advice on how to manage your career to advance. By Lisa Schohl iStockphoto These days, workers rarely have a clearly defined path to the top of their organizations. Experts share advice on how to manage your career to advance.

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Don’t Wait Until Year-End to Spend Paid Media Budgets

NonProfit PRO

A common reaction to a tight paid media budget is to wait until the giving season to use it.This is the wrong approach for lots of reasons.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Fundraising New Year’s Resolutions

Bloomerang

Who doesnt like starting the new year with a clean slate ? Youre in a wonderful position to aim and reach higher. Better yet, its a perfect time to dream. For the public at-large, the most popular resolutions are exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, and saving more money, followed by more time with family and friends, and spending less time on social media.

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AARP Now Accepting 2025 Community Challenge Grant Applications

NonProfit PRO

AARP opened applications for its Community Challenge grant program, which aims to help nonprofits make communities more livable.

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How Humanity and Trust Supercharge Nonprofit Fundraising

Clairification

Everyone’s been saying this, just about daily, for some time. These arent ordinary times. If the anthem for the Boomer generation was Bob Dylan’s “ The TImes They Are A’Changin’ ,” what’s the anthem for today? History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. Were living in the face of a firehose of breaking news, and much of it is difficult to digest.

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How to Both Empower People and Encourage Self-Reliance

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

In this episode, Rob Harter speaks with Stephane Aoki, founder of Elevate Côte d’Ivoire, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering underprivileged Ivorians by providing job opportunities and fostering self-reliance. Stephane shares his personal journey growing up in the Ivory Coast and how his experiences inspired the mission of Elevate. Stephane also highlights inspiring success stories… Source In this episode, Rob Harter speaks with Stephane Aoki, founder of Elevate Cte dIvoire

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Philanthropy book club

Philanthropy 2173

Photo by rawkkim on unsplash There is so much uncertainty in my life right now. I've spent a lifetime reading fiction for joy and mental health, and reading nonfiction for work and an income (OK, I read some nonfiction for fun) and I've always read alone. My sister and I, in the early days of online life, launched a book review that we used to print and distribute at the cash registers of independent book stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Baltimore and San Francisco.

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Introducing an AI assistant to help navigate Candid’s resources 

Candid

Beyond providing data on grants, nonprofits, and foundations, Candid offers extensive subject matter expertise about the social sector as well as learning opportunities. These resources, which range from YouTube training videos to help articles , can get you the support you need regardless of skill or experience level. Now were pairing these knowledge sources with AI tools to answer your questions more holistically and guide you to the most essential information more effectively.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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ALS Research Gets $20 Million Windfall From Businessman Who Lost Wife to the Disease

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

David Husmans donation to Nova Southeastern University honors his wife, Cathy, who died in 2023. By Maria Di Mento Nova Southeastern University David Husman, center, with NSU President and CEO Dr. Harry Moon, right, and neurologist Dr. Eduardo Locatelli, endowed chair of NSU Healths David and Cathy Husman Neuroscience Institute. Plus, Healthy Minds Project, the Trevor Project, and the University of Montana received big gifts to support mental health services, advocacy, and youth in crisis.

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Mental Health Advocates Aim to Dismantle Barriers to Care for Latinx Residents

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Garon Piceli on Pexels Despite reporting high levels of mental illness, US Latinx community members often fail to receive adequate care. The 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that just over a fifth of Hispanic adults ( 21.4 percent ) reported having a mental illnessdefined in the report as a diagnosed mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder that may have interfered with their lives.

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Jim Canales Made the Barr Foundation an Institutional Powerhouse

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The leader of the Boston-based foundation is stepping down after 11 years, having transformed it from a mom-and-pop philanthropy to one of the 25 largest private foundations in the United States. By Alex Daniels Dee Speaks Visuals Jim Canales doubled the Barr Foundations assets to about $2.8 billion, making it one of the 25 largest private foundations in the United States.

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Want to Help LA? Resources for People Who Lost So Much and How We Can Support

Fundraising Leadership

Issue 2835 January 13, 2024 Its about so much more than losing things and getting new things, a friend said to me. Im rarely at a loss for words. But Im struggling to express my feelings of shock, horror, and grief for the people of the Los Angeles area in the midst of the horrific fires that have devastated entire communities and robbed so many of their homes and all their physical possessions.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant 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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Preparing for a Second Trump Term by Learning from Hungary’s Playbook

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Christian Lue on Unsplash As the United States braces for a second Trump administration, LGBTQ+ Americans are preparing for what could be an unprecedented rollback of their rights. Central to this looming threat is Project 2025 , a comprehensive policy agenda spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation that aims to dismantle protections for LGBTQ+ people , ban diversity initiatives , and defund gender-affirming care under Medicaid.