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The Nonprofits Leading the A.I. Revolution

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Sara Herschander Stephanie Dalton Cowan for the Chronicle A new generation of A.I.-driven organizations is upon us. What do they say about how charities will use the powerful technology? Plus: See the rest of our June issue, posted online today.

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Blackbaud Makes a Strategic Investment in UBIQ Education

NonProfit PRO

Blackbaud announced a strategic investment in UBIQ Education, innovators in school websites through the introduction of AMAIS, the first digital experience ecosystem (DXE) for schools.

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Husband Among New Giving Pledge Signers

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Altman and Oliver Mulherin say they plan to focus on supporting technology efforts. By Maria Di Mento Getty Images for TIME Sam Altman and his husband Oliver Mulherin said in their Giving Pledge letter t hat they intend to focus their giving “on supporting technology that helps create abundance for people, so that they can then build the scaffolding even higher.

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3 Ways Automation Can Boost Your Nonprofit’s Digital Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

AI will prove to be a helpful resource in the nonprofit sector. Here are three tips to leverage automation for digital fundraising.

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

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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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Burnout Still Plagues Nonprofits, New Study Finds

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The report by the Center for Effective Philanthropy also finds that charities are struggling to hire new employees. By Ben Gose The report by the Center for Effective Philanthropy also finds that charities are struggling to hire new employees.

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Blink Offers Free Platform Access for Nonprofit Organizations With ‘Blink for Everyone’ Program

NonProfit PRO

Blink launched "Blink for Everyone," a program offering nonprofits access to its employee engagement platform free of charge.

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Increase Fundraising and Increase Your Donor Engagement with Donor-Centric Websites, Join Us

NonProfit PRO

Join us on Thursday, June 6th at 2pm ET for an exclusive webinar designed for nonprofits leaders like you, featuring Chris Miele, President of Golden Retriever Foundation. Discover new techniques to increase your online presence and significantly boost your fundraising efforts. Learn how to create engaging, donor-centric websites that captivate and retain supporters.

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Nonprofit Helps Families Find Home in the Midst of War in Ukraine

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Nicole Wallace Courtesy of Core The humanitarian nonprofit started by providing food, toiletries, mattresses to people in shelters, then helped them move into apartments.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 85: The Broad Utility of Text Messaging

NonProfit PRO

Rick Ericson and Mike Snusz join The NonProfit Voice to discuss how to use text messaging across the donor pipeline.

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Hewlett Foundation Picks Astrophysicist Amber Miller as Its Next President

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Recruiting the USC dean marks a generational change in leadership for the $13 billion foundation. By George Anders Courtesy of the Hewlett Foundation Amber Miller will be the first scientist and the first woman in a permanent role to lead the Hewlett Foundation. Recruiting the USC dean marks a generational change in leadership for the $13 billion foundation.

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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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Rewarding Your Nonprofit Staff Without Cash: Tips & Tricks

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Nonprofit organizations often operate on shoestring budgets, with every dollar being stretched to its limit to fulfill the organization’s mission. Yet the lifeblood of any nonprofit is its people – the passionate volunteers and hard-working staff who dedicate their time, energy, and talents to making a positive impact. Recognizing and rewarding your nonprofit staff is crucial for boosting morale, fostering a sense of appreciation, and retaining top talent.

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Comment on Challenge: Double Your Fundraising in the Next 12 Months by Pat Trebe

Amy Eisenstein

What if you could double your fundraising this year, and double is your impact? Take the "Double Your Fundraising" Challenge and think big!

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We, the Nonprofit Institutions: Transformation for Liberation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Ashleigh Gardere & Jeff Bradach A nation where everyone can flourish as full participants in democracy and society: This is the future that is both necessary and within our reach, when we take collective responsibility for creating it. In this series thus far, our colleagues have explored what this future requires of each of us , and what it could begin to look like for governments.

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How to Build Stories with Staying Power

NonProfit Quarterly

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: How to Change Our Stories about the Economy.” View the full webinar here. “Multigenerationalism in movements is what will sustain narratives for the long haul.” When I think about the Land Back movement, that was not created by a marketing firm, that was not created by a think tank.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Intersectionality: buzzword or social sector game-changer? 

Candid

Over the last few years, the language of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has gone mainstream. As a DEI researcher, I both welcome and worry about this change. On the one hand, the DEI movement must go mainstream if we are ever to make real progress. On the other hand, it sometimes feels like the words have gone mainstream without their meaning.

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We Are Powerful Because We Are Many

NonProfit Quarterly

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: How to Change Our Stories about the Economy.” View the full webinar here. Yes, there’s innovation and new ideas, and we’re so excited to invest into them, but there are a lot of things that have [always] been here. We look at nonextractive finance, zero-percent interest finance.

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Burnout, Budgets, Staffing Vexing NPO Leaders

The NonProfit Times

Elements of the charitable sector appear to be suffering from long COVID, which impacts those infected for months and even years. New data from the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) shows executive and staff burnout top the list of issues. In a new report, “State Of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need To Know,” one-third of nonprofit leaders surveyed say that they are “very much” concerned about their own burnout (33%), and half report that they are more concerned about their burnout now th

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Good fundraising is much more than well-written copy

Jeff Brooks

Copy is never produced by just one person. Forget the image of the lone writer in a garret, pounding out inspired prose in a steady stream. In any project, the written word is just one link in a long chain that includes: Content. The writer needs to have something relevant and motivating to write about. Strategy. It it doesn’t matter if the copy is brilliant if the fundraising strategy is flawed.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Don’t Revert to the Old Way of Fundraising! Stay the Course.

Veritus Group

Change agents, do not despair! Progress takes place over time, and in the long run, your efforts towards relational fundraising will win out. The post Don’t Revert to the Old Way of Fundraising! Stay the Course. appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Choosing a CMS: 3 Tips Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Top Nonprofits

A strong website ties together all of your nonprofit’s activities and accomplishments—educating visitors about your mission, sharing updates with your supporters, and accepting online donations. Because of this, 68% of nonprofits have redesigned their website in the last three years and 94% have a website optimized for mobile browsing. To build and manage an engaging website, you need a user-friendly, comprehensive content management system (CMS) that fits your nonprofit’s needs.

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7 Tips For Creating a Blog Post That Ranks High On Search Engine

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

7 Tips For Creating a Blog Post That Ranks High On Search Engine Having a strong online presence is important for businesses and individuals as well. And do you know that millions of blog posts are published daily? With and without the help of AI. As per demandmetric research, companies that create blogs produce an average of 67% more leads monthly than companies that don’t create blogs.

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5 Advanced Fundraising Tactics You Can Automate

iMarketSmart

Identifying, qualifying , and cultivating major gifts prospects takes months, often years. And doing so requires a number of tactics to be used over that time. And it doesn’t stop after they make their first gift. Then, it’s on to stewardship tactics. All this work can easily overwhelm even the most organized and motivated gift officer. The good news is, so many of these tactics can be automated.

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

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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What is the smallest viable audience for nonprofits?

Big Duck

Learn about the value of defining audiences in more focused ways to guide nonprofit communications decisions and strategies.

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Make Positive Change With Verified Legislator Data

NonProfit PRO

Access the most accurate elected official contact information to power your fundraising, petition, and awareness campaigns. Cicero data includes present, previous, and incoming elected official district, address, phone and even social media information! It’s great for moving legislative issues forward, identifying opportunities for grants, and mobilizing members in targeted areas.

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4 Elements of a Great Email Fundraising Campaign

The Storytelling Nonprofit

The landscape of email fundraising is ever-evolving, but the elements that make for a great campaign remain steadfast. In analyzing dozens of email fundraising campaigns we’ve run for clients, there are clear throughlines that contributed to the campaigns’ successes. One campaign that we ran for BC Women’s Health Foundation demonstrates the power of careful planning and strategic execution.