NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 8, 2025
What is a donor journey? Put simply, its the way the relationship between a donor and a nonprofit shifts and evolves over time. Join Cherian Koshy, CFRE, and Kelly Ramage, DonorPerfect Learning and Development Manager, for two free webinars that will help you map out personalized and scalable donor journeys.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 8, 2025
Whether you want to sharpen your leadership, fundraising, or grant-seeking skills this year, here is guidance on how to improve. Illustration by Elizabeth Haugh, The Chronicle; Photo by Pexels Whether you want to sharpen your leadership, fundraising, or grant-seeking skills this year, here is guidance on how to improve.
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NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 8, 2025
Did you know 37% of social donors gave more this year despite economic pressures? We surveyed 1,036 social donors to uncover key giving trends, offering insights to help you build stronger connections. The new report highlights shifts in donor expectations, the influence of younger donors, and the demand for flexible, easy giving experiences.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
JANUARY 8, 2025
Before embarking on a capital campaign, you should feel confident in your organizations campaign plan. Knowing that your campaign goal is achievable and that you have the support of leading donors and other key stakeholders will set the tone for a successful campaign. Thats where a feasibility study comes into play. A feasibility study tests your preliminary goals and plans for an upcoming campaign through discussions with your organizations stakeholders.
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.
Selfish Giving
JANUARY 8, 2025
Lets address an important housekeeping matter in this first issue of 2025: How we can work together in the coming year. Below is a pie chart highlighting how I collaborated with clients last year and provided value through my work. The percentages are derived from revenue. Let's go through each one. Speaking: This was my largest area of work last year, including in-person and online presentations.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 8, 2025
Blackbaud sold its EVERFI business to an unaffiliated private investment firm. The sale was closed on Dec. 31, 2024.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
Image Credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Suppose you park your car in a parking lot. You pay the parking attendant for the service, and they use your car while you are gone to get paid for rideshares, grocery deliveries, or even services you might object to, such as running errands for gun shop owners. Essentially, the attendant has made money from an asset that belongs to you and has charged you for it.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 8, 2025
By M.J. Prest Robin Hood Grantees of the Legal Aid Society and Immigrant Justice Corps, both recipients of grants among the $5.6 million distributed by the Funds for the Newest New Yorkers, during a Constitution Day naturalization citizen event on Ellis Island. Also, the Lilly Endowment granted $95 million to strengthen the leadership of Christian churches in rural areas and small towns, and the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation gave $8.1 million for historic sites on Long Island.
The Charity CFO
JANUARY 8, 2025
In this episode of A Modern Nonprofit Podcast, host Tosha Anderson sat down with Kathryn Hoffman, CEO of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA), to discuss how to balance a big mission with human-centered leadership. As the leader of one of Minnesota’s most impactful environmental organizations, Hoffman shared valuable insights on strategic planning, measuring impact, and creating a healthy work culture.
Candid
JANUARY 8, 2025
We are at the precipice of financial transformation called the Great Wealth Transfer, and women are poised to become significant beneficiaries of this economic windfall. According to a 2020 McKinsey report , [b]y 2030, American women are expected to control much of the $30 trillion in financial assets that baby boomers will possessa potential wealth transfer of such magnitude that it approaches the annual GDP of the United States.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar Remaking the Economy: Liberating Finance to Build a More Just World. View the full webinar here. Fernando X. Abarca: The work that I think that a lot of us are doing here is trying to create the models that serve as an example for folks to be able to begin to just see or imagine a different alternative.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 8, 2025
By Avi Green & Zoltan Hajnal Low-turnout off-cycle elections are bad for everyone. Civil society can help.
Bloomerang
JANUARY 8, 2025
Not having a plan is planning to fail; the same is true for your fundraising. A year-round fundraising calendar is a must to ensure that youve coordinated all your messages, asks, campaigns, events, and stewardship to optimize revenue and your sanity. Its your roadmap to streamline and integrate your operations, stay organized and reach your goals. No matter your mission, size or scope, you need a fundraising calendar to help you visualize how your year-round fundraising plan will play out for t
The NonProfit Times
JANUARY 8, 2025
Emily Callahan is going home to Oklahoma. Most recently the chief marketing officer of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness arm of St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, she was appointed president and CEO of Feed The Children in Oklahoma City. Callahan is a native Oklahoman who has spent more than 25 years working across the nonprofit and corporate sector to build global movements that raised billions of dollars.
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Jeff Brooks
JANUARY 8, 2025
Relationship Fundraising: A Donor-Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money (3rd Edition) by Ken Burnett Ive been a fan of this book almost since the first edition came out in 1992. Just thinking about the title can be a catalyst for great fundraising. Fundraising can be a relationship? Really? It can! It must! Back in the 90s, Relationship Fundraising was a sort of meme for a fundraising revolution that was growing in our industry.
Top Nonprofits
JANUARY 8, 2025
Your nonprofits team is no stranger to change. To continue fulfilling your mission, you must stay on top of shifting community needs, donor preferences, regulatory requirements, and technology trends. Thats why investing in continuous learning is vital to your long-term success. TopClass defines a learning management system (LMS) as an online platform that makes it easy for organizations to design, manage, and track educational, training, and certification programs.
iMarketSmart
JANUARY 8, 2025
For most large and even mid-size nonprofits, your major donors contribute the great majority of your revenue. According to the Fundraising Report Card , nearly 70% of all donation revenue comes from donors giving $5000 or more. Even more staggering, these people comprise less than 1% of all donors. So, a tiny percentage of donors are giving the great majority of money.
The NonProfit Times
JANUARY 8, 2025
Bruce Pankey is the new chief financial officer and treasurer of Americares in Stamford, Connecticut. He oversees all aspects of Americares financial management, including planning, budgeting, forecasting, procurement, treasury, investments, accounting, grants and financial reporting, according to a statement from the organization. Pankey has more than 25 years of management and leadership experience, including in global humanitarian and development work.
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.
Big Duck
JANUARY 8, 2025
The post Branding and communicating about legacy giving to younger donors appeared first on Big Duck.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 8, 2025
Expect donors and organizations to be attacked by name, harassed and threatened online, and investigated on questionable grounds, says the author. Here's how groups can defend themselves. By Mike Berkowitz Chronicle Illustration; AP, Library of Congress Expect donors and organizations to be attacked by name, harassed and threatened online, and investigated on questionable grounds, says the author.
Big Duck
JANUARY 8, 2025
Get tips on how to engage communities through campaigns, apply the AGILE framework, and gain insight from real-world nonprofit success stories.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 8, 2025
With Trump returning to the White House, here's what fundraisers should keep in mind for his first 100 days, his full term and beyond.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
At the end of 2019, the California Public Banking Act (AB 857) opened the doors for local governments to establish public banks. Just months later, the pandemic brought the world to a standstill, slowing progress. Yet, in the years since, this once-radical idea has quietly gained traction, reshaping the conversation about who controls financial power.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
Image Credit: AndreyPopov on iStock The seeds of a financial system that works for the public are already all around us, from credit unions and loan funds to community bonds and Green Banks. Public bankscreated by governments and chartered to serve the public interestoffer a powerful model to advance racial equity, public accountability, and community self-determination.
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