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My Son’s Identity Doesn’t Make Him a Victim. Why Does the Social-Change World Insist It Does?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Equating identity with oppression harms social movements and those they seek to help. By Eboo Patel Equating identity with oppression harms social movements and those they seeks to help.

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40 Nonprofit Trends for 2024

NonProfit PRO

NonProfit PRO has released its 2024 report, featuring insights directly from nonprofit professionals across multiple key areas, offering essential trends to navigate the unpredictable nonprofit landscape. Download the report to gain valuable perspectives on big ideas, fundraising strategies, donor engagement, technology impact, data analytics, leadership strategies, mission awareness and much more.

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Albertson Family Foundation Grants $52 Million to Idaho Groups

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation The rock climbing wall at the Idaho Outdoor Fieldhouse, a community center along the Boise River Greenbelt for veterans, adaptive athletes, and their families Also, the University of Virginia received $55 million for Alzheimer’s research and its athletics department, and the Okta for Good Fund has committed $50 million over five years to strengthen cybersecurity at nonprofit groups, among other priorities.

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Maximize Holidays to Expand Your Nonprofit Audience

NonProfit PRO

Holidays evoke emotion, while nonprofit campaigns use emotion to drive action. Here's how to use holidays to connect with a broader audience.

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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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Comment on The Book that Changed My Professional Life Like No Other by Steve Gerber

Amy Eisenstein

I started my fundraising career in a faith-based organization and have served in one other faith-based organization. The famous book “A Spirituality of Fundraising” by Henry Nouwen changed my attitude toward myself and how to view what I was doing. I also have given this book to many gift officers over the years, and they have come back with greater confidence and assurance that we are doing important work that needs to be funded – nothing to cower from, our missions are worthy

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How to Incentivize Nonprofit Board Members’ Performance

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit executives and board chairs often get frustrated with their board members' performance. Here are six ideas to see improvement.

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American Water Charitable Foundation Launches 2024 Water and Environment Grant Program

NonProfit PRO

The American Water Charitable Foundation invites community partners to apply for grants to support clean water and environmental projects.

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Dealing With the Fear of Asking

Veritus Group

Is a fear of asking or offending your donors holding you back? Most often, there's some wrong thinking that's behind this fear. The post Dealing With the Fear of Asking appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Fewer restrictions, greater impact: How Candid shifted to unrestricted support 

Candid

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. This strategic pivot meant that we had to make the difficult choice to stop actively seeking programmatic support that had, until that point, made up a chunk of our contributed revenue.

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Removing Barriers for Women Entrepreneurs Online

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Anne Miltenburg Women worldwide, especially in low-income countries, face many barriers to entrepreneurship, including limited access to capital, harassment, and violence. It’s easy to assume that online services and opportunities lessen these barriers—that women can freely network, sell, borrow, and skill up to make their ventures a success without the biases they face in the physical world.

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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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A Community Ownership Path to Housing Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: twinsterphoto on istock.com Across the country, housing justice organizers and advocates are hearing similar complaints from tenants: “My apartment building was purchased by some out-of-state company, and I don’t know who to call about maintenance. My heat hasn’t been fixed in months.” Or: “My management company only cares about raising rents, charging more fees, and evicting my neighbors.

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3 Ways to Enhance Donor Experiences With Online Fundraising

Fundraising Coach

Strong donor relationships help your nonprofit build robust supporter networks, make donors happy to support your mission, and foster lasting support. Whether you’re setting up a gratitude system or meeting with donors one-on-one, it’s essential to make these connections and show your appreciation for their contributions. One frequently missed step in this process is optimizing the donor experience.

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New Health Insurance Plan Now Offered to Tennessee Nonprofit Network Members

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Health Insurance Carriers include Cigna, BCBS, Aetna, and United HealthCare Tennessee Nonprofit Network is thrilled to announce new health insurance options for all member organizations! Partnering with Affinity in Chattanooga, we're ensuring every Tennessee nonprofit employee has the opportunity to receive access to affordable healthcare, regardless of staff size or budget.

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How to Advance Housing Affordability—The Ongoing Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ridofranz on istock.com This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series, The Vision for Black Lives: An Economic Justice Agenda. Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice.

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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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AI From Beats to Bytes: Exploring AI’s Impact on Video Streaming

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AI From Beats to Bytes: Exploring AI’s Impact on Video Streaming In the ever-evolving technology landscape, Artificial Intelligence has proven to be a transformative force across various industries. One domain where its impact is increasingly evident is video streaming. From enhancing user experiences to optimizing content delivery, AI has seamlessly transitioned from orchestrating beats to manipulating bytes.

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Donor Retention Tips for New Donors

Donorbox Nonprofit

Typically, only 40 of every 100 donors will give to your nonprofit again next year. A 40% retention rate is not sustainable for many nonprofit organizations, but what can you do about it? There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for new donor retention. Nonprofits must learn the best ways to cultivate and retain new donors and […] The post Donor Retention Tips for New Donors appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Nonprofit Accounting Cleanup: How to Deal with a Mess

The Charity CFO

On today’s episode of A Modern Nonprofit Podcast , our special guest is the one and only Tosha Anderson, our very own founder and CEO. The conversation today has a very simple focus, 5 red flags that your nonprofit accounting needs improvement, even when it may not be recognized. Red Flag #1: Bank Account Reconciliation Whether the business is accrual or cash basis, it does not matter.

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Financial Management Tips for Small Business Owners

Concord Leadership

Thoughtful financial management lets you run your small business with confidence. Read this guide for useful tips on how to set your business up for success. The post Financial Management Tips for Small Business Owners appeared first on The Concord Leadership Group, LLC.

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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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How Virtual Phone Systems Empower Small Businesses?

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Virtual Phone Systems Empower Small Businesses? There is no doubt that small businesses need to communicate effectively in order to succeed in today’s fast-paced world of business. A virtual phone system acts as a powerful solution for small businesses that enables them to streamline communication processes. It also helps them enhance customer service and boost overall productivity.

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10 Questions You Should Ask Your Wealthy Supporters to Motivate them to Give

iMarketSmart

One of the most effective strategies for major gifts fundraising is to help your donors advance their personal hero story. This isn’t just our claim. It originates from Dr. Russell James, a National Association of Charitable Gift Planners Hall of Famer who has spent decades studying major giving and planned gifts. Major giving is ultimately about the donor and the story they want to tell about their own lives.

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How can we have courageous conversations?

Big Duck

Discover how to have courageous conversations and shift narratives to create a racially just society.

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I Felt Like Someone Was Robbing Me

NonProfit Quarterly

The past few years have seen a flurry of workers organizing across the country, from Starbucks and Amazon workers to new forms of cooperative ownership and governance sharing. NPQ ’s column, We Stood Up , features the voices of people doing the hard work of realizing economic justice in their workplaces. These stories come from workers who want to share their experiences building a democratic economy and a fairer world so that others can learn from their efforts.

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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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Creating a branded giving ecosystem to attract, retain, and upgrade donors

Big Duck

The post Creating a branded giving ecosystem to attract, retain, and upgrade donors appeared first on Big Duck.

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Can We Overcome the Asset Manager Economy?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Hunters Race on Unsplash It’s not a huge stretch to say that asset managers dominate us all. As financial firms that invest money for clients in stocks, bonds, and other assets, asset managers’ priority is accumulating wealth for their clients. With trillions of dollars under management and major influence within the highest levels of government, these firms hold outsized economic and political power.