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$400 Million to Columbia U. in Boom Year of Medical School Megagifts

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Roy and Diana Vagelos's latest donation expands the medical school's mission to advance treatment for diseases. By Maria Di Mento Charles Manley Diana and Roy Vagelos’s gift will support programs in cell engineering and gene therapy. Roy and Diana Vagelo's latest donation expands the medical school's mission to advance treatment for diseases.

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Blackbaud Announces Integration of Multiple Microsoft Products

NonProfit PRO

Blackbaud announced the integration of multiple Microsoft products— including Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Power BI— into Blackbaud Impact Edge.

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How Nonprofits Really Feel About A.I.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Charities are embracing A.I., but comfort and safeguards lag behind, a new GivingTuesday survey finds. By Sara Herschander Getty Images More than two-thirds of nonprofits have already tried using artificial intelligence in their work, despite low comfort levels with the technology and concerns about data protection and bias, a new survey reveals.

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4 Signs It’s Time for Your Nonprofit to Rethink Its Strategic Approach

NonProfit PRO

Does your nonprofit need to rethink its strategic approach? Let's look at four signs that indicate it does.

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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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Kenneth Rainin Foundation Names First Executive Director

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest Mitch Tobias Shelley Trott will become the first executive director of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Also, Vital Strategies has chosen a Merck executive as its next CEO, and the basketball star LeBron James appointed a new leader for his More Than a Vote nonprofit group.

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How to Set KPIs for Your Nonprofit Marketing Strategy

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Though there are some proven nonprofit marketing channels that many organizations leverage, it’s how your nonprofit leverages these channels that makes your strategy successful. Your nonprofit should take an approach tailored to your target audience’s preferences, but how can you tell if your efforts are working? That’s why standardizing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) for your marketing campaigns is critical.

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Manufacturing Cybersecurity: Best Practices for Protecting Your Systems

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Manufacturing Cybersecurity: Best Practices for Protecting Your Systems In today’s interconnected world, manufacturing cybersecurity has become a critical concern for businesses across the globe. As manufacturing processes become increasingly digitized and automated, the risk of cyber attacks grows exponentially. This article will explore the importance of cybersecurity for manufacturing and provide best practices to help protect your valuable systems and data.

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Top 4 Limitations of Open Source Nonprofit CRM & How to Solve Them

Donorbox Nonprofit

So you’ve just found the perfect open-source nonprofit CRM software. It’s free, and flexible, and promises to do everything you need to manage your nonprofit’s donor relationships and boost your fundraising efforts. You’re excited because, well, who wouldn’t be? But after a few months, you start running into unexpected roadblocks — technical issues, hidden costs, […] The post Top 4 Limitations of Open Source Nonprofit CRM & How to Solve Them appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Understanding SaaS: The Evolution of Software Delivery

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Understanding SaaS: The Evolution of Software Delivery Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers a convenient and efficient way for both individuals and businesses to access and use software. Unlike traditional methods that require local installations, SaaS provides applications directly through web browsers hosted on remote servers that are accessible from any internet-connected device.

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Is Your Nonprofit Ready for an Audit? Here’s a Checklist to Help You Prep.

The Charity CFO

No time to read this article now? Download it for later. Download the Article For nonprofits, audits are more than just a regulatory requirement–they’re a tool for safeguarding the organization’s mission and financial health. An audit helps improve an organization’s financial transparency, builds donor trust, and ensures compliance with regulations.

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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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Court Date Pending For Daniel’s Law Data Suits

The NonProfit Times

New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law, which penalizes the dissemination of names and residential addresses of judicial, law enforcement, child protection investigators and other covered individuals, is having a significant damping effect on marketing efforts – including nonprofit solicitations – aimed at Garden State residents. The extent to which the law is having an impact on nonprofit outreach is unknown because neither side is talking on the record, except in court papers.

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The Ongoing Discouragement of Our Best Fundraisers When Their Talents are Most Needed

iMarketSmart

I hear from them almost every day. Smart, hardworking, principled, mission-driven fundraisers. They share examples of the mindless, myopic metrics visited on them by people who think leadership is demanding from others what they have never done and could not do themselves under the best of philanthropic circumstances. They assume holding fundraisers to unrealistic goals will produce better results when the most common result is the turnover of the mismanaged.

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Power Up For Women’s Equality Day: 5 Proven Reasons Together We Lead Increases Equity

Fundraising Leadership

On stage at the Power Up Conference 2023 (L to R) Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president, Take The Lead; Julie Uhrman, co-founder, Angel City FC, winner of Leading Company Award; Vada Manager, 2022 Leading Man Award winner. It has been 104 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that granted women the right to vote, and Women’s Equality Day on August 26th is a salute to that milestone.