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$100 Million for Equity: MacArthur’s New Big Bet and Mandate

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

For the first time in its 100&Change competition, grant applicants are required to address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. By Alex Daniels Ryan Donnell, Sesame Workshop The first 100&Change challenge was awarded in 2017 to a collaboration between Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to provide educational programming to refugee children in the Middle East.

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How to Prepare for a Donor Meeting

NonProfit PRO

Preparing for a donor meeting can be an intimidating experience. Here are five tips to keep you on track and give you confidence.

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Why Tides and Black Lives Matter Are Fighting Over $33 Million

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The rift provides a glimpse into legal gray areas surrounding fiscal sponsorships. By Alex Daniels Jason Whitman, NurPhoto/Getty Images Demonstrators march in a Black Lives Matter rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June 2020. The rift provides a glimpse into legal gray areas surrounding fiscal sponsorships.

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Service to Impact: Veteran Leadership in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Today’s nonprofit organizations exist in a world that is constantly evolving. This brings complex challenges that require both innovative solutions and exceptional leadership from all levels. Fortunately, there is an often-overlooked pool of talent that has exactly the skillset to thrive in this environment: veterans. As we look deeper into the invaluable contributions veteran leadership can make to a nonprofit, we’ll uncover a wealth of leadership, teamwork, diversity, resilience, adaptability,

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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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What You Can Learn From an Ambitious Joint Fundraising Campaign

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Six immigration-rights nonprofits are working together to raise $3 million for legal aid in asylum cases. Their campaign has lessons for other charities. By Emily Haynes Getty Images Six immigration-rights nonprofits are working together to raise $3 million for legal aid in asylum cases. Their campaign has lessons for other charities.

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Blackbaud Announces Hundreds of Product Updates

NonProfit PRO

Blackbaud announced updates to multiple products to help nonprofits power fundraising, financial management, and more.

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Comment on Fame and Fortune Await! Take the NEW Major Gifts Challenge by Krista

Amy Eisenstein

The Major Gifts Challenge is back and new and improved. Commit just a few hours each week and you'll be raising major gifts in no time! Watch this video.

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Nonprofit Leadership Group Coaching: All Your Questions Answered

Nonprofit Fixer

1. How much is the group coaching program “Fixer Fellowship?” The group coaching program is $2500 ($2000 if you already purchased the Executive Director Boot Camp). You can pay $250 a month for 12 months if you would like a payment plan. 2. What’s included in the Fixer Fellowship Group Coaching Program? The Fixer Fellowship is a suite of resources designed to work together to propel your nonprofit leadership forward.

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Comment on Challenge: Double Your Fundraising in the Next 12 Months by Dawn Veillette Diana

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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Reparations Requires Changing the System

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. Jeremie Greer: So, I think one of the biggest misunderstandings about the racial wealth gap is this idea that we’re going to person-by-person individualize our way out of it…and then the data points to this, right?

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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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MacArthur Offers $100 Million For One Good Program

The NonProfit Times

Round Three of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s $100 million 100&Change competition has launched with roughly 1,000 nonprofits expected to vie for the winner take all award. Think of it this way, the chance of winning the Powerball lottery is one in 292.2 million. The competition is open to organizations and collaborations working in any field, anywhere in the world, according to Chris Cardona, MacArthur’s managing director, discovery, exploration, and programs.

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5 takeaways from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project’s 2023 data

Candid

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project ’s (FEP) Quarterly Fundraising Report analyzes year-to-date trends in fundraising from individual donors, based on sample data from GivingTuesday and the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Growth in Giving database. Since Candid data is focused on institutional grantmaking, we thought we’d complement that data by highlighting FEP’s findings on individual giving.

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Class Action Denied In Blackbaud Data Breach Case

The NonProfit Times

A plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a Blackbaud data breach case has been rejected by a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina Columbia Division. Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. indicated that a method proposed by the plaintiffs’ expert had not shown how class members would be determined. By some counts, the class size could have reached 1.5 billion members, reflecting the number of records compromised.

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Guide: The role of user feedback in nonprofit website design

Big Duck

Explores recommended practices for leveraging user feedback to make your nonprofit website rebrand a success.

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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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Enhancing Digital Storytelling

Bloomerang

For years, when nonprofits would publish digital reports with their best stories, they had to point inspired readers to a separate page to make a donation, disrupting the storytelling to fundraising pipeline. We solved this problem with Storyraise , a solution for nonprofits to create digital annual, impact, and donor reports. Readers can make a donation on the spot, without being directed away from the page they’re on.

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The Reason You Lack Urgency and Courage in Asking

Veritus Group

Unless you take your head and heart to the scene to feel the urgency of meeting the need for yourself, your donor asks will miss the mark. The post The Reason You Lack Urgency and Courage in Asking appeared first on Veritus Group.

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How to write a wonderful thank you letter to your donors

Jeff Brooks

Why do so many fundraisers just fail to say thank you? And why do so many who do thank do it in a heartless, perfunctory way? I think it’s because it feels like an annoying chore that gets added to the larger project of doing fundraising. By the time you’ve really nailed down the asking, you might feel too drained to spend time, energy and heart on a thank you.

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Donor Churn vs Lapsed Donors – What’s the Difference?

Fundraising Report Card

Your board probably doesn’t know the difference. But you need to. Donor churn is not the same thing as lapsed donors. They are related, but they reveal quite different insights … Continue reading "Donor Churn vs Lapsed Donors – What’s the Difference?" The post Donor Churn vs Lapsed Donors – What’s the Difference? appeared first on Fundraising Report Card.

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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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KPIs for a Nonprofit Organization

The Charity CFO

Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, are an essential part of any successful nonprofit. KPIs give you a better idea of what programs, initiatives, and operations are effective. Choosing KPIs for your nonprofit doesn’t have to be complicated. Keep reading to learn more about some of the most common KPIs for nonprofit organizations and why you might want to use them.

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Sage Includes DonorPerfect In Financial Solution

The NonProfit Times

Accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology firm Sage is partnering with fundraising firm SofterWare to provide a more inclusive financial platform. Sage Intacct Fundraising powered by DonorPerfect is a cloud-based solution. It is intended to provide seamless flow of fundraising data alongside financials, along with clear and transparent donation documentation for small and medium-sized organizations.

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Do You Need a Nonprofit CFO?

The Charity CFO

What do many successful nonprofits have in common? Good financial management. In nonprofits, managing your finances effectively is essential to running a sustainable organization. Not only does good financial management help keep your organization running, but it also helps bolster trust in your nonprofit. A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a C-suite financial manager for your organization.

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Putting the Best Foot Forward: Why SEO Reputation Management Matters for Your Brand

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Putting the Best Foot Forward: Why SEO Reputation Management Matters for Your Brand A brand’s online reputation can spell either success or failure. With information spreading quickly through social media , search engines, and review sites, having a clean-cut and positive online reputation is necessary. Enter search engine optimization (SEO) reputation management , a set of strategies that improves your business’s image and helps reduce the impact of negative information.

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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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Strategic Budgeting Is the Missing Piece to Your Organization’s Success

Mission Minded

Investing in a transformative strategic engagement stretches the resources of most nonprofits, foundations, and education institutions. A refresh of your brand strategy, embarking on a new strategic plan, or a major fundraising campaign happen at most twice a decade. Here are a few ways we’ve seen nonprofit and school leaders shift their mindsets around budgeting to deliver on the transformative promise of their strategic engagement with Mission Minded.

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Finally! “The Effortless Ask” – Using the Donor’s Story to Make It Easy to Ask Big in 3 Easy Steps

iMarketSmart

The Ask. Fundraisers think about it. Conference speakers talk about it. Books get written about it. But is it worth all the hype? Is ‘The Ask’ so monumental to deserve capital letters when referring to it? What’s really going on here is that one component of the fundraising process has been elevated and overhyped by fundraising consultants making it seem much more grandiose than it is.

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Kinship over Transaction: How Bolivians Meet Community Needs

NonProfit Quarterly

Here in the Cochabamba Valley, days after Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Bolivians continue communing with their dead. This is one of many cultural rituals common in the small, majority-Indigenous country—wedged between Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Brazil—of roughly 12 million people. On any given day, you can hear people speaking Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, and Guaraní on the streets; and Afro-Bolivian communities and many other distinct Indigenous groups from the Amazon region live in the

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Jewish Academics Push Back on Claims of Anti-Semitism in Student Protests

NonProfit Quarterly

Debates over what, in fact, constitutes anti-Semitism are complex, deeply fraught, and often intensely personal. In the ever-escalating public debate over Israel’s deadly incursion into Gaza and the “Pro-Palestinian” protests (an imperfect descriptor that has become media shorthand) that have erupted in its wake, critics and opponents of those protests have increasingly painted them with claims of anti-Semitism—claims that have dominated headlines and public discourse in recent days.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a