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Columbia U.'s Firestorm Is Just the Beginning. Here's How Philanthropy Can Bring Down the Temperature.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A young nonprofit leader argues that there's a brief window of opportunity to ensure that hate won't thrive on college campuses. By Manu Meel Anadolu via Getty Images Police arrest students at New York University during demonstrations in solidarity with the students at Columbia University in New York City on April 22. A young nonprofit leader argues that there's a brief window of opportunity to ensure that hate won't thrive on college campuses.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 84: The Rapid Growth of Giving Through Donor-Advised Funds

NonProfit PRO

Shirley Nagar, Sarah Traisman and Mitch Stein join The NonProfit Voice to discuss the rise of donor-advised funds as a way to give.

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Turn Introversion Into Your Fundraising Super Power

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The author of "Fundraising for Introverts" shares how the trait can be a real benefit in the nonprofit world. By Emily Haynes Getty Images The author of "Fundraising for Introverts" shares how the trait can be a real benefit in the nonprofit world.

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Newman’s Own Foundation Announces Inaugural Food Justice for Kids Prize

NonProfit PRO

Newman's Own Foundation opened applications for the inaugural Food Justice for Kids Prize to support organizations fighting food injustice.

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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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Packard Foundation Pledges $480 Million for Ocean Health

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest Monterey Bay Aquarium A leopard shark swims in the Kelp Forest exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a recipient of grant funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Also, the Bezos Earth Fund will award up to $100 million through the AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge, and Davidson College has received $60 million from the Duke Endowment to expand its library.

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Nonprofit Organizational Fitness and Health Are Not the Same

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits may confuse organizational fitness with health. Here's the difference, as well as some tips to boost your organization's health.

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3 Nonprofit Tips to Secure Effective Corporate Partnerships

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Your nonprofit has plenty of responsibilities to manage , from planning fundraising events to organizing community programs. If you’ve found yourself wishing for an extra support system, we’ve got the solution for you. Corporate partnerships with local businesses can give your nonprofit organization a leg up in furthering its mission—whether you need direct financial support, pro-bono services, or in-kind donations like a venue for your events.

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How Should You Spend Your Fundraising Budget? (#5 of 6)

Veritus Group

When your fundraising budget isn't properly allocated across the donor pipeline, it has economic consequences for your non-profit. The post How Should You Spend Your Fundraising Budget? (#5 of 6) appeared first on Veritus Group.

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How to design your fundraising so it can actually be read

Jeff Brooks

So far in this series about Inclusive Fundraising, we’ve focused on reading and attention issues that make reading a challenge for many people — by some accounts, about 20% of the population in the US deals with these challenges. There’s another set of issues that make reading difficult for even more people: visual acuity issues. These range from presbyopia (which affects nearly everyone in their 40s or older to complete blindness — and everything in between.

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Should your campaign identity match your brand identity?

Big Duck

Determine when and where to change your organizational brand elements for unique and engaging campaign visuals, themes, identities, and more.

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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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Data Shows Online Giving Couldn’t Save 2023 Revenue

The NonProfit Times

Fundraisers expecting online revenue to save their 2023 were probably very disappointed. Online revenue declined by 1% during 2023 on average, but revenue from monthly giving increased 6%, and accounted for 31% of all online revenue. Some nonprofits did have increased online revenue. It was 3% more for Public Media nonprofits, and 4% more for the Health sector.

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How to Project Future Finances With Nonprofit Bookkeeping

MNA Association

With nonprofits seeing a recent decline in revenue across the board, it’s more important than ever to plan ahead financially. Insights into your finances are crucial for determining the future steps you’ll take to continue funding your mission. This goes beyond simply deciding if text fundraising is an effective strategy or how your donation form should be formatted—you must project future finances to determine how your organization will operate and allocate its funding.

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Givebutter Gets $50M Private Equity Investment

The NonProfit Times

Givebutter, the all-in-one nonprofit fundraising and CRM platform, closed a $50 million strategic growth investment led by BVP Forge, Bessemer Venture Partners’ dedicated investment fund for self-sustaining, growing companies. There is also participation from existing investor Ardent Venture Partners. The funding follows another year of rapid and profitable growth for Givebutter, during which total donations on the platform crossed $1 billion.

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Essential Steps to Mastering Your Donation Form with Donorbox

Donorbox Nonprofit

Your donation form is more than just a tool for capturing donations – it’s a catalyst for connection, a conduit for generosity, and a canvas for telling the stories that make your mission unique. Donorbox’s donation forms help you do all of this and more! Creating donation forms optimized for your needs will transform your […] The post Essential Steps to Mastering Your Donation Form with Donorbox appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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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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Low Pay, Working Conditions Pushing Union Drive In Denver

The NonProfit Times

A union drive is underway at a Denver nonprofit that helps the unhoused, the latest of what appears to be a nascent but growing trend across the nonprofit sector there and in other parts of the country. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless workers say low pay and understaffing are contributing to high turnover, exacerbating what they contend are already difficult working conditions.

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Projects? Chaos? Process? Growth…

Concord Leadership

2024 has been a season of creation and discovery. I’ve had some amazing wins and some confusing misses. Using Tetris to describe the year, I’ve made some really incredible fits, but the simple blocks haven’t lined up in the way I expected. Not “lost,” just not fitting Nothing has been lost or wasted, it just […] The post Projects? Chaos?

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Defining Your Nonprofit KPIs

The Charity CFO

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a data metric you can use to gauge the overall success of your nonprofit organization. You can use KPI data to track your organization’s performance in various areas, such as finance or operations. As you collect KPI data, you’ll get a better picture of how your organization is performing now so you can make strategic decisions to improve it.

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Hiring in 2024: Common Mistakes You Must Avoid to Build a Stellar Team

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Hiring in 2024: Common Mistakes You Must Avoid to Build a Stellar Team Hiring the right talent is crucial for the success and growth of any organisation. As we step into 2024, the dynamics of the job market continue to shift, presenting both challenges and opportunities for employers. In this blog post , we’ll explore some common hiring mistakes that you must avoid to ensure you’re building a great performing team in 2024.

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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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Reimagining grantmaking with data collaboration at scale 

Candid

Imagine a world in which philanthropy professionals are focused on improving their practices to transform philanthropy through centering communities, lightening the burden on nonprofit organizations, and holding themselves accountable to their values. PEAK Grantmaking’s “Reimagining Philanthropy” conference in March exploring these themes was a fitting setting for a session Candid organized about advancing systems change via data collaboration at scale.

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Leading the Industry: Innovations by a Tempered Glass Company

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Leading the Industry: Innovations by a Tempered Glass Company Tempered glass companies, such as JTG , are leading the industry with their innovative approaches to manufacturing, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to introduce strength and safety features. These companies are not just manufacturing products, but are also making significant strides in improving energy efficiency in buildings.

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Why Organizations That Institute the Greatest Demands for Accountability Perform So Poorly

iMarketSmart

For the most part, everyone agrees that metrics are good. Accountability is good – even for major gift officers. Generally speaking, measuring what you do improves performance and results. But here’s the rub when it comes to fundraising metrics – it matters very much which accountability metrics you use. Use the wrong ones, and your fundraising revenue will start trending the other way.

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Revitalize Your Space: Glass Partitions for Residential Renovations

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Revitalize Your Space: Glass Partitions for Residential Renovations When it comes to home renovation, glass partitions have become a popular trend, offering an elegant and practical solution to redefine and revitalize your space. The innovative designs available at [link] provide a plethora of options to breathe new life into your residential property.

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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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To Decommodify Housing, We Must Challenge Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: A Policy Vision from the Movement for Black Lives.” View the full webinar here. Rosemary Ndubuizu: The value of…de-commodified housing that’s rooted in gender, racial, and Indigenous justice would require that we start to unpack some very ugly truths about our economy.

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Enhancing Your Fundraising Events with Visual and Audio Technology

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Enhancing Your Fundraising Events with Visual and Audio Technology In today’s digital age, how we listen, interact, and connect has transformed, emphasizing the importance of incorporating innovative visual and audio technology into event planning. For nonprofits, leveraging these technologies enhances the appeal of their fundraising events and significantly increases their reach and impact.

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Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation: As “Plan B” Emerges, What’s at Stake?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Mike Ferguson/AAUP A year ago, in Biden v. Nebraska , the US Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s executive order to cancel up to $20,000 in debt per borrower. Since then, the Biden administration has taken incremental steps to reduce debt. As of January 2024, 3.7 million Americans had received a total of $136.6 billion in debt forgiveness.

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IIoT for Business: How to Increase Productivity with Automated Systems

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

IIoT for Business: How to Increase Productivity with Automated Systems In today’s world, where technologies are advancing at an incredible pace, integrating innovative solutions is a key success factor for businesses in any industry. A highly promising direction in this context is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which opens up new possibilities for optimizing management and production processes.

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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

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10 Ways You Can Use Ecommerce to Ignite Your Business

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

10 Ways You Can Use Ecommerce to Ignite Your Business Leveraging the power of ecommerce can be essential for businesses that are looking to thrive and expand their reach. With the global ecommerce market witnessing exponential growth, tapping into online channels presents a wide range of opportunities to ignite your business. From reaching new customers to streamlining operations, here are ten ways you can harness the potential of ecommerce to propel your business forward.