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Tired of Juggling 10 Systems That Don’t Talk to Each Other? Here’s the Fix

The Charity CFO

Tired of Juggling 10 Systems That Dont Talk to Each Other? Here’s the Fix “Automation isnt about removing the human touchits about protecting it.” David Watters, Simple & Engaging Does your nonprofit rely on a patchwork of systemsGoogle Sheets, Eventbrite, Mailchimp, Canva, Salesforce, and five othersto keep things running? Are your staff constantly switching tabs, re-entering the same data in multiple places, and wondering why nothing ever really syncs?

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Personalization Strategies in Direct Mail for 2025

NonProfit PRO

Personalization is key to direct mail success. Here are six ways nonprofits can take their direct mail personalization to the next level.

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19 Creative Volunteer Recruitment Ideas You Should Try

Bloomerang

If volunteers make up a large percentage of your nonprofits team, you know how important their support and dedication are in your efforts to achieve your mission. However, 26% of volunteer leaders noted that recruiting volunteers was a top challenge for their organization in 2024. We want to help your nonprofit succeed and make volunteer recruitment the best part of your job.

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Heartbreaking Missed Opportunities: Is Your Nonprofit Falling Short of Its True Fundraising Power?

Clairification

Survival Depends on Collective Commitment and Deep Support Too often, fundraising is relegated to an administrative function rather than a mission-central function. Its viewed as a necessary evil. As a result, either no one embraces it as central to their job description, or someone is hired and shunted off to a corner to do the dirty work. Others dont necessarily feel a need to cooperate or support the fundraising effort.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Faith-Based Benchmark Report

NonProfit PRO

Free Report to Faith-Based Benchmark Report Learn how faith-based organizations can retain donors and boost recurring giving

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Start the fundraising year strong with a 2025 Candid Seal of Transparency

Candid

New Candid Seals of Transparency for 2025 have arrived, alongside some exciting updates to our profile editor, which weve launched on Candids new platform. Weve listened to your feedback and made significant improvements to the editing experience, making it simpler and more intuitive. With these enhancements, earning a 2025 Candid Seal of Transparency has never been easier.

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New Analysis Points the Way Toward the Most Effective Impact Investments and a Need for Better Data (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Dean Hand & Jacob Tate With impact investment assets under management approaching $1.6 trillion, the industry needs to build better analytical methods to make the most of every penny. A new approach from the Global Impact Investing Network may show a way forward, but the need remains for more, better, and more widely shared data.

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Faith-based Quick Guide CRM Checklist

NonProfit PRO

Free Checklist to Faith-based Quick Guide CRM Checklist Your Quick Guide to Switching CRMs for Faith-based nonprofits

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Building Bridges Between the Disability Community and Elections

Non Profitvote

We interviewed Marty who works at a nonprofit serving the rural disability community about helping people vote. She talks through the unique challenges their community faces and how shes made inroads in awareness and education of those with local elected officials and election offices You told me the site was just going to check my voter registration, but now my polling place has changed!

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Education Benchmark Report

NonProfit PRO

Free Report to Education Benchmark Report Help your education nonprofit retain donors and optimize fundraising efforts

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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Women Aren’t Bad at Taking Risks—The System Is Just Rigged

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Karolina Grabowska on Unsplash Investing has been portrayed as a high-stakes macho gamea narrative that is deeply misleading. In the second half of the 20th century, women made significant progress in closing the gender pay gap. But in the last two decades, progress has stalled. A Pew Research Center survey revealed peoples reasoning for that trend: half of U.S. adults point towomen being treated differently by employers.

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Healthcare Benchmark Report

NonProfit PRO

Free Report to Healthcare Benchmark Report Help your Healthcare Nonprofit retain donors and optimize fundraising efforts

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The Unraveling of Rural Healthcare in Wisconsin and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: lawcain on iStock The immigrant women would take a boat from their home countries to New York and the rail to Illinois. A few would follow the river to Iowa. Still more would tackle the Mississippi River, making their home in the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN. A handful made their final destination the Big Woods of what would later be named Wisconsin.

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Lilly Ledbetter: Her Equal Pay Victory Resonates as Struggle Continues

Fundraising Leadership

Patricia Clarkson as Lilly Ledbetter in the new film Lilly, premiering at Take The Lead Arizona. Unequal pay for women is still a thing. Even as a new film salutes the tireless advocacy of the late Lilly Ledbetter, the force behind the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act , women in this country are still behind men in earning the same money for the same work.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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10,000 Job Cuts in 70 Days. Introducing the Nonprofit Layoff Tracker

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

As federal budget cuts ripple through an economy in which nonprofits already were struggling, the Chronicle of Philanthropy is assembling a monthly estimate of nonprofit job losses by sector. By Sara Herschander, Tamara Straus, Alex Daniels, and Elizabeth Haugh Patrick Semansky, AP In March, Johns Hopkins University announced 2,000 job cuts, 247 in the United States, after it lost $800 million in funding from USAID amid the Trump administrations downsizing of the federal government.

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Is the New Political Order Undoing Decades of Healthcare Progress?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Getty Images on Unsplash The United States currently stands at a political crossroads as recent policy changes threaten to unravel decades of progress toward healthcare equity and accessibility. Healthcare isand has beena battleground for competing political and economic ideologies, with each administration leaving its mark. But as new policies emerge, the question remains: Are current political shifts merely the latest iteration of a familiar cycle, or do they represent a deeper e

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70-Plus Foundations 'Meet the Moment' and Pledge to Increase Their Grants

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Some funders are taking a stance to shore up nonprofits defunded by the Trump administration. Others have offered a "statement of solidarity" in response to the federal cuts. By Alex Daniels Trust-Based Philanthropy Project Shaady Salehi, co-executive director of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, says foundations reticence to take a public stand in the early months of the administration may have been out of fear of retaliation, but by coming together, foundations can find safety in numbers.

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Cory Booker Set a High Bar for Toughness. The Nonprofit World Should Aim to Reach It.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Fighting Trump administration policies requires grit and sacrifice more typical of college athletes than social justice warriors. Booker showed how its done. By Eboo Patel POLITICO via AP Images Sen. Cory Booker speaks with reporters shortly after completing the longest Senate floor speech on record at the U.S. Capitol on April 1. The Democratic senator from New Jersey characterized the speech, which lasted 25 hours and five minutes, as an act of resistance to the Trump administration.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.