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The Ask: Why Your Fundraising Approach Isn’t Working and How to Fix It

NonProfit PRO

Master the art of the ask and transform your fundraising strategy. In today's donor-centric world, vague requests no longer suffice. This resource reveals how to craft impactful, value-driven asks that resonate with donors' priorities and motivations. Learn actionable tips to maximize donations by aligning your message with WIIFM principles, Starting with the Heart, fostering genuine connections, and addressing donors’ desire for recognition.

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Elevate Conference 2025: Take Your Nonprofit Off Autopilot

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

2025 is the year your nonprofit organization needs to take its future seriously. The world is changing, and the social sector must lead the charge. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s Elevate Conference is your opportunity to come together, spark new ideas, and cultivate the connected communities needed to drive meaningful change. Elevate 2025 is a call to action for nonprofit professionals to think boldly about their organizations and act with purpose.

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Reimagining Fundraising: A Strategic Blueprint for Community College Presidents

NonProfit PRO

Transform your fundraising efforts with a strategic guide tailored for community college leaders. 'Reimagining Fundraising' delves into innovative approaches, donor relationship-building, and leveraging technology to meet funding challenges head-on. Discover actionable insights to align your college’s mission with donor engagement and community partnerships, ensuring lasting impact and sustainability.

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Buffett Continues Thanksgiving Tradition With $1.2 Billion to His Kids' Foundations

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By pouring huge sums into his family's foundations, Warren Buffett shows trust in his three children to give away his $151 billion fortune. By Maria Di Mento Nati Harnik/AP Warren Buffett has given nearly $3 billion apiece to the foundations of his children, Howard, Susie, and Peter. By pouring huge sums into his family's foundations, Warren Buffett shows trust in his three children to give away his $151 billion fortune.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Amplēo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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Start with Heart: Transforming Fundraising through Emotional Intelligence and Connection

NonProfit PRO

Unlock the secret to fundraising success with strategies rooted in joy, emotional intelligence, and authentic connections. 'Start with Heart' is your guide to catalyzing transformational results for your team, donors, and organization. Learn the proven principles that empower individuals and organizations to build trust, engage donors, and raise more money with purpose and passion.

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Last Minute Strategic Year-End Email Appeal Tips

Clairification

Studies show one-fourth of all charitable giving happens in December. For some organizations (maybe yours?), it’s as much as one-third. Year-end fundraising is not chopped chicken liver! While you absolutely should be using multiple fundraising channels to get best results, right now whatever you’ve got planned for offline is pretty much cooked.

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Tips To Get Noticed During End-of-Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

Did someone say “donate now?” We’re heading into the busiest, most lucrative time of the year for nonprofits— end-of-year fundraising. A time when many nonprofits raise 25-50% of their entire budget. But I’m guessing your inbox was flooded with emails last year for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and GivingTuesday (me too). Do you remember any emails that stood out?

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Beyond Year-End Fundraising: Keep Asking

NonProfit PRO

When donors make a year-end philanthropic gift, they feel joyful. Here's how to encourage them to continue giving after year end.

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Stop “dumbing down” your fundraising

Jeff Brooks

If I got a nickel every time I heard a nonprofit leader refuse to “dumb down” their fundraising, I’d have, well, a really big bag of loose change. It’s often a point of pride for people in nonprofits to preserve the complexity of their programs in their fundraising. The problem with that is that simplifying is not at all the same thing as dumbing down.

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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tirza Gapp & Jennifer Howard-Grenville When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges. Research reveals how inter-organizational collaborations for social impact often run into structural or governance issues like power asymmetries or a focus on the wrong metric of success.

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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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Immigration Staff Attorney

Anedot

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA JOB DESCRIPTION NOTICE: This job description is provided as a general summary of common job duties performed by individuals assigned to this job title. It is not all-inclusive, nor is it intended to create a contract, written or implied, between employees and Catholic Charities, nor does it in any way alter the employment at-will relationship that exists between employees and Catholic Charities.

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Shifting power: How the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment is transforming culture and impact 

Candid

In 2014, the Ford Foundation refined its mission to focus on disrupting inequality by addressing its root causes rather than simply its symptoms. That refocus of our mission would be reflected in our grantmaking, but we also wanted to ensure it was reflected within our institution. We knew our staff needed to reflect the diverse communities we serve.

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Immigration Staff Attorney Supervisor

Anedot

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA JOB DESCRIPTION NOTICE: This job description is provided as a general summary of common job duties performed by individuals assigned to this job title. It is not all-inclusive, nor is it intended to create a contract, written or implied, between employees and Catholic Charities, nor does it in any way alter the employment at-will relationship that exists between employees and Catholic Charities.

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The WRONG lessons we’ve been learning from this political nightmare, and the RIGHT ones we should learn instead

Non Profit AF

Hi everyone, a couple of things before we get started. If you’re free on next Wednesday December 3rd at 1pm.

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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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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: DALL•E by ChatGPT While academics debate whether smartphones are responsible for the recent surge in depression and anxiety among young people, and state and local governments across the United States experiment with solutions like free access to online therapy, a growing number of clinicians and grassroots advocates are completely rethinking how we approach mental health.

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Opinions Differ On If Donors Will Show Up On GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

Philanthropists are coming to the end of a year that featured several claims on their pocketbooks. The year started with atypically high inflation rates and featured several significant weather-related disasters, ongoing crises in the Middle East and Ukraine and an acrimoniously contested, highly polarizing and wildly expensive election season. This year, GivingTuesday, which is held the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, will be on the latest possible calendar date — December 3.

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The Harris Agency Launches Pro Bono Grant Program ‘THA Impact’

NonProfit PRO

The Harris Agency opened grant applications to offer up to $25,000 in public relations support to a nonprofit's project or campaign.

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Study: Religiously Affiliated Are More Likely To Trust Charities

The NonProfit Times

Atheist, agnostic and unaffiliated participants in a new study are less likely to report high trust in charities than participants in other religious affiliations. New data shows 4.6% of atheists rate their trust in charities as 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale, as compared to 55.6% among Muslims or 32.1% among Jewish participants and 20% among Protestants and 8% of agnostics.

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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.