Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Nonprofit boards play a critical role in guiding the organizations they serve, helping steer decisions, ensuring fiscal health, and offering strategic oversight. However, one glaring issue that’s often swept under the rug is the lack of prompt responses to communications from executive directors and nonprofit staff. Emails and important requests from staff frequently go unanswered or receive delayed responses from board members.

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Donors are an important part of any nonprofit’s mission. Yet, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , donor retention rates have been falling since 2020. Nonprofits may need to reimagine their donor engagement strategies to go beyond occasional outreach or standard fundraising appeals and forge relationships that resonate with their values and inspire continued support.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Giving to charity remains a priority among some donors. Here's how your organization can reach out amid campaign noise. By Jie Jenny Zou Getty Images Giving to charity remains a priority among some donors. Here's how your organization can reach out amid campaign noise.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Is your nonprofit following the crucial policies and best practices to remain in good legal and ethical standing? In this this free on-demand webinar, you’ll explore the shifting landscape of nonprofit compliance and what you need to know and do now. After watching this short session with experts Brooke Bauerle Dawson and Stephanie Smith from Rivero, Gordimer & Company, you will understand: Actions your board should be taking to ensure effective governance and organizational integrity

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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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Joan Garry

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In this blog post, I share personal stories of being on the receiving end of donation requests and the valuable lessons they’ve taught me. From asking for the right amount to understanding the donor’s personal experiences, I offer cautionary tales highlighting common fundraising mistakes and how to avoid them. The post Why I Donated a Portion Of My Salary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good offers unique sponsorship opportunities for tech companies that serve the nonprofit sector and 2025 is now open for booking! Our options include: Promoted content resources Sponsored posts Sponsored webinars To become a sponsor in 2025, select one of the options below and then contact Heather Mansfield who will send available due dates for sponsored posts, promoted content resources, and sponsored webinars.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

By M.J. Prest Every Cure David Fajgenbaum, center, talks with fellow Every Cure co-founders Tracey Sikora, left, and Grant Mitchell. The nonprofit biotech organization will receive $60 million over five years through the Audacious Project. Also, Colorado State U. received $50 million to help build a new engineering facility, and the Stuart Foundation pledged $30 million to the California Thriving Youth Initiative.

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Amy Eisenstein

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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 PRO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Some nonprofits want to grow revenue by diversifying income, but this has its limits. Here's why focusing on one revenue stream works.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Escaping Corporate Capture.” View the full webinar here. Sara Myklebust: There’s about $6 trillion for just municipal and state public workers in the US in their pensions—in deferred compensation, right? And if you can believe it, that’s actually underfunded from what about 15 million workers need and have been promised for their retirement.

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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.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

FreeWill acquired Grant Assistant, an AI-based platform that aims to streamline the grant application process.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Image Credit: Getty Images for Unsplash In September, over 700 worker co-op members, co-op developers, supporters, and organizers from across the country came to Chicago to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national worker co-op federation. Worker co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their employees.

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Big Duck

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Learn how nonprofit organizations can get better at raising awareness and avoid common problems. Read the article.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The best fundraising appeals were highlighted last night during the 2024 MAXI Awards hosted by the Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW) with four agencies talking 16 of the 51 prizes. Newport One took six MAXIs while Lautman Maska Neill & Company, The Harrington Agency and K2D each took five awards. Daniller & Co. swept the Nonprofit Reinstatement/Lapsed Category taking all three awards.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & 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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 23, 2024

By Christian Seelos , Miki Sofer , Caitlin Burton & Johanna Mair According to the United States Mission to the African Union, the US alone has invested more than $100 billion in African health over the last 20 years. Despite the billions that international donors have poured into African health systems, expert reviews, such as the Lancet Global Health Commission , have found the performance of these systems to be unsatisfactory.

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Jeff Brooks

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Great insight from Kevin L. Brown at a brilliant post on LinkedIn , calling on fundraisers to showcase their results rather than how they do their work. Your impact, not your intentions. Not the work, but the win. Here’s one of the examples, from a ocean-focused environmental organization: Mission (the work they do) Powering enforcement authorities to protect the world’s fisheries.

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Veritus Group

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Are you a natural conversationalist? Or does calling donors make you sweat? No matter where you fall on the spectrum of donor calling, this checklist can be helpful. The post Get Your Donor Calling Muscles with this Checklist appeared first on Veritus Group.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 23, 2024

You know that your mid-level donor relationships matter. These amazing supporters have greater potential to become major donors. They have higher donor lifetime value because they typically have stable incomes and lifestyles, which leads to longer relationships. And, mid-level donors likely make up a sizable portion of your revenue. It varies by organization of course.

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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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Prosper Strategies

OCTOBER 23, 2024

If you’ve been through the process of developing a nonprofit strategic plan before, you know there are a lot of elements that make up the final product. Your nonprofit strategic plan typically includes your vision, mission, values, Reason for Being, pillars, objectives, key results and action plans. Because there are some many elements to the […] The post The Essential Components of a Nonprofit Strategic Plan: A Guide for Nonprofit Leaders appeared first on Prosper Strategies.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 23, 2024

You know that your mid-level donor relationships matter. These amazing supporters have greater potential to become major donors. They have higher donor lifetime value because they typically have stable incomes and lifestyles, which leads to longer relationships. And, mid-level donors likely make up a sizable portion of your revenue. It varies by organization of course.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Escaping Corporate Capture.” View the full webinar here. Kali Akuno: One of the things, why this [pension investing] interests me so much, and how we’ve been trying to go about making an impact in this world, is fundamentally by pushing for broad union – cooperative alliances and initiatives.

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