The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Shared leadership helps organizations find the skills they need and can be an answer to candidates' demand for greater work-life balance. By Ben Gose Project for Public Spaces Kelly Verel and Nate Storring are co-executive directors at the Project for Public Spaces. Shared leadership helps organizations find the skills they need and can be an answer to candidates' demand for greater work-life balance.

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Leadership Nonprofits 349

Ann Green

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Year-end fundraising season is starting to get underway. I’m already seeing appeal letters in my mailbox and this is just the beginning. Speaking of appeal letters, you should plan to send one by mail. I know email is easier and less expensive, but people respond better to mail and it’s well worth the investment. However, if you just send one fundraising letter and wait for the donations to come in, prepare to be disappointed.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Jewish philanthropic community is in pain. We need our friends and allies to stop equivocating. By Andrés Spokoiny Mark Peterson, Redux The Jewish philanthropic community is in pain. We need our friends and allies to stop equivocating.

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Philanthropy 338

Amy Eisenstein

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supporting other women in leadership roles matters at nonprofits and throughout the fundraising sector. Learn why it's so important and how you can help.

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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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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Environmental advocates say philanthropy can help the drastically pared-down American Climate Corps succeed. By Kay Dervishi California Volunteers, Office of the Governor California Climate Action Corps Fellows and volunteers at a Community Climate Action Day learn how to remove invasive plants. Environmental advocates say philanthropy can help the drastically pared-down American Climate Corps succeed.

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Recruitment Environmental Philanthropy 338

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services recently said, “there is no AI without the AWS cloud”. If you’re new to the cloud, you may wonder what he meant? Simply put, the cloud allows organizations to transfer, store and analyze data using AI models – making it essential. Yet estimates suggest that 96% of nonprofits specifically are at the beginning of their cloud journey.

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Nonprofits 246

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

From startups to enterprises, organizations of all sizes are getting started with generative AI. So how can a nonprofit leader separate the hype from the helpful, to ensure responsible adoption of AI to their advance mission? One place to start is a simple online assessment of your organization’s cloud maturity. Invest 5min today, to guide the steps you should take tomorrow.

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Nonprofits 246

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It's important that leaders trust each other and that organizations plan carefully before they appoint joint chief executives. By Ben Gose Tim Aubry, Greenpeace For shared leadership to be successful, co-CEOs need to trust and respect each another, says Jakada Imani, Greenpeace’s board chair. It's important that co-CEOs trust each other and that organizations plan carefully before they appoint joint leaders.

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Leadership 276

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With so much attention being place on the external use cases of AI, and specifically generative AI, nonprofit leaders may be missing a hidden value of AI – internal use cases. AI solutions from AWS are powered by foundational models, models that get smart, faster and more accurate the more they are used – making them ideal to relieve the burden of repetitive internal tasks.

Values 245

Values Finance Foundations Marketing 245

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 19, 2023

My third book urges you to be CALM not BUSY if you want more communications success. Let’s explore what I mean by that. Being CALM (Not BUSY) Means Being Collaborative, Agile, Logical, and Methodical. It’s all about how your nonprofit communications team and your organizational as a whole work together. C is for Collaborative. Build listening into your ongoing routine.

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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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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

What do marketing and fundraising leaders need to know about the cloud? Simply put, a lot! The cloud powers many of today’s most vital fundraising and marketing tools and strategies, yet 96% of nonprofit leaders self-identify as being at the beginning of their cloud journey. Ready to find out where your organization falls? Take this 5min online assessment to assess your organization’s cloud maturity and find out if you’re embracing and embarking, launching and learning or innovating and accelera

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Marketing Marketing Fundraising Fundraising 242

Amy Eisenstein

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supporting other women in leadership roles matters at nonprofits and throughout the fundraising sector. Learn why it's so important and how you can help.

Leadership 189

Leadership Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits 189

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The first obstacle in any quest for clean data is knowing what’s in it. Download this ebook to learn how data profiling can help you find, fix & monitor the bad data in your system to boost donor engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve decision-making. Plus, learn how to overcome other common data obstacles to achieve a complete 360-degree customer view.

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Fundraising Fundraising 236

Amy Eisenstein

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supporting other women in leadership roles matters at nonprofits and throughout the fundraising sector. Learn why it's so important and how you can help.

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Leadership Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits 189

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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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Are you a nonprofit leader working to define your teams’ approach to digital innovation? Do you find yourself working to understand the distinctions between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and then wondering how to leverage each to accelerate impact? You’re not alone, and the team at AWS for Nonprofits is here to help with this 5min online assessment designed to offer a starting point based on your organization’s cloud maturity.

Nonprofits 235

Nonprofits 235

Amy Eisenstein

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supporting other women in leadership roles matters at nonprofits and throughout the fundraising sector. Learn why it's so important and how you can help.

Leadership 189

Leadership Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits 189

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

By Logan McDonnell As a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience working in homelessness programs and currently working in homelessness prevention, I’ve often heard coworkers describe how a person in one of these programs reminded them of a close relative or friend. Of course, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with these kinds of empathetic connections.

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Homelessness Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 131

Amy Eisenstein

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supporting other women in leadership roles matters at nonprofits and throughout the fundraising sector. Learn why it's so important and how you can help.

Leadership 189

Leadership Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits 189

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Management

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image credit: Photo by Ahmed lotfi on Unsplash Carbon capture, also known as carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon sequestration, is a process that captures carbon emissions from industrial processes or power plants and permanently stores it underground. 1 The Global CCS Institute, a think tank dedicated to researching and developing the technology behind CCS, calls the technology a “game-changer” that can build a path to a “zero-carbon economy.” 2 But it is not without risks.

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Environmental Energy Technology Public Policy 107

Clairification

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Throwing shade or throwing light? One takes a little more effort than the other. While throwing shade might be more fun, it eventually runs out of energy. It’s designed to end conversations, not start them, to intimidate, not encourage. Turning on lights helps everyone. — Seth Godin You are on a meaning-seeking journey. Through your work, you create positive change and make lives easier and better.

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Energy Nonprofits Values 79

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image credit: Photo by Chris LeBoutillier on Unsplash Maya Etienne is co-executive director of Calumet Collaborative , a sustainable economic development organization based in Gary, IN, her home and the city where many of her family and friends still live. Gary is also home to the country’s largest steel mill: US Steel’s Gary Works. And according to a September report from the Sierra Club, Gary, a relatively small city with a population of about 68,000, is one of the nation’s largest polluter

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Manufacturing Environmental Health Production 101

Donorbox Nonprofit

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Financial management may not be your first thought when starting a nonprofit, but it’s crucial for your organization’s long-term health. Financial management doesn’t just apply to fundraising. Instead, it covers your organization’s net income, expenses, potential threats, and more. In this article, we’ll share exactly what nonprofit financial management means, why you need it, what […] The post The Beginner’s Guide to Nonprofit Financial Management appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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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.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Credit: Photo by Sean Bernstein on Unsplash While Maui is burning, all people care about are their vacations. When Puerto Rico had no electricity after being decimated by a hurricane, all people cared about were their vacations. This is how tourism and the framing of occupied land as “paradise” dehumanizes native populations. devilette 17 , commentator on X, August 11, 2023 On Wednesday, August 9, satellites first detected the Maui wildfires.

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Mission Minded

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s the end of the year. Your nonprofit is hard at work crafting messaging for the giving season, weaving stories. The post Webinar: Messaging Must-Haves to End Your Year Strong appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Nonprofits 40

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Click here to learn more about this series from Edge Studios , and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia walks down a NYC street.) SAPHIA: Good afternoon! Thank you for being here. Thank you for engaging kindly and critically in the comments. And thank you for inspiring the question of this week’s episode, which is: what are we talking about when we talk about cancel culture?

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image credit: Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash Back in 2015, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released a report, The Color of Wealth in Boston , that shed an unflattering light on a city that has boasted racial progress on at least some fronts. The report found, among other things, a stark racial divide on not just income but overall household wealth—the latter figure factoring in metrics like household assets and mortgage debt.

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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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