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Gifts From DAFs Are Nearly 10% of All Giving. How Nonprofits Are Trying to Court Those Donors

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DAFs remain controversial, but their size and influence continue to grow. Gifts from the accounts totaled $52 billion in 2022. By Rasheeda Childress Getty Images DAFs remain controversial, but their size and influence continue to grow. Gifts from the accounts totaled $52 billion in 2022.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 89: The State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising in 2024

NonProfit PRO

Karen Cincotti, Mary Sorensen and Noel Beebe discuss the findings of a survey evaluating the peer-to-peer fundraising landscape in 2024.

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Early Childhood Development Nonprofit Brilliant Detroit Set to Expand Nationally

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The early childhood education nonprofit, which supports children in underserved communities “from belly to 8,” plans to expand its unique neighborhood-based holistic model. By Glenn Gamboa, Associated Press Brilliant Detroit Children take part in Brilliant Detroit’s “Street Read” program, where they select a book to read to their caregivers or friends, outside the nonprofit’s Osborn hub in Detroit.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Leaders In Your Volunteer Community

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

According to recent volunteer statistics , volunteers represent a significant one-third of the nonprofit workforce. Whether they’re helping at events, staffing programs, or serving on a board of directors, volunteers are key players in the success of every organization — making volunteer management an essential skill for any nonprofit professional. But volunteer management isn’t just about recruiting volunteers and telling them what to do.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Debra Squyres

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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Robin Hood Grants $36 Million for Economic Mobility in New York City

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest All Our Kin Family child care educator Tané Trimble cares for two children in her program at Tané’s Little World Daycare in New Haven, Conn. Trimble is supported by All Our Kin, one of the grantees of Robin Hood. Plus, the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation has awarded $30 million for a center to treat people with diabetes in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, and Google.org gave $25 million for A.I. education at five nonprofit organizations.

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The Blackbaud Giving Fund Disburses Over $2.2 Billion to Nonprofits Since Inception

NonProfit PRO

The Blackbaud Giving Fund disbursed nearly $600 million to nonprofits in 2023, bringing its lifetime disbursements to over $2.2 billion.

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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Isaiah McCarty on Unsplash Everything begins with a story. This one begins in Memphis, TN, with a man named Robert Reed Church. Born enslaved in Mississippi, by the turn of the 20th century, Church had amassed a real estate fortune and became the South’s—and maybe the United States’—first Black millionaire. Church’s real estate, bank, and other businesses on Beale Street, along with his Victorian home on Vance Avenue, were symbols of Black wealth and anchors that create

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7 steps to foster healthy group participation

Big Duck

Steps leaders and facilitators can take to build more inclusive processes by encouraging healthy group participation.

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Can you tell this conversation is all AI?

Concord Leadership

I’m loving playing with the AI tools. And today’s experiment blew my mind. Thanks to encouragement from Joanna Penn, I just tested Google’s NotebookLM and it’s “conversational podcast” tool. I simply uploaded a copy of The Surprising Gift of Doubt and within minutes, it was done. The podcast was a ten-minute, focused conversation between two […] The post Can you tell this conversation is all AI?

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MNA Annual Conference 2024 Land Acknowledgement

MNA Association

Montana is the traditional homeland and common hunting grounds of several tribes, including the Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Chippewa Cree, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kootenai, Little Shell, Northern Cheyenne, Pend d’Oreille, Plains Cree, Salish, Sioux, Hidatasa, Mandan, and Arikara. Today this land is home to twelve sovereign tribes with over 67,000 enrolled members.

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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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The power of ignorance in fundraising

Jeff Brooks

Scene: Board meeting for the very small organization where I’m a board member. The all-volunteer fundraising committee is presenting a plan to launch a monthly giving campaign. After years of struggling to do this, we finally had an online giving platform that made it easy. People are nodding. It looks good. After the presentation, it’s time for Board comments.

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How Indigenous Wisdom Can Support Youth Mental Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Virgil Moorehead Jr. Renowned for its natural resources—towering redwoods, mighty rivers, abundant wildlife, and dramatic coastline—the Humboldt Bay region of Northwest California is home to eight federally recognized tribes, among them the Hupa, Yurok, Karuk, Wiyot, and Tolowa. Indigenous cultural traditions in the region have long embraced the interdependence of humans with the land, water, and the more-than-human world.

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Strengthening evidence for refugee self-reliance programming 

Candid

For refugees, achieving self-reliance—being able to meet their essential needs without being fully dependent on aid—is a crucial milestone toward building stable lives in their host countries. This goal is increasingly critical as the number of forcibly displaced people globally continues to increase at record levels. In recent years, fewer than 3% of refugees each year have found lasting solutions by returning to their home countries, securing legal status in their host countries, or resettling

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Pharma Software Development: Unlocking Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Pharma Software Development: Unlocking Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry The pharmaceutical sector has gone through many changes in the past few years. The technology continues to advance and will have a major impact on how this sector develops. For example, pharma software is transforming the way companies handle their medical research, development, and more.

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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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Mastering Donor Outreach: 5 Mistakes to Avoid and 6 Best Practices to Boost Your Results

iMarketSmart

Donor outreach is hard. There’s no sugarcoating required. We all know it. But like anything, there is a skillset, and you can learn it and get better at it. When you’re ready to reach out to a major donor prospect, there are a number of good practices to use that will increase your chances of a successful outreach. And likewise, you can avoid derailing the call if you steer clear of some common bad habits that are easy to fall into.

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5 Ways to Create Donor Loyalty and Retention at Your Event

The Killoe Group

Auctions are a crucial way for nonprofits to raise funds for their missions. Check out the top 6 trends to make your fall auction a success!

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Pathways to Democratic Business: What Two Co-op Networks Can Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

One goal of solidarity economy advocates—and of co-op supporters more broadly—is to create a world where the benefits of business ownership are widely shared. This is not the norm today. Large corporations account for nearly half of US private sector employment, and within the corporate sector, a relatively small number of corporations predominate. A 2024 Oxfam report, citing data from University of Chicago economists, noted that “the top 1 percent of US corporations own 97 percent of corporate

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Why Economic Democracy Was MIA at the Debate—And Why It Matters

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: ismagilov on iStock For nearly 90 minutes during September’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump sparred on several issues. Yet, while the economy received some attention, there was a near-total lack of questions or discussion about unions or economic democracy. Nor did these themes feature prominently in the media conversations that followed the debates.

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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