The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Proponents say the bill is designed to punish nonprofits that support terrorist organizations. Critics worry it will give the executive branch the power to target ideological opponents. By Ben Gose istock Proponents say the bill is designed to punish nonprofits that support terrorist organizations. Critics worry it will give the executive branch the power to target ideological opponents.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Carly St. Onge, Advanced Certified Nonprofit Professional (ACNP), has spent nearly 12 years cultivating her expertise in fundraising and nonprofit management, specifically in healthcare. From her early days selling cookie dough in her neighborhood to her current role as Chief Development Officer at Logan Health Children’s in Kalispell, Montana, Carly’s career journey has been one defined by passion, persistence, and a deep commitment to improving the lives of children and their families.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Virtuous CEO Gabe Cooper joins the NonProfit Voice to discuss how innovative nonprofits are the most resilient to change and more.

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Joan Garry

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I’m so passionate about nonprofit leadership—because it's grounded in values. I believe that staying true to one’s core values is what makes a leader truly great. Here is how and why the time is now for every nonprofit leader to take a stand… The post What Drives How You Lead? appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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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.

Finance

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

With revenues down and costs rising, a growing number of nonprofits are cutting budgets, laying off staff, and even closing their doors. By Jim Rendon With revenues down and costs rising, a growing number of nonprofits are cutting budgets, laying off staff, and even closing their doors.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

PHLYSense is a 24/7 property monitoring and alert solution. Organizations get real-time alerts if water is detected or temperatures reach a hazardous level. The program includes sensors and 24/7 monitoring and support all at no-cost to policyholders with property coverage.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A new survey found that donors who budgeted for donations gave three times more on average than those who didn't have a giving budget.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A legal battle involving the organization behind the Wayback Machine shows why a nonprofit’s ambition shouldn’t come at the expense of its users. By Keith Porcaro Internet Archive Over time, the services provided by the Internet Archive became a public resource, the author argues. Above, the organization’s headquarters in San Francisco. A legal battle involving the organization behind the Wayback Machine shows why a nonprofit’s ambition shouldn’t come at the expense of its users.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Here’s what nonprofits need to know about offering paid parental leave to employees and what should go into a policy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Francesco Benvenuto on Unsplash Syed Lateefuddin was only in the first week of his job as a driver for Uber when an early dawn ride changed his life. Lateefuddin, who is Muslim, accepted a ride around 3:30 am and was driving across the streets of southern India’s metropolis of Hyderabad —home to 11 million people and located about 440 miles east of Mumbai—when six men accosted him.

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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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Big Duck

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Five steps your nonprofit organization can follow to keep your communications or marketing plan alive among your staff.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Co-op Ownership of Mobile Home Communities.” View the full webinar here. Kelly Jensen: Being a part of resident-owned community, we’re in charge of everything we do. It’s a business. It’s no longer just there’s an owner out there that’s going to tell us what to do.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By Patrice Schneider How to fund, protect, and grow public interest information.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Millions of people in the United States need work that fits around uncertain day-to-day fluctuations, particularly workers who care for children, elders, or others needing caregiving assistance. While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These AI marketing and fundraising statistics can help your inspire your nonprofit to adopt the use of generative AI for marketing and predictive AI fundraising. To learn more about AI, visit our AI Hub for Nonprofits and earn our Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing & Fundraising.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Many nonprofit organizations devote their time, talent, funding, and mission to helping people who live in financial hardship. We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. We know how hard it is for many people to make ends meet, even when they work hard every day.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Coding and Unit Testing Languages of Instagram Do you want to know the best coding practices followed for Instagram ? Here are the Coding and Unit Testing Languages of Instagram to Know About, by Pete Campbell. Within the Instagram platform, there are a few best coding practices followed. Apart from that, there are some unit testing and languages used that make this platform the most popular and effective platform for business marketing.

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Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This is an excerpt from Blueprint2025, which will publish on January 15, 2025. When I was writing Blueprint 2025 I started out trying an experiment to review the last 15 years. First, I commissioned an independent reader to review and let me know what they learned. Second, I used a large language model (LLM – the methodology underpinning most of the Chatbots in use) to analyze 15 Blueprints for me.

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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.

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Nonprofit Fixer

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

When you’re busy leading a nonprofit—developing program strategies, cultivating donors, supporting staff—thinking about accounting and finance can feel like an afterthought. But to be successful, nonprofit leaders need a functional grasp of the basics of nonprofit accounting and financial management. To give us a primer, I asked Katie Gaddis to share her wisdom.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While your organization should seek to retain donors at all levels, creating a major donor retention plan is essential. Research shows that while these donors typically comprise only around 12% of the average nonprofit’s donor base, they contribute a staggering 88% of funding. According to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , nonprofits retained 42.1% of major donors ($5K-$50K) between 2023 and Q2 2024 and 46.4% of supersized donors ($50K+).

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Donorbox Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

If you’ve never attended a nonprofit conference before, you may be wondering if they’re truly worth the time, money, and effort to attend. The short answer: it depends. The best nonprofit conferences provide ample opportunity for you to connect with fellow fundraisers and nonprofit administrators while learning cutting-edge strategies to grow your organization and fuel […] The post 9 Nonprofit Conferences You Can’t Afford to Miss in 2025 appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Jeff Brooks

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Knowledge Almost everything you read on this blog is information about fundraising. There are many great blogs about fundraising. Plus webinars, conferences, and books. As you take it all in, you amass knowledge about fundraising. That’s a start … Experience With experience, your knowledge becomes more and more real. You learn how those things you’ve learned apply to your situation.

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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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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image from Digitalhealthstrategies.com By Richard H. Levey Philanthropy professionals who work on behalf of hospitals listed major donor development, retention and upgrades and refilling the donor pipeline as their top three fundraising priorities, according to a new study. But while the hospital community reported successes within each priority, a few concerns linger regarding technology’s impact on major donor relations.

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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Welcome to the 100th episode of A Modern Nonprofit Podcast! Today, we’re doing something special: we’ll be diving into the confessions and candid struggles of nonprofit leaders, exploring some of the most difficult, eye-opening, and surprising challenges they face. In this special 100th episode of A Modern Nonprofit Podcast, host Tosha Anderson is joined by Aaron Landis to discuss common challenges faced by nonprofit leaders.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Often when grant professionals come into new roles, they are responsible for standing up the new grant management function at their organization. If this includes the capacity to manage grants with a federal origin, the task can be daunting. According to Pamela Jacques, MS, CPW, CHES, manager of Grants Administration at Kettering Health in Kettering, Ohio, here are eight things you need to know to get started.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. That is the central lesson we have gained from a six-year nationally recognized guaranteed-income program in Jackson, MS. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities.

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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

Finance

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image from springimpact.org By Richard H. Levey Nonprofits face unique challenges when it comes to increasing the depth and scope of their activities. These challenges include generating additional fundings by justifying scaling-up activities to their funders, helping related entities through shared technology or program resources, supporting organizations that supply the mission-critical offerings with the ability to increase their output as the nonprofits themselves scale up and engaging relev

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