The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The co-founder of the Carlyle Group is using big education gifts to shore up the nursing profession. By Maria Di Mento WASHINGTON, D.C. The Catholic University of America Bill Conway (center) is about a third of the way toward his target of giving $1 billion to nursing. So far he’s supported student aid, new buildings, efforts to recruit and retain faculty, and more at 22 nursing schools, including Catholic University.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

What motivates someone to dedicate their career to both clinical social work and the nonprofit sector? To find out, we interviewed Chicago local, Keenen Stevenson , Advanced Certified Nonprofit Professional ( ACNP ), and the CEO of Innovative Strategies, LLC. His Certified Nonprofit Professional ( CNP ) credential, earned in 2012, and the recent achievement of the ACNP in 2024, have been crucial steps in driving his personal mission of transforming his community through policy change, youth e

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By M.J. Prest The Home Depot Foundation U.S. Army Sergeant Anesi Tu’ufuli, who was severely wounded in 2005 during Operation Iraqi Freedom, cuts the ribbon on a specially adapted house constructed for him with help from the Home Depot Foundation and Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors, in San Antonio, Tex. Also, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas has awarded $79 million for affordable housing in five southern states, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $12.5 million to expand acc

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

If case studies and data show success when targeting audiences with a multichannel approach why aren’t all nonprofits adopting this approach? Here are three challenges they encounter.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Democracy Fund president Joe Goldman on what's next, how funders can show up for their grantees, and the need for a more ideologically diverse coalition to strengthen democracy. By Chronicle Staff Democracy Fund president Joe Goldman on what's next, how funders can show up for their grantees, and the need for a more ideologically diverse coalition to strengthen democracy.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Attract and hire talented candidates from LinkedIn’s pool of 24+ million nonprofit professionals. Eligible nonprofits get a discount. Learn more.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Donorbox launched its new nonprofit CRM product designed to simplify donor management and enhance fundraising efforts.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Jackie Sue Griffin It’s time to start thinking about your nonprofit’s grant strategy for 2025. Early planning is key to securing the funding your organization needs to thrive in the new year. Before diving into grant applications, take a step back and reassess your organization’s goals for 2025. What projects or programs do you want to fund?

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Jeff Brooks

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Depending on your cause, you may be seeing a post-election influx of new donors. It happened in in 2016, and is likely happening again. Last time, a handful of organizations got a big windfall of rage-motivated donations. But many of them found many of those donors to be one-time donors. Rage givers are not just like “typical” donors: Their motivations for giving, their age, their sense of connection with your organizations are different.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Nearly half (47%) of family foundations have assets of more than $10 million, an increase of 17% during the past 10 years. They are also spending beyond the required minimum of 5% of their corpus (71%) compared to 2020 (56%) and 2015 (55%). According to new data from National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP), in collaboration with and support from Bank of America, the number of funders with annual grantmaking greater than or equal to $1 million has grown from 23% to 36% during the past dec

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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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Veritus Group

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It takes practice to facilitate a donor meeting in a way that’s respectful of the donor’s time and energizes them to give. The post Question of the Month: How do facilitation skills make you a better fundraiser? appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Prosper Strategies

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Having a technology strategy is essential to nonprofit success. In this quick guide, learn how to develop your own strategy while sticking to a strict budget. The post Developing a Nonprofit Technology Strategy on a Budget appeared first on Prosper Strategies.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Your nonprofit’s mission may be the first thing to catch a donor’s eye, but it’s the experience you offer that not only converts them into a donor but keeps them coming back. In a landscape where charitable giving is declining and attention spans are shrinking, standing out isn’t just about what your nonprofit stands for. It’s about how it makes donors feel.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

You’ve heard of marketing automation, and you’ve likely heard of fundraising automation too. And if you’re like many nonprofits, you might even believe you’re using fundraising automation. But the reality is, nearly every organization is using only basic automation, and is barely aware of what else you can accomplish – particularly for major gifts fundraising – using advanced fundraising automation.

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Big Duck

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Often, these structures bear the faded letters “CO-OP” painted on the side. A century ago, these cooperatives enabled farmers to bargain collectively with bankers and railroad companies.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. For exactly this reason, it is all the more important that we find ways to do so. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image Credit: Andrej Lisako on Unsplash October is co-op month. It is also when the National Cooperative Business Association Cooperative League of the USA (NCBA CLUSA), the US national co-op association, hosts its annual Cooperative Impact conference in Washington, DC. This year, the United Nations declared that 2025 would be the International Year of Cooperatives; it has done so only once before, in 2012.

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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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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Exhaustion from three divisive presidential elections plus curiosity about a broadened Trump coalition may be leading to a reset of attitudes on the left and right, leaders say. By Drew Lindsay JON CHERRY/The New York Times/Redux Members of the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange gather for dinner in Campbellsville, Ky. Exhaustion from three divisive presidential elections plus curiosity about a broadened Trump coalition may be leading to a reset of attitudes on the left and right, leaders say.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Elizabeth “Liz” Darling, former president and CEO of the OneStar Foundation in Austin, Texas, died Nov. 12. Darling, 68, succumbed to ovarian cancer after a more than two-year battle with the disease. OneStar Foundation was created to support the state of Texas by strengthening the nonprofit sector. She was appointed president and CEO in 2009. Darling served as the vice chairman of the Texas Department of Human Services, overseeing welfare-to-work programs under the 1996 welfare reform act.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image Credit: Getty Images for Unsplash Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an upsurge in US labor organizing. This increase in strike activity and union campaigns is a product, in part, of greater worker awareness of the value of unions. Unions bring many benefits. Higher unionization levels are associated with positive outcomes across multiple indicators of economic, personal, and democratic wellbeing.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Stephen Jackson From supporting a local museum to responding to climate change to aiding people in the midst of a health crisis, nonprofit staff turn time and attention to a variety of issues, working on them in creative and hyperlocal ways. They also play a critical role in holding open spaces where individuals can gather and respond to issues in their communities, and much of this takes place online.

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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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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image Credit: Photo by Pavel Danilyuk on Pexels Social movements and political parties are accountable to the same politics, but elections are majoritarian. You need to get to 50 percent plus one if you want to win an election. —Maurice Mitchell, “ Building Movement-Accountable Government ,” NPQ Elections can be brutal. At least as structured in the United States—really, there are far better, more representative ways to make collective voting decisions!

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