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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Lands $125 Million From Comcast CEO and Wife

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The gift from Aileen and Brian Roberts will help build a new in-patient tower that will expand space for families who face extended hospital stays while their children are under treatment. By M.J. Prest Comcast Aileen and Brian Roberts, in a mockup of a patient room at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. Also, the University of Delaware received a commitment of $71.5 million for its business school, and Fairfield University will use a $50 million gift to enhance academic and interdisciplinary pr

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Is Your Donor Engagement Actually Engaging?

Ann Green

You may think youre practicing donor engagement by sending thank you letters and newsletters, but is the content actually engaging? Its often formulaic and just downright dull. Many nonprofits send all their donors the same appeal and thank you letters. In these letters, they never thank a donor for their past support or acknowledge theyre a monthly donor.

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Facing Federal Defunding, Nonprofits Draft Best and Worst Case Budgets

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Organizations are struggling to plan amid uncertainty about government funds. As a result, some are crafting multiple spending options. By Eden Stiffman Photo by Bienfait Amani, courtesy of World Relief Workers with World Relief set up a food distribution at the Don Bosco camp for internally displaced Congolese, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2024.

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Merging and Acquisitions as a Strategic Tool for Nonprofit Growth

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By George Tsiatis In 2023, Resolution Project and Enactus began exploring the prospect of merging our organizations. The goal was to scale our impact without rebuilding existing infrastructure: Resolution Project had developed a proven fellowship model supporting young social entrepreneurs, while Enactus had built a powerful international network and comprehensive education programs.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Your Foundation Grant Report Is Due, But You’re Short On Your Goals. Now What?

Bloomerang

For many nonprofits, foundation grants are a critical source of revenue supporting programs and general operations. Frequently, securing these gifts requires development professionals and grant writers to submit proposals that include project goals to be achieved by the end of the grant period. As part of the proposal development process, development and program staff collaborate to define clear objectives as well as anticipated outputs and outcomes.

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How to Improve Donor Retention: 3 Surprising Strategies from Top-performing Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Donor retention can feel like a never-ending cycle. Your team spends hours bringing new supporters through the door, only to watch too many quietly leave after their first gift. If that sounds familiar, you’re in good company. But some nonprofits have cracked the codenot by chasing endless new donors, but by inspiring loyalty in those they’ve already reached.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Neuroscientists are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to advance their work. 1 AI promises to help scientists leverage massive datasets and brain simulations to test new diagnoses and treatments at scalewithout the need for risky or costly human participation. 2 In this way and many others, AI could facilita

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Running a Peer-to-Peer Campaign: 4 Outside the Box Tips

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

If your nonprofit has been running the same fundraisers on repeat, you might notice a lull in results. To acquire new donors , your nonprofit must monitor and adapt to new fundraising trends. By doing so, you can stand out and ensure your fundraisers continually excite your current supporters and bring in ones. For instance, peer-to-peer campaigns have extensive room for creativity and innovation.

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How to Increase Retention by Creating a Sense of Belonging for Your Donors

NonProfit PRO

Despite the solitary nature of most giving, there are lots of ways to create a feeling of community for your donors. Here are some ideas.

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Director of Policy and Advocacy

Anedot

What We Do Come be part of the affordable, homeownership movement! Join us and make an impact on peoples lives! Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco believes in the power of homeownership to create generational impact. To this end, we build homes for first-time homeowners and sustain homeownership by helping homeowners retain their home as an asset for generations to come.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Kindsight Launches AI-Powered Grant Writing Solution

NonProfit PRO

Kindsight launched Grant Writer, a new AI-powered feature designed to help nonprofits draft grant applications in minutes.

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Amidst the rise of fascism, we need to stop catering to donors’ passions and preferences

Non Profit AF

Hi everyone, happy Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. This post may be short and incoherent, because Im supposed to be.

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NonProfit PRO to Co-Present Third Annual BridgeTECH at Bridge Conference

NonProfit PRO

NonProfit PRO is set to co-present the third annual BridgeTECH to provide nonprofit professionals with the latest fundraising insights.

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When the Mouth Speaks, the Whole Person Heals: Bringing Integrative Community Therapy and Solidarity Care from Brazil’s Favelas to the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Dall-E by OpenAI. Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? The Challenge Sometimes, innovation is the discovery of eloquent simplicity. Sometimes, necessity really is the mother of invention. Sometimes, whats new is rooted in what is ancient.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Immigration Senior Staff Attorney

Anedot

About the Organization Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. Canal Alliance is a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment. Every day, we educate, empower, support, and partner with motivated immigrants to best meet all their unique needsfrom putting food on the table, to becoming American citizens, to learning English, to gradua

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Top Strategies to Effectively Weather the Storms Threatening Nonprofits Today

Clairification

Its okay to feel overwhelmed by everything going on. The firehose of incoming. Its constitutionally impossible for us to handle it all. You can try to bear down and get through it. But after a while youll find yourself digging a bigger and bigger hole. As the inimitable Seth Godin recently wrote: Attention doesnt scale, no matter how hard we try. If you cant deal with everything, what should be your priority?

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Courage to Lead: 3 Moves to Unlock Big Impact

Fundraising Leadership

Issue 2842 March 24, 2025 Anxiety is in the air. You can feel it everywhere layoffs, political uncertainty, the gnawing fear that the earth is shifting beneath our feet. In times like these, leadership can feel impossible. How can you lead when you dont even know what the next week will bring? The truth is courage to lead isnt knowing all the answers.

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Bridging the Healthcare Gap: How Sick Pikin Helps Sierra Leone’s Children Access Lifesaving Treatments

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo taken by Jody Ray In September 2021, a young girl from Sierra Leone boarded her first plane ride bound for New Delhi, India. She had been diagnosed with meningioma, a type of brain tumor that cannot be treated in her home country due to a lack of specialized neurosurgical care. For children in Sierra Leone, life-threatening conditions often become fatal due to limited access to advanced diagnostic tools and healthcare facilities.

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.