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Nonprofit Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for January 2024

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Get your 2024 editorial calendar off to a good start with these writing ideas for newsletters, social media, and blog posts, etc. These writing ideas for January come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get February’s prompts emailed to you the the first week of January. On the Calendar 1/01: New Year’s Day.

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Philanthropy 2.0: Why Nonprofits Need a Bold Vision

NonProfit PRO

Many fundraisers think small and don't present a bold ask to donors. Now, it’s time to rethink nonprofits and how they operate.

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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By SSIR Editors A collection of some of Stanford Social Innovation Review 's most popular book reviews and excerpts published in 2023: 1. The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 50 Years by Vincent Stanley with Yvon Chouinard “Patagonia remains a for-profit business, but its single shareholder is now the Earth or, to be precise, the benefit of the Earth.

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Top 20 NonProfit PRO Articles of 2023

NonProfit PRO

NonProfit PRO is taking a look at the articles that interested you the most this year. In case you missed them, here are the top 20 articles.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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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Redefining Giving: 5 Innovative Digital Fundraising Ideas

Top Nonprofits

The fundraising world has seen many trends over the years. While not all of these trends have stuck, there has been a steady increase in digital fundraising —and for good reason. Digital fundraising opens up new possibilities for reaching a wider audience and raising significantly more for your cause as a result. Additionally, it’s more convenient for current donors to contribute online, allowing you to retain their support long-term.

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$4M in Solar Project Funding Directly Benefitting Faith-Based Organizations Available

NonProfit PRO

CollectiveSun Foundation has established a credit facility to fund $4 million of solar projects for faith-based organizations.

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Deinfluencers Versus Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Etienne Girardet on Unsplash In the video posted on Instagram, someone enters a big-box store, decorated for the winter holidays and overflowing with bright, new merchandise. The person picks up items, shows the camera, then puts the items back on the shelves. Their cart remains empty while the person filming offers advice like, “Look at the item away from the display,” in order to decide whether or not to purchase, and, when picking up a seasonal coffee cup: “You have enough mug

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Are The Rules For Using ‘Soft Credits’ In A Donor Database?

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when to soft credit donors in their database: Dear Charity Clairity, I have two questions: (1) Our organization received a check from one spouse, without any paperwork crediting the other spouse.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com Much like the creation of the telephone or the internet, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the very fabric of the society we live in. Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives.

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Marketing a Pledge Fundraiser: 3 Essential Steps to Follow

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Guest Post by Brad Dowhaniuk of 99Pledges If you’re already familiar with pledge fundraising, you may know about some of the benefits of using this method. For example, let’s say your nonprofit organized a read-a-thon and asked donors to pledge $3 for every hour their participant spends reading. Not only are participants in control of how much they earn for your cause, but donors may be willing to give more than they normally would (especially if you offer flexible payment options).

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

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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’Til the Rivers Come Home

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” It was in the year of our Lord , and the northwest winds carried the dust and brown sands from the Sahara and threw them into the Okitankwo River, the sacred waterway in our hometown of Amankuta Mbieri, in Imo State.

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How to Help Donors Give Astutely Before Year-End

Clairification

Do you want to risk not receiving generous gifts you could have otherwise received, just because you failed to go the extra mile to share relevant, useful and even critical information? Or because you just did the most basic things, failing to do what would have made your communications really stand out? The Genuine Job of the Philanthropy Facilitator Your job as a philanthropy facilitator is to do everything in your power to make giving to you as easy, joyful and rewarding as possible.

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For Moses

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” It began to rain. It rained for thirty-nine days straight—not quite beating the biblical record. But still, with its relentless pounding, its creation of rising torrents in the streets, its cascading into basements, its engendering mold in attics, its drowning of sma

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Are The Cardinal Thank-You Letter Sins?

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on the top three things to avoid when thanking donors: Dear Charity Clairity, I’d really like to step up our gratitude game, as I keep hearing how important it is for donor retention.

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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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Church Incorporation: How to Build A Compliant Congregation

Foundation Group

Church incorporation is highly beneficial to launching a world-changing ministry. Read this guide for everything you need to know about incorporation!

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Creating a Healthy Work-Life Balance: Prioritizing Employee Wellbeing for Increased Productivity

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Creating a Healthy Work-Life Balance: Prioritizing Employee Wellbeing for Increased Productivity The modern lifestyle has evolved in many ways, and our workplaces have tremendously been part of this evolution by bringing forward various opportunities as well as challenges. Among the rigours, discussions about employee well-being have gained momentum, and many are exploring the benefits of providing wellness initiatives at an organisational level.

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Your 5 Goals for 2024

Successful Nonprofits

In coaching nonprofit executive directors, I always ask my clients to draft three to five goals for our year of coaching.

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Get Ready for 2024: 6 Challenges Your Nonprofit Can Expect

Mission Minded

With global and financial turmoil, a national election, and the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies, we anticipate 2024. The post Get Ready for 2024: 6 Challenges Your Nonprofit Can Expect appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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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Top 5 Marketing Books Every Student Should Dive Into

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Top 5 Marketing Books Every Student Should Dive Into Marketing is always a good mixture of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that helps to connect the dots and implement your gained knowledge. If you fail to take time to learn the principles and check the case studies, you won’t be able to think and reflect. The most important is to look back at what you know and compare all that you see to what you already know.

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In Philadelphia, a Ban on Ski Masks Is Called Racist

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: ANDRÉ FELLIPE on pexels.com A new proposed ban on ski masks or balaclavas in public places, passed this December by Philadelphia’s City Council, has civil liberties advocates calling foul and accusing city officials of targeting Black people, and youth in particular, with the controversial legislation. The ban has implications beyond Philadelphia, as cities around the country grapple with rising concerns—sometimes justified by the numbers, sometimes not—over urban crime on the o

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How the America the Beautiful Initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act, and Philanthropy Are Effecting a Just Transition in Native American and Alaska Native Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” There is a crucial global effort underway to protect 30 percent of the earth’s lands, oceans, and waterways by 2030.