The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Thomas Golisano divided the money among 82 charities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, N.Y. By Maria Di Mento Golisano Foundation Paychex founder Tom Golisano surprised leaders of 82 charities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, N.Y., with the news that they were getting gifts of $250,000 to $10 million apiece. Thomas Golisano divided the money among 82 charities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, N.Y.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

CCS Fundraising's 2024 "Philanthropic Landscape" report delves into donor generosity, corporate philanthropy, the adoption of AI, and more.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Grant makers too often skip funding this critical step when supporting local leaders like me. By Kassaga James Arinaitwe Getty Images Grant makers too often skip funding this critical step when supporting local leaders like me.

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Amy Eisenstein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As I always say about fundraising, one size does not fit all. I think fundraising can be both a cycle and a timeline; perhaps best represented in stacked cycles guiding our relationships with donors depending on the length, amount etc. of their gifts. You are truly pointing out the need to segment your donor base and address the varying communication and stewardship needs of these donors within the segments to deepen the relationships.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Future Caucus president Layla Zaidane talks about how Gen Z and millennial lawmakers cross the aisle to find solutions. Case in point: The removal of Confederate iconography from Mississippi's flag. By Chronicle Staff Future Caucus president Layla Zaidane talks about how Gen Z and millennial lawmakers cross the aisle to find solutions. Case in point: The removal of Confederate iconography from Mississippi's flag.

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Amy Eisenstein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Thank you for digging deeper into this! They might be key steps, but as the relationship builds and evolves, this cycle likely evolves into something more tailored. Honestly Amy, I think a lot of burnout and boredom from development professionals stems from the inability to reach beyond traditional ways of thinking and get creative with the donor relationship.

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Amy Eisenstein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

THANK YOU! I’ve always felt the cycle was very transactional and more focused on “bringing in the money” I appreciate your thought process here!

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By M.J. Prest U.S. Department of Education Salesforce is giving $23 million to school districts and education groups to support STEM education. Above, students watch an experiment demonstrating water density at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Also, the Knight Foundation gave nearly $17 million for economic development in Charlotte, N.C., and a $15 million collaborative effort will create the L.A.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Retaining gift officers is critical for all nonprofits with development departments. Here's how to boost their job satisfaction.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Many of us working to strengthen civil rights see recent court rulings overturning affirmative action and campaigns to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and ban books as undermining this country’s vision of pluralism and equal opportunity. In this climate, advocates are working to sustain movements that build on the social progress achieved by previous generations.

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Recruitment Energy Foundations Governance 133

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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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image credit: fizkes on iStock Our nation faces a severe and worsening housing affordability and supply crisis. Elevated mortgage interest rates, rising home prices, and a record-low supply of available homes are impacting local housing markets across the country. As a result, families across the nation have far fewer homeownership opportunities.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. It was tiny and well-loved. Being small and immensely popular, it was usually overcrowded. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. The new space was phenomenal—from outdoor climbing and obstacle courses, interactive exhibits that spanned life-size light-up games, to aeronautics with flying balls, to roller coa

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These days, it’s not enough for your nonprofit to just have a compelling mission and an inspired base of support. You need to be able to spread the word about your mission and expand that community! With so many new strategies for getting noticed online floating around the internet, it can be difficult for organizations like yours to pick the right strategy and get the kind of attention you need to acquire new donors.

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Veritus Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Amazing results happen when fundraisers follow a proven structure and receive ongoing coaching grounded in encouragement and accountability. The post How Are Your Major Gift Fundraising Results? appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Time: 1 pm ET / 10 am PT (20 minutes) Cost: Free Presented by: Heather Mansfield , Founder of Nonprofit Tech for Good Email is a powerhouse for fundraising. Twenty-six percent of online donors say that email is the tool that most inspires them to give – outpacing social media, websites, and print materials. Email is also their preferred communication method to receive news updates, appeals, and thank you messages.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Every fundraiser knows that to get a gift you have to ask. That just might be what fueled a decline in all forms of generosity during the second quarter (Q2) of 2024 — the lack of an ask. The drop in generosity during quarter corresponds to a year-to-date low in solicitation, with the monthly solicitation rate down 12% from Q1 and the weekly solicitation rate down 11%.

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iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It’s amazing how many so-called best practices get fixed and set in place, and then never questioned from that point on. Look up anything about the major gift fundraising lifecycle or perhaps the major donor journey, and you’ll find variations of the same old mantra. For decades, most people involved in the raising of major gifts agree the steps of the donor lifecycle have been – in this order: Identification Caseload population (assignment) Qualification Cultivation Solicitation Stewardship Tha

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Activism Participation and motivation Values Management 52

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 Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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Jeff Brooks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

One of the most important things you can know about fundraising is this: What people say about their charity or your fundraising has little to do with what they do. When you believe that, you are free from taking terrible advice. People’s opinions and their actions do not line up. Don’t expect them to. And don’t build your brand or fundraising platform based on what people tell you in surveys or focus groups.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image: “Call Me Back” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The American media is a morbid affair as of late. Publications ranging from the Washington Post to the Wall Street Journal to the Intercept are laying off reporters by the droves. 1 It’s a journalism Last Supper frag-a-thon every week.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image: “Through the Fire” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” In this conversation, Steve Dubb, senior economic justice editor at NPQ , Rithika Ramamurthy, former economic justice editor at NPQ and now communications director at the Climate and Community Project, and Saqib Bhatti, cofounder and coexecutive director of Action Center on Race and the Economy, explore

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image credit: Seyi Ariyo on Unsplash The United States is losing hundreds of thousands of unregulated, unsubsidized “naturally occurring” affordable homes each year to speculative buying, rent hikes, and evictions. Additionally, some 200,000 homes subsidized by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) will lose their affordability restrictions in the next five years.

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