October, 2022

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Mastercard to Exempt Nonprofits in Good Standing From Recurring Donation Regulations

NonProfit PRO

Mastercard announced the recurring donation regulations that took effect Sept. 22 — and were going to kick in March 21, 2023, for nonprofits — will now be deemed best practices and not required for for-profit or nonprofit merchants, as long as they aren’t cited with excessive chargebacks. .

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Improve Your Fundraising and Communications by Segmenting Your Donors

Ann Green

Do you send all your donors the same appeal and thank you letter? Do you also feel your appeals aren’t bringing you the donations you need? Hmm, there may be a correlation here. If you’re not segmenting your donors into different groups, you’re missing a chance to raise more money and let your donors know you recognize them for who they are. Your donors are not the same.

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One of the Most Creative Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Ever

Joan Garry

Do your org’s diversity & inclusion initiatives go deeper than how diverse your board and staff is (or isn’t)? Learn all about a creative move one of my clients made to bring racial diversity to life in their organization! The post One of the Most Creative Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Ever appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Comment on 27 Ways to Cultivate Donors and Build Deep, Lasting Relationships by Irene Kaufman

Amy Eisenstein

Am returning to work in the field of non-profit fundraising, and really appreciate your articles. They have been so helpful in helping feel I am getting back up to speed. (BTW – is there a typo in the header of item 25? Please feel free to edit this bit out if you decide to post my comment :0).

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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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Are You Failing to Prioritize Your Calls to Action?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We just finished our Creating Your Donor Communications Plan Master Class and we kicked things off by talking about getting your messaging right. The #1 question to ask yourself in order to do that is: What’s my call to action? But what if you have various staff members arguing about what you should ask supporters to do in your newsletter or on social media?

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4 CNP Virtual Backgrounds

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Written by: Miles Bilka, CNP. Reading Time: 2 minutes. Are you bored of using the same virtual backgrounds for every meeting? Or are you constantly on the move? Try setting up a new background perfectly made for a Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP), like you! Are you unfamiliar with what the CNP credential is? We got you! The Certified Nonprofit Professional credential is the only nationally recognized credential in nonprofit management that provides learning and real-world experience.

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Your Fundraising Campaign Will be More Successful if You Go Multichannel

Ann Green

Year-end fundraising season is starting to gear up. I’m already seeing appeal letters in my mailbox and this is just the beginning. Speaking of appeal letters, you should plan to send one by mail. I know email is easier and less expensive, but people respond better to mail and it’s well worth the investment. However, if you just send one fundraising letter and wait for the donations to come in, you’ll be disappointed.

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Joan’s Top 10 Nonprofit Leadership Books

Joan Garry

Check out my list of the top 10 nonprofit leadership books everyone should read to learn valuable insights on things like messaging, running effective meetings, and navigating the currently evolving workplace dynamics. The post Joan’s Top 10 Nonprofit Leadership Books appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Comment on 5 Critical Steps to Raise Major Gifts in Time for Year-End Fundraising by 8 Savvy Ways to Raise More Money in ANY Economy - FileHog.com

Amy Eisenstein

[…] fundraising season is heating up. It’s normally the time nonprofits raise more than the rest of the year combined. But as the markets falter and uncertainty creeps in, you and your donors may be facing […].

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How the Colors in Your Design Influence Thoughts and Emotions

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Raise your hand if you are a nonprofit communications director who has been formally trained in graphic design. OK, you three don’t need to read this blog post. (But if you want to guest post for us, give me a shout!). But we know the majority of you are not trained designers and graphic design is just a necessary part of your everyday work as a nonprofit communicator.

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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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Become an SEO Pro: SEO Resources for Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Center

Google is consistently the top-visited website in the U.S., and search engines drive the majority of all website traffic. Have you ever wondered how to get your nonprofit to rank higher on Google or to show up on the first page of search results? One of the answers lies in mastering SEO. Search engine optimization, also known as SEO, is the process of maximizing the number of visitors to your website by implementing strategies that will help it appear higher on the list of search engine results.

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Maximize Your Social Fundraising This Giving Season

NonProfit PRO

With more than $6 billion having been raised through Facebook and Instagram fundraisers now, social fundraising has cemented itself as a key strategy for increasing nonprofits’ revenue streams.

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A Few Ways You Can Raise More Money This Year

Ann Green

It’s year-end fundraising time. You may have already started your campaign or are planning to soon. Nonprofit organizations rely on year-end for a good chunk of their revenue. Maybe you haven’t raised as much money as you planned this year and need to make up for that. Maybe your fundraising appeals never seem to perform as well as you would like. Fundraising is hard and you can’t just send a bunch of generic appeals and hope the money comes in.

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Lifelong Development as a Nonprofit Leader – The Value of Forum

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Written by: Jenna McGuire. Reading Time: 7 minutes. In today’s world, we know that self-development and self-care are essential, and impact both our personal and professional lives. In our early careers, the opportunities for continued learning are abundant, and the decision to pursue additional professional certifications may have been a natural progression in your career, or necessary to ascertain your goal position.

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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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Benefits of incorporating AI Tools in your Content Marketing Strategy

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Benefits of incorporating AI Tools in your Content Marketing Strategy. Are you looking to scale your content marketing efforts? Check out how AI Tools fit in your Content Marketing Strategy. Do AI Tools serve content marketing strategy? Yes, they do! AI is making life easier, we all make content in our daily life in different ways such as by clicking pictures, recording videos, writing articles then posting them to different social media platforms.

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Finding Meaning in Your Social Media Metrics by Defining Objectives

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We all know how much time nonprofit communicators spend on creating and posting social media content (Hint: A LOT). But what’s it all for? I recommend that you connect your social media strategy back to specific nonprofit marketing goals and objectives. Here are the 12 categories of nonprofit communications objectives that we suggest you start with for all of your work.

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Pleasant Persistence (it’s boring but effective)

Fundraising Coach

One of the hard truths about fundraising is that: fundraising isn’t always fun. Good fundraising is. tedious, meticulous, regular, pleasant persistence. (Even when you don’t feel like being pleasant.). If you’re not getting the results you want, look at your own activity. For example, if “no one” is getting back to you, are you really attempting to connect with people?

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7 Ways the Next Generation of Giving Will Look Dramatically Different

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits are poised now more than ever to embrace a new way of interacting with donors that will help them establish a donor base that is truly engaged. Here are seven ways we can expect to see the next generation of giving change.

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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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The Power of Self-Renewal: Sustaining Your Impact as a Leader

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jordan Kassalow. Leadership is a renewable resource—but only if approached with a spirit of self-renewal. That often requires individuals to detach from the work they are most attached to, to see their work objectively, to question their own tactics, to be open to change, and to embrace opportunities that require them to reinvent themselves.

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4 Strategies for Building Supporter Relationships

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

When you build strong relationships with your donors, you’re increasing the odds that they will continue supporting you now and in the future. However, building relationships isn’t just an important part of the donor journey —it’s crucial for maintaining strong connections with all of your organization’s supporters, including your volunteers, corporate partners, and other community members. .

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4 Unique Call-to-Actions to Test on Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the 2022 M+R Benchmarks Report , nonprofits pay an average of $3.31 to secure a lead [i.e., capture an email address] through digital advertising. Most small and medium-sized nonprofits can’t afford to experiment with digital advertising for lead generation, but there are other means of securing new leads for a fraction of the cost – namely, your nonprofit’s website empowered with any of the following unique call-to-actions (CTAs). 1) Top bar opt-ins and links.

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Some of Your Work Will Not Be Successful

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

I was scrolling through Instagram this morning and came across this carousel about bad habits. Habit #6 stood out in particular: I had not heard of Jonathan Mann, but I liked this thought process so I looked him up. And I found an article he wrote about The 70–20–10 Theory on Medium. He is a songwriter and writes a song every day. Can you imagine? Some of his stuff had gone viral, but most of it has not which is what led him to the 70-20-10 theory.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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When Opportunity Knocks, Open the Door: Donor Acquisition

Clairification

Don’t look in the mirror. Look out the door. No nonprofit can afford to be an island. As tempting as it may be to stay in your comfort zone, wearing blinders that enable you to forge straight ahead without noticing what’s going on around you, this is a dangerous practice. Because sometimes the landscape changes dramatically. And when it does, your nonprofit could get left behind.

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Dynamic Fundraising Tips for the New Recession Era

NonProfit PRO

The word “recession” is coming up more and more in nonprofit conversations. Unfortunately, this is a time when people and institutions have less disposable income, meaning nonprofits often receive fewer donations and may struggle to keep their charities running.

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ESG Needs a Shared Language

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Mark Horoszowski. ESG investing has been all over the headlines lately, and not in a good way. As discussions about ESG become more and more polarized—while progressive politicians push for aggressive regulations, billionaires like Elon Musk call it a “scam” and nonprofits accuse businesses of greenwashing—leaving consumers increasingly confused.

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What Is Bad Data Really Costing Your Organization?

Bloomerang

Your donor database is only as good as the data you put into it. With the year-end giving season upon us, now is the time to prepare for fundraising success in 2023. A clean database should be a high priority as you plan ahead. As with every other industry today, nonprofits are especially dependent on good data to be successful. And donor data is at the top of the critical care list.

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

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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8 Grant Research Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the Giving USA 2022 Report , giving by foundations to nonprofit organizations grew by 3.4% in 2021 to $90.88 billion. Foundation grants now represent 19% of total giving to nonprofits – the largest share on record. The websites listed below can help your nonprofit search and apply for grant funding. If you need training in grant writing, a good place to start is with this free Introduction to Proposal Writing course and the best-selling book, How to Write a Grant. 1.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – October 28, 2022

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

No tricks here. Just some scary good articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have a TikTok Holiday Guide, tips for Instagram Reels, fresh data on the state of digital marketing, how to avoid being labeled as spam, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Later has The Top Instagram Reels Trends to Try This Week and How to Find Trending Sounds on Instagram Reels.

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11 Phrases to Retire

Clairification

Negative self-talk can really mess you up. So say behavioral scientists, psychologists and researchers. I recently ran across an article on the CNBC Make It blog by Kathy and Ross Petras , and want to share it because it rings so true for me. And I hope for you as well. Many times, professionally and personally, we can’t make the problem go away. Our control lies fundamentally in how we approach the problem.

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What to Do About Ignorance in Major Gifts

NonProfit PRO

Major gifts fundraising is generally misunderstood. There is more to it than the art of asking. So, if you are facing ignorance in your nonprofit, here are some ways you can educate your fellow team members on the role.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

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