The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
By Andy Posner. By choosing the nonprofit route, Musk could burnish his legacy, improve societal discourse, and provide a powerful model for other wealthy innovators to follow.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
At their core, nonprofits are service-oriented. And while there are distinctions between the way for-profit and nonprofit entities run, the standards of customer service apply equally between the two.
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Ann Green
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
What’s the difference between Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday? Unfortunately, it seems like not a whole lot. According to the Giving Tuesday website, “Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity.” In theory, that sounds nice, but in reality, it’s a day when nonprofit organizations unleash an onslaught of transactional fundraising appeals by email and social media.
NonProfit Leadership Center
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Now through Friday, November 18, the Nonprofit Leadership Center is accepting submissions for its 2022 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide. Started in 2019, this festive guide highlights holiday gifts that give back to nonprofit organizations to strengthen our communities. SUBMIT MY NONPROFIT. All you need to complete your submission is the following information: Name of the nonprofit organization Description of the product or service that benefits the nonprofit organization Cost of item(s) Link to lea
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Amy Eisenstein
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
In reply to Ilana Bernstein. If I get behind on my thank yous I start with “First of all my apologies for taking time to send this email” and then tell them why – kitten season is kicking our butts is my reason right now. Just admit it and apologise and then move forward – and add a personal comment if you can so they know it’s only for them.
Joan Garry
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
One week. 15 strangers. And an eye-opening lesson that every single one of us involved with nonprofits needs to know. The post A Call to Action For the Nonprofit Community appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
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NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Informed Delivery can increase the effectiveness of your direct mail fundraising campaign while decreasing your postage costs. With only two more months left to take advantage of its dual benefits, here are the answers to the frequently asked questions I get on this strategy.
Ann Green
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Year-end fundraising is in full swing. I hope your campaign is going well. Perhaps you also participated in Giving Tuesday. The latter often brings in new donors and that’s never something you want to take for granted. . These donors saw a need and found a connection to your cause. Or maybe they were drawn into whatever Giving Tuesday promotion you initiated, but I like to think they wanted to help you make a difference.
NonProfit Leadership Center
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
At the Nonprofit Leadership Center, we believe gratitude is one of the secret ingredients to success. During this season of giving, Team NLC reflects on the moments, memories and people we’re most grateful for in 2022. Our deep gratitude extends to you, our nonprofit partners, supporters and community leaders, who help strengthen nonprofit organizations and our communities alongside us every day.
Amy Eisenstein
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Building on creating a committee, I like a one-session task force. (What should our gala theme be? How can we attract more sponsors?) Less intimidating time-wise than a committee and achieves a similar cultivation effect.
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.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy in 2023. Social media marketing continues to get trickier as there is more competition. Here are the top strategies you can use to stay ahead of the competition. Social media marketing has grown exponentially over the last few years. As there has been a boom in social media users over a short time, trends in marketing and business have also changed.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
By Sister Donna Markham , Suzanne McCormick, Eboo Patel, and Jonathan Reckford. A coordinated effort is needed in communities across the country to bring together people of different political parties, faith traditions, and racial and ethnic identities. A new undertaking from four major nonprofits aims to lead the way.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The corporate world has helped shape people’s online expectations of the brands and organizations they support. Here are a few examples of online expectations created by the corporate world and how nonprofits can meet them with their digital ecosystems.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
This article is the third installment of NPQ’s series on Community-Driven Philanthropy. In this series, movement leaders explore what’s possible if philanthropy adopts a reparative model—one in which it supports the leadership of BIPOC communities, not just by writing grants, but by shifting assets and control over resources to frontline communities.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
By Jaclyn Foroughi. If you find yourself using the terms ESG and impact investing interchangeably, you’re not alone. Some of the smartest and most sophisticated educators and investors in the world have trouble distinguishing between the two. And these are people overseeing billions, if not trillions of dollars, collectively. Coined in 2004, ESG emerged as a joint effort by the UN, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Swiss Government to support the financial industry’
Amy Eisenstein
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
[…] about both. Before we started live on the podcast, you were talking about texting before and after meeting with a donor. Why don’t you talk more about that? I love that. I’m not sure that development […].
Get Fully Funded
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. The good news is that great stories are all around you. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! And you don’t need to be a professional writer to craft them. . Once you understand the basic elements of a good story and a few different ways to tell them, the rest is just practice, practice, practice.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
By Emily Haynes. Getty Images. When #GivingTuesday debuted in 2012, some people didn't even know what a hashtag was. In the years since, the event asking donors to give online has grown in popularity so much it is now can't-miss day for charities.
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.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The biggest fundraising time of the year for most nonprofits is here. You’ve no doubt been working on the big things for year-end. Yet often it’s the little things that count and pack a surprising wallop. Here are eight simple efforts that could help your nonprofit raise more money before Dec. 31.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
By Kyle Brown , COO at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. Giving Season is upon us and the clock is ticking. As leadership and development teams lean in for a final push, donors are receiving countless requests for limited financial support. . DonateStock has ignited a conversation in philanthropy with their innovative approach to stock gifting.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
“WE ARE POWERFUL” BY CHIP THOMAS/ JETSONORAMA.NET. Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change,” and was first published on May 1, 2022. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. The climate crisis is not only a product of greenhouse gas emissions… but also of an ideological shift that was imposed by colonization and capitalism to justify violation of sacred land-, water-, and
Amy Eisenstein
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Great tips, Amy. Thank you. Donors are excellent sources of information on how we’re doing and how we can do better.
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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!
Candid
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. An effective nonprofit mission statement draws supporters and donors to an organization. It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
By Fletcher Harper , Yonatan Neril , and Susan Hendershot. Peter Dejong, AP Demonstrators calling for climate action on the African continent. Religious groups are taking a leading role in fighting climate change but have gone largely unnoticed by grant makers. As the U.N Climate Conference gets underway this week, now is a good time for donors to recognize the power of religious institutions to mobilize communities to protect the planet.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Everyone knows the two main things to consider when fundraising are numbers and intent. But there’s a crucial third leg to fundraising, and that’s affinity. Instead of looking at broad-strokes behaviors, like recent purchases, affinity considers the underlying profile and motivations of donors.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
By Peyton Leisner, Content Strategist at UncommonGood – an all-inclusive platform for nonprofits to manage their operations, marketing, and fundraising efforts. . What is a PSA? A public service announcement (PSA) is a way to communicate to the public about an important topic or issue that affects most of, if not all of the general public. A PSA is communicated via radio, television, online, and via other media formats without charge so that the public is aware of the issue/topic and can take ac
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Image Credit: cottonbro on pexels.com. I recently spoke with Carla Minet, a journalist and executive director of the Center for Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico, about what life is like on the island now and the key role of information in disaster response. Minet points out that Puerto Rico has had five major disasters in the last six years.
Amy Eisenstein
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
But Amy, what if you realized that you didn’t call a donor who gave months ago, and you want to thank them to implement a new and improved stewardship plan?
Candid
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Since Twitter’s new ownership took over in late October, the social media platform has experienced a significant decline in its userbase—a loss of over 1.3 million active users in one week. Candid’s Twitter account alone has lost over 1,000 followers in the same period, and we expect to see this negative trend continue. Additionally, rumors about paywalls , increases in hate speech , and chaos around the new paid verifications , have led to a lot of uncertainty, frustration, and confusion.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
By Evelyne Musambi, the Associated Press Nairobi, Kenya. Evan Vucci/AP Bill Gates's new pledge will be spent over the next four years and is in addition to existing Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding to strengthen health systems across the continent. The new funding comes as countries in East Africa and the Horn of Africa face the worst drought in decades.
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