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What Grant Making in Russia Taught Us About How to Address the Assault on American Democracy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Yelena V Litvinov and Tatyana Margolin Chronicle illustration; photos by Thom Bridge, Independent Record; Cheney Orr, Reuters, Redux; Getty Tennessee lawmakers Justin Jones (front) and Justin Pearson (left) were expelled from the state legislature after standing with protesters advocating for gun control. In Montana, state legislators barred Rep.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Use AI for Better Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

Love it, hate it or just don’t know much about it — artificial intelligence (AI) is here for good with the widespread adoption of ChatGPT. And this is good news for nonprofits. With that being said, here are five ways AI can elevate your fundraising.

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Comment on Calling Women Fundraisers: Where You Sit Matters by Renee Atkinson

Amy Eisenstein

This article hit close to home. I always sit in the middle of the table even now that I am AVP. You make an excellent point and I will change where I sit from now on. Thank you!

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Why My Nonprofit WAS Sticking with Twitter…

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

When I first drafted this blog article, it was intended to share why one of the nonprofits I work with had all intentions of staying on the controversial platform, Twitter, despite something of a platform exodus – because it met their needs. I was hoping to use the scenario to emphasize the importance of following marketing strategies that make the most sense for your nonprofit and the people you serve, regardless of what others are doing.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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Bonuses Can Help Nonprofits Stretch Budgets and Retain Fundraisers

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Emily Haynes As nonprofits struggle to hire and retain fundraisers, some are turning to performance-based bonuses to entice and retain talent.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Fundraising Appeals

NonProfit PRO

If you’re in charge of the fundraising for your nonprofit, the single best thing you can do to improve your fundraising is to come to terms with a hard truth. You are not your donors. Overcome the disparities in age and point of view of donors with these three strategies.

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Mixed Links: News and Tips for Nonprofit Marketers – May 12, 2023

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

San Angel Inn Restaurante. Epcot The weather is heating up and so are the articles, posts, and tips for you nonprofit marketers out there. This week we have a replacement for Elon Musk, LinkedIn insights, AI prompts for marketers, how to use your phone for video, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… LinkedIn released a new report The Impact Insight: Nonprofit Hiring, Volunteerism, and Board Participation.

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Philanthropy Roundtable CEO Elise Westhoff Is Stepping Down

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Jim Rendon She says she wants to focus more on her family and that her efforts as CEO to raise the group's public profile through sometimes controversial opinion articles and public appearances have appealed to the values that the group's members share.

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How to Engage Board Members as Fundraising Ambassadors

NonProfit PRO

Beyond providing generous financial support, board members can act as fundraising ambassadors. Offering board members a variety of ways to engage with fundraising sets everyone up for success. Here are five opportunities for board members to contribute to their nonprofits’ fundraising efforts.

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Comment on Calling Women Fundraisers: Where You Sit Matters by Susan

Amy Eisenstein

I worked at an organization where the person not in charge (although they wanted to be) always sat at the head of the table, and the executive director sat in the middle. It made a pretty big statement, as the executive director had difficulty truly being in charge. The employee seated at the head of the table was always calling the shots, telling people what to do, and when to do it, including the executive director.

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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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14 Instagram Story Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

What Are Instagram Stories? Instagram Stories (also used on Facebook) are photos and videos that disappear from your profile after 24 hours unless you add them to your story highlights. They basically stole the idea from Snapchat, but way more people use Instagram Stories. Right now, you can only post Stories via the app or using a social media manager like Hootsuite or Buffer.

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Los Angeles Couple Give $50 Million for Environmental Programs at USC

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Plus, the founder of Politico is giving $20 million to start a new journalism institute, and five universities landed big gifts.

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How to Emphasize Blended Gifts in Your Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

Historically, major gift officers solely sought donors with the capacity to make major gifts, and planned gift officers focused on prospects with the result being a planned gift. But now, blended gifts are the future of gift planning.

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Influencer Marketing Blueprint: How Social Cat Paves Way for Small Business and Agencies

Pam Moore

Social Cat Review – Social Cat Paving the Way for Small Business and Agencies Influencer Marketing Social Cat Review Influencer Marketing As the owner of a thriving digital brand marketing, training and consulting agency, I'm always on the lookout for cutting-edge tools and platforms that can help my team and our clients smash their goals. One area of marketing that has gained significant traction in recent years is influencer marketing.

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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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What are the best free Nonprofit SEO tools for 2023

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

What are the best free Nonprofit SEO tools for 2023 Want to know what the best SEO tools are for nonprofits? Check out this lineup of, free, SEO tools by Michael Vuong. SEO tools are incredibly important for your growth and understanding of relevant keywords for your target group. Although intent remains one of the most important factors to retain your audience’s attention.

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Simons Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies Give $150 Million to Create New York Climate Exchange

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J.

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IRS Reminds Tax-Exempt Organizations of Annual May Filing Deadline

NonProfit PRO

The Internal Revenue Service reminded thousands of tax-exempt organizations of their May 15, 2023, filing deadline. The annual filing due date for certain returns filed by tax-exempt organizations is normally by the 15th day of the fifth month after the end of an organization's accounting period.

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Social Cat Review: Influencer Marketing for Small Business and Agencies

Pam Moore

Social Cat Review – Social Cat Paving the Way for Small Business and Agencies Influencer Marketing Social Cat Review Influencer Marketing As the owner of a thriving digital brand marketing, training and consulting agency, I'm always on the lookout for cutting-edge tools and platforms that can help my team and our clients smash their goals. One area of marketing that has gained significant traction in recent years is influencer marketing.

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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 Business Case for DEI Reinforces Anti-Black Sentiment

NonProfit Quarterly

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry could not exist without the Civil Rights Movement and owes a debt to the labor and thought leadership of Black activists and freedom fighters. Yet rather than acknowledging and responding to its roots in organizing against White supremacy, DEI has developed into an industry that focuses on surface-level, individualistic engagement, and the bottom line—that is, on the ways DEI can boost profitability.

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California Wellness Foundation Promotes Richard Tate to President and CEO

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest Also, the Cleveland Foundation has named Lillian Kuri to succeed Ronn Richard as its leader, and the National Gallery of Art will install a new administrator in July.

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Interactive Marketing: How Nonprofits Can Captivate in a Noisy World

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit donors are increasingly immune to traditional marketing and advertising. Wherever we go, from billboards on the highway to pop-up ads on our favorite websites, countless brands vie for attention. As a result, we’ve learned to tune them out or avoid them. That's why interactive marketing is so effective.

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How Pinterest is Useful for Small Business Marketing

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Pinterest is Useful for Small Business Marketing Pinterest offers small businesses a creative and visually engaging platform to showcase their products, build brand awareness, drive website traffic, and foster customer loyalty. For any illustrated inspiration, we usually refer to Pinterest. Because why not? It has so many images that sometimes even Google cannot offer.

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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

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

For every $100 foundations give to an Ivy League school, how many dollars do you think foundations give to a historically Black college and university (HBCU)? That’s a trick question—it’s not a matter of dollars, but of cents. In fact, for every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average HBCU. HBCUs have long played a pivotal role in the United States.

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Newsletter: Call of Duty Asks Players to 'Loot for Good' ; 9 Ways AI can improve Your Email Marketing ; Meals On Wheels is a Climate-Relief Model ??

Selfish Giving

I'm busy this week teaching in the New Strategies Program in the business school at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. I'm teaching 30+ nonprofit leaders how to raise money with corporate partnerships. Woo-hoo! ? For that reason, I'm keeping this week's newsletter short! ✍️ Partnership Notes 1. Did you miss the Q&A session I held last Thursday with the gang at Good Scout???

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4 Tips to Attract and Retain LGBTQ+ Donors for Your Cause

NonProfit PRO

The percentage of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has doubled since Gallup first began measuring it in 2012. And the younger the generation, the larger the percentage, with nearly 21% of Gen Z and almost 11% of millennials identifying as LGBTQ+. So, how can nonprofits connect with this growing demographic?

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Evolving Top Nonprofit Storytelling Practices

Clairification

Everyone knows storytelling = good. Humans wired for stories. We want to enter into them … become part of them… see ourselves, in some way, expressively reflected in the characters, plot and struggle. Everyone responds, all ears, to “Shall I tell you a story?” Yet there’s been a brouhaha of late around so-called “donor-as-hero” stories. I’ve long been a proponent of encouraging donors to jump right into the narrative to give it a happy ending.

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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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How to Grow Your Nonprofit When You’re a Team of One

Get Fully Funded

When you’re just starting out, your goal is to make a difference in the world. But to do that, you need to figure out how to grow your nonprofit. You’ve got so much to do as you launch your nonprofit. There are things like: An office to set up. Systems to put in place. A website to build. Money to raise. Social media to manage. And about a hundred other things necessary to get your fledgling nonprofit up and running.

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4 Text Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Take from Big Brands

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Shay Lessman , Content Writer and Editor for Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. When the first text message was sent on December 3 rd , 1992, no one could have conceived how important this mode of communication would become for people worldwide. Now, text messaging is ingrained into our everyday lives.

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2023 DonorPerfect Community Conference: REFRESH

NonProfit PRO

The 2023 DonorPerfect Community Conference will explore industry skills and solutions that make it simple to refresh your fundraising strategy on a dime. Mark your calendar now for two half-days of free, virtual sessions on June 6th and 7th, led by celebrated nonprofit leaders and expert fundraising trainers.

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14 ways to make fundraising events more community-centric

Non Profit AF

Hey everyone, before we begin, here’s a cute and short video about foundations and their investments, which is a topic.

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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!