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2021 Nonprofit Professional of the Year Nominations Now Open

NonProfit PRO

NonProfit PRO would like to recognize all the tireless effort that the best and brightest nonprofit employees and board members have devoted toward nonprofit missions. We are now accepting nominations for our annual Nonprofit Professional of the Year Awards.

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Bringing Community Centric Fundraising to Life

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Rachel D’Souza-Siebert. Guest Post by Rachel D’Souza-Siebert, MPPA. Early in my nonprofit career, I learned that the job of a fundraising professional was securing resources to achieve a financial goal that would serve my employer. I had a responsibility to use whatever was at my disposal to build (less than) transformational relationships with donors.

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Why You Need a Thank You Plan

Ann Green

Thanking your donors is just as important, if not more important than fundraising. Yet many organizations spend a lot of time putting together a fundraising campaign and treat thanking their donors as an afterthought. We’re still in a time of uncertainty. Charitable giving has gone down over the last 20 years. The Vanishing American Donor While people were generous last year during the height of the pandemic, it’s hard to know how long that will last.

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Newsletter: 5 Ways Sponsorship Has Changed for Nonprofits ; Credit Union Causejacks Olympics for Special Olympics; B *g Experts Teach You How to Sound Smarter

Selfish Giving

This article in Event Marketer specifically talks about the post-pandemic landscape for sports sponsorships , but it could be easily be applied to nonprofit event sponsorships. Let me paraphrase. 1. You now have an at-home audience you need to appeal to. If you opt for hybrid events, you have to find ways to deliver the event experience to couch supporters.

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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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The Nonprofit Crash That’s Heading Our Way

NonProfit PRO

GameStop made headlines around the world this year. You might be wondering, as a nonprofit professional, what this has to do with the industry. What you’ll soon discover is that a nonprofit crash is in the making. Moreover, leaders in the social good sector who believe “it can’t happen here” are mistaken.

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Become a Better Writer This Month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: The Annual All-Access Training Pass. Attend live webinars and workshops (including the ones listed below), watch recorded webinars, enroll in exclusive online courses and access our entire library with templates, worksheets, e-books and more, and join our Private Facebook Group all with one purchase.

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How To Build Relationships With A Storytelling Welcome Email Series

Bloomerang

Turn New Supporters Into Strong Supporters. First impressions are important. A donor’s first experience with your organization should be a good one as it can be the difference between turning them into a repeat supporter or someone who gives once and never again. . Studies show that donor retention is one of the best ways to boost your nonprofit’s bottom line because it’s easier to satisfy a supporter who has already given and who is already interested in your organization than to try to recruit

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The Pandemic Changed Our Ability To Gather, But Not Our Ability To Give

NonProfit PRO

As the executive director of a nonprofit, I’ve seen firsthand the devastating effects the pandemic had on organizations like ours and philanthropic efforts in general. Recovering from our own internal setbacks while focusing on the acute needs of those we serve, my peers and I are now taking stock of lessons learned and reexamining how to move forward collectively.

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Setting Priorities: Where Is Comms Support Essential to Mission Success?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Every nonprofit communications director I know has way too much work to do. It’s the nature of comms work (so many ideas, so many channels, etc.) and the nature of nonprofit work, where we often think we have to do everything for everyone right away. But we can’t do it all at once. We have to make decisions and prioritize based on the capacity we have available.

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How to Effectively Share Text-to-Donate Campaigns on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Corey Blake , a Digital Fundraising Strategist at MobileCause , where she helps nonprofits accelerate their fundraising and engagement efforts through giving and marketing strategies. Sharing your text-to-donate keyword and shortcode on social media helps brand your campaign and allows donors to easily give from their mobile devices, which is where most people view social media.

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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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Big Email Change Is Coming: Is Your Nonprofit Ready?

Bloomerang

On June 7, Apple threw a huge curveball at email marketers everywhere. In a nutshell, Apple announced a new privacy feature which can prevent senders from knowing when a user opens their email. This means that when an Apple Mail user activates this new privacy setting, you may have no way of knowing if that user opened your emails. Additionally, information you may have been able to glean up to this point in time—a user’s location or other online activity—will be hidden from you.

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Does the Peanut Butter or Jelly Come First in Monthly Giving?

NonProfit PRO

As someone who’s been working with and on monthly donor programs for almost 30 years now, the order of operations comes up a lot. It often creates a pause or a stop in the growth of monthly donors. Of course, we’re only human and, as fundraisers, we often tend to focus — and agonize — about things that are least important. But they’re easier. They make us feel we’re more in control.

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Which Editing Mantra is Your Favorite?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

During our Master Class on the seven different styles of nonprofit writing , we talk a bit about editing too, and knowing ourselves as writers. As we close the workshop, I asked participants to pick one of the six quotes about editing as their own personal mantra to remember as they write and edit at work. We’ve done this workshop a few times and three of them are standout favorites, so I thought you might like them too.

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Functional Expenses Decreased During Covid-19? How to Prepare for Conversations with Funders

Blue Avocado

The topic of functional expenses has garnered attention at nonprofit board meetings over the past year. Many nonprofits feel pressure from foundation and government funding sources to maintain a certain level of program expenses as a percentage of total expenses (for example, greater than 75%). This metric has always been a matter of debate. Nonprofits […].

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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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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

Bloomerang

This is part three in a six-part series. Read part one and part two. . In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering online user experience and messaging. Mastering relevant content marketing. Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value.

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Can Transitioning to a Self-Funded Health Plan Truly Benefit a Nonprofit?

NonProfit PRO

The conventional wisdom in today’s health insurance marketplace holds that nonprofits should not consider a self-funded health insurance model because cash flow concerns make such a plan too risky. This notion is false, and it has been perpetuated for years by both the insurance carriers and the broker community.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – August 6, 2021

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Bow & Arrow, Auburn, AL. How is everyone holding up out there? Take a deep breath. Then take a look at the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have tips from Love Island, a storytelling welcome series, hashtag help, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Peter Panepento tells you where to begin in Hook Your Readers From the Start.

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What Wheel of Fortune Can Teach You About Your Brand

Mission Minded

Learn what “Wheel of Fortune” can teach you about your organization's brand and how it can become an original and identifiable voice at the table. The post What Wheel of Fortune Can Teach You About Your Brand 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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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: The Search and Selection

Bloomerang

This is part two of a three-part series. You can read part one here. Stay tuned for part three! . Now that you’ve prepared for your search, it’s time to dive into the search and selection process. The search: Cast a big net. By casting a big net in your search, you dramatically increase your chances of finding the best possible match. To get a deep and diverse talent pool, we recommend beginning by building a list of credible lead sources.

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How To Engage New Audiences on Facebook Using Messenger

NonProfit PRO

Let’s walk through how you can use Facebook — specifically, Facebook Challenges and Messenger — as a tool to engage new audiences and raise your relationships (and revenue!) in 2021 and beyond. Facebook Challenges open the door for engagement with new supporters and Messenger seals the deal. Let’s dive in to explore both.

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77 Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

The Volunteer Hub

The Importance of Volunteers. “The value that volunteers provide our organization is tremendous. We could not achieve our goals and provide the support we do to the community without our volunteer’s commitment to the cause,” said Mary Bachman, Director of Volunteer Resources, Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. “I don’t know how to put into words how important volunteers are to our mission!

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Best design + SEO practices for Microsites

Elevation

Confusion frequently arises about how to structure and design microsites versus parent websites. A microsite is an individual webpage or group of webpages that are used to support, enhance, or supplement your primary, or parent, nonprofit website. The main difference between a microsite and a parent site is the microsite's focus on a single, narrow topic or theme compared to the broader scope of your parent site.

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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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[VIDEO] The Science of Philanthropic Psychology

Bloomerang

Jen Shang, PhD will take you through a series of real-world examples to demonstrate how philanthropic psychology can be applied to nurture, develop donor identities, and achieve sustainable increases in giving (up to 218% increases using multiple channels and campaigns) as a result of sharing genuine love. Full Transcript: Steve: All right, Jen, I’ve got 2:00 Eastern.

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You Need to Hire an Executive Director for Your Nonprofit — Now What?

NonProfit PRO

In the chaos of the 2020 pandemic, many individuals in the nonprofit arena have experienced downsizing, rightsizing and organizational employment reevaluations. As the tide of uncertainty moved in a variety of directions, organizations lost valuable employees, including executive directors. As we move into the fall of 2021, many organizations have determined to organizationally regroup and begin to look for new employees plus leadership.

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Ford, Skoll, Compton foundations launch fund for visual storytelling

Candid

The Ford , Skoll , and Compton foundations have announced the launch of a donor collaborative to help strengthen the impact of moving image storytelling. Seeded with more than $8 million in commitments from the three foundations, the International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS) aims to raise and deploy up to $30 million in support of communities worldwide — including in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia — that are reclaiming narratives by advancing climate solut

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Finish The Summer Strong With Your Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

Vacation requests, fewer conference invites, sporadic emails—summer tends to be a lighter season for the nonprofit sector. For many people, summer is a chance to slow down and recharge, meaning that the work might slow down, too. This year in particular, HubSpot found that employees across various sectors are starting to unplug and take long-awaited vacations as places start to reopen, leading to an even bigger summer slump.

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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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What Is a Fiscal Sponsor?

Foundation Group

The post What Is a Fiscal Sponsor? appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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Q&A: Doctors Without Borders Explains Its Donor-Centric Model

NonProfit PRO

Currently, Kim Goldsmith-N'Diaye, director of development at Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders in the U.S., leads all of the fundraising at MSF, including mid-level gifts, major gifts, planned gifts, corporate gifts and foundation gifts. In an exclusive interview with NonProfit PRO, Goldsmith-N'Diaye shared more about MSF’s donor retention efforts, gave an overview of its communications strategy, explained why its monthly giving program is so critical and much more.

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Choice Overload!

Women's Non Profit Alliance

Recently, one of our board members quoted this statement from AW Tozer: “Every man must choose his world.” In that particular board meeting, we were deliberating over different options that would allow us to serve our targeted audience better. With so many good options out there – our first step was to define our calling more clearly so we could make the right choices for those we feel most called to serve.

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Celebrate Voter History Month!

Non Profitvote

While most people think of August as the last throes of summer before school and business hours return to normal, those in the civic participation space know that three of the biggest moments in our country’s trajectory towards a more inclusive democracy happened this month: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 , which outlawed racial discrimination in voting, became law in August.

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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!