3 Ways to Improve Culture and Reduce Turnover at Your Nonprofit
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
While not all turnover can be prevented, here are three culture-building strategies that can help keep your nonprofit's employees happy.
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5 Revenue Streams to Strengthen Nonprofit Sustainability
Ann Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Diverse revenue streams provide a sustainable financial foundation for nonprofits. Explore revenue streams your nonprofit should pursue in this guide. Its important for you to diversify your revenue sources. This is especially important now because of the current chaos of eliminating (and then not eliminating, at least for now) federal grant funding.
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How Philanthropy Built, Lost, and Could Reclaim the A.I. Race
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Philanthropy helped build artificial intelligence as a nonprofit research field. But as costs soar and corporations take over, donors and grantees are struggling to stay relevant. By Sara Herschander Getty Images Philanthropy helped build artificial intelligence as a nonprofit research field. But as costs soar and corporations take over, donors and grantees are struggling to stay relevant.
Funders Should Support Nonprofit Leadership Transitions — Now
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Offering individualized support to new CEOs can increase their chances of success and stabilize organizations during times of change. Here are key ways funders can make an impact. By Nick Grono istockphoto Offering individualized support to new CEOs can increase their chances of success and stabilize organizations during times of change. Here are key ways funders can make an impact.
Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Amid Trump Funding Freeze, Crowded Raises $7.5M to Improve Nonprofit Efficiency
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
With nonprofits facing new financial uncertainty amid a federal funding freeze, Crowded raised $7.5 million to boost nonprofit efficiency.
Managing Change Like A Leader
Joan Garry
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Navigating a leadership transition can be challenging, but with the right mindset and strategies, it can also be an opportunity for growth. This post explores three key ingredients for a successful transition. Whether you're leading a new organization or adapting to significant change, these insights will help you thrive. The post Managing Change Like A Leader appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
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Volunteers Are Now Tracking What’s Already Been Lost in the USAID Freeze
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FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Here's a look into how using accounts payable automation can help nonprofits gain efficiencies and insight.
How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership
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FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels In the United States, owning a home has long symbolized stability, opportunity, and progress toward prosperity. However, for far too many low- and moderate-income families, this goal has proved elusiveresulting in diminished economic wellbeing. One tool that is available to nonprofit housing developers to address this situation is the limited equity cooperative (LEC).
How to Write a Killer Letter of Inquiry (LOI) to Get a Grant
Get Fully Funded
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Often, the first step in getting a grant is a Letter of Inquiry (sometimes called a Letter of Intent ) – or LOI, for short. A Letter of Inquiry is a quick way to introduce your organization to a prospective funder and to open up a conversation about how a grant would make a positive impact on the community you’re serving and change lives.
Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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His Ideas Inspired My Nonprofit. They Hold Keys to Staving Off Tyranny
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
The teachings of the late Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, point to the role of civil society as a bulwark against the "frightful despotism that George Washington warned about. By Eboo Patel Sipa USA via AP Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan IV, a champion of pluralism and the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community for nearly 68 years, died earlier this month.
5 Nonprofit Trends to Help Your Organization Thrive in 2025
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FEBRUARY 13, 2025
NonProfit PRO has compiled its annual trends list with your peers' insights on a variety of topics to ensure your organization is up to speed on all the latest tactics.
Empathy as a Strategy of Resilience
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FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Image Credit: Dall-E by openAI My middle kid, a fifth grader, is big into Lauren Tarshiss I Survived series. Its historical fiction writ small, where kid charactersabout the age of the seriess average readersfind themselves smack in the midst of some of the worst real events humanity has ever faced. The books can be singularly intense and hyper-local.
Building Narrative Power With BIPOC Artists (Blog)
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FEBRUARY 10, 2025
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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.
Newman’s Own Invites More Companies to Donate 100 Percent of Their Profits to Charities
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FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Legislation passed in 2018 makes it easier for companies to follow the Newman's Own model, by allowing foundations to own corporations, with some conditions. By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press Charles Krupa, AP file photo As of 2022, Newmans Own said it had given away $600 million to charities over the years, with a focus on supporting children. Legislation passed in 2018 makes it easier for companies to follow the Newman's Own model, by allowing foundations to own corporations, with some conditi
10 Costly Mistakes That Hurt Your Golf Fundraiser
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FEBRUARY 14, 2025
A golf fundraiser should be a hole-in-one for your nonprofit, but often, hidden mistakes can make you lose revenue, limit participation, and frustrate donors & guests. Are you missing out on big sponsorship deals? Struggling with low player turnout? Losing revenue at check-in and checkout? Uncover the top 10 pitfalls that can make or break your fundraising tournamentand the proven strategies to maximize fundraising, streamline logistics, and create an unforgettable experience for sponsors an
Ask Rhea
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Welcome to NPQ s fundraising advice column, Ask Rhea! Rhea Wong is a fundraising expert and professional coach, exuberant author of Get That Money, Honey! host of the Nonprofit Lowdown podcast , and an unfailingly encouraging voice in a sometimes-bleak landscape. Rhea wants you to succeed, and shes here to answer your questions. Im here to support you in a job that can feel overwhelming, underappreciated, and just plain confusing.
4 things your donors wish you knew about donor love
Jeff Brooks
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Donor love can transform your fundraising. And your fundraising career. But what, exactly, is donor love? It’s a set of tactics aimed at winning the donor over by putting her into the story. It’s honoring, thanking, and listening to the donor. But donor love is also an attitude, a mindset. It’s not unlike “being in love” — it sits in the background (sometimes in the foreground) of everything you do, guiding your thinking and behavior.
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Donors Are Down, but Dollars Are Up — How U.S. Charitable Giving Is Changing
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Combine Grants and Capital Campaigns for a Perfect Partnership and Sustainable Revenue
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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?
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Image Credit: SeichanGant on Wikimedia Back in 2020, higher education faced multiple challengesincluding student debt, administrative bloat, and the spread of contingency (also known as adjunct labor) in faculty hiring. Five years later, the challenges facing higher education are as significant but different. They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything fr
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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
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As USAID is Gutted, Here’s How Philanthropy Can Stop Panicking and Start Helping
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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity
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Bloomerang
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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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