The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 14, 2024
The cost of giving rose for people who no longer itemize deductions on their taxes. By Rasheeda Childress iStockphoto The cost of giving rose for people who no longer itemize deductions on their taxes.
Ann Green
AUGUST 13, 2024
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 then treat thanking their donors as an afterthought. Donor retention continues to be a problem. One of many reasons is because people don’t feel appreciated. Prioritizing gratitude and donor relations will help.
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
AUGUST 14, 2024
In the bustling coastal city of Cotonou, Benin, in West Africa, one man stands out in the nonprofit sector: Norentz Gogan , a Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP). His life’s work revolves around empowering youth, fostering leadership, and driving social change. With over a decade of experience in educational program development, his story serves as a powerful reminder that CNP’s are beyond equipped to create a global impact.
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 15, 2024
Is your nonprofit searching for ways to broaden your revenue streams? Our 30+ Nonprofit Revenue Sources Workbook has you covered! More and more nonprofits are reporting the need to find additional revenue streams with long-term sustainability. That’s why we created a step-by-step workbook, full of checklists to help broaden your revenue sources, drive your organization’s goals, and increase year-round revenue.
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.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 13, 2024
By Aisha Benson iStockphoto Leaders of nonprofits serving people of color are facing urgent needs and less support. Here are 5 ways foundations can take action to preserve progress and speed racial justice.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
AUGUST 14, 2024
If there’s one thing nonprofit marketers could use more of, it is likely time and resources. Working with multiple social impact organizations, I constantly search for ways to optimize both and increase overall nonprofit productivity. During my journey, I have discovered the benefits of systematizing processes. Words like these are not naturally attractive to us right-brained thinkers.
Nonprofit Leadership Zone brings together the best content for advertising professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 13, 2024
Chariot and K2D Strategies released the "2024 DAF Fundraising Report," which showed that DAFs enable donors to give more, and more often.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 15, 2024
Smaller organizations have made modest strides in pay equity for women since 2012, but the nonprofits with the deepest pockets have seen the gap expand. By Sara Herschander iStockphoto Smaller organizations have made modest strides in pay equity for women since 2012, but the nonprofits with the deepest pockets have seen the gap expand.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 15, 2024
By Sean Kosofsky, The Nonprofit Fixer — a strategic advisor who has worked in nonprofits for 30+ years and served as an executive director for five organizations in the past 20 years. His consulting firm, Mind the Gap Consulting , focuses on executive director coaching and training as well as fundraising and board development. The four-day workweek is having a moment.
Clairification
AUGUST 12, 2024
You’ve got one month before fall fundraising season begins in earnest. What will you do with it? I’VE GOT 10 TOP STRATEGIES TO HELP YOU GET ALL YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW! We’ll start with the first five today. Clean up Data Purge Mailing Lists Review Staff, Vendors and Freelancers Set Priority Objectives Based on Last Year’s Results Solidify a Multi-Channel Marketing Campaign Next week we’ll look at: Send Impact Reports to Set the Stage Stock Up on Compelling, Relevant Stories and Photos Connect with
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 PRO
AUGUST 15, 2024
Grant professionals have all heard this question, “We got the grant - now what happens?” This on-demand webinar focuses on “now what”. The post-award process is as critical to the grant lifecycle as the pre-award process. If you understand the best practices of post-award management before you get the grant, you have the edge.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 12, 2024
With Rise East, longtime residents aim to write a new chapter for East Oakland, starting with $100 million. By Sara Herschander Courtesy of Rise East Selena Wilson, CEO of East Oakland Youth Development Center, says philanthropic dollars often bypass programs that are necessary to achieve a mission but not glamorous. With Rise East, longtime residents aim to write a new chapter for East Oakland, starting with $100 million.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 11, 2024
By Kyle Behrend — an automations and AI consultant dedicated to educating and empowering nonprofits with AI through NFPs.AI. In the rapidly evolving world of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out as a game-changer for organizations across all sectors, including nonprofits. In fact, nonprofits are often best positioned to leverage and benefit from this technology.
Candid
AUGUST 14, 2024
Generative AI technologies have made it possible for users to transform raw information—quickly and easily—into a presentable and readable form. Although there is concern about how generative AI affects the integrity of written work and images, there is also hope that responsible adoption can boost the social sector’s impact. Greg Stanley at PEAK Grantmaking has argued that generative AI tools can streamline the grant application process by enabling grantmakers to summarize, categorize, and pre-
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NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 15, 2024
Gen X is often forgotten in fundraising and planned giving circles. Here's what to keep in mind about these donors when trying to reach them.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 14, 2024
Democracy advocates are doubling down on the wrong strategies, writes a veteran organizing strategist. They should take lessons from abroad and the pre-1964 civil rights movement. By Deepak Bhargava Bettmann Archive Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin speaks to a group of march marshals before the 1963 Freedom March. Rustin was chief organizer for the historic march.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 13, 2024
Image credit: Edmond Dantès on Pexels The 2024 election, likely to be one of the most consequential—and closest—presidential contests in recent history, is upon us. Nonprofits are, in some ways, uniquely positioned to ensure that every eligible voter’s voice, whatever their political persuasion, is heard. And the potential is not just hypothetical. Prospective voters contacted by nonprofits about voting are 10 percentage points more likely to vote than those who are not, according to research by
Candid
AUGUST 12, 2024
Candid’s The state of diversity in the U.S. nonprofit sector report, released in May, analyzes the demographic composition of nonprofit staff, leaders, and board members in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status. What does the information shared by 59,550 U.S. public charities on their Candid profiles suggest about the demographic composition and size of nonprofit boards and how diverse boards are by organization size?
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
AUGUST 12, 2024
“Strategic plan execution” might sound scary, but it doesn't have to be. Here are four easy tips to streamline your strategic plan execution.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 16, 2024
By Jim Rendon Sundog Solar Solar panels are installed on a capped landfill in Oakland, Maine, in a project funded through grants from Encore Renewable Energy and the Invest in Our Future initiative. Two years after the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, a report finds that a group of 33 grant makers exceeded its goals for helping communities and organizations learn about, access, and implement funding through the act.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 14, 2024
Image: “Death Caught From A Plane Window” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” In this conversation, Steve Dubb, senior economic justice editor at NPQ ; Rithika Ramamurthy, former economic justice editor at NPQ and now communications director at the Climate and Community Project; and Ananda Valenzuela, consultant and professional interim executive director, 1 talk
Candid
AUGUST 13, 2024
Developing an effective funding strategy is vital to any nonprofit’s ability to sustain or increase its impact. And nonprofit boards play an important role in virtually every organization’s funding strategy. So how does that play out? Too often, nonprofits jump at flashy fundraising tactics (“Let’s host a gala!”) or fall back on conventional wisdom (“Diversification is good!
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
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 16, 2024
When you work for a nonprofit, you operate on a tight budget. Here are some non-financial benefits you can offer to keep employees engaged.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 12, 2024
Research shows that a lack of Black doctors helps explain why Black people tend to die younger than their white peers. By Benjamin Chrisinger Marcus Ingram, Getty Images The Morehouse School of Medicine is one of four historically Black medical schools that is set to receive a large gift from Michael Bloomberg. Research shows that a lack of Black doctors helps explain why Black people tend to die younger than their white peers.
Blue Avocado
AUGUST 13, 2024
We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the biggest mistakes you see new nonprofits making?” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Losing focus on core mission I have worked in non-profits for over 20 years with a majority of my time spent as an Executive Director. Too often new nonprofits struggle to find their identity.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 12, 2024
Image: Original publication, Ruby Funeral Services Sonya Massey was a 36-year-old Black woman dealing with a mental health crisis. Instead of being offered help by the sheriff’s deputies who had been dispatched to her home to investigate a potential intruder, she was shot dead. After a video clip of Massey’s murder on July 6 was released, it was not immediately known to the public that she was dealing with a mental health crisis at the time of her death.
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 PRO
AUGUST 14, 2024
Soapbox Engage launched Advanced Fraud Protection, which combines machine learning and AI to protect nonprofits from fraud.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 14, 2024
Inside an effort dubbed "mutual aid on steroids" that's getting a tryout in cities like Atlanta, Chicago, and Louisville By Drew Lindsay Leigh Vogel Lisa Kay Solomon of Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design endorses a colleague’s comments at a 2022 meeting of the National Civic Collaboratory.
Big Duck
AUGUST 14, 2024
Learn how nonprofits can plan successful campaigns with this blog from Big Duck, a worker-owned communications firm.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
AUGUST 12, 2024
By Kevin Barenblat & Nick Cain AI has the power to change our understanding of the inherent tradeoffs between access to care, quality of care, and cost of care.
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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