Ann Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Not long ago while I was scrolling through my email, one message stood out. It was a thank you video from a nonprofit organization. A week or so before that I received a thank you card from another nonprofit. Unfortunately, those are the only examples of #DonorLove from the last few weeks that I can share with you. I’d also like to tell you I received a bunch of wonderful thank yous after I made my year-end gifts, but I can’t.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Do you like to read? I ??to read! So does Megan Strand at Engage for Good. And we're hoping you do too because we want you to join our new Social Impact Book Club. Here's how it will work. 1. Every quarter we'll pick a business book that's relevant to your social impact work. (BTW: I'd rather do a book monthly than quarterly, but let's take baby steps!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

By Alex Wilson and Pat Duffy , co-founders of The Giving Block. Nonprofits have been accepting cryptocurrency donations for over a decade. The recent spike in cryptocurrency fundraising was sparked by IRS guidance which provided clarity and ignited the trend. Over the last couple of years, we’ve spent hundreds of hours talking to senior nonprofit leaders across organizations both large and small about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Do you have a brand story that you share with people who come in contact with your brand? A story that serves as the connective tissue and foundation representing the who, what and why your brand exists on this planet today? Your brand story should be the thread which connects your value proposition, team, vision, mission, and purpose with your customers, potential customers, audience, community and partners.

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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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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

We have a huge problem facing our sustainability in nonprofits and that is donor retention. With first-time donor retention rates hovering below 30% and overall donor retention less than 50%, we are in danger of losing our donor bases. We see this in the fact that 95% of our gifts come from 5% of our donors, and in higher education, the alumni giving rate is falling each and every year.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Relationships building is part art, part science. And, as we all know, raising major and legacy gifts is all about building meaningful relationships. Over the past few years, the strategies and tactics nonprofits employ to raise major and legacy gifts has evolved and changed, and with good reason. Tactics from the past simply don’t work as well as they once did.

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Elevation

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Expecting the unexpected is familiar territory at the nonprofit One Step Beyond, Inc. (OSBI). Most parents never expect to have a child with an intellectual disability, which is why one part of OSBI’s mission is to help parents navigate governmental and medical agencies. OSBI itself never expected to expand to 6 locations from its early beginning as a program for one family’s daughter , Dylan, and her classmates.

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

What's your number? In fundraising, you always want to ask for a specific amount. That's true, whether you're talking to a major donor or writing an acquisition letter. In your fundraising letters, you want to avoid a one-size-fit-all approach. Especially one that suggests a broad giving range, like "Please send $1,000, $500, $250, $100, $250, or $50.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Do you work for a "dot org?" Do you know there's an effort underway (currently put on hold by the California Attorney General ) to sell the registry of.orgs to a private equity firm? At a time when hands wring over closing civic space and the many ways technologies are being turned against us, this is the most concrete, least metaphorical example of how to shut down nonprofits I can imagine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. Presented by: Elizabeth Ngonzi , Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs and Former CEO of Afrika Tikkun USA. U.S. charitable giving in 2018 was $428 billion, yet most international organizations are unaware about how the U.S. charitable market works, its scope, where potential competitors and collaborators are, and how to overcome hurdles.

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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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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

For the last decade(s) or so, there has been much attention to the blurring of lines between nonprofits and social businesses. Much of the pressure is self-inflicted by funders and nonprofits looking for sustainable revenue models. The rise of impact investing is part of this story. I'm bringing it up just as background - just to say any nostalgic differentiation between businesses and nonprofits need to be reconsidered by looking at the reality of revenue generation practices.

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