Sat.Jun 25, 2022 - Fri.Jul 01, 2022

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Direct Mail or Email? Win Over Donors With Both Channels

NonProfit PRO

Despite being a frequently debated topic, there is no "versus" between direct mail and email. Each is an indispensable partner to the other. Regardless, it's essential to approach them differently with your writing.

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We’re Halfway Through the Year. – Are You Meeting Your Goals So Far?

Ann Green

It’s hard to believe we’re halfway through 2022, isn’t it? The mid-point of the year is always a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. In this continuous time of uncertainty, your fundraising may be down. Yes, we’re seeing Inflation and a possible recession , but that doesn’t mean you should stop fundraising. Another important lesson from the pandemic – Never stop fundraising!

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Start Getting REAL About DEI and Communications

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

A few years ago, I read a life-changing little workbook titled “Do Disrupt: Change the status quo. Or become it.” STOP! This is not a book recommendation. It is not a book dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion but things got REAL in the sense of {Respect, Equality, Awareness and Learning} during one of the exercises. I’ve been to more than a dozen forms of DEI training but this dramatically changed my role in the world in the nonprofit space.

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An Onboarding Checklist for New Board Members

Joan Garry

Got new board members? Keep reading to learn everything you need to know to successfully onboard them — and download your free board orientation checklist! The post An Onboarding Checklist for New Board Members appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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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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A Social Fundraising Evolution: Content Creators Influence Giving Behaviors

NonProfit PRO

There are new ways to engage supporters using Facebook and Instagram messenger, where supporters never leave the platform. Applying traditional cultivation and coaching methods via in-channel conversations, nonprofits are raising revenue, driving repeat action, and nurturing relationships with new supporters.

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7 Questions You Should Ask To Make Your Messaging More Inclusive

Mission Minded

Here are seven guiding questions to ensure your organization's messaging is as authentic, inclusive, and anti-racist as possible. The post 7 Questions You Should Ask To Make Your Messaging More Inclusive appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Engage, request, repeat: The proven formula for retaining donors

Candid

Donor retention is the measurement of how many donors continue giving to your nonprofit year after year. You can calculate this metric for your organization by dividing the number of donors who gave again this year by the total number of donors who gave last year. . Maintaining a high retention rate means your nonprofit has access to ongoing, sustainable financial support.

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Practice Is the Road to Perfection

NonProfit PRO

Today, there are so many more ways now to engage with and ask donors in any and all channels and media that you have a lot more opportunities to practice your messaging and asks, so that it will ultimately become absolutely perfect.

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5 Best Practices for Building a Nonprofit Annual Operating Budget (with Template!)

Blue Avocado

There are as many forms of nonprofit budgets as there are forms of organizations. Unlike financial statements, which have some rules and guidelines according to accounting standards, the same level of industry-imposed standardization for budget documents and formats doesn’t really exist. While it’s true that the look of the budget should vary according to the […].

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What’s So Special About You?

Mission Minded

What makes your organization unique? Identify and reinforce what you uniquely deliver that fellow peer organizations can’t. The post What’s So Special About You? appeared first on Mission Minded.

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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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A Maryland nonprofit’s quest to bridge the gap between job seekers and employers

Candid

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple cracks in our society’s infrastructure. And over the past two years, those of us in the nonprofit sector who are committed to workforce development have seen the divide between job seekers and employers grow even wider. Maryland New Directions has helped motivate men and women in the greater Baltimore area find new career opportunities for nearly 50 years.

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4 Stewardship Essentials to Inspire Your Annual Givers

NonProfit PRO

Annual giving is the bread and butter of many nonprofits' operations, and with these stewardship strategies, you can maximize your own annual revenue.

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7 Ideas to Future-Proof Your Volunteer Program

The Volunteer Hub

The best way to future-proof your volunteer program is by adapting to the needs and expectations of volunteers that provide their time. Creating a strategy and setting goals is one of the best ways that your organization can future-proof your volunteer program. At VolunteerHub, we are consistently looking at best practices, trends, and events that impact how nonprofits can better recruit, engage, and manage volunteers.

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Inspiration and Advice for a New (Fiscal) Year

Fundraising Coach

July 1st is the “New Year” for many nonprofits. New fiscal Year, that is! No matter how well the past year’s fundraising was, today is the day you start back at zero. Again. So I asked some of the top experts in the field what advise they’d give to nonprofit leaders and fundraisers starting the new year. Here’s what they said!

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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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[Webinar] LinkedIn & Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

LinkedIn and Twitter have unique roles in your nonprofit’s social media strategy. LinkedIn is ideal for connecting with sponsors, funders, and thought leaders while Twitter is a fast-moving community built upon real-time news and information sharing. In this two-hour webinar , nonprofits will learn best practices for using LinkedIn and Twitter.

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How to Get Your Next Corporate Partner for your Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

Oftentimes, to succeed in starting new corporate partnerships, a development team must overcome a lot of rejection. For this reason, it's best to use a company's "side door." Here are some strategies on how to get started.

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Charting Your First 100 Days for the New Development Director

Bloomerang

The post Charting Your First 100 Days for the New Development Director appeared first on Bloomerang.

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How to Conduct an Honest Mid-Year Fundraising Evaluation

Get Fully Funded

When you’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to conduct a midyear fundraising evaluation. Why? A midyear evaluation will show you how you are doing and highlight areas where you need to improve. Because wherever you are with your fundraising, no matter how far behind you think you are, with six months remaining in the year, you have plenty of time to make changes and raise more money.

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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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Should I Incorporate My New Nonprofit?

Foundation Group

The post Should I Incorporate My New Nonprofit? appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 65: Discover Giving Trends by Analyzing Your Donor Data

NonProfit PRO

In this episode of The NonProfit Voice Tech Series, Mark Becker is joined by Maria Shanley at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida and Abby Jarvis at Neon One, to talk about data. They explore how nonprofits should analyze data and trends in giving, as well as exploring a nonprofit's donor segments and demographics in order to better engage donors.

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Track Donor Engagement and Boost Your Fundraising Efforts

Bloomerang

The post Track Donor Engagement and Boost Your Fundraising Efforts appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Leaders on the Move – Nonprofit HR Names New Managing Directors

NonProfit HR

Dr. Antonio Cortes has been selected to lead Nonprofit HR’s Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Justice practice (formerly DEI) as the new Managing Director! His first day is July 1st! Antonio has over a decade of experience as an applied industrial/organizational and business psychologist in the nonprofit sector. In his immediate past role, he functioned as Read more.

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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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You don’t have to be great at everything!

Concord Leadership

In a recent coach certification class discussion, we were talking about the benefits of helping our clients explore their hardwiring. We looked at the three levels of hardwiring included in Quadrant 3 Leadership: Abilities (like those surfaced in the Highlands Ability Battery) Behavorial (like those explained in systems like DISC) and Motivational (like those described […].

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New Research From OneCause Examines Evolving Social Donor Expectations

NonProfit PRO

OneCause released findings from its latest research, "The Giving Experience Study." Findings provide insights from social donors who gave to fundraising events over the past year and include what motivates them, when and how they will be comfortable returning to in-person events, and what influences repeat donations.

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Getting the Right People on Your Board

Bloomerang

The post Getting the Right People on Your Board appeared first on Bloomerang.

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[Podcast] Should you hire an operations manager? with Krysta Grangeno

The Charity CFO

Nonprofits teams have a tendency to break into silos that don’t communicate well with each other, like fundraising, programs, finance, HR. And when those groups don’t communicate well with each other, things break down and get much harder than they need to be. The founder or executive director can sometimes bridge those gaps, but they should really be more focused on large-scale vision, rather than micro-execution.

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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 Generate an Email Signature Online?

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Generate an Email Signature Online? Are you looking to send out more professional emails? Set up a great looking Email Signature to improve your Branding and click through rates. There are many reasons why you should have a professional email signature. For example, it can help you look more professional and give you the opportunity to leave an impression on your contacts.

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Classy Launches Crypto Giving Powered by Coinbase Commerce

NonProfit PRO

Classy announced the launch of Crypto Giving. Through an integration with Coinbase Commerce, nonprofit organizations on Classy's platform can receive donations for multiple types of cryptocurrency.

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Nonprofit Innovation Optimization Summit

Bloomerang

————. The post Nonprofit Innovation Optimization Summit appeared first on Bloomerang.

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We Stand for Reproductive Rights

Successful Nonprofits

E ven though we knew last week’s Supreme Court decision was likely going to strike down Roe v Wade, our hearts sank when the headline appeared on our screens. This decision is even more painful during June, a month when we celebrate liberation through Juneteenth and LGBTQ+ Pride. In many states, the court’s decision Read More. The post We Stand for Reproductive Rights appeared first on Successful Nonprofits.

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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!