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Nonprofit Budgeting Best Practices

The Charity CFO

Nonprofit budgeting best practices are often the difference between success and failure for the organization. Budgeting is a crucial element of understanding the financial health of your organization. Budgeting for nonprofits is very different from for profits, and a well-developed budgeting process can provide meaningful insight into the strength of your organization and your progress toward your mission.

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7 Ways to Prioritize Donor Acquisition and Retention This Year

NonProfit PRO

Industry benchmarks reveal just 23% of first-time online donors return, compared to 64% of existing online donors. And over the last decade, nonprofits have continued to raise more funds from fewer donors.

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3 Technology Tools For Improved Nonprofit Grant Management

Ann Green

Are you looking for tips to elevate your grant management strategy in 2023? Explore three technology tools that can level up your grant fundraising efforts. By Carl Diesing Alongside moves management and capital campaigns, grant fundraising is one of the most intricate fundraising activities that a nonprofit organization will undertake. Rooted in a foundation of strong relationships with grantmaking organizations, successful grant fundraising requires nonprofits to manage and track multiple prio

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Americans Are Volunteering Less. What Can Nonprofits Do to Bring Them Back?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Leslie Lenkowsky Recent surveys showing a decrease in volunteering largely blame the pandemic, but the problem isn’t new. Nonprofits need to figure out how to turn Americans’ desire to lend a hand to neighbors into more formal commitments to help their communities.

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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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Comment on How to Fire Utterly Toxic Nonprofit Board Members by David

Amy Eisenstein

In reply to Emma Rodriguez. Clearly the majority of residents are ok with things, if the board is 15 yrs old. Boards are elected annually. Time for others (you maybe) to volunteer to run for elections and replace those you are talking about.

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Build a Community of Cause Champions

NonProfit PRO

Organizations that seek to find growth and success depend on a cause community to carry them. Jamie Bearse of ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer shares how his organization developed the ZERO Flywheel method to build and keep a community engaged.

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More Kinds of Digital Giving Are Gaining Popularity Globally

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Rasheeda Childress A new report looks at digital giving trends in eight countries, including cryptocurrency, contactless giving, donor-advised funds, workplace giving, and impact investing.

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Seth Godin’s Advice for Nonprofit Fundraisers: Overcome the Dip

Affnetz

Seth Godin’s Advice for Nonprofit Fundraisers: Overcome the Dip F undraising-campaign-management/ By mikecrum Seth Godin’s Advice for Nonprofit Fundraisers: Overcome the Dip Nonprofit fundraising is definitely a profession for optimists. First off, you have to get used to a lot of “no’s” and “not now’s”. Second, as a fundraiser you’ve got to explore numerous strategies in an effort to engage your donors and prospects, and this requires the energy of an optimist (or someone who likes fishing!).

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The 2023 Nonprofit Sector Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss

NonProfit PRO

Set some time away from your daily nonprofit work to find the missing pieces of your nonprofit’s strategy by attending some of 2023’s in-person nonprofit sector conferences.

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Four Models for Nonprofit Communications Teams

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

As the communications roles and responsibilities grow in nonprofits, both staff and managers will question the function of the communications team within the organization. Where does it belong, and what does it do? How is that decided? We’ve found that the various communications team models we see in nonprofits are less about the location in the organizational chart and more about how the communications workload is decided.

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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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Early Data Shows Mixed Bag for 2022 Year-End Fundraising

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Rasheeda Childress Chronicle illustration Early data about year-end fundraising is in, and the picture is mixed. Some charities did gangbusters, while others struggled amid economic uncertainty and inflation. Some organizations that compile fundraising data are still tabulating, so more information will emerge in the coming weeks.

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Limitless Digital Mindset – Smash Limiting Beliefs to Unleash Digital Transformation

Pam Moore

Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. Today I'm diving into the topic of limiting beliefs and how entrepreneurs and business leaders can smash them to reach their full human potential.

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Top 5 Ways Text Messaging Will Retain Donors in 2023

NonProfit PRO

While text messaging has remained a reliable conversion channel over the years, nonprofits are taking advantage of texting’s strong and immediate open rate to focus on retention.

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Mixed Links: News and Tips for Nonprofit Marketers – February 17, 2023

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Cosmos. Orange Beach, AL Happy Friday! Ready for the most helpful articles, posts, and tips for nonprofit marketers? This week we have design tips for social media, marketing tips from Rihanna, effective Instagram ads and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Robert Rose says Get Common First If You Want To Develop a Great Content Strategy Here are 10 Social Media Design Tips to Stand Out on the Feed.

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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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The End of AmazonSmile Is an Opportunity for Nonprofits to Revisit Their Values

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Christopher Hammett Its free money for nonprofits came with a cost. It led groups to push aside fundamental beliefs to accept easy cash from a corporate behemoth whose business model harms the very communities they aim to protect.

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Limitless Digital Mindset – Smash Limiting Beliefs to Unleash Digital Transformation

Pam Moore

Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. Today I'm diving into the topic of limiting beliefs and how entrepreneurs and business leaders can smash them to reach their full human potential.

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The Giving Block Partners with Omatic

NonProfit PRO

The Giving Block announced a new partnership with Omatic. This partnership allows nonprofit organizations to seamlessly connect their fundraising data from The Giving Block with Blackbaud.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Heather Mansfield , founder and editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good According to the 2023 Nonprofit Tech for Good Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have experienced a cyberattack (email phishing, website hacking, ransomware, social media attack, etc.). Cybersecurity cannot be ignored in 2023. Below are five simple best practices for your nonprofit to ensure that your staff and your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns are safe and protected. 1) Use a premium hosting service

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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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Robust Stock Market Fueled More Giving to Colleges Through Mid-2022

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Emily Haynes Colleges and universities saw the biggest growth in giving since 2000 — 4.7 percent — raising nearly $60 billion from organizations and individuals during the 2022 financial year.

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Not Invented, But Scaled Here

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Anita Sundari Akella The development sector—whose traditional ways of working are increasingly challenged by global crisis, conflict, and climate change threats that disproportionately impact the poor, women, and girls—has a scaling problem. On one hand, social enterprises and other small innovative organizations can be an engine for conceptualizing, designing, testing, and validating new solutions to old problems.

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Download the Ultimate A to Z List of Live & Silent Auction Item Ideas

NonProfit PRO

Get your copy of this Essential Auction Resource for Nonprofits. When it comes to planning your next benefit auction event, one of the most critical elements for success is making sure that the items you're putting up for bid during your live and silent auctions are irresistible. Download The Ultimate A-to-Z List of Live & Silent Auction Item Ideas for Benefit Auction Success today to get started on brainstorming amazing ideas for unique live and silent auction items!

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7 Ways to Honor Black History this February and Beyond

Volunteer Match

Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. This list offers a few ways to delve deeper into Black history and support a more equitable future.

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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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New Names Join Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg on List of Charity's 50 Biggest Donors

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento and Drew Lindsay Gordon Davis. (Texas Tech University) The roster includes not-so-typical megadonors — among them a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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10 Proven Strategies To Help You Retain New Donors

Bloomerang

Community Brands recently shared donor retention data that reinforced alarming trends that the nonprofit sector has been monitoring for a while. In their survey, they asked nonprofits what their current donor retention rate was: about 60% said they didn’t know and the rest had an average donor retention rate of 45%. On average, donor retention rates increase based on the average gift amount.

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Groundswell Platform Implemented by Wipfli Launches Employee Giving Program

NonProfit PRO

Utilizing the Groundswell platform, Wisconsin-based Wipfli has launched a new charitable program that provides each employee $150 and matches an additional $500 that can be distributed to charity how, when and where the employee chooses.

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development.

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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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Fundraisers for Syria and Turkey Earthquake Try to Deliver Aid

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press New York Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless in Turkey and Syria after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Humanitarian access to northern Syria is complicated by the civil war, while sending funds can be blocked or slowed by U.S. sanctions, despite an exemption for relief efforts. The political environment in Turkey also poses challenges.

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Nonprofit pickup lines you can use this Valentine’s Day (and year-round)

Non Profit AF

Hi everyone, a couple of things before we get started. On March 14th, 9:30am Pacific Time, I’ll be moderating a.

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Combat uncertainty head-on: Leadership strategies

NonProfit PRO

What tactics have you put into place to ensure your organization can continue the essential services you provide? Learn how you can set your team up for success, regardless of any curveballs 2023 throws your way. From empowering your team with data to make informed decisions to staff and community engagement, download the eGuide from Social Solutions to learn from an experienced nonprofit Executive Director.

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From Scarcity to Inspiration: Rethinking the Value of Nonprofit Facilities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: itsnnnoa on unsplash.com Nonprofit facilities communicate, and we need to be more conscious, thoughtful, and vocal about what they say about who and what our organizations value. A dilapidated and dysfunctional facility communicates that the work conducted inside it is unimportant, the people served deserve no better, and the surrounding neighborhood is forgotten and forsaken.

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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!