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These 17 Nonprofit Leaders Want to Change How You Vote

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Drew Lindsay Chronicle Illustration; Courtesy Headshots; iStockphoto Organizers, funders, lawyers, scholars, writers, and celebrities (Jennifer Lawrence!) aim to reboot our election system. Also, coming soon from the Chronicle: the people who want to build trust in elections.

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A Main Reason Why Donors Give and How to Use It to Boost Fundraising Response

NonProfit PRO

One big reason donors give is the desire for action. Here's how you can appeal to this want to boost fundraising success.

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Albert M. Rejouis Joins Nonprofit Leadership Center Team

NonProfit Leadership Center

Stay ready, so you don’t have to get ready. That is Albert Rejouis’ mantra, as he believes preparation is what separates the best from the rest. We are pleased to share that Albert M. Rejouis has joined the Nonprofit Leadership Center team as our new administrative assistant. In this vital support role, Albert will provide comprehensive administrative assistance to ensure smooth organizational operations and exceptional customer service.

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How Nonprofits Can Curate Content (the Right Way)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Content curation should be an important part of your content creation strategy as it can save you time, improve engagement, establish you as a helpful source of information, and can even improve your SEO. Nonprofits can curate content lots of different ways, but let’s talk about some basics first for those of you who have never curated content before.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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How a $50 Million Philanthropic Investment Is Bolstering Coalitions of Care Workers, Advocates

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Longtime advocates for care workers and families say there’s momentum for their cause, thanks to decades of grassroots organizing, a pandemic that brought the care crisis to everyone’s doorstep, and an infusion of philanthropic support. By Eden Stiffman Brooke Anderson The Care Can’t Wait coalition rallies in New York City during a seven-state bus tour in August 2024.

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A Recap of the 2024 Bridge Conference

NonProfit PRO

With year-end fundraising swiftly approaching, here are the latest tips for fundraising and marketing from the recent Bridge Conference.

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Mastering Delegation with Marketing New Hires

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Welcome to the world of nonprofit marketing, where your mission is to make the world a better place by spreading your organization’s message far and wide. And guess what? We do it all on a shoestring budget, with tight deadlines, and too often, with only a handful of resources. Quite often, being a nonprofit marketer means juggling a million things at once.

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Rural America Is Struggling. Where's Philanthropy?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Ben Gose WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION Sofia Jaramillo New donor collaboratives are experimenting, but few national foundations bring big dollars or a strategy. Plus, see the rest of our September issue, posted online today.

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15 Reasons Your Paid Digital Ads May Not Be Converting

NonProfit PRO

In theory, paid digital ads are simple, but a lot goes into creating successful campaigns. Here's what may determine success.

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The 3 Secrets to Effective Presentations

Joan Garry

Effective leadership is not just about delivering the right information; it's about how you communicate it. In my experience leading nonprofit leaders, it is the "soft skills” that create a lasting impact that goes beyond words and actions, ensuring your message resonates deeply with your audience. The post The 3 Secrets to Effective Presentations appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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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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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit:Rayson Tan on Unsplash Below is a transcript, edited for length and clarity, of “Escaping Corporate Capture: Nonprofit Survival in a For-Profit World,” hosted by Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY, on July 26, 2024. Moderating the conversation are Caroline Crumpacker of Ultra Advising and Steve Dubb of Nonprofit Quarterly. Participating as panelists are Jule Hall of the Innocence Project, Alissa Quart of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Amarah Sedreddine , general counsel at Sedr

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More Funders Are Handing Off Grant-Making Duties to Intermediaries. Is It a Good Idea?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A new report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds that nonprofits are not as enamored with intermediaries as consultancies and foundations are. By Stephanie Beasley Groundswell Fund Black Mamas Matter Alliance, a grantee of the intermediary Groundswell Fund, held its annual Black Maternal Health Walk and Block Party in Atlanta in April 2024.

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5 Proven Strategies To Enhance Your Existing Tools For A More Modern Constituent Experience

NonProfit PRO

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, many organizations struggle to integrate siloed data and systems. Efforts to innovate have often led to a proliferation of tools, technologies, and platforms - resulting in a fractured constituent experience and strained budgets. This session will explore five proven strategies that start with the systems you already have in place, as a foundation to enhance a more connected, responsive, and efficient constituent experience.

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Don’t be afraid to tap into donor-advised funds (DAFs) 

Candid

October 10, 2024 will be the first-ever DAF Day , a giving day dedicated to donor-advised funds (DAFs). The initiative was launched in July by a group of 60 nonprofits, fundraising platforms, and DAF sponsors to expand DAF giving by encouraging their networks to give from their DAF accounts on one day, together. Here’s what nonprofits need to know to get involved and make the most of DAF Day.

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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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Cracks in the Foundation: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. In 2020, iF , A Foundation for Radical Possibility (then the Consumer Health Foundation) hosted a retreat with our board and staff. At that retreat, we conducted a racial equity versus racial justice Verzuz-style battle to clarify which would be our focus moving forward, asking ourselves, “What do Black people need to heal?

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Nonprofit Employees Often Can't Afford Basics, New Report Finds

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Study reveals 22 percent of charity workers struggle financially, highlighting a crisis in a sector dedicated to helping others. By Sara Herschander iStockphoto More than one in five nonprofit workers in the United States is struggling to make ends meet, even as many dedicate their careers to helping others facing financial hardship, according to a new report released Tuesday.

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UnitedHealth Group, Goodwill Partner to Expand Career Pathways Training

NonProfit PRO

UnitedHealth Group and Goodwill announced a three-year partnership to help people overcome barriers to long-term, higher-paying employment.

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What to Say When Your Donor Asks: How Much do you Spend on Overhead?

Clairification

I’ve been asked this question many times. And not just by donors, but also by board members. One of the ways I’ve answered is with my own questions: If you could invest 20 cents to get a dollar, would you? If you could invest 50 cents to get a dollar, would you? If the dollar you got was old, wrinkly and ripped, would that matter to you?

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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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Nonprofit Boards Remain Overwhelmingly White—Here’s How to Change That

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels Nonprofits often pride themselves on being more socially conscious than for-profit corporations. There is at least one area, however, in which the nonprofit sector is not doing much better than its for-profit counterpart: diversity on governance boards. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of nonprofit board chairs identify as White, according to research by BoardSource , and nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of board members overall identify as White.

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Parks for the People

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Lilly's record grant to the National Park Foundation has some intriguing benefits. By Amy Schiller NPS/Victoria Stauffenberg Visitors kayak across Jordan Pond in Maine’s Acadia National Park. Lilly's record grant to the National Park Foundation has some intriguing benefits.

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Bonterra Expands Digital Fundraising Offerings with Acquisition of DonorDrive

NonProfit PRO

Bonterra acquired DonorDrive as part of its commitment to actively create more impact for every customer’s mission.

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Can nonprofit arts organizations survive inflation and revenue woes?

Candid

Over the past five years, nonprofit arts organizations have maneuvered through pandemic shutdowns, evolving audience behaviors, and the relentless pressure of inflation. But what does the financial landscape look like now? We analyzed data provided by 743 organizations via SMU DataArts’ Cultural Data Profile from 2019 to 2023, revealing the complexities beneath the surface.

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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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The Challenges of Seeking Healthcare as a Neurodivergent Person

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on iStock As much as 20 percent of the US population is neurodivergent, a concept that autistic disability rights advocates first developed to describe neurological diversity and move away from binary distinctions between “ normal ” and “abnormal” cognition. Examples of neurodivergence include neurological conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and other conditions related to mental hea

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National Grant Makers Bet This Rural Education Program Can Scale

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Eden Stiffman Partners for Rural Impact The Ballmer Group, Blue Meridian Partners, and others are helping Partners for Rural Impact take a model from Harlem and adapt it for Appalachian Kentucky and beyond.

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#GivingTuesday Communication Templates

NonProfit PRO

Need easy to use templates for your #GivingTuesday fundraising? Use this #GivingTuesday messaging guide to copy and paste easy, pre-made templates that you can edit and schedule now to #GivingTuesday. From emails to social media posts and text messages, our experts have done the work for you! Download the messaging templates now to elevate your #GivingTuesday appeals this year.

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Investing in fair, inclusive data

Candid

As most savvy funders know, our collective future hinges on whether this era of unprecedented technological innovation finally breaks down decades of systemic exclusion for those without access…or only further encodes long standing biases. At the heart of the struggle is data. If we don’t center historically marginalized communities in the way we collect, use, and share information, we risk worsening inequalities across all sectors.

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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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Language usage guides: An interview with the Women’s Enterprise Development Center

Big Duck

Learn how a language usage guide can improve nonprofit communications by codifying inclusive words and phrases and equity-centered approaches.

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Fearless Fund Drops Grant Program for Black Women Businessowners in Lawsuit Settlement

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The case has been closely watched as a bellwether in the growing legal battle waged by conservative groups against corporate diversity programs. By Alexandra Olson, Associated Press NEW YORK AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File Fearless Fund CEO Arian Simone (center left) said in a statement that the firm will continue its mission of “helping and empowering women of color entrepreneurs in need.

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Content Creators Continue to Disrupt Traditional Fundraising Methods

NonProfit PRO

In the last two years, collaborations between Make-A-Wish and content creators has helped hundreds of children battling critical illnesses.

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jim Bildner In 2017, sociology professor Kenneth Andrews, in an o p- e d in the New York Times , argued social movements that succeeded in creating lasting change needed to do three things well—create cultural awareness and draw attention to a problem (what I refer to as “stop energy”); disrupt things by socializing the change they seek to create and making it, as he says, “more costly to support the status quo;” and, of equal importance, organizing the implementation of the desired change.

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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!