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2024 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

As you celebrate the holidays this season, thank you for supporting nonprofits that strengthen our communities. For the Cook: Handmade Wooden Cutting Boards UTEC is a nonprofit that helps young people overcome the challenges of poverty, gang involvement, and unemployment.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

Many nonprofit organizations devote their time, talent, funding, and mission to helping people who live in financial hardship. We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology.

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

America needs a strong nonprofit sector…and we can’t get there with 22 percent of our workforce struggling.” The result, says United for ALICE president and CEO Stephanie Hoopes, is a more realistic—and much broader—picture of financial hardship in the nonprofit sector. “If When you use the ALICE metrics, it’s another 17 percent.

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4 Important Insights from the 2023 M+R Benchmarks Study

NonProfit Leadership Center

The study looks at billions of emails and SMS messages, millions of website visits and thousands of social media posts from hundreds of nonprofits (215 in the most recent report to be exact). Findings from the 2023 M+R Benchmarks study reveal four important insights all nonprofit organizations should know.

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How to Help People of Color Become Homeowners: Data from Philadelphia

NonProfit Quarterly

Addressing this requires intervention both by policymakers and nonprofit organizations. These neighborhoods still have above average poverty rates and remain majority Black and/or Latinx. The most crucial asset that nonprofits can bring to the table is trust.

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How a Community of Long-Term Monthly Donors Make a Long-Term Difference

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When they do not have access to funds, families in poverty depend on getting the water they need through temporary, charitable fixes, or they walk hours to find it from natural sources, or they may pay up to 20% of their income to buy it. Each month, they help create financial opportunity that previously did not exist for people in poverty.

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The Importance of Segmenting Your Donors

Ann Green

I get appeals from nonprofit organizations I don’t already support and many of these are generic and impersonal. But what’s even more annoying is receiving generic appeals from organizations I do support. Here’s an example from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Year-end fundraising time is here. This is annoying.

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