Sat.Jan 11, 2025 - Fri.Jan 17, 2025

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How to Make 2025 a Successful Year for Your Nonprofit

Ann Green

Happy New Year!Its hard to believe its already 2025. I hope 2024 was a successful year for your nonprofit organization. If it wasnt, you can work to make 2025 a better year. And if you were successful, you want that to continue. Many individuals make New Years resolutions and set goals. Your nonprofit should do the same. As with personal resolutions, you want your goals to be realistic and attainable.

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Don’t Wait Until Year-End to Spend Paid Media Budgets

NonProfit PRO

A common reaction to a tight paid media budget is to wait until the giving season to use it.This is the wrong approach for lots of reasons.

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How to Manage Up — and Reach Your Career Goals

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

These days, workers rarely have a clearly defined path to the top of their organizations. Experts share advice on how to manage your career to advance. By Lisa Schohl iStockphoto These days, workers rarely have a clearly defined path to the top of their organizations. Experts share advice on how to manage your career to advance.

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Fundraising New Year’s Resolutions

Bloomerang

Who doesnt like starting the new year with a clean slate ? Youre in a wonderful position to aim and reach higher. Better yet, its a perfect time to dream. For the public at-large, the most popular resolutions are exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, and saving more money, followed by more time with family and friends, and spending less time on social media.

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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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Co-Leadership as Practice for an Equitable Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sandhya Nakhasi , Jennifer Swayne Njuguna & Jess Yupanqui Feingold This week, SSIR is publishing a miniseries on co-leadership. Stay tuned for new articles from nonprofit leaders using this model at their organizations and share these valuable insights with your colleagues. Is co-leadership having a moment? The model is not exactly new, particularly in the nonprofit sector.

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Why You Should Mail and Email Your Donors More Often and More Strategically

NonProfit PRO

Some nonprofits are under the impression that sending multiple mail and email appeals constitutes an intrusion in donors lives. Nonsense.

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Philanthropy book club

Philanthropy 2173

Photo by rawkkim on unsplash There is so much uncertainty in my life right now. I've spent a lifetime reading fiction for joy and mental health, and reading nonfiction for work and an income (OK, I read some nonfiction for fun) and I've always read alone. My sister and I, in the early days of online life, launched a book review that we used to print and distribute at the cash registers of independent book stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Baltimore and San Francisco.

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How SEO Can Help Your Non-Profit in 2025

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How SEO Can Help Your Non-Profit in 2025 Search engine optimization has expanded brilliantly since its early days. While yes, the ultimate goal of any SEO campaign is to get your site higher up on the search rankings, it does so much more. Not only can you use it to improve the quality and accessibility of your website, but you can also use it to help increase the chances of getting generative AI search features to mention your brand when asked for direct recommendations.

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AARP Now Accepting 2025 Community Challenge Grant Applications

NonProfit PRO

AARP opened applications for its Community Challenge grant program, which aims to help nonprofits make communities more livable.

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Introducing an AI assistant to help navigate Candid’s resources 

Candid

Beyond providing data on grants, nonprofits, and foundations, Candid offers extensive subject matter expertise about the social sector as well as learning opportunities. These resources, which range from YouTube training videos to help articles , can get you the support you need regardless of skill or experience level. Now were pairing these knowledge sources with AI tools to answer your questions more holistically and guide you to the most essential information more effectively.

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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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ALS Research Gets $20 Million Windfall From Businessman Who Lost Wife to the Disease

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

David Husmans donation to Nova Southeastern University honors his wife, Cathy, who died in 2023. By Maria Di Mento Nova Southeastern University David Husman, center, with NSU President and CEO Dr. Harry Moon, right, and neurologist Dr. Eduardo Locatelli, endowed chair of NSU Healths David and Cathy Husman Neuroscience Institute. Plus, Healthy Minds Project, the Trevor Project, and the University of Montana received big gifts to support mental health services, advocacy, and youth in crisis.

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100 years to early

Philanthropy 2173

The 2173 in the name of this blog refers to the year, 2173. The year was 200 years in the future from 1973, when the futurist comedy "Sleeper"was made. Turns out, it's 100 years too late. There's a movie out (coming out) called 2073 that uses real-life footage from today's news to tell a story of a future apocalyptic hellscape. It caught my attention because of the title and because I'd been outlining a piece of fiction using the same primary sources.

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Top AI Lyrics Generators to Boost Your Songwriting Creativity in 2025

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Top AI Lyrics Generators to Boost Your Songwriting Creativity in 2025 Lets be realsongwriting can feel magicaluntil it doesnt. Some days, the words flow effortlessly, and other days, its like your creativity packed up and went on vacation. But heres the good news: you dont have to face writers block alone anymore. Enter AI lyrics generators, the ultimate songwriting sidekicks.

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Mental Health Advocates Aim to Dismantle Barriers to Care for Latinx Residents

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Garon Piceli on Pexels Despite reporting high levels of mental illness, US Latinx community members often fail to receive adequate care. The 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that just over a fifth of Hispanic adults ( 21.4 percent ) reported having a mental illnessdefined in the report as a diagnosed mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder that may have interfered with their lives.

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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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Jim Canales Made the Barr Foundation an Institutional Powerhouse

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The leader of the Boston-based foundation is stepping down after 11 years, having transformed it from a mom-and-pop philanthropy to one of the 25 largest private foundations in the United States. By Alex Daniels Dee Speaks Visuals Jim Canales doubled the Barr Foundations assets to about $2.8 billion, making it one of the 25 largest private foundations in the United States.

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Preparing for a Second Trump Term by Learning from Hungary’s Playbook

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Christian Lue on Unsplash As the United States braces for a second Trump administration, LGBTQ+ Americans are preparing for what could be an unprecedented rollback of their rights. Central to this looming threat is Project 2025 , a comprehensive policy agenda spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation that aims to dismantle protections for LGBTQ+ people , ban diversity initiatives , and defund gender-affirming care under Medicaid.