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How New California Regulations Impact Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

A new California law aims to bring more transparency to digital fundraising as a whole. Let’s explore the aspects of the California law, how it impacts social media platforms, the implications for nonprofits that land on a block list and the steps a nonprofit needs to take to avoid non-compliance.

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Latinos Aren't Appointed to Nonprofit Boards in Big Cities in Big Numbers

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Alex Daniels Courtesy of Melissa Sandoval Melissa Sandoval, who was a social worker before becoming a lawyer, is a board member at an addiction-treatment nonprofit — the only Latina on the board. A study of cities with large numbers of Latinos found a mismatch between the number of Hispanic residents and charity board members.

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boodleAI Announces boodleGPT, a Predictive AI Assistant for Nonprofits and Businesses

NonProfit PRO

boodleAI announced the development of boodleGPT. boodleGPT is powered by OpenAI’s powerful foundational large language models (LLMs).

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What Covid-19 Vaccination Efforts Taught Philanthropy About How to Close the Racial Health Gap

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By David Etzwiler and Jeniffer Harper-Taylor Hart Van Denburg, Colorado Public Radio, AP Shorter AME Church, Denver’s oldest Black church, teamed up with UC Health to provide the Covid vaccine to underserved communities. Grant makers need to adopt what worked during the pandemic when vaccination rates for Black people improved sharply and apply those approaches to address other stubbornly high health gaps.

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How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters—emphasizing trust, engagement, and community over transactional giving models. 🤝 Industry expert Tim Sarrantonio will explore data-backed strategies to engage supporters as active participants in a community that values their contributions and shared ideals.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jason Saul & Kriss Deiglmeier In 2021, US companies generated $2.77 trillion in profits—the largest ever recorded in history. This is a significant increase since 2000 when corporate profits totaled $786 billion. Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. From 2000 to 2021, progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been anemic, registering less than 10 percent growth over 20 years.

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5 Lessons from 5,000 Fundraising Experiments

NextAfter

Pop the confetti and cue the music because we’ve just hit a major milestone: this week we logged our 5,000th digital fundraising experiment in our experiment library. That’s a whole lot of testing, tweaking, and analysis. And we’ve experienced our fair share of “aha” moments, forehead slaps, and unexpected learnings along the way. To commemorate the occasion, we’re sharing a few of the most enduring and impactful digital fundraising lessons these 5,000 tests have uncovered—time-teste

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Nonprofit Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for May 2023

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Every month we share writing ideas your nonprofit can use to produce new content for your newsletter articles, blog posts, or social media updates. Need them sooner? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get June’s prompts emailed to you next week. On the Calendar 5/1: National Mother Goose Day.

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Could Gifts of Stock Be Your Nonprofit’s Magic Genie?

Clairification

Does your nonprofit promote stock gifts? You should! A groundbreaking study by Dr. Russell James J.D., Ph.D., CFP®, professor in the Department of Personal Financial Planning at Texas Tech University, found nonprofits that consistently received gifts of appreciated stocks grew their contributions six times faster than those receiving only cash. This is HUGE.

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“Dear Friend” fundraising probably won’t kill you

Jeff Brooks

To hear some people talk, addressing a donor as “Dear Friend” -- anything other than their name -- will squash response flat and make donors angry and spiteful forever. Not quite. Dear Friend is far from the worst thing you can say to your beloved donors. Donors respond well to their own names. But “Dear Friend” won’t destroy fundraising results. In head-to-head testing, non-personalized messages often perform as well, or nearly as well, as personalized ones.

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Choosing a Nonprofit Name: Seven Common Mistakes and How to Get it Right

Prosper Strategies

When it comes to naming a nonprofit, there are several common mistakes that can lead organizations astray. In this post, we’ll explore some of the common mistakes nonprofits make in the naming process and provide tips for how to do it right. The post Choosing a Nonprofit Name: Seven Common Mistakes and How to Get it Right appeared first on Prosper Strategies.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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10 Commonly Prescribed Medications and What They’re Used for

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

10 Commonly Prescribed Medications and What They’re Used for Introduction Prescription drugs play a crucial role in modern medicine, allowing people to manage various health conditions and improve their quality of life. With so many different medications on the market, it can be overwhelming to understand what each drug is used for and how it works.

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Create Active Values to Inspire Action

Mission Minded

Use calls to action as values so others can clearly understand, rally around, and live out every day. The post Create Active Values to Inspire Action appeared first on Mission Minded.

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How Payroll Outsourcing Changed My Entrepreneur Life

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Payroll Outsourcing Changed My Entrepreneur Life An individual can only do limited things, and it’s even worse when you’re running your business alone. As an entrepreneur , managing the finances and operations of a business can be daunting. From hiring employees to paying taxes and ensuring everyone gets paid on time, the responsibilities are many, and the stakes are high.

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43 Digital Marketing Tools & Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When nonprofits started to experiment with digital marketing in 1990s and early 2000s, the few tools that were available were expensive and limited in their functionality. Today, the number of low-cost, well-built digital marketing tools is incredible! Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use these free or low-cost tools and resources to significantly improve your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns.

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How To Create a Nonprofit Annual Report in 9 Steps

MNA Association

Written By Margo Stoney , High Mountain Creative Your 2023 Nonprofit Annual Report Design Content Checklist Does putting together your annual report feel overwhelming? Since I already know the answer to that, I’ve put together this handy list and downloadable Annual Report Checklist to help organize your annual report or impact report. There are some great prompts for ideas to discuss with your graphic designer, printer, copywriter, or strategy team so you can come to the table with some fresh

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Space as Liberation: Liberatory Narratives in Emerging Black Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Marcus Middleton Photography Space is emerging as a frontier for liberation. How often have you heard a struggling mom, when asked what they need, answer that they just need a bit of “space”? Or a friend in crisis, perhaps recently laid off and unsure which direction to take, say that they need “space” to figure out what they want, who they are?

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Top 7 Websites to Convert JPG to Word for Free

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Top 7 Websites to Convert JPG to Word for Free If you want to convert JPG images to Word documents swiftly, then you have landed on the right post. In this informative blog post, we covered the few best JPG to Word converters that lets you make conversions effortlessly. Keep reading to explore all tools one by one and start turning JPG into Word document format.

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The Invisible Rural Access Barrier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Susan Bornstein , Christina Barstow , Alisha Myers , Abbie Noriega & Christian Steiner In a small, rural village in Zambia, Ruth earns an income by collecting fresh vegetables from local community gardens and bringing them to market. Tending and collecting the vegetables by foot is time-consuming and inefficient, but with the help of a bicycle, she can travel more quickly along the 5 kilometers of dirt roads connecting the gardens and the market, increasing her earnings and savings.

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Building Energy Independence, Unlocking Economic Potential

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Wilson Vitorino on pexels.com Rural America is primarily powered by electric cooperatives , which have tripled their renewable energy capacity over the last decade. Projects such as the Microgrids, Infrastructure Resilience, and Advanced Controls Launchpad should accelerate this positive trend by using data and case studies to prove the cost-effectiveness and reliability of renewable energy sources such as wind.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

“SHINE” BY CARLA JAY HARRIS/ WWW.LUISDEJESUS.COM/ARTISTS/CARLA-JAY-HARRIS Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ’s spring 2023 issue, “The Space Beyond: Building the Way.” Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. I. The Black Leader’s Burden In the past three years, many of us who have been advancing justice initiatives have either questioned or outright criticized traditional top-down leadership as one root cause of the perpetuation of str