Mon.Sep 11, 2023

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If the Board Chair Supports the Board, Who Supports the Board Chair?

NonProfit PRO

In your nonprofit who would you say is the biggest cheerleader of the board chair? Board chairs can often feel like it is just them running the show. Here are some common-sense approaches to make sure the board chair is supported.

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Financier Len Blavatnik Gives Yale $40 Million to Develop New Health Technologies

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Plus, Dan and Jennifer Gilbert have pledged $375 million for two new medical facilities, and MacKenzie Scott is giving $20 million for affordable housing in San Francisco. By Maria Di Mento Christopher Capozziello, The New York Times, Redux Yale University will use a $40 million gift to expand a life-sciences center that focuses on early-stage research and the development of new biomedical products and health technologies through the support of start-up businesses and industry partnerships.

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Giving Tuesday: 2022 Learnings & Donor Insights

NonProfit PRO

Join us for an insightful webinar, "Giving Tuesday: 2022 Learnings & Donor Insights," where we'll delve into pivotal takeaways, donor perspectives, and crucial decisions that can drive your philanthropic efforts in 2023. Be part of this engaging discussion on maximizing your impact and making informed choices. Don't miss out!

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The Not-So-Secret Way to Power Your Nonprofit’s Future Growth

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. As a small nonprofit organizer, you want to do more good work. But you’re already hustling as hard as possible to build support, raise money, and make a difference. How do you do more and grow your nonprofit without a fleet of minions?

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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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Plan ‘Random(ish) Acts’ of Nonprofit Donor Kindness, Especially Now

Clairification

Getting in the spirit of acts of kindness It’s been a rough decade thus far, beginning with a pandemic out there killing people. And then the hurricanes, fires, floods and earthquakes killing people. Not to mention the genocides, autocracies, global and domestic terrorists killing people. The list, unfortunately, goes inexorably on. What can your nonprofit organization do to offer a remedy?

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Why Do Wheelchair Repairs Take So Long?

NonProfit Quarterly

Jakub Pabis on unsplash.com When Murshid Buwembo’s wheelchair got a flat tire in a Home Depot parking lot, Buwembo had to miss three days of work while it was being repaired. And as he related to NPR , the repairs cost him $700. To afford that costly repair, he said: “I had to skip buying groceries.” For the users who rely on them, wheelchairs are essential devices.

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VolunteerHub Offers Direct Integration with Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge NXT

The Volunteer Hub

VolunteerHub integrates seamlessly with Raiser’s Edge NXT and all other Blackbaud CRMs via direct integration. For organizations using both platforms, Integrating VolunteerHub with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT can provide many benefits including streamlined data management and a 360-degree view of constituents. Unlike other volunteer management software on the market, VolunteerHub directly integrates with Blackbaud-hosted and locally installed versions of The Raiser’s Edge , allowing nonpro

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Nonprofit Compliance Basics

Foundation Group

Once your nonprofit receives tax-exempt status from the IRS, there are regulatory filings in order to maintain compliance on the state and federal level.

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5 Strategies To Nurture Active Board Engagement

Bloomerang

One big key to your organization doing well is how involved and dedicated your board members are. Just as personal relationships flourish through understanding and care, tending to the needs of your board members can significantly enhance their commitment to your cause. This principle of fostering connection and support serves as the cornerstone of effective board engagement.

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Why Talking About the Problem Is So Difficult

Veritus Group

It may feel counterintuitive, but talking about the problem that your non-profit is organized to address is the real way to motivate giving. The post Why Talking About the Problem Is So Difficult appeared first on Veritus Group.

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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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Are You Prepared for Nonprofit Tax Deadlines?  

The Charity CFO

Taxes are rarely anyone’s idea of fun, but meeting nonprofit tax deadlines is critical to keeping even the most successful and impactful charities running. Unfortunately, they can often sneak up on busy nonprofit leaders, leading to a last-minute scramble to file – or worse. So, what should organizations keep in mind about tax deadlines?

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VolunteerHub Offers Direct Integration with Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge

The Volunteer Hub

VolunteerHub integrates seamlessly with Raiser’s Edge and all other Blackbaud CRMs via direct integration. For organizations using both platforms, Integrating VolunteerHub with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge (data is also accessible via Raiser’s Edge NXT) can provide many benefits including streamlined data management and a 360-degree view of constituents.

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Creative Church Fundraising Ideas [+ AI Fundraising Idea Generator]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Creative Church Fundraising Ideas [+ AI Fundraising Idea Generator] Are you looking for Unique and Creative Fundraising Ideas for your Church? That’s great. Fundraising is exciting. Let’s help you set up a plan by sparking your creativity with a lineup of creative Fundraising ideas you can start today. First this: Grow faster than ever before!

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Donor Cultivation Cycle: The Must-Have Guide (+ Free Resources)

Donorbox Nonprofit

Merriam-Webster defines cultivating as “to foster the growth of.” You can cultivate skills, plants, and…donors! That’s where the donor cultivation cycle comes in. Donor cultivation is indeed about fostering the growth of your prospective donors by turning them into long-term supporters of your nonprofit. The donor cultivation cycle describes the five steps common to this […] The post Donor Cultivation Cycle: The Must-Have Guide (+ Free Resources) appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Creative Sports Team Fundraising Ideas [+ AI Idea Generator]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Creative Sports Team Fundraising Ideas [+ AI Fundraising Idea Generator] Are you looking for Creative Fundraising Ideas for your Sports Team? Great! Fundraising is exciting. Let’s help you set up a plan by sparking your creativity with a lineup of cool Fundraising ideas. First this: Grow faster than ever before! Seamlessly blend creativity and technology.

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Voices of Power Builders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By The California Endowment Building People Power has included a range of perspectives and scholarship from researchers, funders, and power builders. In the short video below, we’ve asked the following power builders to speak directly to the roles and contributions that philanthropy can have in supporting community organizing and power building, to explain their reasoning and motivation for focusing on building power, and also to share their experiences in funding power building: Joseph To

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” This conversation with Manuel Pastor, distinguished professor of sociology and American studies & ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and NPQ ’s Steve Dubb and Rithika Ramamurthy, explores themes regarding social movements and economics that Manuel Pastor writes about in Solidarity Economics: Why Mut

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Why We’re Targeting the Hardest to Reach Voters

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Roger Vann For Black Americans, the right to vote has never come easy. After centuries of systemic legal exclusion, our ancestors marched and shed blood time and time again for the right to cast a ballot and secure a place in American democracy. Nearly six decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, this struggle continues, with a rising tide of authoritarianism that deploys voter suppression as one of its most insidious weapons.