NonProfit PRO
MAY 11, 2023
Love it, hate it or just don’t know much about it — artificial intelligence (AI) is here for good with the widespread adoption of ChatGPT. And this is good news for nonprofits. With that being said, here are five ways AI can elevate your fundraising.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 11, 2023
By Yelena V Litvinov and Tatyana Margolin Chronicle illustration; photos by Thom Bridge, Independent Record; Cheney Orr, Reuters, Redux; Getty Tennessee lawmakers Justin Jones (front) and Justin Pearson (left) were expelled from the state legislature after standing with protesters advocating for gun control. In Montana, state legislators barred Rep.
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
MAY 10, 2023
Nonprofit events are the perfect opportunity to bring your community together to celebrate and support your cause, but they also require a lot of work. From designing an effective marketing strategy and securing sponsors to coordinating details like venues, catering, and entertainment, there are dozens of tasks that need to be completed before the day of a big event.
Selfish Giving
MAY 10, 2023
I'm busy this week teaching in the New Strategies Program in the business school at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. I'm teaching 30+ nonprofit leaders how to raise money with corporate partnerships. Woo-hoo! ? For that reason, I'm keeping this week's newsletter short! ✍️ Partnership Notes 1. Did you miss the Q&A session I held last Thursday with the gang at Good Scout???
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.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 11, 2023
Beyond providing generous financial support, board members can act as fundraising ambassadors. Offering board members a variety of ways to engage with fundraising sets everyone up for success. Here are five opportunities for board members to contribute to their nonprofits’ fundraising efforts.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 9, 2023
By Jim Rendon She says she wants to focus more on her family and that her efforts as CEO to raise the group's public profile through sometimes controversial opinion articles and public appearances have appealed to the values that the group's members share.
Nonprofit Leadership Zone brings together the best content for advertising professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MAY 12, 2023
How Pinterest is Useful for Small Business Marketing Pinterest offers small businesses a creative and visually engaging platform to showcase their products, build brand awareness, drive website traffic, and foster customer loyalty. For any illustrated inspiration, we usually refer to Pinterest. Because why not? It has so many images that sometimes even Google cannot offer.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 10, 2023
Historically, major gift officers solely sought donors with the capacity to make major gifts, and planned gift officers focused on prospects with the result being a planned gift. But now, blended gifts are the future of gift planning.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 10, 2023
By Emily Haynes As nonprofits struggle to hire and retain fundraisers, some are turning to performance-based bonuses to entice and retain talent.
Pam Moore
MAY 7, 2023
Social Cat Review – Social Cat Paving the Way for Small Business and Agencies Influencer Marketing Social Cat Review Influencer Marketing As the owner of a thriving digital brand marketing, training and consulting agency, I'm always on the lookout for cutting-edge tools and platforms that can help my team and our clients smash their goals. One area of marketing that has gained significant traction in recent years is influencer marketing.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 11, 2023
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry could not exist without the Civil Rights Movement and owes a debt to the labor and thought leadership of Black activists and freedom fighters. Yet rather than acknowledging and responding to its roots in organizing against White supremacy, DEI has developed into an industry that focuses on surface-level, individualistic engagement, and the bottom line—that is, on the ways DEI can boost profitability.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 10, 2023
The Internal Revenue Service reminded thousands of tax-exempt organizations of their May 15, 2023, filing deadline. The annual filing due date for certain returns filed by tax-exempt organizations is normally by the 15th day of the fifth month after the end of an organization's accounting period.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 8, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Plus, the founder of Politico is giving $20 million to start a new journalism institute, and five universities landed big gifts.
Candid
MAY 9, 2023
For every $100 foundations give to an Ivy League school, how many dollars do you think foundations give to a historically Black college and university (HBCU)? That’s a trick question—it’s not a matter of dollars, but of cents. In fact, for every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average HBCU. HBCUs have long played a pivotal role in the United States.
Clairification
MAY 8, 2023
Everyone knows storytelling = good. Humans wired for stories. We want to enter into them … become part of them… see ourselves, in some way, expressively reflected in the characters, plot and struggle. Everyone responds, all ears, to “Shall I tell you a story?” Yet there’s been a brouhaha of late around so-called “donor-as-hero” stories. I’ve long been a proponent of encouraging donors to jump right into the narrative to give it a happy ending.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 10, 2023
Nonprofit donors are increasingly immune to traditional marketing and advertising. Wherever we go, from billboards on the highway to pop-up ads on our favorite websites, countless brands vie for attention. As a result, we’ve learned to tune them out or avoid them. That's why interactive marketing is so effective.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 12, 2023
By M.J. Prest Also, the Cleveland Foundation has named Lillian Kuri to succeed Ronn Richard as its leader, and the National Gallery of Art will install a new administrator in July.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
MAY 8, 2023
Our 2023 Catalyst Award Winners, Mike Mosby and Playback Memphis With over 5,000 registered nonprofit organizations, Memphis is filled with passionate people working to create positive change. If the average Memphian was asked to name five great nonprofits, chances are many of the larger, well-known organizations would come up repeatedly. Memphis is fortunate to have well-established organizations doing extraordinary work.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 8, 2023
By Shay Lessman , Content Writer and Editor for Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. When the first text message was sent on December 3 rd , 1992, no one could have conceived how important this mode of communication would become for people worldwide. Now, text messaging is ingrained into our everyday lives.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 12, 2023
The percentage of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has doubled since Gallup first began measuring it in 2012. And the younger the generation, the larger the percentage, with nearly 21% of Gen Z and almost 11% of millennials identifying as LGBTQ+. So, how can nonprofits connect with this growing demographic?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 11, 2023
By Fred Nelson , Jessica Sweidan , Torbjørn Gjefsen , Bryson Ogden & Solange Bandiaky-Badji Over the past several years, a consensus has formed that addressing the interlinked climate and biodiversity crises requires supporting the land rights and environmental stewardship of Indigenous Peoples and other local, rural communities who live alongside and depend on natural resources for their livelihoods.
Get Fully Funded
MAY 11, 2023
When most people think about funding a nonprofit, they think they should look for grants. Seems like a good idea, right? After all, there are thousands of foundations out there that exist to give money away. But, growing a nonprofit so you can fulfill your mission means having a fundraising plan with diverse revenue streams. In order to raise the most money for your cause and create a stable future for your organization, you need several different sources of funding.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 11, 2023
Staying current with the latest digital marketing and fundraising trends and benchmarks is essential for nonprofits. The 2023 reports reaffirm the growing power of monthly giving, the need to clean your email list(s) regularly, and reveal that more nonprofits are understanding that social media requires an investment in social ads to produce results.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 10, 2023
The 2023 DonorPerfect Community Conference will explore industry skills and solutions that make it simple to refresh your fundraising strategy on a dime. Mark your calendar now for two half-days of free, virtual sessions on June 6th and 7th, led by celebrated nonprofit leaders and expert fundraising trainers.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 10, 2023
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 10, 2023
Image Credit: Clint McKoy on unsplash.com “We know that redlining and segregation was not just a phenomenon that has to do with banks,” Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said. “Institutional racism means that many institutions were implicated in the creation of the system that we have today—governmental, academic, corporate, and medical institutions alike.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 6, 2023
The next series of webinars required to earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good starts August 23, but if you would like to earn the certificate now — you can purchase the notes and recordings from the last series presented in March, April and May 2023. Once paid, you will be sent the notes and recordings within 24 hours for the required three webinars: [$30] Website & Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits [$30] Online Fundraising Best Pr
NonProfit PRO
MAY 9, 2023
Fluxx and UpMetrics have partnered to provide foundations and grantees with an end-to-end solution that combines grantmaking data with impact data, measurement, and analytics. The partnership will empower foundations to make more informed grantmaking decisions.
Amy Eisenstein
MAY 10, 2023
This article hit close to home. I always sit in the middle of the table even now that I am AVP. You make an excellent point and I will change where I sit from now on. Thank you!
Fundraising Leadership
MAY 12, 2023
Mattel recently released a new Anna May Wong Barbie to honor the Hollywood icon. But barriers, tropes, bias and the bamboo ceiling persist. (Photo courtesy of Mattel) What could you do with an extra $267,760 over a lifetime? Buy a home, perhaps, repay student loans, start a business, leave a legacy, found a nonprofit, donate to a worthwhile cause. The average Asian American, Native Hawaiian Pacific Island woman will likely never know, as that is what this group of women working full time will lo
Candid
MAY 10, 2023
To spread the word about a new initiative or build awareness around your mission-driven work, effective communication with your audiences is key. This is where a communications campaign can come in handy. But managing a campaign’s moving pieces can be challenging. To set your next campaign up for success, we are breaking up the process of building a campaign into five simple steps.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 10, 2023
Make 2023 a year of growth and enhance your fundraising data with Melissa’s smart, sharp data quality tools! Learn how Melissa can help you verify global address and contact information to stay in touch with donors, create mailing lists to expand your outreach to the best possible supporters, and keep your funds secure with eIDV by downloading our new Solutions Catalog today!
Jeff Brooks
MAY 8, 2023
Here’s an easy formula for making your fundraising more relevant to donors. It’s just two words: So That , from the Linked in newsletter, Fundraising Friday. Here’s an example from the article: Before We serve orphaned children in southern Malawi by providing education, residential care, family reunification, and vocational training. It’s a listing of program activities.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MAY 6, 2023
Social Media Monitoring Tools Nonprofits Should Use In 2023 Your Nonprofit is a champ in Social Media Marketing and your Brand is getting mentions throughout many channels. How do you Monitor Success and reply accordingly? Check out these Social Media Monitoring Tools by Lilian Sue. What exactly is social monitoring? It’s basically the measurement side of social media content marketing.
Pam Moore
MAY 7, 2023
Social Cat Review – Social Cat Paving the Way for Small Business and Agencies Influencer Marketing Social Cat Review Influencer Marketing As the owner of a thriving digital brand marketing, training and consulting agency, I'm always on the lookout for cutting-edge tools and platforms that can help my team and our clients smash their goals. One area of marketing that has gained significant traction in recent years is influencer marketing.
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