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Blackbaud Announces 2023 Second Quarter Results

NonProfit PRO

Blackbaud announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2023. Compared with last year's quarter 2 results, GAAP total revenue was $271.0 million, up 2.3%, with $262.4 million in GAAP recurring revenue, up 3.9%. Non-GAAP organic recurring revenue increased 4.4%.

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Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) Takes New Position at Kansas City Public Schools

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In an inspiring career journey that exemplifies the power of networking, seizing new opportunities, and embracing the unknown, Nicole Collier White, CNP has recently taken on a new role within the Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) system as Chief Communications and Community Engagement Officer. With a passion for serving others, Nicole’s climb to this position is a testament to her unwavering commitment to making a positive impact in her community.

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Want to Solve Polarization? Encourage More People to Volunteer

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Eboo Patel I’ve seen firsthand how volunteering can bridge deep political divides, says the author, who praises a new bipartisan report prescribing “Civic CPR” to bring the nation together.

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WATCH: The Economic Impact of Tampa Bay Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Center

Nonprofits are not just nice to have; they’re vital to the economic health of our communities. But do you know just how much the sector contributes to employment, annual revenue and assets held? During this free webinar, you’ll hear research highlights from the Florida Nonprofit Alliance’s 2023 Nonprofit Economic Impact Report , including the sector’s size, scope and importance to the state and local economies.

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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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15 Ways Board Members Can Help Raise Funds

NonProfit PRO

I have heard many nonprofit executive directors and fundraisers say, “My board just won’t do any fundraising.” I’ve also heard, “My board doesn’t understand anything about fundraising.” Here is a non-exhaustive list of actions board members can take to help with fundraising.

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Fundraising Is the Most Transferable and Relevant Skill for Your Life and Your Resume

Nonprofit Fixer

After 30 years in nonprofit leadership, I’ve come to believe that there is one key skill that can boost your personal and professional success. That magical skill? Asking another person to financially contribute to a cause. I call it “the power of those who ask.” And it’s the fundraising skill that can make your resume – and your leadership - stand out.

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Chief Storyteller & Nonprofit Leader to Emcee 2023 Nonprofit Leadership Conference

NonProfit Leadership Center

What is the secret to nonprofit success? According to Ernest Hooper, renowned storyteller and nonprofit leader in Tampa Bay, it’s collaboration and shared knowledge. As the Nonprofit Leadership Center prepares to bring nearly 1,000 leaders together for two days of collaboration and knowledge sharing, we are thrilled to announce that Ernest will be the emcee of our 2023 Nonprofit Leadership Conference: Together We Will on October 19 and 20.

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Report: The Impact of Inflation, Career Shifts, and Modern Challenges on the Nonprofit Sector

NonProfit PRO

Qgiv's "Sustainable Giving Report" analyzes responses from a survey of fundraising professionals and donors detailing how nonprofit organizations have fared in the face of inflation and the Great Resignation. The findings show a need to address burnout and unsustainable fundraising practices.

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How to Start a Paperless Eco Finance Office as a Startup Company

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Start a Paperless Eco Finance Office as a Startup Company Do you want to learn how to Start a Paperless Eco Finance Office as a Startup Company? Check out these tips by Lauren and empower your employees to be eco-friendly. The motivation for entrepreneurial ventures can be found in numerous places – some people start their own companies because they are tired of the traditional 9 to 5 job and they desire a change, while others are motivated by an idea they wish to share with the wor

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Behind Landmark Climate Ruling in Mont., a Trailblazing Nonprofit Law Firm and an Army of Youth Activists

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By putting the stories of young people front and center, the small public-interest law firm has been a "leading light" in the climate litigation field. By Eden Stiffman Thom Bridge, Independent Record, AP Sixteen young people, ages 5 to 22, sued Montana for its permissive approach to fossil fuels, testifying that the state had violated their constitutional rights to a clean and healthful environment.

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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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How to Run an Online Fundraising Campaign

Get Fully Funded

A well-rounded fundraising plan should include a variety of strategies like a signature event, appeals, monthly giving, and at least one online fundraising campaign. It’s an online-fundraising-friendly environment out there, with everything from donate buttons for your Facebook page to crowdfunding sites that leverage the power of relationships. But it’s not a “build it and they will come” situation.

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How Nonprofits Can Engage With 26 Million Potential Donors

NonProfit PRO

About 81% of Americans said they make charitable donations, and 26 million people work for companies offering company match programs to employees. Here are five key engagement tactics to help nonprofits build ongoing relationships with current and potential donors with access to a corporate match program.

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Prioritize Gratitude by Creating a Thank You Plan

Ann Green

Thanking your donors is just as important, if not more important than fundraising. Yet many organizations spend a lot of time putting together a fundraising campaign and treat thanking their donors as an afterthought. Donor retention continues to be a problem. Prioritizing gratitude and donor relations will help. If you don’t do a good job of thanking your donors, as well as building relationships throughout the year, you’ll have a hard time getting people to people to donate again.

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DonorsChoose Sees Banner Donation Year With Help From Gates Foundation and Millions of Small Gifts

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The nonprofit, which collects contributions to help teachers buy classroom supplies, is seeing a lot of engagement from donors at a time when overall giving is down, especially among young people. By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer NEW YORK AP Photo/Evan Vucci Earlier this month, Bill Gates announced his foundation was giving $2 million to match 50 percent of all DonorsChoose pledges for one day.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Michelle Carrillo & Geneva Wiki Del Norte County encompasses a section of coastline in the far northwest corner of California that is the ancestral home of the Yurok and Tolowa people. Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. For millennia, oceans, rivers, and forests provided an abundance of food and other resources for the residents of this area, until the late 1800s, when white settlers arrived and began to extr

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GiveSmart Is Now More Connected than Ever With New Automated Data Sync Product Update

NonProfit PRO

GiveSmart announced its platform's latest innovation, Automated Data Sync. The time savings involved with Automated Data Sync, combined with the accuracy it affords, makes reporting, progress to goals, and increasing donor retention easier than ever.

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New Case Study Explores Government and Nonprofit Partnerships

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Government and Nonprofit Sector Partnership Model: The Shelby County (TN) Nonprofit Committee Momentum Nonprofit Partners, Shelby County government, and Christian Brothers University are excited to release a new case study that explores government and nonprofit partnerships using the Shelby County Nonprofit Committees as a replicable model. This case study has been developed in partnership with Momentum Nonprofit Partners, representatives from Shelby County (TN) government and Christian Brothers

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Foundation Giving May Rise Slightly in 2023 as Assets Overcome Last Year's Slump

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Grant makers' assets are estimated to have increased almost 8 percent during the first half of 2023 as global stock markets recovered from a tough 2022, according to a new report. By Yesica Balderrama Spencer Platt, Getty Images Grant makers' assets are estimated to have increased almost 8 percent during the first half of 2023 as global stock markets recovered from a tough 2022, according to a new report.

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Debt-for-climate swaps can save the planet. Why aren’t they?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jonas Gamso Around the world, most developing countries face two crises: climate change and debt. Climate change is leading to more extreme weather events everywhere, but it particularly threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in developing countries: Rising sea levels generated by global warming are an existential threat to island nations and coastal communities, and developing countries are particularly vulnerable because their economies often revolve around climate-sensit

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3 Ways Nonprofits Can Leverage Technology to Support Expansion Efforts

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits are traditionally lean organizations that depend on a mix of volunteers and paid staff. This makes meeting IT needs challenging. Here are three ways that growing nonprofits can plan ahead to create operational efficiencies in managing technical tools.

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2023 State of the Mid-South Nonprofit Sector Report Now Available

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Report provides information regarding key challenges faced by the Mid-South nonprofit sector as well as recommendations for nonprofits and philanthropy In January 2023, Momentum Nonprofit Partners and the University of Memphis Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership distributed an online survey to nonprofit executives in Memphis and the Mid-South.

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Maui Residents Fill Philanthropic Gaps While Aid Makes the Long Journey to the Fire-Stricken Island

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By James Pollard And Thalia Beaty, Associated Press AP Photo/Rick Bowmer The wildfire on the island of Maui has killed more than 100 people and displaced thousands. Nonprofits are struggling to deliver aid to Maui, but mutual-aid groups and local businesses are helping out. Volunteers have cobbled together countless improvised, urgent solutions in response to the country's deadliest wildfire in over a century.

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The Problem with Mass Supervision (as an Alternative to Mass Incarceration)

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash Despite some progress in recent decades in reducing the overall number of people incarcerated nationwide, the United States easily remains a paragon of mass incarceration. There are, at last count, some 1.9 million Americans locked up in federal, state, and county prisons and jails—a rate of incarceration that exceeds any in the developed world.

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Does Your Non-Profit Need to Grow?

NonProfit PRO

Sometimes you need help. Whatever the reason - bandwidth, expertise, mental stagnation – the Turnkey community has the person who can help. We’ll help you understand what you need, and whether your organization is ready to move forward. If the answer is no, then we’ll help you figure that out. And when the answer is “yes,” we’ll put the right people with you, over the right time period.

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The Advantages of a Nonprofit Sweepstakes Fundraiser: 10 Benefits You Need to Know

The Killoe Group

Learn why you should invest time in a volunteer program and how to get started to drive value and ambassadors for your cause.

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MacKenzie Scott Has Given 24 Nonprofits $146 Million in the First Half of 2023

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento AP MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving website lists the nonprofits she’s supported and, in some cases the amount she gave them, but it doesn’t yet show the 2023 donations. Nearly half went to early-childhood education and development, but she also gave to strengthen maternal health, combat infant mortality, create affordable housing, and more.

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Communalism Depends on Reciprocity

NonProfit Quarterly

Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios , and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia sits out on her front stoop.) SAPHIA: The thing about communalism is that it sneaks up on you. We are not meant to be solitary, much as we think we may already be.

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The Meta Pixel: Is Your Nonprofit’s Data Vulnerable?

NonProfit PRO

The Meta Pixel is an invisible piece of code that tracks people’s behavior on a website and allows you to retarget them on Meta properties, such as Facebook and Instagram. A significant concern is the potential for outside digital firms, contractors or software providers to use Meta Pixels across clients.

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Can You Hear Us Now? Using Feedback to Create Community-Centered Services

Blue Avocado

Getting feedback from those that you serve — and not assuming you know what they need — can help your nonprofit serve your community. Who knows what a community needs most? The community! Let’s face it: the nonprofit field has an elephant in the room we’ve been ignoring for too long. We think we know […] The post Can You Hear Us Now? Using Feedback to Create Community-Centered Services appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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University Presidents Elevate Free Speech Under New Partnership

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press The Campus Call for Free Expression, funded by the Knight Foundation, is committed to five principles of free expression along with new on-campus programs such as training at freshman orientations and faculty seminars.

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We’re Going on a Summer Break

NonProfit Quarterly

Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios , and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia sits in front of a white wall.) SAPHIA: Hi, my name is Saphia Suarez, I’m the creator of “Off the Hook.” I just wanted to let you know that Nonprofit Quarterly is taking an end-of-summer hiatus, so “Off the Hook” will be taking a break, and we will be back with new episodes at the beginning of September.

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Blackbaud’s End-of-Year Fundraising Toolkit

NonProfit PRO

At Blackbaud, we know that the last six weeks of the year are crucial for fundraising—and successful planning starts now. We’ve been helping fundraising teams maximize year-end funds for over four decades, and we’ve packaged our expert insights into our new End-of-Year Fundraising Toolkit. It’s packed with proven templates, checklists, and expert advice to help fundraisers tackle end-of-year planning from GivingTuesday to New Year's Eve.

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We need to restore romance in nonprofit and philanthropy! (No, not that kind of romance)

Non Profit AF

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Burnout Plagues Nonprofits, With Bad Effects for Mission. Sabbaticals May Help.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Emily Haynes Sanctioned time off (with pay) has been growing among nonprofits and could help stop turnover and improve effectiveness.

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Tips for Sharing Curated Content (the Good Stuff You Find)

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

You’ve heard the message that sharing content from other sources with your own supporters is not only a good idea because it’s less content you have to create yourself, but also because it positions you as an trusted and reliable source of information. But once you’ve found a bunch of great stuff to share, how do you actually go about doing that?

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