NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
When a nonprofit is young, it may have few to no full-time employees. In that case, the board may have to be involved in operations. However, that’s not ideal as the organization grows. Here are 10 ways to ensure that your board is properly educated and empowered in its role and that it stays out of daily operations.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
By William H. Neukom Getty Images Addressing myriad societal problems depends on a strong rule of law. Unfortunately, developing, promoting, and enforcing this fundamental component of healthy democracies isn’t on most donor radars.
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Joan Garry
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Dealing with difficult board members? Before you throw in the towel, take a deep breath and read on. In this post, I reveal how to deal with dead weight on your board so you can focus your energy on loving up your Grade A leaders! The post Transforming Your Board from Difficult to Dynamic: A Step-by-Step Guide appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
Selfish Giving
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Last week, my wife and I stopped by a local restaurant to pick up some takeout. Like most places we visit now, the cashier asked us to pay via a slick payment screen on the counter. After tapping the screen with her credit card, she was prompted to leave a tip, which she did. As we walked back to the car with our food, I asked why she had left a tip.
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
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Oftentimes, donors are not giving what they could because you are not presenting them with a donor offer that motivates them to give more. Here’s the reason why.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer Nam Y. Huh/AP Corporations and foundations pledged billions for racial equity after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But statistics show that philanthropic money flows unequally to nonprofits with white leaders versus leaders of color. The goal is to create a straightforward, accessible survey so nonprofits would no longer have to provide specialized diversity information for each of their donors.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
How to Write with Fewer Mistakes in 2023 [Tips and Tools] Want to learn to write with fewer mistakes? See how the Grammarly tool can help you write content like a pro. If you’ve ever used Grammarly before you know how helpful it is. You also know how irritating the mistake alerts can be. You spend hours on writing and rewording the text you think is great, and then Grammarly greets you with this.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
It's always a good thing to be as transparent as possible to your donors. So here are my top five best practices when it comes to recurring gift receipts.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
By Holly Fogle When others doubted me, one man showed his faith in my ambition to become a business leader. Today, I’m putting that same trust in the grantees and low-income mothers my foundation supports.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 5, 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. Peer-to-peer fundraising is a great way to engage your existing supporters and get them to fundraise on your behalf. But did you know it’s also a great way to acquire new donors for your nonprofit?
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.
Fundraising Coach
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
One of the biggest red-herrings I see nonprofit boards pursue is a pipe dream of “self sufficiency” for their nonprofit. Rather than pursuing their mission, the board directs the executive director to look at selling things and renting things in a quixotic attempt to be financially independent. It’s as though they see fundraising as a “stop gap” solution.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Between the Great Resignation and many people reconsidering their career goals, your team members may be re-evaluating their commitment to your workplace. You can solidify priorities today to set you and your team up for a successful 2023, and, importantly, retain your best people.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Eden Stiffman San Francisco The effort hasn’t reached its goal to reduce the city’s chronically homeless population by half, but it helped galvanize new ways of working and expand the set of solutions to address a seemingly intractable problem.
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Are you looking for a way to make donating even easier for your supporters? Text-to-Donate is a powerful Kindful Fundraising Tool that gives you new ways to reach donors, and our latest updates make it easier than ever to set up and manage. Easy to set up and manage. Some features to make campaign setup and management easier include the flexibility to choose your own phone number directly within the app, so you’ll never need to rely on support.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
By Edgard Barki , Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse , José Guilherme F. De Campos , Thomas Novais Rocha & Ute Stephan DJ Bola is a social entrepreneur born in Jardim Ângela, a poor neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil, considered in the 1990s to be one of the most dangerous places in the world. When he was 18 years old, he worked as a motorcycle courier during the day and at night he started a new endeavor: A BANCA, an organization that worked with hip-hop in order to improve the live
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
When a potential donor, volunteer, supporter, board member, employee, executive and others with an interest in a nonprofit seek information about that nonprofit, they typically look for an annual report first.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
By M.J. Prest Also, the Pittsburgh Foundation will make $50 million in unrestricted grants for racial equity and justice in the region, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation committed $23 million to strengthen technology in the arts in Detroit.
Candid
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
What’s reasonable compensation for a chief executive officer (CEO)? In the last couple decades, news of golden parachutes and the minting of new billionaires has drawn attention to executive compensation practices. This is especially the case during economic downturns, recessions, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic–when employment plummeted rapidly while some businesses posted record profits.
Veritus Group
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
A donor relationship should feel like a partnership, but often, donors sense that they're only valued for how much they give. The post Why Your Donor May Be Confused About Their Relationship With You appeared first on Veritus Group.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Many nonprofits make a serious error in thinking that the annual reporting of how the sector’s doing is predictive of the future. In reality, external factors such as changes in the economy, donor expectations, and leadership, have a much more significant impact on a nonprofit's future performance.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
By Sara Herschander A new study finds that half of nonprofit leaders say they can't find enough volunteers, a sharp contrast from two decades ago. At the same time, far more chief executives say volunteers help them become more efficient than felt that way in the past.
Candid
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Writing a proposal for a project grant can feel like a daunting task, but with the right guidance, it doesn’t need to be a bewildering endeavor. Like climbing a mountain, it helps to have a path to follow to reach its summit, or in this case, a map of sorts to guide you to your desired destination—a compelling proposal that unlocks funding to advance your mission-driven work.
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
It started December 21st with a bitter winter storm: Winds, snow, and record cold temperatures swept across the United States and Canada. Thanks to a combination of the storm’s effects and outdated technology, Southwest Airlines (SWA) started canceling the first of what would become almost 17,000 flights over the next week or so. While you may never find yourself in a crisis of this magnitude at your nonprofit, you can learn from Southwest’s mistakes and use those lessons to prepare for a potent
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
One of the biggest challenges as a nonprofit leader is that fundraising goals are easy to set but challenging to meet. Here are three steps to ensure you’re setting realistic quarterly fundraising goals for the rest of 2023.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Susan Appe Brad Barket/Getty Images for Fast Company The Indian diaspora living in the United States includes many wealthy people, such as Microsoft CEO and chairman Satya Nadella. India’s first giving day, March 2, will raise money to improve education, health care, and gender equality and meet other important needs in a country with nearly 230 million people living in poverty.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
By Stephanie Fuerstner Gillis , Tricia Raikes & Jeff Raikes We suspect no one will ever look back on the 2020s as boring. This decade started with a tectonic reckoning sparked by a global pandemic that revealed the deep inequities in the United States. This was followed by the police murder of George Floyd, a tipping point that revitalized the racial justice movement.
Volunteer Match
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Every follower on your organization's social media is a potential volunteer—they just might not know it yet. Building and maintaining a social media presence, especially in a small organization, is not without its challenges.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Your nonprofit’s efficiency and effectiveness depend greatly on the software choices you make. However, choosing the right solution to meet your nonprofit’s needs isn’t always easy. Let’s look at four key steps for selecting the right software for your nonprofit.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By M.J. Prest Girl Scouts of the USA Bonnie Barczykowski, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri council, has been named CEO of the national organization. Also, Farm Sanctuary’s interim CEO will continue in the role permanently, and the Partnership for a Healthier America has picked its next chief executive.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
By Kelly Hyunjung Shin , Yumin Jo & Jinwoo Cheong The original version of this article was published in SSIR Korea. Interest in early-stage nonprofits within Korea’s social impact ecosystem has increased in recent years, and more and more are garnering financial and organizational support. As one example, in early 2023, Brian Impact Foundation , which focuses on big-bet philanthropy , donated a total of 12.6 billion won (about $9.7 million) to 15 nonprofits through its Impact Ground Pr
NonProfit HR
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
For several years during Women’s History Month, Nonprofit HR has recognized women across North America who have made significant contributions to nonprofits, associations, foundations, social enterprises and the communities they serve. Each year our staff have selected women who exhibit extraordinary leadership, unwavering dedication and impactful achievements.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Whether you are a CEO trying to form a partnership with a board chair, a development director trying to work more closely with the marketing director or a major gifts officer trying to build a relationship with a donor, the relationship is everything. But for some of us, it’s hard.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
By Alex Daniels The Philanthropy Roundtable, a group of foundation and donors that advocates for a hands-off approach to regulating charities and giving, says states with too many regulations stifle nonprofit creation. But regulators say the study was sloppy and misleading.
Jeff Brooks
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Here are some great steps from Pamela Barden for improving your career path this year, at 2023: The Year to Start Loving Fundraising Again : Commit to Staying Relevant. No matter what you do, the world moves on. So make it a point to keep new knowledge going in. This actually takes time and effort, but it’s a must! Figure Out Who Is Your Target Audience.
Tony Martignetti
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
Eric Saperston: Mr. Wake Up Excited, Go To Bed Fulfilled, Returns I had to have Eric Saperston back. After the October 17, 2022 show with him, I got more positive comments than I remember for any guest. This time around, he shares how important nonprofit volunteering has been in his life, the joy he gets … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for February 6, 2023: Mr.
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