Candid
APRIL 13, 2023
The reason storytelling is so effective at capturing people’s attention is simple. It’s human. In fact, our brains are hardwired to respond to stories. This means the story you share about your mission-driven work can motivate everyone—from your potential and existing donors to your staff and board members. However, in today’s online world, it’s easy to get lost in the digital noise.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 10, 2023
What Americans Think About Philanthropy and Nonprofits,” a new study from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, polled about 1,300 Americans over the summer of 2022 to learn more about how the American public perceives philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 14, 2023
By M.J. Prest Carla Taylor, Greenpeace Greenpeace USA announced Ebony Twilley Martin as executive director. She is the first Black woman executive director for a national legacy environmental organization. Also, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation has named its next CEO, and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan will install a new chief operating officer in July.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
APRIL 12, 2023
Written by: Isaac Durham Reading Time: 3 minutes Researchers estimate that up to 1 million American’s work as unpaid interns each year. Without wages to shoulder the cost of living, an unpaid internship deepens the existing social divide. The road to making unpaid internships a thing of the past isn’t a smooth one. In some cases, particularly nonprofit organizations, simply don’t have the financial means to pay their interns.
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.
Selfish Giving
APRIL 12, 2023
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NonProfit PRO
APRIL 14, 2023
What can you do to generate more attention and get the media interested in your nonprofit? Here are four steps you can take now to get the media’s attention that you need — and deserve.
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Ann Green
APRIL 12, 2023
Building public speaking skills can help you make a strong case to nonprofit donors and other audiences. Use these public speaking tips for better engagement. By Patti Schutte Fundraising is all about engaging with supporters and telling your organization’s story. When you build confidence as a public speaker, you can become a more effective fundraiser and nonprofit communicator.
Get Fully Funded
APRIL 9, 2023
Your words matter when you’re trying to get people to donate. If you inspire people, you’ll get a gift. If you bore people or confuse them, you won’t. It’s pretty simple. This means you can’t just slap anything on a page, send it to a donor, and expect great results. Maybe you’ve experienced this with a fundraising letter that performed so poorly you called it a failure and didn’t want to try it again.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 11, 2023
Leadership is complicated. But it’s not impossible. Fortunately, there may be an easy and powerful key to uniting your team's expectations with your organization’s need to get work done. The key is curiosity.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 11, 2023
By John Overdeck More evidence is needed to gauge whether these tech tools help students succeed. That will require greater donor support for new innovations and large-scale research.
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
APRIL 13, 2023
Image Credit: Kimberly Cho at bombilla® ( www.bombilla.co ) This article is part of Climate Justice Organizing for Belonging , a series co-produced with NPQ and Mothers Out Front. The key question guiding this organizational shift—and this series—is: what does successful organizing look like for the most impacted when resources fully support them? Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is s
Candid
APRIL 11, 2023
As a nonprofit professional, you understand how much time, resources, and planning goes into running a successful fundraising event. Between reserving a space, booking catering, lining up items for your charity auction, and more, costs can quickly add up for your organization. This is where corporate sponsors can help. Corporate sponsorship is a mutually beneficial relationship wherein a company offers direct financial support, in-kind donations , or skilled volunteer services to support a nonpr
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 12, 2023
With data from nearly 1,500 nonprofits, nonprofit software provider Neon One has evaluated more than 37,000 email campaigns totaling more than 157 million individual emails for “The Nonprofit Email Report.” The new report provides a look at nonprofit email benchmarks for both large and small organizations.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 11, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Calla Kessler, The New York Times, Redux Kenneth Griffin has given Harvard more than $500 million over the years. The new gift brings the Citadel founder's lifetime support of his alma mater to more than $500 million.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 12, 2023
Image Credit: Etienne Girardet on unsplash.com Many people working in nonprofits and philanthropy say they want to reduce poverty, and increasingly, foundations, nonprofits, and social-movement organizations are developing communications strategies and telling stories that aim to dispel the myth that the US economic system is equitable and fair. However, the Right has long propagated narratives that shape our society’s institutions and culture—and it requires conscious effort to upend them.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
APRIL 11, 2023
How To Do Keyword Research For Local SEO Local SEO and the Importance of Keyword Research. Learn how to get found in Search Engines for the right keywords in your neighborhood, city, or country. Local SEO is essential for businesses to attract customers and improve online visibility. Advancing your site and online presence for neighborhood search can improve your chances of appearing in local search results, leading to increased traffic, leads, and sales.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 13, 2023
The key to effective membership marketing lies in something obvious, but often overlooked — your mission. Keeping your mission at the forefront can enable creative endeavors in marketing without being handcuffed to data.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 10, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Plus, Jeff Bezos’s parents gave $21 million to a program to help infants and their families; and four other nonprofits landed big gifts from donors, including Byron Trott, a merchant banker to the uber-wealthy, who gave $20 million to help start a new national effort to help students from rural areas and small towns go to college.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 11, 2023
Image Credit: Urja Bhatt on unsplash.com Recently, a colleague asked me to identify my race. She was collecting diversity information and needed to fill in the field. “Asian,” I said automatically. My parents immigrated to the US from India in the 1980s, and Indian American is the identity I hold most strongly. This option, however, rarely shows up on demographic forms.
Amy Eisenstein
APRIL 10, 2023
I’m a major donor to a 501c3 nonprofit organization. I’ve expressed interest in serving on the board of directors and/or committees but was blatantly told by the executive director that I was not qualified and there weren’t any vacancies on either of these. All I want is to have a voice to see how my donations are being utilized. I don’t feel valued at all!
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 11, 2023
Social media can be a powerful part of a comprehensive fundraising strategy when planned ahead with an understanding of how it fits into the mix. Here are three tips on how you can make the most of your social media fundraising efforts.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 12, 2023
By M.J. Prest Chris Keeney The Hess Corporation’s Salk Institute grant aims to improve the natural ability of plants to capture and store atmospheric carbon and combat climate change Also, a $40 million grant to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California will support a new partnership in biomedical research, and 31 nonprofit groups with Muslim leaders will share $2 million from the Pillars Catalyze Fund.
Volunteer Match
APRIL 11, 2023
Creating change requires a large network of people working together to get the job done. While your employees perform valuable mission-driven work every day, so do your volunteers! Your volunteers are a key part of your organization, and they deserve to be appreciated for all their enthusiasm and hard work. Most volunteers devote their time to a nonprofit because they’re motivated by the cause or interested in the organization’s work.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
APRIL 10, 2023
Fundraise With YouTube Giving: A Quick Guide for Nonprofits Looking to fundraise with YouTube Giving and support a cause dear to you? Learn 4 easy steps you can use to promote your Nonprofit and raise funds effectively. NGOs and charities depend on donations to keep their projects running. But how can they reach more people? The answer lies in an effective strategy to fundraise with YouTube Giving.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 14, 2023
Social Innovation Summit (SIS) announced Steve Aoki as a headlining speaker, as well as the rest of the 2023 speaker lineup that will join its flagship summit on June 6-7, 2023, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 12, 2023
By Rasheeda Childress More are using donor-advised funds and other progressive methods to share during the holy month.
NonProfit HR
APRIL 12, 2023
We received a large number of questions from participants in our webinar, Reviving & Sustaining Your Organization's Commitment to DEI, so our EDIJ experts are here to weigh in. Read below for insights from Bryan W. Jackson, Senior Consultant, EDIJ, and Simone McNish, Consultant, EDIJ, as they answer your most pressing questions on this Read more The post Q&A With Our EDIJ Experts: Reviving & Sustaining Your Organization’s Commitment to DEI appeared first on Nonprofit HR.
Blue Avocado
APRIL 10, 2023
Article In Brief: The Problem: Fundraising can sometimes be seen as a competition with nonprofits all going their own way, repeating the same playbook, duplicating effort. Our author wonders if there is a better way to tap into the inherent collaborative impulses of the sector. The Context: Social causes are bigger than just one organization. […] The post The Power of Collaborative Fundraising appeared first on Blue Avocado.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 12, 2023
A well-timed, personalized outreach activates a feeling of pride in your donors that can inspire them to give. Does your organization have a strategy for stewardship communications with multiple touchpoints throughout the year? Could you use more support in getting creative campaigns across the finish line? Get some inspiration for your next campaign or appeal and discover how we deliver creative marketing for fundraisers.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 11, 2023
By Humberto Camarena Since 2020, many progressive nonprofits in the United States have experienced something unprecedented: unplanned, rapid, substantial growth. A combination of unexpected funding , including pandemic relief and a rise in mega-donors, and intensified calls for change in response to events like the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the systematic targeting of human rights have led to a boom for numerous racial and social justice organizations.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
APRIL 12, 2023
Alright, let’s talk about the king of content – video! According to our 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , nearly all nonprofits (95%) now create some type of video content. Video marketing is now more important to nonprofits than ever. And rightly so. Did you know that videos get 1200% more shares than text and image content combined?
Bloomerang
APRIL 11, 2023
Successful event marketing starts with knowing how to reach your target audience. What channel do they spend the most time on? What are they looking at on those channels? For most event coordinators, one of the best places to reach their target audience is Instagram. With over 2 billion active monthly users , you can connect with a broader audience there by sharing engaging posts.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 12, 2023
By using human behaviors, you can gain a competitive advantage and increase donations. The human drive to avoid the pain of loss is extremely motivating. In part 1 of this series, I discussed how to use emotion in nonprofit direct mail to drive results. Now let’s discuss how to use loss aversion to increase your donations. By doing this in your fundraising campaigns, you will motivate people to donate.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 10, 2023
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 Time: 1 pm ET / 10 am PT (1 hour) Cost: Free Presented by: Classy.org Did you know that recurring donors are 9x more valuable than a one-time donor? Join this free webinar to learn the secrets of turning one-time donors into recurring donors and how to increase the value of each supporter. We’ll also reveal where online donations over $5k are most likely to occur and what types of fundraising can result in $1,200 per donor over the course of a year.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
APRIL 13, 2023
Anyone remember those PSAs that came on right before the nightly news that said “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your child is?” I was telling my 18-year old about this and he was very confused as to why parents would need to be reminded to check on their kids. Ahhh the 80s! That really has nothing to do with this post other than I thought of it when I wrote the title.
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