The Charity CFO
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Nonprofit budgeting best practices are often the difference between success and failure for the organization. Budgeting is a crucial element of understanding the financial health of your organization. Budgeting for nonprofits is very different from for profits, and a well-developed budgeting process can provide meaningful insight into the strength of your organization and your progress toward your mission.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Industry benchmarks reveal just 23% of first-time online donors return, compared to 64% of existing online donors. And over the last decade, nonprofits have continued to raise more funds from fewer donors.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Leslie Lenkowsky Recent surveys showing a decrease in volunteering largely blame the pandemic, but the problem isn’t new. Nonprofits need to figure out how to turn Americans’ desire to lend a hand to neighbors into more formal commitments to help their communities.
Affnetz
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
Seth Godin’s Advice for Nonprofit Fundraisers: Overcome the Dip F undraising-campaign-management/ By mikecrum Seth Godin’s Advice for Nonprofit Fundraisers: Overcome the Dip Nonprofit fundraising is definitely a profession for optimists. First off, you have to get used to a lot of “no’s” and “not now’s”. Second, as a fundraiser you’ve got to explore numerous strategies in an effort to engage your donors and prospects, and this requires the energy of an optimist (or someone who likes fishing!).
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.
Pam Moore
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. Today I'm diving into the topic of limiting beliefs and how entrepreneurs and business leaders can smash them to reach their full human potential.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Organizations that seek to find growth and success depend on a cause community to carry them. Jamie Bearse of ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer shares how his organization developed the ZERO Flywheel method to build and keep a community engaged.
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Volunteer Match
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. This list offers a few ways to delve deeper into Black history and support a more equitable future.
Pam Moore
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. Today I'm diving into the topic of limiting beliefs and how entrepreneurs and business leaders can smash them to reach their full human potential.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Set some time away from your daily nonprofit work to find the missing pieces of your nonprofit’s strategy by attending some of 2023’s in-person nonprofit sector conferences.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Rasheeda Childress Chronicle illustration Early data about year-end fundraising is in, and the picture is mixed. Some charities did gangbusters, while others struggled amid economic uncertainty and inflation. Some organizations that compile fundraising data are still tabulating, so more information will emerge in the coming weeks.
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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
By Anita Sundari Akella The development sector—whose traditional ways of working are increasingly challenged by global crisis, conflict, and climate change threats that disproportionately impact the poor, women, and girls—has a scaling problem. On one hand, social enterprises and other small innovative organizations can be an engine for conceptualizing, designing, testing, and validating new solutions to old problems.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
While text messaging has remained a reliable conversion channel over the years, nonprofits are taking advantage of texting’s strong and immediate open rate to focus on retention.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
By Christopher Hammett Its free money for nonprofits came with a cost. It led groups to push aside fundamental beliefs to accept easy cash from a corporate behemoth whose business model harms the very communities they aim to protect.
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Community Brands recently shared donor retention data that reinforced alarming trends that the nonprofit sector has been monitoring for a while. In their survey, they asked nonprofits what their current donor retention rate was: about 60% said they didn’t know and the rest had an average donor retention rate of 45%. On average, donor retention rates increase based on the average gift amount.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Image Credit: itsnnnoa on unsplash.com Nonprofit facilities communicate, and we need to be more conscious, thoughtful, and vocal about what they say about who and what our organizations value. A dilapidated and dysfunctional facility communicates that the work conducted inside it is unimportant, the people served deserve no better, and the surrounding neighborhood is forgotten and forsaken.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The Giving Block announced a new partnership with Omatic. This partnership allows nonprofit organizations to seamlessly connect their fundraising data from The Giving Block with Blackbaud.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
By Emily Haynes Colleges and universities saw the biggest growth in giving since 2000 — 4.7 percent — raising nearly $60 billion from organizations and individuals during the 2022 financial year.
Fundraising Leadership
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Christian Nunes, president of NOW. The future looks beautiful to Christian Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW ,  president of the National Organization of Women, the 57-year-old organization built from the grassroots to address gender inequality at the height of the civil rights movement. “ The future looks beautiful to @ChrisFNunes, MBA, MS, LCSW,  president of @NationalNOW, the 57-year-old organization built from the #grassroots to address #genderinequality at the height of the civil rights movement. &
Candid
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Last December, I wrote about the surprisingly complex challenge of aligning on a conceptual definition of BIPOC-led (BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous and People of Color). In particular, I noted that despite subject matter experts’ general sentiment that the term “BIPOC-led” is about BIPOC individuals holding power in organizations, there are a number of nuances and circumstances that complicate this conceptualization.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Get your copy of this Essential Auction Resource for Nonprofits. When it comes to planning your next benefit auction event, one of the most critical elements for success is making sure that the items you're putting up for bid during your live and silent auctions are irresistible. Download The Ultimate A-to-Z List of Live & Silent Auction Item Ideas for Benefit Auction Success today to get started on brainstorming amazing ideas for unique live and silent auction items!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Maria Di Mento and Drew Lindsay Gordon Davis. (Texas Tech University) The roster includes not-so-typical megadonors — among them a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Fundraising Leadership
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Learn tips her on how to make your remote team improve their work quality of life. In 2023, women make up 47.7% of the global workforce. They are invaluable assets to any professional team, and yet many feel overlooked and under-supported by their workplace leaders. “ In 2023, #women make up 47.7% of the global workforce. They are invaluable assets to any professional team, and yet many feel overlooked and under-supported by their #workplace leaders. ” Due to the fragmented nature of r
Non Profitvote
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Traditionally less publicized, state and local elections often see turnout rates much lower and less representative of a given community when compared to midterm and presidential elections. However, this is not to say these elections are any less important. From city councils to school boards, local elections directly affect all aspects of our daily lives and are responsible for deciding how our local community will tackle key issues such as housing, transportation, health, and public safety.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Utilizing the Groundswell platform, Wisconsin-based Wipfli has launched a new charitable program that provides each employee $150 and matches an additional $500 that can be distributed to charity how, when and where the employee chooses.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press New York Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless in Turkey and Syria after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Humanitarian access to northern Syria is complicated by the civil war, while sending funds can be blocked or slowed by U.S. sanctions, despite an exemption for relief efforts. The political environment in Turkey also poses challenges.
iMarketSmart
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
I wasn’t interested in many Olympic sports until someone came up with the clever idea of preceding them with insightful and inspiring stories about the athletes participating in them. Listening to inspirational stories about how athletes had overcome trauma, injury, and denied opportunities had me pulling for people in sports I had never heard of. That’s the power of the personal backstory.
Jeff Brooks
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Fundraising that gets donors to take action focuses on the why for that action. Not the what or the how. A lot of fundraisers stumble on this important distinction that’s laid out on the Stelter Insights blog at How, what or why? your nonprofit’s donor messaging should focus on this. What you do and how you do it are important. But they aren’t what make donors give.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
What tactics have you put into place to ensure your organization can continue the essential services you provide? Learn how you can set your team up for success, regardless of any curveballs 2023 throws your way. From empowering your team with data to make informed decisions to staff and community engagement, download the eGuide from Social Solutions to learn from an experienced nonprofit Executive Director.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
By Sara Herschander The grant maker is committing $125 million to creative artists — especially those who have spent time behind bars — to figure out ways to spark new conversations that lead to policy change.
Nonprofit Leadership Podcast
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
We know that Walmart is a large, profitable corporation selling goods throughout the world, but that is not all they do. You may be surprised by the impact Walmart is making through their many philanthropic efforts, local and world-wide. Today’s guest, Julie Gehrki, explains the various ways Walmart is supporting nonprofits through their new social impact program, Spark Good.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Image Credit: Camylla Battani on unsplash.com Imagine a world where workers share in the fruits of their own labor. Now imagine that this world is within our reach. While the Harvard Business School is just starting to consider new economic paradigms beyond capitalism and its incessant exploitation of workers , Colorado state officials and residents are taking bold action to create the world that we want to inhabit—one marked by thriving worker-owned businesses and a far more equitable distribut
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Basketball legend Michael Jordan proves that it is better to give than to receive by making a record-setting donation of $10 million to Make-A-Wish America in honor of his 60th birthday on Feb. 17. The gift is the largest from an individual in the organization's 43-year history.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Plus, Temple University landed more than $10 million to help students with physical disabilities, and three other universities and a community foundation received big gifts.
Amy Eisenstein
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
In reply to Emma Rodriguez. Clearly the majority of residents are ok with things, if the board is 15 yrs old. Boards are elected annually. Time for others (you maybe) to volunteer to run for elections and replace those you are talking about.
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