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5 Guidelines to Keep Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive and Engaging

NonProfit PRO

Collaborative technology is incredible. It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Newsletter: Add This Industry to Your Prospect List Now ; Everything Old is New Again as Pizza Hut Launches New Book It! ; For Career Success You Need a Signature Move

Selfish Giving

I'm helping my 89-year-old mom settle into her new home this week. I took this picture to showoff my bed-making skills! Pretty good, right? My mom didn't agree as she has a 36-step process for making a bed and I missed a few steps. She said I still have a lot to learn! I'm also emptying out her apartment that she's been in for 30 years. Wish me luck!

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SEO and SEM for Your Nonprofit Organization: Understanding the Basics

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

SEO and SEM for Your Nonprofit Organization: Understanding the Basics. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has been one of the standard strategies of businesses that want to expand their online presence. However, many nonprofit organizations struggle with these strategies because they are mostly suitable for for-profit businesses.

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The Busy Fundraisers Guide to Picking a Nonprofit Email Provider

Bloomerang

Picking a great nonprofit email provider is a lot like buying a house, just nowhere near as expensive! But think about it…. …the decision to buy is a big one. …moving in is a lot of work. …you make it great by what you fill it with, be it laughter or great design . …it should be easy to get around in, safe and secure . …it should accommodate you as grow and mature.

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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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Sustainability Matters for Your Nonprofit: Here’s Why

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits have a special status in our society. Because they're tax-exempt organizations and working in the public's service, it's vital that they operate with complete transparency and lean into social good.

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2 Email Templates to Soft Launch Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Campaign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. A fundraising campaign soft launch—the release of your campaign to a limited audience prior to the general public—allows your organization to establish early momentum on your campaign.

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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . You’re part of the problem. In fact, you may BE the problem. Why is that? Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. It’s in your job description.

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What Smaller Nonprofits Can Do With More Communication and Recurring Gifts

NonProfit PRO

I see so many organizations with so much great content to share. It’s often all squished into one humongous monthly email update. Just think how much more exposure you’d get and how much more money you’d raise if you only broke it up in smaller chunks and spread it out over the month. .

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Top 10 Job Websites for Nonprofit Professionals Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the nonprofit sector. Millions lost their jobs, but a rebound is in the works and those workers who “ sheltered in job ” while they waited out the pandemic, are now considering looking for new employment. It could be an excellent time to secure new employment or upgrade to a new position with more income and workplace flexibility.

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Using Inkind Donations To Help You Grow Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

The best gift a nonprofit organization can receive is unrestricted cash, but an inkind donation of something your organization needs and would have otherwise purchased is also a high-value gift. For example, if you are raising funds for a much-needed van and someone donates a van that meets your organization’s needs, you can close that campaign and focus your efforts elsewhere.

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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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What do funders look for in grant proposal budgets?

Candid

Demonstrating credibility is one of the most important factors in a grant proposal. You may be surprised to learn that the budget in your proposal plays an important role in illustrating your organization’s credibility. Many funders look at your budget first, even before they read the narrative of your proposal. In this short video, I share how your proposal budget adds credibility to your application.

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15 Successful and Safe Outdoor Fundraising Event Ideas

NonProfit PRO

Especially while navigating the effects of the pandemic on fundraising, outdoor events are a great solution to bring your supporters together to champion your cause safely. Heat up your summer with these outdoor event ideas!

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Should I ask my friends?

Fundraising Coach

One of the scariest things about fundraising is the fear that you'll ruin relationships. One of the most common questions I get as a fundraising coach is "Should I send this appeal to people I hangout with?". Last week, an accomplished nonprofit leaders asked me just that. She was in a giving day and wondered if she should message a group of friends.

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Understanding How Stories Fit into Story Arcs

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

We in the nonprofit comms and fundraising world talk a lot about storytelling and how to write or tell a good story about a person or situation. What we talk less about is how all of those individual stories add up to a larger narrative that communicates something important to your participants, supporters, and influencers. Just like every story you tell has a beginning, middle, and end, so do your story arcs.

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How to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Transparency Using Charity Watchdogs

Network for Good

If you aren’t familiar with the concept of a “charity watchdog,” then you’re probably familiar with at least one or two of them. Organizations like GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and the Better Business Bureau’s Give.org aggregate information on nonprofit organizations to empower perspective donors, volunteers, grantors, board members, and employees to make informed decisions about the organizations and causes to which they can devote their time, energy, and resources.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 47: Pinterest & Its Expanded Social Impact Efforts

NonProfit PRO

In this episode of The NonProfit Voice, Nhu Te, editor-in-chief of NonProfit PRO, is joined by Ari Simon, head of social impact and philanthropy at Pinterest, and Paul D’Alessandro, founder and chairman of D’Alessandro, Inc., and editorial advisory board member for NonProfit PRO.

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Normalizing seeking support for mental health takes collective action

Candid

Reprinted from The Atlanta Women’s Foundation. The United States is ready for a mass mental health intervention. Although much has changed since I wrote my last article promoting May is Mental Health Awareness Month , the country is still dealing with many of the same issues that threaten the mental health of too many people. We’re still struggling to tame the coronavirus despite widespread vaccinations.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How to Organize Tasks to Stay on Top of Things

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a donor relations manager who needs advice on how to best organize, prioritize, and stay on top of tasks. . Dear Charity Clairity, I’m new to my job as a donor relations manager, and my one thorn right now is organization.

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What Have You Learned from the Lockdown?

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

While we aren’t completely out of the woods yet, things definitely seem to be trending in the right direction. The past year was rough, no doubt, but let’s take a minute or two to look at what lessons we learned from it. Here are a few of mine: I need to exercise. I am by no means a gym rat, but I do play tennis and pickleball and workout in a small studio class setting.

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So, You Want to Be a Nonprofit Executive?

NonProfit PRO

Anyone interested in sitting on the leadership team of a nonprofit must be career-oriented. They need to understand how the organization operates internally and comprehend the external forces that affect the organization.

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Q&A: Do capital campaigns make sense in a time of crisis?

Candid

Nonprofits have overcome some serious challenges over the past year. The cancellation of events and the need to abruptly pivot their fundraising strategies and messaging have certainly been struggles, but, by and large, we’ve seen some amazing resilience across the sector. However, as things begin returning to “normal” in many parts of the world, remember that we’re still living and working through a major crisis.

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Alleviate Accounting Systems and Staff Training Chokepoints to Power Nonprofit Missions: A Case on How One Oregon Nonprofit Did It

Blue Avocado

Part 2: Personal to Personnel In 2019, I came to Lost Valley Education and Event Center (LVEC), first as a student, then as LVEC’s bookkeeper, with no prior training in the craft other than management of my own finances and my stint as an Air Force Intelligence Officer. LVEC is a nonprofit whose resident staff, […]. The post Alleviate Accounting Systems and Staff Training Chokepoints to Power Nonprofit Missions: A Case on How One Oregon Nonprofit Did It appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Another Little Peek at What Nonprofit Communicators Need

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

We recently did a short survey asking our community to let us know how important each part of our mission statement was to them personally. At Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we are here to help nonprofit communications pros: Learn Your Job : Getting training and coaching no matter your experience level with nonprofit communications and marketing. Love Your Work : Getting understanding, support, and community to help you feel confident and happy in your work.

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The Transformative Nonprofit Workplace

NonProfit PRO

As nonprofits navigate through 2021, they are in a position where they are recovering from the effects of 2020, planning for the future and restructuring their workplace policies so they are better prepared for when the next crisis occurs. Download this white paper to learn how nonprofits are using technology to improve and sustain operations for the years ahead.

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4 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Community Nonprofits

Ann Green

Cybersecurity is a stressor for many nonprofits and community organizations. Make sure you’re doing your part to keep data safe with these best practices. By Jay Love. In an increasingly digital world, it is important for nonprofits to ensure that employees and donors have the tools to operate safely and effectively online. With over 33 years in the mission-driven sector, Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bloomerang Jay Love offers the following advice for organizations.

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How to Plan and Execute an Emergency Succession

Blue Avocado

Covid-19 has had most of us asking generative questions at some point. What is the real purpose of our organization? If we can only do one thing, what should it be? If our leaders become caregivers, sick themselves, or even die, how will the organization run? Overall, succession planning gets a bad rap. But in […]. The post How to Plan and Execute an Emergency Succession appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Check Out Our Free Library

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

When we recently re-designed our website, we also completely re-hauled the way we deliver content with our new Learning Center. When you become a member at the free level, you get access to a ton of helpful content including the Free Membership Resource Library. Let’s browse its shelves, shall we? Professional Development Learning Plans. The First 100 Days of Your New Nonprofit Marketing Job.

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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Partners With haku for Second Annual Resilience Challenge

NonProfit PRO

As the COVID-19 pandemic continued to require social distancing throughout 2020, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training created a virtual event that would unite their community in support of the of LLS’s mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma.

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Is Salesforce.com Right for Your Nonprofit?

Network for Good

You may have heard of Salesforce.com before – it’s one of the most robust and customizable database softwares in the industry. But while many nonprofit organizations are attracted to promises of free licenses and a seemingly endless library of widgets, even more find themselves hopelessly tangled in fields of data and needlessly complex reporting mechanisms.

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Note to Your Values: Time to Get Active!

Mission Minded

Learn how to powerfully articulate your values with active language that tells your stakeholders what you value, and inspires them to join. The post Note to Your Values: Time to Get Active! appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Protecting Your Donors: 3 Data Privacy Priorities for 2021

Elevation

Your fundraising efforts are driven by the personal and financial data that your organization collects from donors. Whether that’s done through registrations, payments, or communications, your systems are retaining private information. That same data is crucial for retaining donors, fueling your outreach, and building relationships within your community.

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Diversifying Your Fundraising Channels to Infinity & Beyond

NonProfit PRO

As nonprofits prepare for the post-pandemic phase, it’s now more important than ever to make sure they are diversifying their fundraising channels. This gives organizations extra financial security for when the next crisis hits, but it also diversifies their donor base as well. We know that every donor is built differently, and they have different preferences in the way they give.

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Ask Rita: FFCRA Paid Leaves 2021—Help!

Blue Avocado

Dear Rita, In March of last year, when the pandemic hit, we spent a lot of time implementing the required Covid-19-related paid leaves of absence. We drafted leave forms and gave notice to our employees of the right to take these leaves, and we are very proud of our successful efforts in ensuring that employees […]. The post Ask Rita: FFCRA Paid Leaves 2021—Help!

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What is a Disqualified Person in a Nonprofit?

Foundation Group

The post What is a Disqualified Person in a Nonprofit? appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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How to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Transparency Using Charity Watchdogs

Network for Good

If you aren’t familiar with the concept of a “charity watchdog,” then you’re probably familiar with at least one or two of them. Organizations like GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and the Better Business Bureau’s Give.org aggregate information on nonprofit organizations to empower perspective donors, volunteers, grantors, board members, and employees to make informed decisions about the organizations and causes to which they can devote their time, energy, and resources.

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