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How to Find Direct Mail Savings After Postal Rate Hike

NonProfit PRO

With the cost of postage increasing July 9 — for the second time this year, it is imperative that nonprofits find a way to save on their direct mail campaigns. Here are some tips on how to save.

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Inflation Is Easing, but Nonprofits Still Feel a Crunch

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Sara Herschander Nonprofits are still struggling to recruit workers and are being hit with higher-than-normal prices, despite signs that inflation is easing and the labor market is cooling down.

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How To Attract Top Talent and Retain Top Performers

Joan Garry

Nonprofit talent management is a challenge. Here's how to attract, retain, and develop the best people to help your org achieve its mission. The post How To Attract Top Talent and Retain Top Performers appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Keeping the Dream Team: Unleashing the Power of Employee Retention in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Written by: Michael Ash, Ma, CNP, PCM, PMP Reading Time: 5 minutes In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations face unprecedented challenges, from transitioning to remote work models to addressing economic hardships, new challenges in fundraising, and community struggles. As nonprofit professionals, we are on the frontline to help our communities meet their needs and face these challenges.

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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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4 Ways to Quickly Grow Your Nonprofit’s Text Messaging List

NonProfit PRO

With email deliverability hurdles and cluttered inboxes, text messaging provides an alternate way to quickly reach donors and constituents. Here are four ways to quickly grow your nonprofit’s text messaging list.

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4 Essential Shifts Foundations Can Make to Advance Social Movements

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Deepak Bhargava and Barbara Picower Central Florida Jobs With Justice Organizations like JPB grantee Jobs with Justice have fostered intersectional visions and are trying to build a mass base and power. Philanthropy can do much to help them change oppressive systems through community and worker organizing. Outdated strategies and lack of money for the infrastructure of community-organizing groups are limiting their effectiveness just at a moment when we need to fight profound threats – especi

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How do Nonprofits make money

Affnetz

How do Nonprofits make money By mikecrum Here’s a question that is often asked in many contexts – as a Development Director frustrated with the lack of revenue coming into a Nonprofit, as a new board member to a nonprofit, or perhaps you just posed it as a Google search phrase: How Do Nonprofits Make Money? Free Trial The post How do Nonprofits make money appeared first on Affnetz.

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How to Use Primary Research to Bring Your Donors’ Voices Into Your Fundraising Strategy

NonProfit PRO

AI is set to become increasingly helpful, but when it comes to fundraising, there is no substitute for the voice of your donors. Here is how to connect on a heart level with donors using primary research.

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George Soros's Open Society Foundations to Lay Off 40 Percent of Staff Under Son's New Leadership

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press NEW YORK George Soros’s Open Society Foundations is undergoing changes as his son, Alex, takes over the leadership. The organization employs about 800 staff members and maintains offices in more than 20 countries.

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3 Questions with the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s New CEO, Charlie Imbergamo

NonProfit Leadership Center

On July 1, 2023, Charlie Imbergamo, MA, CFRE , became the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s new CEO. As a lifelong learner with 30 years of nonprofit experience, Charlie enters the role after serving as the organization’s senior director of strategic programs and impact since September 2019. We recently sat down with Charlie to hear more about his vision for the Nonprofit Leadership Center (NLC), what he plans to accomplish during his first year, and how you can engage with him and NLC.

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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 AI Makes Social Media Marketing Easier For Your Business

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How AI Makes Social Media Marketing Easier For Your Business AI has revolutionized social media marketing, making it easier and more effective for businesses to engage with their target audience. With billions of active users on platforms like Facebook, Instagram , Twitter, and LinkedIn , businesses have unparalleled opportunities to connect with their target audience.

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New Techniques for Donor Profiling and Audience Modeling

NonProfit PRO

We know that more targeted and relevant marketing drives higher response rates and engagement, and to get more targeted and relevant, you need great data. Here are some techniques to help any organization use data to create new models, audiences, and pools of targeted prospects that look just like their best donors.

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Philanthropy Could Learn a Lot About Diversity by Studying What Sports Teams Are Doing Right

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Eboo Patel Ken Ruinard, USA TODAY NETWORK In the 2019-20 academic year, Black students made up less than 6 percent of the population of colleges in the richest and most prominent conferences in college football. However, they made up 48 percent of the student athletes on women’s basketball teams. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ruling, foundation and nonprofit leaders need to take a hard look at alternative ways to achieve diversity.

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10 Reasons Your Nonprofit Needs to Be Texting

Clairification

From time to time, I host guest posts from professionals with niche expertise. There are just some things others know a lot more about than do I, especially when it comes to technology. Today’s article is one of those, from someone who really understands the ins and outs of text messaging and fundraising. Here’s what he has to say. Nonprofits today face many challenges.

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How Nonprofits Can Create & Track Conversions in Google Analytics 4

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Jo Boyle – a digital marketing expert with a wealth of experience in nonprofit fundraising and marketing. She shares fundraising resources and guides on Karma Campaigns and offers Google Analytics and Google Ads , Facebook Ads , and lead generation services. It’s official. Universal Analytics (UA) has stopped processing data. Google Analytics 4 (GA4) presents some exciting new opportunities.

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Report: People With Lower Incomes Donate Less, Say Wealthier People Should Donate Instead

NonProfit PRO

A new survey from the BBB Wise Giving Alliance showed that younger people and people with lower household incomes decreased their donations over the past five years. The survey also highlighted other giving trends and offers insight for nonprofits on what will make donors contribute in the future.

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Donors Are Expressing Concern About the Economy, Say Chief Fundraisers

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Emily Haynes Confidence among fundraisers has declined, though most expect to reach their goals, and more than half of organization say staffing shortages will be their biggest challenge ahead, a survey has found.

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Four common grant proposal documents (free samples included)

Candid

Nonprofit work means paperwork. While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. There are four major documents that you may need to create if your nonprofit is looking for funding. Each has a different purpose and elements you’ll need to make your case to funders.

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Effective Social Media Marketing for Nonprofits [Course]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Effective Social Media Marketing for Nonprofits [Course] Step-by-step course to improve your Nonprofit’s Social Media Marketing. Ask us and community members anything and become more effective. Nonprofit Marketers are the heroes of our society Get the course with tactics, strategies, tools, and homework to get more out of your social media marketing efforts.

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CURE International to Develop a Free Open-Source Electronic Medical Record System

NonProfit PRO

CURE International is building an open-source electronic medical record system that will be available to other hospitals in developing countries. The system will allow hospitals to safely and reliably digitize, store, and easily access patient data in one centralized system.

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Philanthropy, Please Stop Ignoring One of the World’s Greatest Abuses Against Women — Female Genital Mutilation

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Nimco Ali U.S. foundations need to join efforts to eradicate a practice that harms millions of women physically and emotionally, preventing them from becoming productive members of their communities, says a victim of the procedure.

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Kellogg’s does more than make great cereal

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

When you hear the name, Kellogg’s, your mind may automatically think of some of your favorite breakfast foods. Well, Kellogg’s does more than just make popular breakfast foods and snacks. The breakfast food innovator, Will Keith Kellogg started the WK Kellogg Foundation in 1930. Today’s guest, Paul Martinez, explains the history of the foundation, its mission, and also offers important insights on.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. It’s everywhere. There are peer groups, conferences, webinars, blogs, and even schools dedicated to systems change. And there are as many definitions, theories, and conceptual frameworks of systems change as there are articles written about it.

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Data-Driven Innovations for Maximum Year-End Engagement: Insights from Nonprofit Trailblazers

NonProfit PRO

Join our panel of industry experts that will guide you through a transformative journey, showcasing real-world examples of how data, innovative techniques, and strategic thinking can drive maximum engagement during the year-end giving season. They will inspire you to reimagine your approach and achieve unparalleled success in connecting with your audience.

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Walton Family Foundation Picks Stephanie Cornell as Executive Director

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest Walton Family Foundation Stephanie Cornell will be the new executive director of Walton Family Foundation. Plus, Points of Light will install its new leader in September, and the March of Dimes has named its first physician CEO.

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Nuestra Comunidad: Tools to Preserve Latinx and Immigrant Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. C oproduced with the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders , a national network of Latinx community development groups, this series highlights community preservation , land ownership, and business development efforts in Latinx and immigrant communities across the United States.

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Unleash Your B2B Sales Superpowers with Artificial Intelligence

Pam Moore

Unleash Your B2B Sales Superpowers with Artificial Intelligence Ready to add some sizzle to your B2B sales results? Let's unleash your B2B sales superpowers with a little AI magic. Buckle up, my friends, we're about to take off! AI isn't just the wave of the future – it's making waves right NOW. Let's dive into the ocean of benefits AI brings to your sales party: AI-Pumped Lead Scoring: No more throwing darts in the dark, my friends.

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New CSR and ESG Survey Shows Profession Under Intense Pressure to Perform With Fewer Resources

NonProfit PRO

A new CSR and ESG survey released by the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals offers insights into the real-world impact a polarized political environment and increasing demands are having on the ability of corporations to carry out social impact work in communities across the country.

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Hiring for Diversity? 10 Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Affirmative-Action Ruling

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Drew Lindsay Getty Images Some worry that ripple effects from the landmark higher-education decision could blunt the momentum of diversity hiring and workplace programs for all nonprofits.

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Why omni-channel fundraising works at year-end

EveryAction

Whether your nonprofit organization has used an omni-channel donor engagement strategy for years or you’re just getting started, busy fundraising seasons are the most important opportunities to communicate cohesively across mediums with your supporters. If you think about the ways brands and organizations interact with you leading up to the holidays, you’ll notice how those communications are cohesive and accurate in real time—but they’re not coming to you in just one channel or avenue.

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Why Race Is the “Secret Sauce” of Modern Capitalism

NonProfit Quarterly

Bree Carlson: I think we spend a fair amount of time nuancing whether or not what we have in the county now is capitalism as it’s supposed to be. Well, no. It’s never actually been—our capitalism, our democracy, none of this has ever been what we say it is in the textbooks. That’s reinforcing the narrative underpinnings of it. But every effort, every structure designed to concentrate wealth among a few requires labor.

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Bloomerang Launches Bloomerang Volunteer to Expand Nonprofits’ Relationships With Supporters

NonProfit PRO

Bloomerang launched Bloomerang Volunteer to transform how nonprofits attract, engage, and sustain authentic relationships with individuals while maximizing fundraising. The platform enables nonprofits to create supporters and manage more supporters in less time.

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Basketball Star Charles Barkley Plans to Give $5 Million for Black Student Aid at Auburn U.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest and Maria Di Mento Megan Briggs, Getty Images Retired basketball great Charles Barkley has pledged Auburn University, his alma mater, $5 million to endow scholarships for Black students. Also, the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute has received another $75 million from the Huntsman family, and Steven and Alexandra Cohen have given $35 million to help children and teens experiencing mental-health crises.

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Recruiting nonprofit volunteers for legislative campaign success

EveryAction

It’s the middle of the year, and although many of you still haven’t even taken summer vacation, the time has arrived to begin planning for your 2024 state legislative campaigns. Despite the fact that several states are still in session—not to mention those that work year-round—you’re going to have big hopes and legislative goals for next year, and it’s important to plant the seeds for successful campaigns now.

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How the Climate Crisis is Changing Mental Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Magda Ehlers on pexels.com Our mental health is directly related to our social position, values, and proximity to power—which all impact how we exist. Eco-anxiety , too, is influenced by our social positions and occurs after we become conscious of the climate crisis as a sense of distress in response to a rapidly changing environment.