NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Desperation is never a good look. It is especially ill-advised when fundraising to support a nonprofit mission. Here are several good reasons why nonprofits should ditch appeals that employ a piteous or apologetic tone and focus instead on storytelling and making a solid case for a mission-focused need.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
University-based reporters are critical to reversing the decline in local news, but budget cuts and political battles increasingly threaten their work, demanding greater donor support. By Meg Little Reilly University-based reporters are critical to reversing the decline in local news, but budget cuts and political battles increasingly threaten their work, demanding greater donor support.
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Joan Garry
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Here are 5 important lessons that apply to both fundraising and dating. A team member actually tried them out! Did she get a second date? The post Love At First Pitch: Dating Advice For the Fervent Fundraiser appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
Selfish Giving
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
I'm at Georgetown University this week teaching in the New Strategies Program in the business school. Teaching at Georgetown is a regular gig, but this session is slightly different. It's called the New Strategies "Rising" Program , focused on small nonprofits with budgets under one million, and many operate on much less. My goal is to show them how to recruit event sponsors and cause marketing partners.
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
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Even if you’re behind on planning your year-end fundraising campaign, you can keep your efforts on track and raise critical funds when it counts the most. Here's a checklist to help you achieve your year-end goals.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
It's hard for donors to win a lawsuit against their church — or any other charity — when they demand a refund for their donations. By Samuel Brunson AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac The Mormon Temple is the centerpiece of Temple Square in Salt Lake City. It's hard for donors to win a lawsuit against their church — or any other charity — when they demand a refund for their donations.
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Non Profit AF
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
[Image description: A yellow and white cat standing on an open book, with a quizzical expression. The book is on a wooden table, and behind the cat are more books.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Although the U.S. is a generous nation, Americans are skeptical about charities. Some major donors are shifting away from donating to nonprofits because, in their minds, nonprofits always ask for money, and the problems are never solved. Here are two critical ways that the sector can pivot to address this.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
To be successful, groups need to encourage interaction among workers and help managers learn how to supervise employees they don't see everyday. By Rasheeda Childress Getty Images To be successful, groups need to encourage interaction among workers and help managers learn how to supervise employees they don't see everyday.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Across the United States, public libraries are under attack. They’re caught in the middle as books are banned in record numbers, with parents and others objecting to fiction and nonfiction that include queer characters or storylines, characters of color, experiences of racism, or an acknowledgment of human-caused climate change.
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.
Candid
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
As more funders seek to use demographic data to inform their grantmaking decision-making, 125 partners have now joined the Demographics via Candid movement. To reduce the burden on grantees to provide this data, this sector-wide initiative also empowers nonprofits to collect and share staff and board member demographics—one time—in a standardized, reusable, and freely accessible format on their Candid profiles.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Many nonprofits think about annual reports as something that they have to do. With digitization, you can shift the lens of your annual report from something that you have to do to something that you want to do that’s valuable to your board, major donors, corporate supporters, and your team.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Despite the clear and growing threat, climate giving remained a tiny portion of all global philanthropy. By Jim Rendon Despite the clear and growing threat, climate giving remained a tiny portion of all global charitable giving.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Image credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash The decades-long decimation of local news—and the dangers that the trend poses for public oversight, an informed citizenry, and democracy itself—remains very much underway. Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed, according to a press release by the MacArthur Foundation. In an effort to turn this trend around, the MacArthur Foundation unveiled in September 2023 the Press Forward initiative, a coalition of 22 founding donors set on “strengthening
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
By Narges Baniasadi , Michelle de Haaff & Pedram Afshar In a community just a few miles from the headquarters of Google, Apple, and Tesla, a young woman, we will call her Elisa, lives with her kids in a small apartment. Each day, Elisa takes two buses and 70 minutes to get to work. Her kids walk to and from school, down the street from their home.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Telling your donors that you’ve made progress toward achieving your mission is one thing, but showing how you’ve accomplished this with data does a better job of painting that picture. Here are three tips for collecting impact data.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Organizations are offering more time off, flexible scheduling, and other benefits to employees who need to work in-person. By Rasheeda Childress iMentor Many of iMentor’s employees work from home three days a week. The nonprofit gives employees who work primarily in-person in schools, like Stefan Halstead, three weeks off in the summer instead. Organizations are offering more time off, flexible scheduling, and other benefits to employees who need to work in-person.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Image credit: Andrew Ly on Unsplash Colorado plans to reintroduce wolves by the end of 2023. The proposal was tentatively given the green light by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which issued a draft statement of approval. In their draft decision , the US Fish and Wildlife Service wrote that Colorado can establish what’s called a “nonessential experimental population”—a designation for groups on which the entire species’ survival doesn’t depend.
Clairification
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
This year Giving Tuesday is November 28 th. So, soon. If you’ve not done so already, now is a good time to think about whether or not you want to jump on the bandwagon and, if so, how. There is more than one way to slice this particular piece of pie. And, really, that’s what Giving Tuesday is – just one piece of your total annual fundraising strategy.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
As a nonprofit leader, you might wonder what trends are emerging with strategic plans. Whether you're a seasoned nonprofit professional or just embarking on this journey, here is an exploration of the latest trends that can help guide your strategic planning efforts.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
GivingTuesday hopes it will help put nonprofits' questions and concerns on tech leaders' radar. By Rasheeda Childress Getty Images GivingTuesday hopes the new platform will help put nonprofits' questions and concerns on tech leaders' radar.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
I have been organizing since I was a young person. And I get this question, [what does winning look like?] a lot because we don’t always win. Sometimes we suffer some pretty hard defeats. And people ask, what allows you to sustain a life in this work and to stay committed to these sometimes seemingly maybe abstract or distant sort of revolutionary ideas or goals?
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Did you know that, on average, 88% of total nonprofit donations comes from just 12% of donors? This small portion of your nonprofit’s supporter base is known as your major donors. To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. Because major gifts are so large, it requires time and dedication to cultivate and acquire more of these donations.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Nonprofits are at a pivotal transformation point and are focusing on their long-term strategic resilience following a few years of readily available federal funding, according to BDO’s seventh annual "Nonprofit Standards" benchmarking survey.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
The university had launched an inquiry into the group’s financials in September, after acknowledging the organization was laying off about half of its staff and changing its operating model. By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press Steven Senne/AP The university hired Ibram X. Kendi in 2020 to found the Center for Antiracist Research and join the faculty as a history professor after his 2019 memoir How to Be an Antiracist, catapulted him to national prominence, Boston University said Tuesday that its i
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios , and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia lies on her bed, thinking.) SAPHIA: My biggest beef with cancel culture is that it’s a dominant practice. It is—domination is defined as rule, sway, or control, which is often arbitrary.
Clairification
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
You asked a bunch of folks to give a year ago. Some did. You thanked them. Once. Maybe twice. Now you want to ask them to give again this year. What’s wrong with this picture? Too often nonprofits ask once; then assume folks who’ve made the decision to give will continue to do so. This is similar to retailers thinking once someone has bought from them they’ll automatically do so again.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
After record giving in 2021, philanthropic funding to slow climate change was stagnant from 2021 and 2022, according to the 2023 Funding Trends Report. The report tracks philanthropic giving across sectors and geographies and highlights funding gaps for climate action.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Researchers and students will delve into the challenges, opportunities, and ethical implications the technology presents. By Maria Di Mento University of Virginia Darden School of Business Kathleen and David LaCross Plus, University of Kansas athletics received $25 million, and Cornell landed $10 million for research on precision nutrition.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
ACTION ALERT: TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ACT! Please note this is different legislation than the Streamlining Federal Grants Act. A big thank you to those of you who signed on. Tennessee has the second-most signatures behind Maryland! BACKGROUND Since 1917, the federal charitable tax deduction has provided a tax deduction for donations made to nonprofit organizations by taxpayers who itemize their tax returns.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Looking back, I recall a time when I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of projects and ideas that were coming my team’s way. The excitement of starting new projects was often dampened by the reality of what our team could realistically handle. Ideas and projects were dying in the implementation phase, executed poorly, or they didn’t get off the ground at all.
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Rally Starter announced an update to its AI capabilities. The new capabilities utilize the potential of natural language processing to allow activists and nonprofits to create robust advocacy campaigns in minutes.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
By M.J. Prest The Community Foundation of the Ozarks and the National Christian Foundation Orlando have also promoted their next leaders from within.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
NOVEMBER 4, 2023
Your expertise is needed to strengthen the collective voice of Tennessee Nonprofits Tennessee Nonprofit Network is excited to announce a two-day legislative engagement event that will empower nonprofit staff and board members to be confident advocates and carry that confidence with them to meet with our elected officials and advocate for our sector and the work that our organizations do.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
When I wrote my article , I wrote and I started with a creation story, which was about, the world was dark, and then Sky Woman came, and I started with that story, purposefully, because the darkness is part of the story. And when I think about economic justice, to me, there has to be a common threat that brings people together. And Moe [Mitchell], you said curiosity.
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