NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 13, 2023
Moving to new technology isn’t typically something nonprofits look forward to. Even if you know that it’s time to upgrade your nonprofit’s technology, you might find yourself with anxiety-inducing thoughts. However, it’s important to move past the fear and know that the results can be well worth the investment.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 10, 2023
By Jim Rendon. Jenna Schoenefeld FOR THE CHRONICLE. Charity workers want better pay, benefits, and equity, but contract talks can be contentious. Is there another way? Plus: See the rest of our January issue , posted online today.
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Joan Garry
JANUARY 12, 2023
Get off to a great start in 2023 with these 3 crucial leadership conversations. Don't get shot out of the cannon — take control of your year! The post 3 Critical Conversations to Have in January appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
Affnetz
JANUARY 12, 2023
How to keep a development director more than 18 months. fundraising campaign management / By Mike Crum. The average Development Director (person who heads up fundraising for a Nonprofit) is 1.5 years. Just think of your sunk cost – you’ve gone through all that time and trouble with your search committee and interviews, conducted training and onboarding, and then they’re gone in 18 months?
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
JANUARY 10, 2023
You tell your story through the IRS Form 990, or the 990 will tell it for you — the good, the bad, and the ugly. There are 99 reasons why you should care about the IRS Form 990, but let's stick to four helpful tips and why it matters most to you.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Kay Dervishi and Yesica Balderrama. Foundation giving was 15 times greater in the year after the pandemic struck. But the emphasis on immediate relief worries experts, especially as climate change makes natural disasters more frequent and devastating.
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Affnetz
JANUARY 10, 2023
Stakeholder Management for Emerging Nonprofits. Donor Management & Engagement / By Mike Crum. You’re growing your Nonprofit and you’ve been so focused on programs and outcomes. But… you’ve been so busy flying the plane, you haven’t had time or focus to work on the plane! You’ve got to grow your Nonprofit’s inside operations and capacity so you can keep growing and increase your effectiveness.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 9, 2023
Often, a deep commitment and personal connection to the mission of an organization is what drives entrepreneurial spirit. Vision, not perfection, is what leads to outcomes. So how do you make the critical leap from entrepreneurial to operational?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Mia Halthon and Ira Hillman. Getty Images. What does it look like to partner with those whose expertise comes largely from lived experiences? An early-childhood program shows why bringing parents to the decision-making table was critical to its work.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JANUARY 8, 2023
Email Marketing Tips for 2023. From including compelling video content in emails to specifically tailoring everything you send out, there are a lot of powerful ways you can connect with your audience and customers through email. . Email marketing can be a way to not only promote your products or services but also retain customers and incentivize their loyalty. .
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.
Beth Kanter
JANUARY 9, 2023
The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published an opinion piece, “ AI Can Help Nonprofits Reach More Donors But Fundraisers Can’t Ignore Potential Pitfalls ,” a topic that Allison Fine and I have been researching and writing about since 2017. In 2019, we did a deep dive on AI & Giving to look at the landscape of fundraising tools & platforms using AI and the implications.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 11, 2023
Impact measurement is mission-critical. After all, it is essentially an assessment of whether or how well an organization is living up to its mission. Thankfully, regardless of how small the budget, there is a lot that organizations can do to maximize their impact measurement dollars.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
Alma Moore Rodney Mahone, chief revenue officer, will oversee the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s ambitious plan to double its revenue and its staff in the next five years. The organization's move is a key step as it gets ready to become an independent nonprofit that can expand its services to the nonprofit world.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JANUARY 8, 2023
SEO Tips for Your Personal Brand. When someone looks for your name online , you want them to find only positive things, particularly in a professional sense. That’s why building a personal brand is so important. Your personal brand is going to allow you to curate and shape the perception people have about you. . We all have a personal brand, if we realize it or not, which is why it’s so important to make sure it’s something that you’re in control of. .
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 11, 2023
Image Credit: AMAL BEN SAAD on unsplash.com. Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. And when they do so, the model that dominates their thinking is the high-tech growth model best exemplified by Silicon Valley.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 9, 2023
If you’re ready to make your digital channels work for you, bring in more online revenue, and save yourself some time, here are my top tips.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 10, 2023
By Suzette Brooks Masters. Donors need to learn to behave like good ancestors. That means instilling a future oriented mindset into grant making and imagining a more positive version of the nation and democracy.
Candid
JANUARY 11, 2023
The New Year is a time for new beginnings. It’s also a great opportunity to reflect on the past year and what you aspire to do differently in the year ahead. As we enter 2023, we’ve compiled a list of nonprofit books from Candid’s free digital library that can help inspire your nonprofit’s New Year’s resolutions. Whether you’re looking to level up your fundraising skills, invest in innovation, improve your nonprofit’s culture, or take better care of your colleagues and yourself, these 15 books c
Caring Truth-Teller
JANUARY 11, 2023
What happens when two master storytellers spend a few minutes together? They geek out about how to tell a powerful, engaging story. AND they agree on the fastest way to lose your audience when sharing a story. The wise, fun, brilliant, Jason Ellinger , founder of Beard and Bowler, a nonprofit storytelling and video production company, generously spent time with me this week.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 12, 2023
As you begin a New Year, it is a valuable time to revisit your fundraising goals and build a stronger culture of philanthropy among your donors, board members and professional team.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 9, 2023
By Emily Haynes. Raising money for charity using livestreaming isn't entirely new, but this genre has upped its game, with streamers raising $1.4 million for nonprofits. Find out how it's done and if this might be a good fit for your group.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2023
Image Credit: Seven Shooter on unsplash.com. Nationwide, climate change education does not receive adequate time in K-12 classrooms. In many states, a political divide over how schools should teach about climate change has led to rampant miseducation. Teachers aren’t adequately educated about climate change as less than half have received formal college instruction in climate science, Science reports , further limiting climate change education.
Veritus Group
JANUARY 9, 2023
When fundraisers leave an organization, it's often because management has failed them. Here are 10 issues that push fundraisers to quit. The post Why Your Fundraisers Will Leave You appeared first on Veritus Group.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 11, 2023
If you find your check engine light on these days, you are not alone. Burnout is a real and persistent challenge for many of us. In the new year, I encourage you to try these check-ins designed to help you ask the necessary questions to get unstuck, avoid burnout, and courageously resist.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Rasheeda Childress. Charitable giving was up 4.7 percent, but the number of individual donors was down 7.1 percent compared with 2021, according to new data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
JANUARY 9, 2023
After five years, LeadingUp returns! Are you ready for the next step in your nonprofit career? Are you a nonprofit leader looking to nurture your organization's emerging talent? Then read on. Momentum Nonprofit Partners, in partnership with the Institute for Leadership Development (ILD) at Christian Brothers University (CBU), has revived the award-winning LeadingUp Program.
Clairification
JANUARY 9, 2023
For many nonprofits, the yearly annual report is often just another task on a very long to-do list. Most charities are juggling a lot—development, program maintenance, fundraising, and more—and the annual report can feel like yet another mandatory routine project. One that often gets handled at the last minute without much intentional care and effort.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 10, 2023
Boards can be well-represented as an entity in the form of a totem pole, like those derived from Northwest Indigenous people. Boards might even improve their understanding of and effectiveness as a body by developing their own board totem pole process.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 10, 2023
By Alex Daniels. Michael Theis, The Chronicle Adam Holofcener’s family foundation gave $1 million to revive the Baltimore Beat newspaper, which focuses on the city’s Black community and whose editor is Lisa Snowden-McCray. A Baltimore foundation gave nearly all of its $1 million in assets to resuscitate a nonprofit newspaper. Its goal: to counter the idea it's enough just to give to racial-equity organizations and instead put the money in the hands of a Black-led charity.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2023
Image Credit: Andras Kovacs on unsplash.com. Organizations that work in organizational and leadership development (aka capacity building) not only support the nonprofit sector, but shape it. How they do so matters. That is why capacity builders need to take a stand. We have power. And we’re uncomfortable with it. For too long, many in the capacity-building field have pretended to engage in neutral skill-building work, but such neutrality is a myth that is no longer tenable.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Susan K. Thomas. How should the philanthropic sector address rising rents and the severe lack of affordable housing across the United States—two primary forces that cause people to lose their homes? About seven years ago I was tasked with developing a funding portfolio for the Melville Charitable Trust to figure out how we—a small funder—could make an outsized impact on the growing supply issue and its cascading effects on our lowest-income friends, neighbors, and family mem
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 9, 2023
Get 12 months of fundraising tips, best practices, and nonprofit industry data that will keep you inspired all year long! Get your free 2023 Fundraising Calendar now!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 11, 2023
By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press. Andrew Harnik/AP FedEx founder Fred Smith is giving proceeds from the film “Devotion,” which he financed, in part for scholarships for the children of Navy service members studying STEM. He financed the production of the film Devotion, about two Navy pilots in the Korean War. The film's proceeds will go in part to endow a new scholarship fund for the children of Navy service members pursuing studies in STEM.
Nonprofit Fixer
JANUARY 13, 2023
In recent years, the phenomenon of “imposter syndrome” has been getting a lot of attention. Struggling with your confidence in any role, including work in nonprofit organizations, can impact your performance, happiness and overall approach to your career. But is feeling like an imposter at work really a syndrome? Is it some rare condition that only rears its head in younger workers or those facing new and big roles?
Amy Eisenstein
JANUARY 11, 2023
In reply to Shelly. Shelley – I think these are two separate issues. First, you may need a strongly worded letter from a lawyer to encourage the board president step down. It’s clearly time to recruit more board members, although your friend may have a hard time getting them past the president. The second issue it sounds like you’re dealing with through the proper authorities.
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