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The Individual Donor Problem — Are You Addressing It?

NonProfit PRO

America is a very giving nation, and individual donors are leading the way. Americans gave more in 2020 than in 2019. In fact, of the record $471 billion contributed in total, about 80% were from individuals. However, despite growing giving dollar totals, there is a individual donor problem.

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Newsletter: Join Me at Corporate Partnerships Everywhere on Feb. 24th ; 10 Power Questions To Get a Corporate Partner's Attention ? ; Who Won Cause Marketing at Super Bowl LVI?

Selfish Giving

I'm excited to once again be apart of the only international conference dedicated to corporate-charity partnerships. It's called Corporate Partnerships Everywhere and they have a great lineup of speakers planned for Thursday, February 24th. YOU CAN SIGNUP HERE FOR JUST $69 Some of the sessions at this year's half-day event include: ??Behavioral Science: Nudge Partners Into Saying “Yes!

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5 Oculus Quest Tips for Nonprofits New to the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you have yet to experience virtual reality (VR), your first adventure into the metaverse using an Oculus Quest will provoke many self exclamations of awe and amazement. From the first experience of surround sound to seeing your hands function and your body moving through a digital world, nonprofit marketers and fundraisers absolutely need to explore this next iteration of the internet.

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Candid

The Great Resignation was a long time in the making. The warning signs included the ongoing toxic combination of low pay and overwhelming workloads endemic in nonprofit work that leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and ultimately burnout. The pandemic exacerbated these rumblings not only because these stressors increased but because people experienced a different kind of work life, with more flexibility to work from home and less hovering by management.

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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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Can You Upgrade Your Monthly Donors to Higher Levels?

NonProfit PRO

It’s not about the size of the monthly gift amount. It’s about the fact that you’re giving your donors the opportunity to make a difference in an amount they can afford. Yes, but, you might say, aren’t you worried that donors will only give those tiny amounts and you’ll never be able to move the needle?

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9 Tips to Help You Celebrate Single-Tasking Day This Year

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

I come across a lot of unusual “holidays” when creating the Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts e-newsletter. While some of them are silly, they can still make good writing prompts like Optimist Day (February 3rd) or Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day (December 8th). And then there are things like Wave All Your Fingers At Your Neighbors Day (February 7th) or International Cherry Pit Spitting Day (July 1st) which I can’t really do anything with.

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How to Get into Digital Marketing Without a College Degree?

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Get into Digital Marketing Without a College Degree? Digital Marketing is a profession that you can teach yourself. It is also a profession that you can show you’re good at without having a degree. See how to get started. While a college degree might give you an advantage when applying for digital marketing jobs, it’s still possible for you to get a job without a degree.

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2 Arguments for Why Nonprofits Should Stay on Facebook

NonProfit PRO

Facebook seems to always make controversial headlines. When the platform created fundraising tools, it was an exciting new innovation for nonprofit organizations. However, this too was eventually regarded in a controversial manner. Here's why your nonprofit should continue using Facebook despite these criticisms.

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Name the Thing: How DEI Plays into Your Nonprofit Brand

Mission Minded

Learn what Mission Minded’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisor, Tierney Yates, can share about how DEI plays into your nonprofit brand. The post Name the Thing: How DEI Plays into Your Nonprofit Brand appeared first on Mission Minded.

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[FREE WEBINAR] How to Host a Successful Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. Cost: Free. Presented by: Nidhi Doshi , Co-founder of Paybee. Franco Finn , Charity Auctioneer and Emcee. A virtual fundraising event can outperform an in-person event if it is well-planned and hosted using secure technology. In this webinar, learn what it takes to make your virtual fundraising event a success from planning, to execution, to follow-up.

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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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Ask Rita: Religious Exemptions from Regular Work Duties—What Am I to Do?

Blue Avocado

Dear Rita, I am the HR Manager in a medium-sized nonprofit of about 30 employees. We are a social services organization, and among other things, we actively participate in food distribution to people in need around the holidays. Recently, one of our newly hired employees advised us that they have an objection to participating in […]. The post Ask Rita: Religious Exemptions from Regular Work Duties—What Am I to Do?

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Get a Big Fundraising Vision

NonProfit PRO

Don’t get me started on what we’re seeing in donor and donor value attrition. Terrible. Big donors are disappearing faster than you can blink. Why? No fundraising vision.

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The Importance of Confidentiality For Nonprofit Boards

Foundation Group

The post The Importance of Confidentiality For Nonprofit Boards appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Beth Kanter

AI and other smart tech can make work culture more human, but only if you know how the tech works and focus on using it to do what it does best (answer rote questions online) and allow people to do what we do best (e.g. strengthen relationships, tell stories, empathize with others.). Here is an article on the Candid blog that I wrote with the brilliant Allison Fine on how to use smart tech to create more work-life balance for all.

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Using Smart Tech to Reimagine Nonprofit Work

Allison Fine

The Great Resignation was a long time in the making. The warning signs included the ongoing toxic combination of low pay and overwhelming workloads endemic in nonprofit work that leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and ultimately burnout. The pandemic exacerbated these rumblings not only because these stressors increased but because people experienced a different kind of work life, with more flexibility to work from home and less hovering by management.

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Transform Charitable Giving by Accepting Donated Stock

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits must diversify and grow funding strategies to compete. Appreciated stock represents $100 billion in untapped funding, and new ways of stock gifting have enabled 60 million American investors to donate stock in minutes.

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5 Types of Nonprofit Communications and Marketing Audits

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

The word audit can feel really scary. It feels like someone is coming for you and looking for all of your mistakes. But that’s not what we mean when we talk about a communications or marketing audit! Instead, think of it more as a review or a check-up. We just want to see how things are going. We want to know what’s working, so we can do more of those things.

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Why Showing the Salary Matters at Momentum

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

A Special Message from Our CEO, Kevin Dean Our job board is the most heavily trafficked nonprofit job board in our region, and many of you have probably gotten your job because you saw it on our website. Posting a position on our board is free for our partners, but we sometimes have to explain our policies, which are part of our commitment to talent equity in our sector.

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Your Complete Guide to Planning Your First Special Event

Get Fully Funded

It’s a milestone when you decide to hold your nonprofit’s first special event for the sole purpose of raising money. A fundraising event will draw attention to your organization and give prospective donors the opportunity to learn more about your cause. Most importantly, a special event will bring in money to fund your mission. Yay, right? But to make sure your first special event delivers on generating revenue, you need to choose, plan, and execute your event well.

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Swipe Right: Tips for Approaching Your Donors Taken From the Online Dating Scene

NonProfit PRO

In this swipe left/swipe right world, those in the dating scene have learned to make very quick decisions about whom they are interested, often with very little information at the outset. In an instant, they decide to swipe left (delete) or swipe right (connect), deciding if a person is worth getting to know based on a profile picture, a tagline and maybe a few key facts. .

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A Simple Trick for Being More Brief

Nonprofit Productive

Juliet Funt in her book, A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Business and Do Your Best Work , argues that brevity is a byproduct of the space between stimulus and response. As many nonprofit teams are working remotely, Funt’s advice is especially useful. In thinking about this with my own team, I turned to the daily bane of my existence: email.

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Returning back or pressing forward?

Concord Leadership

In our current Quadrant 3 Leadership Cohort, we’ve been talking about personality, abilities, and habits. Over the course of a few classes we’ve looked at the Enneagram, the Highlands Ability Battery, assessments like DISC, and the various ways we use stories and storytelling to define who we are. One of the coaches asked if I […].

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10 Effective E-Commerce Strategies to look out for in 2022

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

10 Effective E-Commerce Strategies to look out for in 2022. The effectiveness of your e-commerce marketing strategy can be enhanced in many ways. Check out how you can get started improving today. When running an online business in 2022, you may need to consider certain e-commerce strategies that will help drive your business to the next level. These strategies will help you expand the reach of your online business to a wider market when applied correctly.

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The State of Nonprofit Technology

NonProfit PRO

This insightful resource highlights how nonprofits are investing in technology, what value these technologies have on their organizations and which technologies will be trending upward in the future. Download this report to learn how technology has transformed the way nonprofits operate, which solutions and services you should be investing in and more.

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What are Unrestricted Net Assets?

Non Profit Accounting Academy

Alternative title: I love you, I need you, unrestricted net assets! “Look at all this money we have! I don’t understand why we can’t pay the bills,” exclaimed Todd, a member of the board of directors, as he looked at the balance sheet. “What number are you looking at, Todd?” I asked. “Right here at the bottom. It shows we have a hundred thousand dollars!

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The Value of a New CRM System for Your Nonprofit

Salsa

Is it time for your nonprofit to move to a new customer relationship management (CRM) solution ?

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What Every Small Business Should Do

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

What Every Small Business Should Do. The majority of the difficulties associated with establishing a business stem from failing to accomplish the small things correctly. The basics will lead you to the top, as any competent instructor has stated at some time. If you’re thinking of starting a small business, make sure you follow these 10 small business rules: 1.

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How Nonprofits Can Help Meet Growing Demands for Authentic Corporate Social Responsibility

NonProfit PRO

For an industry that’s long been faced with the challenge of donations coming seasonally — during the holidays, for instance — the opportunity to fuel new growth and greater, more consistent impact through brands seeking corporate social responsibility is enormous.

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Care2 is hiring!

Care2

Care2 is a social enterprise using the power of business as a force for good. And, we need your expertise to grow!

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How to Create A Nonprofit Operating Reserve Policy

The Charity CFO

Why does your nonprofit need an operating reserve? . A report released last year by Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy estimated the worst-case scenario would lead to the closure of 38% of nonprofits in the United States. Hopefully, we’ll fall far short of that number. . But there’s little doubt that nonprofits with reserve funds in place were more likely to survive when their offices closed suddenly and funding disappeared almost overnight in 2020.

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Why do Professional Digital Marketers need to Have Good Writing Skills?

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Why do Professional Digital Marketers need to Have Good Writing Skills? Strong writing skill is important to succeed as a digital marketer. Check out our top reasons. The role of a digital marketer is to create content that’s compelling and interesting to read. This is a skill that is often synonymous with the job, and that is why it’s often a staple request in job descriptions.

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Nonprofit’s Fundraising Gets Major Boost With Augmented Reality

NonProfit PRO

When it comes to fundraising, emotional connection is everything. The more connected people feel to your mission, the more likely they are to invest in it. This is where augmented reality (AR) can be a game changer.

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3 rising trends in fundraising innovations

Candid

New year, new fundraising strategy. Are you making the most of the latest trends in fundraising to elevate your nonprofit in 2022? While there are risks to embracing new fundraising innovations, the rewards are often well worth taking the chance. This year, we’re seeing those innovations most clearly in the digital realm—from embracing a digital-first approach with exciting new virtual fundraising ideas to scaling up communications sustainably with automation.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – February 18, 2022

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Hamilton’s on Ogletree. Auburn, AL. Happy Friday! Time to wind down with the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have more bad news for email open rates, giving data for 2021, how to get started with TikTok, LinkedIn tips, how to say you’re sorry and more.

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Digital Nonprofit Marketing Strategy Guide [Templates and Tools Included]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Digital Nonprofit Marketing Strategy Guide [Templates and Tools Included]. In this Ultimate Guide, we walk you through what it takes to be effective with Nonprofit Marketing in the Digital World. We give away all our knowledge, templates and tools for free. Nonprofit Marketing has changed a lot over the years. Especially when Covid-19 hit, many Nonprofits were forced to jump into the digital world since hosting events and such in the physical world was no longer an option.

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