Candid
JULY 17, 2025
Running a nonprofit today is harder than ever, making it feel almost impossible to build a fundraising program while staying focused on advancing your mission. And our mission here at Candid is to get you the information you need to do good. That’s why we’ve revamped Candid’s learning site to provide you with a streamlined set of resources, all in one place.
Bloomerang
JULY 17, 2025
Every gift begins with a spark—a donor’s desire to make a difference. Across the country, Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) are filled with those sparks, waiting to be turned into action. These are not just numbers on a statement—they are untapped missions, unspoken hopes, and the fuel for change. For nonprofits, the opportunity is clear: by reaching out and inviting DAF donors to invest in your vision, you’re not just asking for support—you’re offering people a chance to bring their purpose to life.
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Ann Green
JULY 15, 2025
It’s summer! I hope you’ll get a chance to take a vacation or just some time off. It may be quieter at your nonprofit, or maybe it isn’t considering everything that’s going on, especially in the U.S. Either way, you don’t want to be too quiet and ignore your donors. Summer is a great time to do some relationship building. You should communicate with your donors at least once a month and that includes the summer months.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
JULY 16, 2025
You’ve got a compelling mission, a passionate team , and a fundraising campaign to run. However, if your timing is off, your message might miss the mark. In fundraising, when you say something can be just as important as what you say. This post explores how timing affects donor engagement, ways to improve your timeliness, and how nonprofit technology solutions can simplify the process.
Speaker: Sean Yoder
Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.
NonProfit PRO
JULY 16, 2025
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Candid
JULY 15, 2025
In San Diego, California, refugees displaced from Myanmar (formerly Burma), Somalia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other countries have resettled in Mid-City. Over the decades, they’ve transformed this once-blighted area into an urban village of small businesses, restaurants, and cultural spaces. Today, due to rising real estate prices, families who have resettled here—many after enduring war, persecution, and climate disasters—are finding themselves housing insecure and displaced ag
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 16, 2025
Image Credit: Mustang Joe , The Thinker , CC 1.0 How does your personal history with money shape how you deploy it professionally? For me, the power gap that I felt during my first on-the-ground site visit as a grantmaker was palpable. There were smiles on every face, but tension in all the shoulders. The moment I stepped out of the car, and walked down the block, power and authority seemed to flow toward me and away from them.
Clairification
JULY 14, 2025
In Part 1 , we reframed what digital fundraising is really about: not just mastering tools, but learning to connect with heart and humanity — in the places your donors already live: online. Now, it’s time to turn insight into action. Whether you’re launching your first online campaign or refining what you’re already doing, these four essentials will help you reach more donors, raise more dollars, and deepen relationships — all while staying true to your mission.
NonProfit PRO
JULY 15, 2025
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Candid
JULY 10, 2025
Social media is one of the most visible ways that help nonprofits reach their community, share their stories, and build support for their cause. But with the platforms constantly making changes and audience behavior always shifting, it can be confusing what the most effective approach would be. So, we’ve curated our favorite Candid insights articles focused on improving your nonprofit’s social media.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement
There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how
Bloomerang
JULY 10, 2025
The summer slump Imagine it is a hot July afternoon. Your team recently sent out a fundraising appeal—and the response is underwhelming. You have seen this before. Each year, summer rolls in with sunshine, vacations, and, unfortunately, a sharp dip in donations. This seasonal lull , often referred to as the “summer slump,” can leave nonprofits scrambling to meet their fundraising goals.
iMarketSmart
JULY 14, 2025
Many board members believe their role in fundraising is to open doors, approve budgets, or review campaign reports. All of that matters—but if that’s where their involvement ends, something vital is missing. Fundraising is not just strategic. It’s emotional. And if your board doesn’t understand the emotional journey of the donor—or their own internal resistance to asking—they’re likely to stay on the sidelines.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 10, 2025
Image credit: Jordan Spraggins on Unsplash Over the past few weeks, states across the country have experienced scorching temperatures. From Texas to Maine, nearly 160 million people were placed under heat alerts as forecasters predicted temperatures up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit above seasonal averages. In the Southeast, conditions were so severe that, in late June, the Department of Energy declared a power emergency , allowing Duke Energy Carolinas to temporarily operate certain electric generati
NonProfit PRO
JULY 14, 2025
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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
Blue Avocado
JULY 15, 2025
This Article is Certified Gold Avocado Gold never goes out of style — and neither does good advice. The Gold Avocado series showcases some of the very best content that Blue Avocado has for nonprofit leaders, based on overall popularity, reader response, and quality. Taxes are no fun, but even nonprofits need to take them seriously. Do you ever have a question about your IRS Form 990 and can’t seem to find the answer?
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 16, 2025
Credit: Xizi (Cecilia) Hua on Flickr Across the country, Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities that were being priced out of their neighborhoods—displaced by speculation, rezoning, and outside interests—are now deciding what gets built and who benefits from it. While traditional development models continue to center investors, communities themselves are asking different questions: What does it look like when we own the land, the kitchen, the market, the f
NonProfit PRO
JULY 15, 2025
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The Charity CFO
JULY 11, 2025
This guide to nonprofit CFO services outlines key responsibilities, how they differ from bookkeeping, and why they’re essential. The post Your Guide to Nonprofit CFO Services appeared first on The Charity CFO.
Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business
For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.
Candid
JULY 14, 2025
From disruptions in federal funding streams and capacity constraints to emerging legal hurdles, nonprofits are confronting new challenges and increased uncertainty. At Equal Justice Works (EJW), we’ve maintained our mission of ensuring the justice system works for all through many changes in the field of public interest law. And one way to navigate these challenges is by becoming more collaborative and creative in expanding opportunities to provide legal aid services.
iMarketSmart
JULY 11, 2025
Can you guess what one request donors always agree to? It is, “May we run an idea by you from time to time?” The answer will almost always be yes, perhaps with some conditions placed on it, as long as we have established that they have some interest in our organization’s mission because they have: Attended one of our events A history of giving to a similar cause Given to us, but at a modest level Granted a courtesy interview If any of those or other strong indicators have been establ
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 15, 2025
Credit: Debby Hudson on Unsplash Earlier this week, the Trump administration’s Internal Revenue Service stated in a court document that churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status—an announcement that would seem to overturn decades of established law firmly prohibiting all nonprofit organizations, including churches, from directly engaging in partisan politics.
NonProfit PRO
JULY 11, 2025
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Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
NonProfit Hub
JULY 15, 2025
How to Create a Fundraising Toolkit for Event Volunteers Volunteers are the heartbeat of your nonprofit’s events. They check people in with a welcoming smile, rally donors to give generously, and are fully bought into your mission. But here’s the challenge: many well-meaning volunteers show up for events like charity golf tournaments or galas with nothing but enthusiasm and maybe branded t-shirts.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JULY 10, 2025
The Black Freedom Fund has raised $100 million — and plans to double that amount — in a rare effort to build a Black-led endowment. By Alex Daniels Justin Bench UnCommon Law, which helps people navigating California’s discretionary parole process, is a grantee of the California Black Freedom Fund. The Black Freedom Fund has raised $100 million — and plans to double that amount — in a rare effort to build a Black-led endowment.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 15, 2025
By Dianne Calvi & Taddeo Muriuki In September 2024, an article in The Economist posed a provocative question: Can evidence-based development programs, like those championed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, scale effectively to combat the growing challenges of extreme poverty? The stakes have never been higher. The US federal administration slashed 83 percent of foreign assistance programs during its first six weeks in office earlier this year, while European governments have re
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 10, 2025
Image Credit: Shelby Murphy Figueroa on Unsplash Nonprofits and philanthropic organizations in the United States have never seen a moment like this. With federal programs and resources being cut or weaponized, philanthropy must be restless and relentless. Funders like the Boston Foundation (TBF) are actively working to be bold and engaged, even as they take a longer-term view toward responding, protecting, and reimagining the work for these unprecedented times.
Speaker: Dave Sackett
Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.
NonProfit PRO
JULY 16, 2025
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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit
JULY 16, 2025
Click here to listen on your favorite podcast app! What if the reason you’re not raising more money… isn’t your fundraising strategy? Kevin L. Brown believes most nonprofits are stuck in the wrong cycle—constantly doing more fundraising, instead of fixing their fundability and visibility. In this episode, the Mighty Ally CEO and author of Fundable & Findable shares a brand-first, strategy-driven approach to nonprofit growth that challenges everything you’ve been tol
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JULY 15, 2025
The author, advocate, and nonprofit leader outlines where philanthropy fits in her "double barrel" strategy to strengthen democracy in Washington and nationwide. By Chronicle Staff The author, advocate, and nonprofit leader outlines where philanthropy fits in her "double barrel" strategy to strengthen democracy in Washington and nationwide.
Elevation
JULY 14, 2025
Discover Top Agencies Specializing in Google Ad Grant Management Effectively managing a Google Ad Grant can transform how your nonprofit grows its reach and impact. With up to $10,000 monthly in free advertising, it’s a unique opportunity—but it comes with complex guidelines that require constant attention and expertise. That’s where the right agency can make all the difference.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
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