Ann Green
JULY 29, 2025
A lot of nonprofit communication is mediocre at best. Is that the case for you? Don’t settle for just okay. You’ll raise more money and have better donor engagement if you can go above and beyond. The remedy I like to recommend is the 5 C’s of good nonprofit communication. Keep these in mind when you’re writing a fundraising appeal, thank you letter, update, or any type of donor communication.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 29, 2025
Discover how to use AI in your fundraising the right way. In this live session, Virtuous Chief AI Officer Nathan Chappell breaks down a clear strategy for choosing and piloting AI, spotlights the ethical guardrails every nonprofit must respect, and hands you field-tested prompts you can copy straight into ChatGPT for prospect research, donor welcome journeys, and lapsed-donor wins.
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Candid
JULY 24, 2025
As many of us in the nonprofit sector know, public trust is not a given. It must be earned, and upheld, through action, transparency, and a deep commitment to the communities we serve. In today’s fractured landscape, where polarization and skepticism run high, the nonprofit sector stands out as a rare trusted voice. But that trust is neither guaranteed nor permanent.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 24, 2025
Credit: Ansel Huang on Unsplash Humans of Nonprofits is a storytelling series that explores how nonprofits shape and support the lives of everyday people. Each story shares an authentic, lived experience, revealing the many ways nonprofits intersect with individuals across all backgrounds, beliefs, and communities. Regardless of politics, religion, gender, or geography, nonprofits are a vital thread in the fabric of daily life.
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 22, 2025
Nonprofits often struggle to turn data into meaningful insights. Here's how you can use impact data to make decisions about your programs.
Bloomerang
JULY 28, 2025
Growth is exciting. It looks great in a board meeting. It signals momentum to funders. But sometimes, saying yes to that next program, partnership, or initiative means saying no to the reason you exist in the first place. Mission drift rarely announces itself. It starts with a single yes—a grant that doesn’t quite fit, an expansion that stretches your team, a partnership that nudges you off-course.
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Top Nonprofits
JULY 24, 2025
“Strategic agility” is more than a workplace buzzword—it’s a vital survival skill. As nonprofit organizations continue to face talent gaps, policy changes, and shifting donor priorities, the ability to pivot quickly and make decisive, smart moves can ensure you maintain the momentum of your mission. Embracing strategic agility will help your nonprofit build institutional capacity and guardrails to navigate sudden change, respond swiftly, and adjust course without compromising long-term goa
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 29, 2025
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 23, 2025
Credit: The ABCD Institute and Pacific Community Solutions State of the Movements is a recurring NPQ column dedicated to tracking the pulse of social movements and the solidarity economy in 2025. “What do we want? Asset-based community development! When do we want it? Now!” That is a chant that I am pretty sure has never been uttered at a rally anywhere.
Bloomerang
JULY 24, 2025
Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to strengthen board engagement: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m trying to shift our board culture away from “I’ll do anything but fundraising” and toward shared responsibility.
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
Ann Green
JULY 22, 2025
Volunteer opportunities come in all shapes and sizes, and unique positions can keep your supporter community engaged. Discover these six unique volunteer roles. By Kyle Payton Volunteers make the nonprofit world go round. From helping out on mission-related projects to participating in fundraisers and making sure events run smoothly , volunteers lend their time and energy to see a wide range of tasks to completion.
Candid
JULY 23, 2025
Faced with federal funding cuts, grantmakers’ shifting priorities, and economic uncertainty, many nonprofits are looking to diversify their revenue streams—including by tapping into giving through donor-advised funds (DAFs). Chariot and K2D Strategies’ 2025 DAF Fundraising Report analyzed DAF giving data from 32 nonprofits on DAF gifts totaling over $1.15 billion received between 2020 and 2024.
NonProfit PRO
JULY 29, 2025
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JULY 22, 2025
Eighty percent nonprofits say they will be interested in pro bono assistance within the next six to 12 months. Expert volunteers appear to be ready to meet the demand. By Stephanie Beasley LegalCORPS LegalCORPS, in a partnership with the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, provides a help desk that offers free real-time support, a legal resource library, step-by-step guidance to complete a nonprofit compliance assessment, and compliance clinics with lawyers.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 29, 2025
Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels Welcome to another installment of NPQ ’s fundraising advice column, Ask Rhea! For those who might be new, Rhea Wong is a fundraising expert and professional coach, exuberant author of Get That Money, Honey! host of the Nonprofit Lowdown podcast , and an unfailingly encouraging voice in a sometimes-bleak landscape.
iMarketSmart
JULY 28, 2025
We often talk about fundraising as strategy. As science. As systems and models and analytics. But strip away the jargon, and here’s what remains: Fundraising is an act of love. Love for a cause. Love for a vision of a better world. Love for the people we serve—and the people who make service possible. That may sound sentimental. But it’s not. It’s grounded in emotional intelligence—the ability to recognize and manage our emotions and the emotions of others in service of something greater.
Candid
JULY 22, 2025
In 2013, a Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) survey of nonprofit leaders found 62% did not believe most of their foundation funders had a deep understanding of the communities they sought to benefit. That lack of understanding, they said, was reflected in foundations’ funding priorities and strategies. Now, a new survey of both nonprofit and foundation leaders reveals that while most foundation leaders believe their work reflects a deep understanding of the needs of the people and communit
NonProfit PRO
JULY 28, 2025
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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.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 22, 2025
A supplemental post to 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the statistics listed below can guide your nonprofit in creating and maintaining a successful social media strategy. Facebook Facebook has 3.05 billion monthly active users of which 65% access the site daily and spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform. [ HootSuite ] By 2027, Facebook will reach 75% of the world’s population and is currently the world’s third most trafficked website after
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 25, 2025
Image courtesy of Essie Justice Group A new report from Essie Justice Group (Essie), a nonprofit based in Oakland, CA, that supports women with incarcerated loved ones, shares lessons learned through its campaign focused on bailing Black mothers out of jail. Women make up the fastest-growing incarcerated population in the United States; and one in four women and one in two Black women have an incarcerated loved one.
iMarketSmart
JULY 23, 2025
Winning major gifts depends on consistently productive outreach to the right major donors and prospects. Of course, who you reach out to matters. If you spend most of your time on wild goose chases you’ll generate a lot of activity without much to show for it. And that’s why so many fundraisers now use MarketSmart’s system to collect and monitor donor-driven data.
Candid
JULY 29, 2025
“Uncertainty” seems to be the recurring theme for nonprofits in 2025. In an informal discussion I held recently with a group of nonprofits across Ohio, I heard the following: “We heard that our governmental funding was completely cut.” “We just received word that our governmental funding was restored.” “We heard from our foundation partners that they will be increasing their payout—but limiting their increased payout to organizations not like ours.
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 PRO
JULY 24, 2025
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Fundraising Coach
JULY 22, 2025
Last week during our monthly Nonprofit Academy call , I found myself in a conversation that felt both familiar and frustrating. The topic? How tariffs and rescissions are creating confusion among donors and nonprofit boards—and making fundraising feel nearly impossible. Sound familiar? Donors appear hesitant. Board members are second-guessing more than ever.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JULY 22, 2025
The vast and interconnected set of programs funded by taxpayers has been significantly dismantled in just months, nonprofit leaders, researchers and funders say. And even deeper, permanent cuts are still possible. By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press The vast and interconnected set of programs funded by taxpayers has been significantly dismantled in just months, nonprofit leaders, researchers and funders say.
iMarketSmart
JULY 25, 2025
Here is a list of the 10 most common assumptions that fundraisers make: We should go into another campaign shortly after the conclusion of the last one We should be able to raise more in the next campaign than in the last We should be able to raise more money this year than last year The donors we’ve always counted on will come through for us again Every fundraiser should be able to raise at least one million Fundraisers will raise more if they are held to higher metrical goals A rah-rah &
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.
Candid
JULY 28, 2025
Higher education in the United States is entering a turbulent era. Financial pressures—driven by policy changes, tuition increases, and declining public investment—are colliding with growing student needs. As paying for college remains challenging—especially with the costs of essentials like food, housing, and transportation rising— financially vulnerable students increasingly struggle to stay enrolled and complete their degree.
Prosper Strategies
JULY 22, 2025
APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY In the latest episode of Changemaker Conversations, we had the pleasure of talking with Kelly Mattox, Vice President of Campaign and Principal Gifts at Connecticut Children’s Foundation. Kelly brings more than two decades of nonprofit experience—including 14 years at Horizons National—to a conversation that cuts to the heart of one of […] The post Changemaker Conversations Episode 4: Aligning Marketing and Fundraising for Campaign Success with Special Guest Ke
NonProfit PRO
JULY 25, 2025
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JULY 29, 2025
How $160 million from Netscape pioneer Jim Barksdale — a newcomer to social-change philanthropy — helped make schools in his native Mississippi a source of pride, not shame. By Drew Lindsay Rogelio Solis, AP Nailor Elementary School in Cleveland, Miss., is one of dozens of schools in the state that have gotten help from the Barksdale Reading Institute, the multimillion-dollar literacy effort financed by Jim Barksdale.
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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