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9 Essential Nonprofit Management Skills & Development Tips

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Increasing your fundraising capacity also allows you to host larger events, advertise your cause, and partake in other growth-related activities that incur costs. Continuously improve skills by reading educational nonprofit blogs and participating in fundraising workshops, webinars, and conferences.

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How To Calculate Donor Retention Rate?

Affnetz

Improving donor retention can significantly impact giving rates for educational institutions. Impact Storytelling: Hopefully, you’re having conversations with your donors and seeking to uncover their motivational triggers for giving to your Nonprofit.

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5 Steps to Hosting a Fundraiser for Animal-Related Causes

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In addition to raising necessary funds for your cause, you might host a fundraiser to accomplish the following goals: Raise awareness and educate the public about issues related to animal rights. Animal yoga: Host an animal-themed yoga fundraiser in a local park where participants can exercise with animals eligible for adoption.

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Improve Your Org’s Professional Development Program: 4 Tips

Top Nonprofits

When your nonprofit actively supports personal growth, it builds a strong bench of loyal, long-term employees. The continuing education you offer is part of your total rewards package. Encourage participation in your program. Once employees are aware of educational opportunities, they must be able to take advantage of them.

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Why Event Gamification Works and Top 5 Gamification Ideas

Top Nonprofits

When you incorporate game-like elements and challenges into your event, you excite your attendees and encourage their active participation. As EventMobi explains , event gamification “repurposes gaming tactics for an event context, inspiring friendly competition amongst attendees and incentivizing active event participation.”

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Only Paty, Lumi, and one other woman in the group agreed that there was gender inequity, and the other participants were astonished that the three of us aligned against their view.

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This experience motivated Kahlila to become a youth organizer, helping to establish new Students Deserve chapters across Los Angeles County and to join a campaign to defund the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD). Building youth power and the infrastructure that supports it is an investment in a more equitable and just future.