Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. 2) Online Document Sharing & Management. 1) Video Conferencing. DATABASICS.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 8, 2021

While the position poses some challenges, it’s also incredibly rewarding and with some clear boundaries and reasonable expectations, the workload can be more manageable. . With marketing, I begin by first building a calendar for all the activities happening throughout the year and from there build a rolling 90-day content calendar. .

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

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Retail Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Fundraising 130

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 20, 2021

Within those keys, there are 60+ activities and skills that we’ve included in our recommended professional development plans. Key 4: Communications Channel Management. Key 5: Brand Consistency and Reputation Management. Key 8: Productivity, Relationships, and Boundaries. Key 7: Visual Content Skills and Creation.

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Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Management 322

Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

If you feel like you have too much to do and aren’t getting enough done, you need to increase your nonprofit productivity. If you want to be more productive and get more done without working 24/7, you have to change your habits. If you want to be more productive and get more done without working 24/7, you have to change your habits.

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Production Nonprofits Management Collaborations 124

Affnetz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Key Reasons to Utilize Task Management Software / By Mike Crum In the dynamic world of nonprofit organizations, staying organized and focused on our mission is paramount. Task management software has emerged as an invaluable asset in our journey towards making a meaningful impact.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2025

While my manager and I would both recommend discontinuing the practice, this feels more like a judgment call than a best practices thing. The time and care required to develop our listings is manageable/not manageable. Especially if it opens up that time for more high-yielding fundraising and donor retention activities.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

These traditional approaches often include set and inflexible timelines, budgets, and activities designed by donors who are removed from the local context. Productization makes the product the end instead of a means. Productization encourages funders to focus less on the challenge they seek to fund and more on how they fund it.

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Finance Production Governance Poverty 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Historically, these resources have only materialized when countries have achieved massive expansions of economic productivity and opportunity. The empirical record is clear.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 12, 2025

For example, a YMCA manager might serve on the board of a girls science program, or a museum staffer might serve on the board of a community theater. Managers and executives who serve on boards of other organizations learn more about how boards can work, through both positive and negative examples. But dont stop there!

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Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism Public and Nonprofit Management 114

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fundraising productivity is not just about how much you can get done to raise money. It’s about being strategic and focusing on the RIGHT activities. I doubt that’s what you want, so let’s look at 12 hacks that can keep you focused, save you time, and increase your fundraising productivity. 12 Fundraising Productivity Hacks 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

Technology vendors and service providers have long touted that traditional CRM (Constituent Relationship Management) systems were the end-all-be-all for every organization, assuming that nonprofits will simply follow along. This complexity diverts valuable time, energy, and resources away from mission-critical activities.

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Nonprofit Administration and Development Technology Collaborations Production 87

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 8, 2024

If you can plug some of those leaks, you can reclaim time that you can use for more productive activities, like generating revenue for your nonprofit. So, here’s a better way to manage email: Keep it closed instead of opened during most of the day. Read here for ways to keep yours yawn free and productive.

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Production Nonprofits Energy Management 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 15, 2025

Much less has been written about the complexities, risks, and even drawbacks of co-leadership, and about howwith these considerations in mindboards and executives can anticipate and manage problems that may arise. If this is not yet the case, staff and board should be actively working to create that balance.

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Leadership Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Construction 122

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Encourage team-building activities that foster understanding and collaboration. Use recruiting tools to streamline the hiring process and employee management platforms to boost productivity. Digital onboarding platforms can ease the transition for new hires, while project management software keeps teams organized.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Culture Recruitment Insurance 98

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members. I can onboard them to the processes of nonprofit management, strategic planning, and the like, but they must each be willing to step up into actual leadership and not passive rubber-stamping. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.

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Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 116

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 14, 2022

It would be nice if all that communications staff needed were more training in time management and personal productivity. I’m working on a new webinar we’ll premiere on May 5 called Peaceful Time Management and Productivity for Nonprofit Communicators. But it’s simply not true. All of that is b t. ).

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Bloomerang

MARCH 28, 2025

For example, a program might be producing a high volume of impressive-sounding activities, but actual impact and results could be lagging far behind. For example, many nonprofits are slow to invest in donor and contact management systems , instead wasting time trying to make old software or spreadsheets work.

Fundraising 90

Fundraising Fundraising Leadership Management 90

NonProfit Leadership Center

JUNE 3, 2024

According to research from the Project Management Institute, the biggest predictor of a project’s success — or failure — is communication. Their report found that project managers should spend 90% of their time on communications to ensure a project’s success, and up to 56% of revenue could be lost due to poor communication.

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Communication Culture Cultural Diversity Nonprofit Leadership 234

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. The hub will educate and guide tenants to manage or own their own housing and support various resident and community governance structures.

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Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 29, 2025

Clothing production contributes to rampant pollution, from microplastics clogging water systems to carbon emissions and toxic chemicals used in textile processing. Fashion schools largely concentrate on longstanding methods of design and production, often sidelining sustainability to elective courses or specialized programs.

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Education Education Environmental Ethics 69

Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front. Nonprofits use donor management software or a donor database to organize their donor data and ensure its accuracy. Let’s get started.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2023

Pet product sales: Create and sell pet products such as branded T-shirts, mugs, or toys, with the proceeds going to support your animal-related cause. Activities and entertainment: Plan activities and entertainment that are related to the fundraiser and will engage attendees. Plan the logistics.

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Fundraising Fundraising Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 246

The Killoe Group

APRIL 28, 2025

Your participant portal is the website landing page where your peer-to-peer participants manage their fundraising and find resources to help them support your campaign or event. Most peer-to-peer fundraising software products offer some form of participant portal functionality. Make the most of your participant portal.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

When enough mutualist networks and organizations are active, you may even wind up with an ecosysteman abundance of shared resources, experience, social capital, and financing, both centralized and grassroots, all sustaining projects serving a wide variety of community needs. Today, Northern Italys co-op sector has gross revenues of about $6.1

Nonprofit governance and management 125

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Insurance Social Enterprise 125

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Take steps to ensure that AI-generated content is not, for instance, registered with the Copyright Office as your organizations own unless it has been sufficiently modified to become a product of human creation and an original work of authorship of the association. is managing partner of the Tenenbaum Law Group PLLC, in Washington, D.C.

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Race and Ethnicity Insurance Nonprofit governance and management Associations 98

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 10, 2023

However, volunteers can quickly become another challenge for your event team if you don’t know how to effectively recruit and manage them. Actively market event volunteering opportunities. Actively market event volunteering opportunities. Let’s begin! If that’s not possible, make sure to note it for the future.

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Recruitment Nonprofits Management Activism 246

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 11, 2023

Right now, you can only post Stories via the app or using a social media manager like Hootsuite or Buffer. Some Story Stats: There are over 500 million active daily Instagram Stories users. Instagram Stories are used by 36% of businesses to promote their products. 70% of Instagram users watch stories daily.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

AUGUST 29, 2023

Develop Time Management Strategies Nonprofit professionals often juggle numerous responsibilities simultaneously. Effective time management can reduce stress and significantly improve productivity. Your kindness will extend well beyond your reach!

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, if you’re holding a charity golf fundraiser , you could approach sporting goods stores, wealth management firms, banks, or fitness centers as sponsors. Connecting in this way helps lay the foundation for a productive sponsor relationship and long-term support. The good news for busy nonprofit event organizers?

Fundraising 246

Fundraising Fundraising Management Nonprofit Leadership 246

Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

That’s where volunteer management software comes in. Volunteer management software is a tool that nonprofits can use to better organize their volunteers by handling everything from scheduling to ongoing communication. Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication.

Management 104

Management Recruitment Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 104

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

With a comprehensive fundraising platform , organizations can manage and run an exciting digital auction. Let’s explore how to manage your prize items so they make an impact in your next online silent auction : 1) Choose Prizes to Suit Your Audience When selecting items, it’s crucial to keep your audience in mind.

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Ann Green

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Check out these six innovative ideas that focus on your nonprofit’s relationship with your donors: Brand t-shirts and products. Brand t-shirts and products. Low-cost product fundraisers are an effective way to entice donors to give without breaking your budget. Strategize with social media. Host a thank-a-thon. Upcycled artwork.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. Between 2014 and 2022 alone, assets under management in the CDFI sector expanded more than sevenfold. billion in assets by 2022.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

One common issue is the use of multiple, disconnected tools and systems for managing donor and volunteer relationships, events, communications, and more. Enter an all-in-one nonprofit donor relationship management system (DMS), like Bloomerang. Event management tools: To organize and promote events, from church services to fundraisers.

Management 115

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 10, 2024

We need to align our strategies, so we’re not just busy but actually productive and impactful. Incorporating fun activities and team-building exercises can enhance camaraderie and make collaborative efforts more enjoyable and successful. Seven No-Fail Strategies for Smoother Teamwork Start with a Shared Vision.

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Collaborations Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Marketing 236

iMarketSmart

MAY 19, 2025

In a sales environment, the focus is often on objection handling, urgency, product-market fit. In fundraising, however, the product is a vision. In fact, research from Dr. Russell James shows that when donors make major gifts, their brains activate the same areas involved in emotional empathy and self-identity. A mission.

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