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Keeping the Dream Team: Unleashing the Power of Employee Retention in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Written by: Michael Ash, Ma, CNP, PCM, PMP Reading Time: 5 minutes In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations face unprecedented challenges, from transitioning to remote work models to addressing economic hardships, new challenges in fundraising, and community struggles.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Collaboration between social work professionals, technical engineers, and communities is essential to developing AI systems that are ethical, unbiased, and aligned with social work values and human rights principles. During this time, I gained valuable experience in operations management, sales, marketing, and leadership.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

This then permits questions that: Connect the donor’s identity (history, people, and values) with the cause, the charity, or the project [ Original Identity → Challenge ] Define a personally meaningful victory [ Victory → Enhanced Identity ], and Make a challenge that promises the victory [Challenge → Victory ]. What does this look like?

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3 Big Reasons Why An ‘Ask’ Is Mostly About Your Donor’s Hero Story (Not Your Organization’s)

iMarketSmart

The effective ask presents: A crisis (threat or opportunity) for the donor’s people or values. For a human rights charity, it increased donations to mention that it “works in countries that have recently passed laws that harshly restrict nonprofit organizations.”[9]. But this must be a crisis for the donor’s people or values.

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What Dr. James means when he recommends you harness the power of storytelling in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

Because they provide value. Big money comes by providing big value. Other professions provide value in different ways. A charity can provide value to many people in many ways. But fundraising provides value to the donor in just one way: identity enhancement. 2] It might be external, public, and commercial.

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

121) is of limited value without insights or examples of precisely how this can be achieved.”[4] It might have clever advertising. Transactional behavior in charities I often share research findings with nonprofit groups. A frustrated manager interrupted, “But I just want their money. 4] So, what exactly do we do?

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How to Reduce the ‘Cost’ of Philanthropy So Major Donors Give More

iMarketSmart

framed appeals do not differ significantly on persuasiveness in charity advertising.”. A compelling challenge forces a decision, In response to a threat or opportunity for the donor’s people or values, and. With the promise of a victory for the donor’s people or values. Journal of Public Economics, 148, 32-42. [4]