Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JULY 8, 2013

Givers excel in a collaborate work environment, but can burn out easily if they don’t see the impact of their contributions or don’t learn how to set boundaries. Here are Adam’s 4 tips for creating a cultures of successful givers at your organization. Have everyone participating make a request. Reduce costs. Here’s how.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

Last week, we shared that we found in the 2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report that a majority of nonprofits said they did more communications planning (63%) and that the level of internal collaboration on the communications workload went up (57%) as a result of the pandemic. We refer to this spectrum as CALM not BUSY.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 4, 2024

Chapters Deepening Understanding of Organisational Dynamics Success in HR hinges on a profound understanding of the complex interplay between organisational culture and employee behaviour. To remain relevant and effective, HR professionals need to keep abreast of current theories and practices within the field.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 4, 2023

Today, organizations and society have an unprecedented opportunity to honor and support the leadership of women of color, and to transform the culture and systems within which all Americans live. This prolonged stress often results in burnout—the exhaustion of physical or emotional strength, or motivation.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2021, for example, the technology company Tencent, which supports nonprofits in various fields as part of its CSR practice, collaborated with D-Lab to recruit a small team of data annotators with physical disabilities. Changing prevailing cultural narratives is challenging but necessary, and people like Meihao Pan are leading the way.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Host interactive events: Consider organizing interactive events where participants need to work together to solve a puzzle or mystery. Organize themed gatherings: Hosting themed gatherings that align with current trends or pop culture can capture the attention of both your traditional donor base and younger supporters.

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Sweet! by BlueSky

MARCH 6, 2021

Event participants and teams need goals. Goals always help people stay motivated. Make the fundraising part of your event your focus, not registration fees to create a fundraising culture. Fundraisers are more engaged participants and supporters of your organization. Have goals and display your progress. Have a deadline.

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Fundraising Leadership

OCTOBER 3, 2022

To speak at The Women’s Collaborative We Mean Business Conference, the brainchild of its organizer Sharon Jackson , I had to fly from Phoenix to San Juan. While there were participants and speakers from all over the U. They definitely mean business: entrepreneurial, visionary, and collaborative. And the beach was spectacular.

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Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Thank you for your support and participation in our work for intersectional gender parity in leadership. There were plenty of external barriers to be sure, but we also had to confront the culturally learned barriers in our own heads that were holding us back. So how are we doing? I was getting stuck and not realizing my own value.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 2, 2024

Your staff members will appreciate your commitment to their career goals and feel more motivated to apply new skills to their roles. Nurture a culture of learning in your workplace by inviting employees to host lunch and learn sessions. Lunch and learn sessions.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Rationales for Community Ownership While motivations for pursuing community ownership of land vary, there are some common elements. To participate, community members can purchase an ownership share in the enterprise, contingent on completing an eight-hour financial education course.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A 2015 Randomized Controlled Trial showed that participants reported increased quality of life in 60 percent of cases and reduced suicidal ideation in 80 percent of cases. These range from arts, cultural and heritage activities, financial guidance, physical activity, and nature experiences, each of which fosters social connections.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

By Phil Buchanan , Alyse d’Amico & Leaha Wynn Organizational performance depends on thoughtful policies and practices with respect to employees and culture. Often, culture is simply neglected. We have come to believe in six people and culture approaches that in many respects go against the grain.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. We can lead with justice toward a climate-resilient system that values everyone.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Rather, it shifts into a different sort of navigation: the too-common experience of being a Native person in a healthcare system that is mostly unaware of the historical trauma and cultural traditions that infuse the birth experience of Native people. Native people make up over 6 percent of Humboldt’s total population, compared to just 1.3

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To reach the communities we serve, collaboration between sectors was not only ideal but essential. At our meeting, he agreed to provide us with monthly funding, national NGO status, and my residency, as well as facilitating necessary collaborations with the Department of Education and municipal government. NGOs Depend on Each Other.

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Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 13, 2023

Fabulous,” is a wild understatement, but I can’t find the words to describe the beauty and thoughtful design of a city that is modern but in integrity with the ancient culture in which it sits. I couldn’t resist putting forth this bit of Intentioning at the Abrahamic Center, a collaboration of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian faiths.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

In other words, companies are benefiting from a culture of using data to make decisions. This important work has uncovered real barriers: lack of investment capital, lack of internal capacity, cultural barriers, lack of technology innovation, limited access to data scientists, and more. One explanation could be the role of data.

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Getting Attention

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

You know it’s likely to hurt, rather than help, build relationships with prospective supporters and participants. I was transparent about all of this, and it was a good motivator. This makes perfect sense to me, as is or slightly revised to fit the culture and personalities in your organization. Please share here.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

He named his initiative Sekem and created a conglomerate of organizations that today enable a broad range of economic, social, educational, and cultural activities in a beautiful and safe environment. Nussbaum’s framework is not a flawless template.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

MAY 6, 2023

Creating an effective board culture: To be successful, the board must have a culture of transparency, trust, and collaboration. One of the most valuable aspects of Nonprofit Sustainability is its focus on creating a culture of financial sustainability within an organization.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today, we face racially redlined access to midwifery that reflects our nation’s deeply racist political, economic, and cultural history. Obstetrics is the dominant maternal health practice, while cultural narratives overshadow the Black herstory of midwifery with one that is white, wealthy, and/or alternative/“crunchy.”.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

26 Even so, Isabelle Moses, Faith in Action’s chief of staff, explained that, after Reed left, it required “a comprehensive effort to transform the culture of the national staff team through self-examination around race and gender” that lasted more than three years. In the 1970s, that number fell to 0.78 In the 1980s, it fell to 0.29

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. These are often people of color, and no matter how capable and well-prepared, they are often set up to fail.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 19, 2023

By Elikem Tomety Archer & Jessica Harrington In 2017, as part of her participation in the youth leadership program Global Citizen Year , Dora—an 18-year-old from Huntington Beach, California—spent seven months in Thiadiaye, Senegal. But this often presumes that the participant has power that the community lacks.

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EveryAction

JULY 18, 2018

A great fundraising plan is one that both serves as a blueprint, but also offers this information through the lens of your nonprofit’s culture, mission, and values from beginning to end. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process.

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 19, 2022

22] “Did you participate in any activities while a student?”[23] Values underlying giving motivations. 62] “What’s motivated you to be such a consistent supporter [of this charity]?”[63] 70] “When you think about programs such as ours, what motivates you to support them?”[71] 20] “What’s your favorite place on campus?”[21]

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Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 23, 2020

People are motivated by goals. Does your team now use collaboration or project management software that has made you more efficient? Do you have functioning committees with charters and ample participation from your community? Have you been reaching people of different languages, cultures, customs, religions, and races?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Her care for Black babies and their families is culturally centered, celebrating tradition and responding directly to anti-Black racism. As discussed above, this understanding motivates us as funders to leave behind familiar but limited, single-point perspectives and work from a more whole and systemic picture.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Increasingly, that conversation is turning to reparations for Black people and building a culture of racial repair as the missing link. For funders who believe in racial equity and aspire to a thriving multiracial democracy, we invite you to see reparations for Black people and building a culture of repair as a necessity to reach that goal.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Participation is the path to learning. And I wanted to say one more thing, which is that I am generally when I do teaching and training, I am always paying attention to the expressions on participant’s faces. If we did everything we wanted to do, had an unlimited amount of time, money and collaboration with other partners.

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