Thu.May 22, 2025

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Say It Simply — So Donors Feel It Deeply

NonProfit PRO

If grant cutbacks, contract cancellations or something else are causing you to hunker down, resist. Tell your supporters plain and simple how they can help.

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Don’t Shut It Down, Bill! Why the Gates Foundation Should Outlive Its Endowment.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Bill Gates is right to accelerate giving but wrong to close one of the most effective private funding institutions on the planet. By Buzz Schmidt Gates Foundation Bill Gates is right to accelerate giving but wrong to close one of the most effective private funding institutions on the planet.

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Choosing the Right Nonprofit CRM – Here’s Your Roadmap

NonProfit PRO

Choosing the right software can make or break your nonprofits success. Our Nonprofit Software Buyers Guide walks you through the must-ask questions to ensure you invest in a solution that saves time, maximizes fundraising, and drives long-term impact.

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Small Gifts, Big Impact: Micro-Giving Strategies for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. “I want to help, but where do I even start?” It’s often the unspoken question lurking behind the hesitation to give. All day, we scroll past dire headlines and encounter fundraising appeals about competing crises, then ultimately freeze or turn away.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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.

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Hatch Announces AI-Powered Donor Scoring and Insights

NonProfit PRO

Hatch launched its AI-powered donor scoring and insights engine to offer precision, transparency and strategy for nonprofit fundraising.

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Balancing Trick: You. Donor. Nonprofit.

Clairification

When the world feels wildly out of whack, it’s time to figure out how to bring things back into some semblance of balance. Today I share a proven 1-2-3 formula for nonprofit fundraising success — even when the ground underneath feels shaky. This is a time when keeping one’s balance is quite a challenge.But, if you use this formula, you can steady yourself, right your organizational ship, and bring meaning, purpose and joy to others in your community who share your values.

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Urban Development Needs Systems Thinking

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Yaera Chung , Ievgen Kylymnyk & Svetla Baeva More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) continue to grapple with economic stagnation, aging infrastructure, and environmental degradation while also facing new pressures from climate change and regional conflicts. In this context, traditional city planning, which tackles problems in isolation, is struggling to keep up.

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Block, Bridge, and Build: A Framework to Forge a More Democratic Future

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Western North Carolina Outdoors We are living through a period of upheaval. In this world of uncertainty, one thing is clear: The need for coordinated, collective action is urgent. Recently, the people at Convergence Magazine developed a very useful framework called Block and Build. Others in the solidarity economy movement have offered a similar framework called Resist and Build.

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Trump's Anti-DEI Battle Threatens Nonprofits Trying to Fill Critical Labor Gaps

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

For groups whose mission involves providing services to historically marginalized communities, Trump administration executive orders pose an existential threat. By Claire Savage and Alexandra Olson, Associated Press Erin Hooley, AP photo Carol Otarola practices caulking during an Ironworkers Local 63 pre-apprenticeship class in Broadview, Ill. The Trump administration has moved to cut off federal funding to community groups that provide apprenticeship-readiness programs designed for women.

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Boston Groups Come Together to Face the “Existential Threat” to Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Sharon Sinclair via Flickr On May 5, more than 1200 people gathered for a forum convened by the Boston Foundation called The Shifting Federal Landscape: Massachusetts Nonprofits Raise the Alarm. This was a record turnout for the groupa clear indicator of nonprofit leaders sense of urgency in the current political moment. During the convening, speakers made clear that the threats are real, but they also indicated that work is actively being done to combat them.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

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.

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Nonprofit News Media Leaders Are Struggling to Stop Leaning on the Foundations That Say They Should Branch Out More

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ono Kosuki on Pexels This article was republished with permission from The Conversation. Youve probably heard the adage about not putting all your eggs in one basket. Its an especially meaningful one for newspapers. For decades, they relied heavily on advertising revenue. That arrangement stopped working about 20 years ago, as audiences moved online and advertisers followed.