The Chronicle of Philanthropy
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Media-literacy instruction should be a requirement in schools. For philanthropy, that means stepping up support of nonpartisan legislative advocacy. By Charles Salter To build a future founded on facts, more states and school districts need to make media-literacy instruction a requirement. For philanthropy, that means stepping up support of nonpartisan legislative advocacy.
Ann Green
OCTOBER 12, 2023
I’ve been emphasizing the importance of personalizing your communication lately. One way to do that is to segment your donors. Your donors are not the same. Some donors have given for at least five years (these donors should get a lot of attention). Some are monthly donors. Yet, nonprofit organizations fail to recognize that and send everyone the same messages.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
OCTOBER 12, 2023
To appeal to a new generation of donors, the Brooklyn Community Foundation is renaming itself Brooklyn Org. By Alex Daniels To appeal to a new generation of donors, the Brooklyn Community Foundation is renaming itself Brooklyn Org.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Did you know every nonprofit using any one of the 250+ services available from Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a dedicated account manager? Your account manager is a free resource available to help you activate the full suite of experts and resources available throughout Amazon. Meet your account manager today!
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.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
OCTOBER 12, 2023
You make a lot of content. That’s what communications staff do. But are you using that content well? Are you fully implementing a content marketing strategy? To go from plain ol’ content to content marketing, you need to do two things: First, put that content into a format people will find attractive and relevant. Second, use that content to further your nonprofit’s marketing objectives.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Being a nonprofit leader is different than being a leader in the private sector. The role comes with a unique set of challenges, and even more rewards. Amazon understands that, and established a team dedicated to serving the unique needs of nonprofit leaders. From storage to AI to security to digital experience, the team at AWS for Nonprofits is obsessed with understanding your challenges, and helping you solve for them.
Nonprofit Leadership Zone brings together the best content for advertising professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Over the past three decades, Amazon has developed principles and mechanisms to accelerate innovation – and both are available to support nonprofits in advancing mission impact. If your organization is interested utilizing one of Amazon’s proven mechanisms to build a culture of innovation, let us know and we’ll help you translate your vision into a plan for action!
Amy Eisenstein
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Amy, thank you for your insightful post. As you said this is now more than just a Jewish issue, it’s a humanitarian concern. The horrors inflicted by Hamas harken back to Nazi Germany, and 9/11 in a different context. Your “ to do” list is spot on and I appreciate that you took the time to craft this post.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Customer obsession – one of Amazon’s central leadership principals. Customer obsession means starting with those you serve and working backwards to meet their ever-increasing expectations. The expectations of todays supporters, beneficiaries, and stakeholders are requiring organizations to raise the bar on the experiences they deliver. In support of our customers, the team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Nonprofits is dedicated to helping nonprofits innovate to meet those expectations.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Image credit: Photo by Amaan Ali on Unsplash What does California have in common with Maharashtra—a western Indian state located halfway across the globe? Besides being home to two of the most prolific movie industries in the world, both states are also experiencing climate change in the extreme, their plight exacerbated by water theft. While California was ravaged by wildfires and droughts in recent years, Maharashtra has experienced droughts and successive heat waves for over a decade.
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.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Whether you’re in marketing, fundraising, HR or IT, every nonprofit that uses even one of the 250+ services available from Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an account manager – a free resource to help you navigate the full suite of experts and resources available at AWS and Amazon. Meet your account manager today!
Top Nonprofits
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Picture this: As the new year begins, you review your nonprofit’s year-end donation revenue and realize you’ve fallen short of your projected fundraising goals. As fundraising reports have shown , end-of-year donations can account for up to 22% of a nonprofit’s total annual fundraising, meaning potential shortfalls can impact your programs for the rest of the year.
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 12, 2023
There is something wrong with the world that is infecting social good. Our social connections are weak. The solution is to rebuild communities. Here are the strategic steps to building a constituent community.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The Power Of Organic Search: How SEO Services Drive Sustainable Growth In today’s digital world, where information flows freely and rapidly, visibility is everything. For businesses aiming to make a mark, ensuring their online presence is recognized, respected, and easily found is paramount. Enter the realm of search engine optimization ( SEO ).
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Fundraising Coach
OCTOBER 12, 2023
As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of filing Form 990 in a timely and accurate manner. After all, your status as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization depends on it. However, did you know that you can gain valuable insights about your nonprofit from your Form 990 that can help you obtain donors ? You just need to know where to look!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The crisis demands intense, pressure-packed effort, yet the horrifying violence is hitting close to home. By Drew Lindsay Amir Levy, Getty Images Family and friends of May Naim, 24, who was murdered by Palestinians militants at the “Supernova” festival, near the Israeli border with Gaza strip, react during her funeral on October 11, 2023 in Gan Haim, Israel.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 12, 2023
By Nicholas Lalla When you think about pioneering hubs of technological innovation, Oklahoma may not be the first place that comes to mind. But thanks to nearly $75 million in federal funding, Oklahoma City and Tulsa are building emerging tech clusters that promise to catalyze inclusive growth and strengthen American competitiveness. A little more than a year ago, President Joe Biden announced the winners of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge (BBBRC/the Challenge).
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Effective Lifecycle Email Marketing for Nonprofits (Strategies + Examples) Do you want to gain more email subscribers for your nonprofit organization and keep these supporters giving again and again? Email doesn’t have to be complicated. Follow these tips below. Email marketing is an effective tool for nonprofits. While many might try to argue that email marketing is dead, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Speaker: Dave Sackett
Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 12, 2023
By Shruti Jayaraman For as long as data have been collected in the United States, they have shown disparities in birth outcomes. In the US medical system, if a baby is Black, she is more than twice as likely to die as a white baby, regardless of her mother’s investment in education or prenatal care. For an Indigenous baby, the probability is only slightly lower.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Image Credit: Photo by Eric Bjork on Unsplash Community partnership is one of the most potent actions against climate change. Collaboration among community members, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and local governments allows resources to flow where they’re needed and is a powerful way to help address race and climate inequities. Such a partnership is mobilizing the community and addressing climate effects in Bucksport, a small coastal town in the Lowcountry region of South Ca
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
OCTOBER 12, 2023
10 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Website Try to type “coffee” in Google search and check how many results you get; over three billion results compete for the first page in SERP and desired traffic. And you are also competing in the same terms, striving to push your results higher and drive website traffic. But how do you do it? What are your strategies for targeting relevant keywords ?
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios , and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia emerges from a subway station reading Where We Stand: Class Matters.) SAPHIA: I have very good reason to believe that bell hooks was anti cancel culture. (Shots of New York City.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Alan Dettlaff is a University of Houston professor of social work and former social worker whose new book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System , written with several collaborators, argues for abolishing the American child welfare system, especially its routine practice of the forced separation from their parents of as many as 200,000 children per year.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Image credit: Liderina on istock.com Further reading: In a conversation with NPQ , Dettlaff elaborates on why he wrote the book; why he and his coauthors advocate for an abolitionist stance toward the US child welfare system; and what being an abolitionist means within the context of ensuring American children’s wellbeing. For many, the Trump-era immigration policy of family separation marked one of the darkest points for US policies in recent decades.
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