The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 18, 2024

The tax treatment of private foundations and endowments, long relegated to the wastelands of Washington policy debate, is poised to gain visibility through the Republican vice presidential nominee. By Alex Daniels Carolyn Kaster/AP Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio has made his opposition to endowed wealth and the power wielded by progressive philanthropies a part of his political identity.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2024

Market research is part of the secret sauce for nonprofits' success. Here's how it can help your organization amplify its impact.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 18, 2024

While making medical school free is a worthy endeavor, to truly transform health care, Bloomberg needs to think bigger. By Amy Schiller Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg’s $1 billion gift to Johns Hopkins Medical School guarantees the money goes where it’s needed most, but it also ensures education remains a commodity. Students are still consumers paying for a service.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2024

Data degrades about 2% per month, meaning your database could become a frightening place filled with stale, duplicated and unusable data. Melissa can help you reconnect with lost donors, deduplicate your database, and reduce fraud by making sure your data is up to date and accurate. Just send us 50 contact records, and we can show you how we can cleanse, append and enrich your data.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 18, 2024

By Kathleen Boyle & Tracy L. McFerrin In SSIR ’s Winter 2024 issue, we authored an article advocating for the philanthropic sector to become more intentional with its relationship building, because trust-rich relationships in the social sphere can be transformative in problem-solving. We put forward three recommendations to help realize this goal of “ relational philanthropy ”: 1) commitment to fostering meaningful relationships centered on “we” vs “us/them”; 2) instituting practices that pr

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2024

SureImpact Nonprofit is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to enhance nonprofits' efficiency and data-driven decision-making.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2024

PHLYSense is a 24/7 property monitoring and alert solution. Organizations get real-time alerts if water is detected, or temperatures reach a hazardous level. The program includes sensors and 24/7 monitoring and support all at no-cost to policyholders with property coverage.

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Clairification

JULY 18, 2024

While you no doubt want more donors of all sizes, you especially want loyal donors who make above average size gifts. Because that’s where you’ll get the greatest return on your investment. Today, let’s talk about major donors. Why? They account for the lion’s share of all contributed income. Studies show over 88% of all funds raised come from just 12% of donors.

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Jeff Brooks

JULY 18, 2024

Everyone wants innovation. Because things could be better. And every innovation creates the need for more innovation. Fall asleep on the job, and you could find yourself caught in a trap. I recently came across a wonderful article in Mental Floss that tells us a thing or two about real-world innovation: The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE. In the spring of 1981, a programmer named David Bradley was working on IBM’s personal computer project.

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TakeTwo Services

JULY 18, 2024

July 2024 marks 13 years since Stephanie and I started TakeTwo! In honor of our “baby” becoming a teenager, I wrote down 13 reasons I love my not-job, to share with our BIPOC consultant friends at Constellation. Here are those reasons, re-posted from the Constellation blog. Within a year of starting TakeTwo in 2011, I instinctively knew I’d never go back to working a traditional job.* Since then, I’ve thanked my lucky stars countless times for choosing this route, but I’ve rarely sto

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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 Quarterly

JULY 18, 2024

Image credit: Brocken Inaglory on Wikimedia “I wish it was someone else that was here talking about my contact burn and not myself,” 71-year-old Robert Woolley, a retired teacher and Navy fighter pilot told a news channel in Arizona. Woolley was recovering from second-degree burns he received in early July when he lost his balance and fell in his backyard.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 18, 2024

In the wake of the shooting at Saturday's Trump rally, Tim Dixon talks about the work of More in Common, which he co-founded after the murder of British politician Jo Cox, a close friend. By Drew Lindsay Dan Kitwood, Getty Images A memorial event at London’s Trafalger Square for Jo Cox, a member of British Parliament murdered in 2016 a week before Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.

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