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Thursday and Friday: Watch ComNet Keynotes on A.I., Black Voters Matter, and More

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The Chronicle is livestreaming keynote sessions from ComNet23, the Communications Network annual gathering in Atlanta. Getty Images The Chronicle is livestreaming keynote sessions from ComNet23, the Communications Network annual gathering, on Thursday and Friday.

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Download the #GivingTuesday Ultimate Guide

NonProfit PRO

Giving Tuesday is right around the corner—are you prepared? Get ahead of the competition and create your most successful campaign ever with the #GivingTuesday Ultimate Guide eBook! Download the eBook to receive helpful tips and tricks for planning and sending communications, social and email messaging templates, a sample project calendar, examples of successful campaigns from other nonprofits, and more.

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Latino Charitable Giving Rates Drop Sharply — but That’s Not the Full Story

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Donations to established nonprofits are sliding, but Hispanic households give to people in need at high rates. By Kay Dervishi Donations to established nonprofits are sliding, but Hispanic households give to people in need at high rates.

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Inside the Weird, Magical World of Matching Donations

NonProfit PRO

Today, many nonprofits offer to match individual donations. Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of matching gifts.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Advanced Email Engagement for Nonprofits: Use Zero-Party Data

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

If you’re interested in improving your nonprofit’s email engagement, you might try a lot of tactics, like Playing with your subject lines Switching up the sender’s name Including photos or videos in the email body Adding more links or buttons for readers to click on Creating a mobile-first email template Adding an email welcome series Adding an email re-engagement campaign While all these ideas are great suggestions, one approach beats them all.

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Beyond the snowflake report: A case against financial and outcomes accounting tailored to individual donors and funders

Non Profit AF

[Image description: A closeup of a beautiful and intricate snowflake, clear in color, perching on some ice crystals.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. None of the studies were written by ourselves. With one exception, the authors were from the Global South and thus familiar with the local context.

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Send Year End Tax Documentation in Minutes!

Bloomerang

Tax season can be daunting for nonprofits. Coordinating year-end tax documentation takes precious time—sometimes months. But with our Tax Summaries feature, you can effortlessly email acknowledgments to all constituents in minutes. While the IRS requires that donations of $250 or more be acknowledged , it’s a good practice to acknowledge gifts of all sizes.

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AI and the Omni-Channel Marketing Ecosystem: A Comprehensive Guide

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AI and the Omni-Channel Marketing Ecosystem: A Comprehensive Guide In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are facing the challenge of reaching customers across a multitude of channels and devices. Omni-channel marketing has emerged as a strategy that enables brands to engage with their audience seamlessly across various touchpoints.

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Change Resistance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By James Shulman An excerpt from The Synthetic University on how mission-driven, market-supported entrepreneurial organizations can transform higher education

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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The Essentials of Data Science & Role of Data Science Companies

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

The Essentials of Data Science & Role of Data Science Companies Understanding Data Science Data science is a dynamic discipline that fuses mathematics, specialized programming, AI , and machine learning to uncover actionable insights from vast amounts of data. This practice is vital for making informed decisions and strategic planning. With the exponential growth in data sources, data science has become a pivotal domain in every industry.

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Tracking Your Progress: 7 Essential Nonprofit KPIs

Care2

Picture this: Your nonprofit has just finished creating its strategic plan for the next two years. After assessing your organization’s current state and soliciting feedback from your donors, volunteers, board members, and staff, you’ve outlined multiple goals to work toward. Over the next few months, you get started on a few of your goals, making headway here and there.

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3 Reasons to Join #50WomenCan Change the World in Entrepreneurship

Fundraising Leadership

Cut to the chase: Are you a female entrepreneur? Take The Lead has an incredible opportunity for you to get the mindset, skillset, and connections to scale your business. (And get a $10,000 value program for pennies!) Apply NOW - Start 9/27 to get "jet fuel for your business." (If that’s not you, please forward this to entrepreneurs you know who can benefit.

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Child Care Is a National Emergency

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Parents in the United States work two jobs: powering our economy through paid labor and building our country’s future by raising children. But child care is more expensive than ever, and the federal government hasn’t done enough to support families, especially working mothers. Now more than ever, families bear the brunt of the economic burden.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash We live in an age of rising inequality, climate emergency, authoritarian regimes, and widespread unhappiness. What do these crises have in common? They all stem from our current economic and political order, which is built on insecurity. This month, movement leader and intellectual Astra Taylor will be delivering the Massey Lectures, a series of five talks across Canada aired on CBC Radio, on her new book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as