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Newsletter: Join Me at Corporate Partnerships Everywhere ; A Vape Company Donating to a Cancer Cause? ACS Says They’re High ; 20 Alternatives to ‘Please See Attached’

Selfish Giving

I'm excited to join Corporate Partnerships Everywhere (CPE23) once again! This year's theme is putting charities in the driving seat of corporate partnerships. I ❤️ that. ?? Here are four reasons why you should join me at CPE23 on March 16th. ? Corporate partnerships are everywhere now. They are no longer just local or regional, or national. THEY ARE INTERNATIONAL.

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How Florida’s Stop WOKE Act Impacts Nonprofits, Part 2

NonProfit PRO

In part one, I described the difficulties nonprofits are facing trying to comply with the Stop WOKE Act. Now let’s take a deeper look into what complying with this law means for nonprofits with employees doing business in the state — discussing everything from human resources to donor relations.

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Removing cost as a barrier to nonprofit training 

Candid

At Candid, we recognize that nonprofit leaders and fundraising professionals, particularly those working at small or under-resourced organizations, need access to the nonprofit training and resources that equip them to do good. As Candid moves to more proactively promote equity in the broader social sector, we also continue to reflect on what our own role might be in supporting that effort.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

After seven years of kitchen-table and Zoom organizing, a multi-stakeholder, cooperative, community-owned grocery store is taking shape in Louisville, KY. In October, the metro council of Louisville’s combined city-county government voted to allocate $3.5 million to help make a co-op grocery a reality. There are still many steps to take. The grocery store has over 600 member-owners; we need more.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 75: When Is It Time to Switch to a New Nonprofit Technology Solution?

NonProfit PRO

Beth Fisher of Mel Trotter Ministries and Fisher Strategic join The NonProfit Voice to discuss her organization’s journey of selecting and implementing new technology to improve workflows and be more efficient with donor communications.

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4-Day Workweek Major Study Released: It works!

Nonprofit Fixer

The Complete Guide to Implementing a Four-Day Workweek Wall Street Journal, AP, NPR and other news outlets are covering the new results of studies on the Four-Day Workweek. The Four-Day Workweek had quite a news cycle. New research has been released showing how successful and popular the program is. 92% of companies who tried it, will keep using it, citing better morale, retention, and results.

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How Leaders Can Let Go of Control

Veritus Group

Becoming an effective leader requires letting go of the need to control and trusting others to get things done. Here's how. The post How Leaders Can Let Go of Control appeared first on Veritus Group.

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The Best Thing Nonprofits Can Do on Social Media Right Now

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

To be successful on social media, it’s crucial to prioritize… well, being “social”. In fact, if you don’t plan on consistently engaging with your audience, it’s best to stay off social media altogether. If at this point, you’re mumbling under your breathe “Okay, Captain Obvious”, that’s fair, but are you really sure of what it takes to “engage”?

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5 Key Strategies for Sustainable Fundraising Success to Really Smile About!

NonProfit PRO

Should you be worried about the shutdown of Amazon Smile? Nope. There are actually way better, sustainable fundraising success strategies to really smile about, whether or not your nonprofit organization participated in the program. Join Barbara O’Reilly, CFRE, and other fundraising experts, for a highly interactive, panel conversation webinar, on Thursday, March 30th at 2pm ET, to learn how to not only easily replace this revenue stream, but to wildly surpass your overall fundraising goals.

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Donors Leery of Supporting Grassroots Organizing Need to Rethink How They Approach Such Work

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Ben Naimark-Rowse The perceived messy work of building movements often scares away grant makers, but these efforts are critical to creating equitable societies. Donors need to adopt new practices and strategies to measure and support them.

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How This Nonprofit Retains 46% of Their Donors with Amy Gibson

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Support for this show is brought to you by our friends at Bloomerang. Bloomerang offers donor management and online fundraising software that helps small to medium nonprofits, like First Tee of Greater Akron , a nonprofit that empowers kids and teens through the game of golf. After just one year with Bloomerang they doubled their unique donors, improved donor stewardship, and raised more funds.

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Habitual Advocacy: Building Year-Round Supporters

NonProfit PRO

When Advocacy season comes around, many organizations feel like they are starting from scratch when they are starting new advocacy campaigns. It’s easy to feel like there is so much to do, with so little time. But there are ways to prepare leading up to your campaigns, and with the right prep time and strategies, you can activate existing supporters (and acquire new ones) to help fuel your success.

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Navigating the nonprofit RFP process

EveryAction

from our friend Maureen Wallbeoff Lisa pinged me the other day—she’s the development director for a social justice organization. She asked for some advice around her (bumpy) request for proposals (RFP) process at her nonprofit. Her board had approved the budget for a new CRM and asked her to follow this process to find the right software. When I asked her to describe the problem, here’s what she said: I’ve never done this before, and I feel like I’m making it up as I go along.

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Moore Foundation Commits $110 Million for Wildfire Resilience

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest Also, Ohio State University received $110 million to establish the Center for Software Innovation, and the Open Society Foundations committed $20 million toward the future of social-justice philanthropy in Baltimore even as it plans to close its Open Society Institute-Baltimore affiliate by the end of 2023.

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Want to be accessible? Don’t leave virtual meetings behind.

Big Duck

The post Want to be accessible? Don’t leave virtual meetings behind. appeared first on Big Duck.

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How to Write Job Descriptions for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. Job descriptions outline what is expected for employees to do their best work. They also help to clarify where a role fits into the collective organization. However, it can be challenging to write an adequate job description without experience in the role for which you are creating the description (“JD”), and you might not know where to

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Common Reasons Nonprofits Resist Strength-based Messaging

Prosper Strategies

While there are many organizations that are leveraging the power of strength-based communication, including Girl Scouts, charity: water and The Arc, some organizations are still hesitant about making the shift. Concerns include that strength-based messaging will negatively impact fundraising, that it’s performative (which of course it can be), it’s time consuming to evolve to this […] The post Common Reasons Nonprofits Resist Strength-based Messaging appeared first on Prosper S

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Don’t believe everything the AI tells you

Jeff Brooks

If you use AI to write for you, be sure to fact check. Here’s an example of why AI’s knowledge is not trustworthy: Harvey McKinnon asked ChatGPT about the world’s top fundraising consultant authors. Here is what the robot told him: As a language model Al, I don't have access to the most current data but here are some of the world's top fund raising consultant authors: Ken Burnett Jerold Panas Dan Pallotta Mal Warwick Simone Joyaux Jeff Brooks Lesley Prince Harvey McKinnon Michael Ivaroni Andrea

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6 Apps to Fight the Stress of Moving to College

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

6 Apps to Fight the Stress of Moving to College Stay organized with Todoist to avoid all tasks piling up and stressing you out. Use My Mood Tracker to spot stress and anxiety early on. Try Mint for budgeting all your moving and first-semester expenses, and more. Starting a new life in college is equally exciting and stressful. For the majority of freshmen, it is their first time on their own away from home.

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Global Report Explores Evolving and Emerging Giving Trends

NonProfit PRO

A new global report from a first-of-its-kind research series explores emerging philanthropic giving vehicles worldwide.

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Secrets Revealed: Addictive UX / UI Design for Social Media

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Secrets Revealed: Addictive UX / UI Design for Social Media The design of social media is no small feat. From the UI to UX, the magic of social media design lies in creating a seamless, intuitive, and visually appealing platform that brings in more users. Have you ever stopped to think about why you keep checking social media apps on your smartphone so often?

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Nonprofit branding: Building and executing excellence

Big Duck

The post Nonprofit branding: Building and executing excellence appeared first on Big Duck.

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Deborah Bae & Kiernan Doherty The dominant narrative around leadership in many areas of the world centers individualism over solidarity. It suggests that there is one kind of leadership and that a single person—one who intervenes to solve a problem or envision a bold new reality—embodies it. This “hero narrative” shows up in all spheres of life—in the lone TV show detective, for example, and in memoirs that credit Apple’s success primarily to Steve Jobs

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Why Fundraiser Turnover Is So High

iMarketSmart

Fundraiser turnover is an epidemic. And that’s not just our opinion or an attempt to be dramatic. Actual researchers used that label to describe the state of the profession after investigating the disturbingly high turnover rates and low morale among those who work to raise by far the largest share of money at most nonprofits. Other research found that the average fundraiser stays on a job only 16 months, and that many who leave those jobs never return to the field again.

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Cooperatives as Ancestral Technology

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Dim Hou on unsplash.com The cultural sector is actively seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. This article is the fourth in the series, “ Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change ,” co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. In this series, queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and cultural bearers reflect upon the unique role that culture has played and can play in activating and enacting structural change—and in building a solidarity economy.