Thu.May 29, 2025

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A Blueprint for Nonprofit Sustainability Amid Funding Challenges in 2025

NonProfit PRO

American nonprofits are in the midst of an existential crisis, specifically regarding funding and mission viability. I don’t say this lightly, and this dilemma is not likely to resolve itself anytime soon.

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6 Steps to Turbocharge Your Board Recruitment

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Passion for the cause and diversity of experience are as valuable as fundraising chops or the capacity to give big, experts say. By David L. Wheeler Getty Images Passion for the cause and diversity of experience are as valuable as fundraising chops or the capacity to give big, experts say.

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Educating the Nonprofit Leaders of the Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By David Finegold & Ben Marshall Leading a business is hard. Leading a nonprofit is even harder nonprofit leaders typically have more stakeholders, less control, and fewer resources than their for-profit counterparts. And the headwinds are only growing stronger as charitable donations decline and as government funding faces uncertainty. Despite these challenges, training for nonprofit leaders and board members has not materially changed in the past 25 years.

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Kindsight Launches AI-Powered Fundraising Platform With Real-Time Donor Intelligence

NonProfit PRO

Kindsight's solution provides higher education, healthcare, and large nonprofits with a CRM powered by donor intelligence and personalized engagement at scale.

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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026

Speaker: Sean Yoder

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Who do Americans believe should help people in need? 

Candid

According to a survey conducted in March by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about three-quarters of the 1,229 respondents gave at least $1 to charity in the past year. The largest share, 23%, donated between $101 and $500 total. The survey goes beyond what causes the support to explore who they think should receive charitable assistance and who is responsible for helping those in need.

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How Donor Attributes Contribute to a Solicitation Strategy

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits must understand how to communicate with different people. Studying donor attributes can help determine the appropriate strategies.

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How can you shape your AI brand footprint?

Big Duck

Unpack how nonprofits can shape their AI brand footprint and stay visible in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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Free Raffle Ticket Templates for Nonprofits – Easy to Customize & Print

Donorbox Nonprofit

Did you know that a whopping 47% of donors support nonprofit causes through raffles? With so many free and customizable raffle ticket templates out there, its easy to create a stunning, brand-aligned version that can scale support for your cause. In this article, we share a list of free templates to help you design attractive […] The post Free Raffle Ticket Templates for Nonprofits Easy to Customize & Print appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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How about a money-back guarantee for donors?

Jeff Brooks

In the commercial world, money-back guarantees are everywhere. They are a cost of doing business if you want to sell anything to anyone, and they’re increasingly gutsy. We see guarantees of double (even triple) your money back and other elaborate guarantees that might make you ask how those who make these guarantees stay in business. The odd little secret about guarantees is that very few customers ever invoke them and ask for their money back.

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Boards: 5 Reasons Nonprofits Don’t Reach Their True Potential

Dennis C Miller

Boards: 5 Reasons Nonprofits Dont Reach Their True Potential The NonProfit Times Americas 1.8 million nonprofits play a crucial role in our society by addressing important community needs such as healthcare, education, affordable housing, food insecurity and many other important social issues. Most nonprofits fail or never reach their full potential for the following five reasons.

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Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

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A Liberatory Approach to Centering Race in Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Marcel Smits on Unsplash This is the second article in NPQ s series Liberatory Leadership. Nonprofit leaders, leaders committed to racial and social justice, are ringing the alarms about the state of our sector and the viability of our work. Over the last several months, those alarms have increased in volume and frequency, as leaders encounter a political and funding environment that makes the already hard work of advancing racial equity and racial justice more difficult.

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When the World Feels Upside Down: How Your Values Keep You Leading Forward

Concord Leadership

The CEO looked exhausted. Three major team members had just given notice in the same week, the board was breathing down her neck about revenue projections, and she’d just learned that her biggest competitor had landed the client she’d been courting for months. “I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore,” she told me. “Everything […] The post When the World Feels Upside Down: How Your Values Keep You Leading Forward appeared first on The Concord Lead

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Know Your Farmer: Addressing the Heart of Food Insecurity in Kensington

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Aaron Cloward on Unsplash Cities across the United States continue to deal with the lasting impacts of food apartheid, an intentional system of violence perpetrated through disparities in food access. Food apartheid also underscores how other structural injustices, such as redlining and over-policing, have limited the access to fresh, nutritious, and affordable food.

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Passage of GOP Tax Bill Would Worsen Medical Debt Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: CafeCredit.com via Flickr On May 22, the GOP tax bill passed in the House by a single vote. Now advancing to the Senate, it threatens to gut Medicaid and strip health coverage from millions of people in the United States. Doing so would further exacerbate the medical debt crisis. As researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation found in the 2021 Survey of Income and Program Participation , medical debt already burdens 20 million adults.

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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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How to File a Temporary Restraining Order Against the Trump Administration

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Barbara Burgess on Unsplash Since Donald Trump returned to office and issued a series of executive orders targeting environmental regulations , climate-focused nonprofits have entered a period of heightened uncertainty. From local initiatives to national institutions, advocacy organizations are expressing concern over proposed policies, including the potential revocation of their tax-exempt status.