Ann Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I like to emphasize the importance of keeping in touch with your donors throughout the year. I hope that’s a priority for you, too. Your donors want to hear from you and don’t just want to be blasted with fundraising appeals. The good news is that better donor communication (thank yous and updates) can help you raise more money. Ideally, you should communicate with your donors at least once or twice a month throughout the year.

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Communication Economic Issues Recruitment Homelessness 131

NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Vicky Kelberer, research and strategy group manager at Vanguard Charitable, kicked off NonProfit PRO's NonProfit POWER event yesterday with a keynote address. Here are the six key steps she suggested nonprofits should take to create a donor-advised fund (DAF) strategy.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By Hilary Pennington and Catherine Hyde Townsend. After facing criticism about its lack of attention to disability inclusion, Ford set out to integrate the issue into all its work. Its successes and setbacks show what it takes to change a cultural mind-set.

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Culture 122

NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

End-of-year giving can account for over 30% of annual giving. In the last few months of the year, use this messaging guide to copy, paste, and edit easy, pre-made messaging templates for emails, social media posts, and text messages.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By Jim Rendon. Called “hostile” by her board, Anne Price left as CEO after nearly doubling the budget and boosting the reserves from $69,000 to $600,000.

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Nonprofits 120

NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Are you in the place where you feel the board is just not getting it? What we know for sure is if we need our board members to be more engaged, we need to engage them. This means you need to invest in creating a robust, bold plan for the next few years.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By Rebecca Richards. The FTX head’s indifference to individual investors is also reflected in his embrace of effective altruism — a problematic strategy that seeks to repress factors such as personal connection and sympathy when making giving decisions.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By Nathan Furr & Susannah Harmon Furr. An excerpt from The Upside of Uncertainty on facing the unknown with courage.

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Elevation

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You know that you need to collect data about your supporters to create a stro ng fundraising strat egy. But what should these data points be? How can you use this important data? Unfortunately, there is no straight answer to these types of questions.

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NextAfter

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve all been there before …. You sit down at your desk. Take a sip of your drink. And open a new document. You straighten your back, take a deep breath, and poise your fingers over the keyboard. You’re ready. The cursor blinks. A thought bubbles up. You reach for a key, ready to strike, and pause. The thought is gone. You take another sip of your drink and begin wondering if a tomato could really be a fruit.

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Elevation

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Your nonprofit’s board members have a number of responsibilities, from planning capital campaigns and creating annual budgets to leading effective marketing campaigns. With several people working on different nonprofit initiatives, it can be difficult to keep everyone on the same page.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 6, 2022

When just about all events were canceled in 2020, nonprofits were forced to get creative with their fundraising efforts. Of course, this scenario presented many challenges to fundraising. Still, smart fundraising professionals were able to see an opportunity to expand their network and their donor base and ultimately increase their revenue by branching out through just one strategy: virtual auctions and events.

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Elevation

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hosting an online auction for your nonprofit is a fundraising opportunity with the potential for a high return on investment. There is usually very little, if any, cost up front, and many businesses and partners are very willing to donate goods and services as auction items to support the advancement of your cause. However, an improperly planned auction will not only be a headache for you and your team but will also raise fewer funds than you need.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kim Scaravelli. I am so excited to bring you a new submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series! This series lets you describe your workday in your own words. Want to be be featured? Keep reading to learn how you can submit your day. Kim’s Bio. Kim Scaravelli is an award-winning marketer, content consultant, and author of Making Words Work.

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Elevation

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Learning how to properly market your mission is vital to the success and longevity of your organization. With the right marketing strategy, you can boost engagement, raise brand awareness, and make a lasting impact.

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Marketing Marketing 82

Jeff Brooks

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Take a look at a return envelope that recently came in the mail from Easter Seals. It's a donor cultivation piece (likely for a lapsed donor) that features a full-size wall calendar for next year. But there are several interesting things about this lowly return envelope worth looking at: It's a window return envelope. That's probably because the piece is raising funds for a local affiliate of Easter Seals, but it's probably produced on a national level, which makes such an elaborate pack afforda

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You plan, prepare, promote and pull off an amazing fundraising event, and then what? Naturally, you breathe a sigh of relief and go home—that is, if you’re like most event planners. And, of course, that makes sense: Planning and pulling off a successful event is a Herculean task. You deserve some rest. But what if you tried something different that could get you miles farther than a sigh of relief and en evening on your couch?

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are many benefits that come with starting a nonprofit organization, from tax advantages to grant eligibility; however, too often we forget to consider the downsides to starting a nonprofit—and there are some potential dealbreakers! While Candid offers many resources for starting a nonprofit, it’s also important to fully understand the disadvantages before getting in too deep.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image Credit: charlesdeluvio on unsplash.com. Events and social movements of the past three years have spawned many efforts to advance racial justice in philanthropy , as many have written about at NPQ and elsewhere. Headlines were filled with financial commitments from different sectors to racial equity and justice. Many foundations launched racial equity-focused collaboratives and funds.

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Affnetz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nonprofit Board Give, Get or Get Off? Nonprofit management software / By Mike Crum. Some Nonprofit boards have a give, get, or get off policy and their Nonprofits are suffering because of it. Read on and we’ll talk more about why Give, Get, or Get Off needs to get kicked to the curb and replaced by a Community-Based Fundraising model. Yeah, sure, get 15 board members to guarantee giving or getting $100,000 each and you’ve got $1,500,000 which definitely helps with the budget.

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