Wed.May 14, 2025

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You Need Conservatives. Here's How to Engage Them in Your Mission

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Insights and tips from a conservative who believes nonprofits will fail in their mission if they muster support only from people who think and vote like they do. By Pearce Godwin Getty Images/iStockphoto Insights and tips from a conservative who believes nonprofits will fail in their mission if they muster support only from people who think and vote like they do.

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How to Reduce Economic Inequality by Expanding Employee Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Nick Youngson on Picpedia.org While stock market volatility dominates headlines, its easy to forget that for most people in the United States, this turbulence is far from their day-to-day reality. Even with stock ownership at a record high, over 90 percent of all US stocks are owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of the population. When workers have a stake in the companies they help build, the benefits ripple far beyond a bigger paycheck.

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Federal Public Health Funding May Soon Evaporate. Here’s How Philanthropy Should Prepare

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

While grant makers cant make up the budget shortfall, they can coordinate fast, local action when federal help falls short. By Mitch Stripling AP While grant makers cant make up the budget shortfall, they can coordinate fast, local action when federal help falls short.

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You Threw a Great Event. Now What?

Bloomerang

The lights are down. The chairs are stacked. Maybe you even have a few checks in hand. You pulled off a great eventand you should absolutely celebrate that. But heres the real question: what happens next? A fundraising event isnt the finish lineit’s the first spark. The real magic happens after the big nightwhen you turn excitement into engagement, and first-time attendees into lifelong supporters.

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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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Board Members Avoiding “The Ask”? 20 Ways to Respond

NonProfit PRO

As a leader of an organization, you know firsthand the crucial role philanthropy plays in fulfilling your mission and that your board members are among your most important fundraisers. Yet, getting them comfortable with fundraising can be a real challenge. Heres a look at 20 common objections your board members might have about soliciting donations and how to effectively address them.

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Why Catalytic Capital Needs a Better Definition (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Savannah Baum , Olivia Rosen , Sean Sellers & Billy Silk The decline and fall of ESG offers a cautionary tale for social impact financing and highlights the need for the sector to sharpen its understanding of catalytic capital. We propose a potential definitional framework for catalytic capital to drive clarity, measurement, and greater market participation.

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Online fundraising benchmark report shows mixed picture

Jeff Brooks

Whats going on in online fundraising? Heres a view, from the M+R Benchmarks for 2025 (free download; registration required). Its a look at what happened in 2024, as seen by a =healthy range of organizations who are raising funds online. Some highlights: Average online revenue increased by 2% in 2024. This after a 1% drop in 2023. Revenue from monthly giving increased by 5% and accounted for 31% of all online revenue.

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Clairity Click-it: MAY Nonprofit Links + Free Resources Be Yours

Clairification

I just cant stop taking inspiration from the inimitable Seth Godin. More alternatives, please There are two ways for an artisan or professional to see the world: Scarcity. This is the idea that if there were fewer photographers, more people would hire me to do wedding pictures. That if the bar exam were more selective, it would be easier for my firm to get clients.

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How should your nonprofit approach crisis communications?

Big Duck

Learn how nonprofits can plan and navigate crisis communications in this episode of the Smart Communications Podcast.

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RKD Group, GivingTuesday and Positive Equation Launch Monthly Giving Awareness Week

NonProfit PRO

RKD Group, GivingTuesday and Positive Equation launched the first Monthly Giving Awareness Week to support nonprofits' monthly giving efforts.

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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 Use Your Digital Annual Report as a Marketing Tool

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Every year, your nonprofit publishes a digital report to recap your mission progress and provide financial context for supporters. But did you know that your annual report can serve multiple marketing purposes? A well-designed annual report can also serve as a crucial audience outreach tool to deepen supporter relationships and lay the groundwork for continued engagement.

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Breaking the Doers Dilemna: Finding Success in Others’ Achievements

Concord Leadership

One of the most significant transitions in leadership growth is moving from the mindset of “I have to do it” to “it has to be done.” This subtle shift represents a profound change in how we define successfrom personally completing tasks to ensuring tasks are completed, regardless of who does them. The Guilt of Letting […] The post Breaking the Doers Dilemna: Finding Success in Others’ Achievements appeared first on The Concord Leadership Group, LLC.

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The Secret to Major Donor Inspiration Lies in These 7 Challenges

iMarketSmart

Major donors give more when theyre inspired to give. Inspiration is emotional, not logical. Its very difficult to inspire powerful social emotions by attempting to persuade or convince someone to give. What drives emotion is primal. It is whats deep inside of a supporter based on their past (history or life story), their values, and their desire for community or a sense of belonging.

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Supporting nonprofit and mission-driven affordable housing providers 

Candid

Our nation is facing the greatest housing affordability challenge in generations. With a shortage of seven million affordable homes for the lowest-income families , cratering supply is leading to escalating housing costs, dampening economic prospects for people in urban, rural, Tribal, and suburban communities in every state and territory. Critical to building and preserving more affordable homes are nonprofit and mission-driven housing providers.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

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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10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This is the second post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Goods email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Thank you! Related Webinar: Website & Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 26% of online donors say that email is the tool that most inspires them to give (social media 25%

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House Republicans Look to Help Trump Strip Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofits He Says Support Terrorism

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Some nonprofits say its an arbitrary standard to financially punish charities that advocate for issues that don't align with his agenda. By Alexa St. John and Matthew Daly, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) J. Scott Applewhite, AP Some nonprofits say its an arbitrary standard to financially punish charities that advocate for issues that don't align with his agenda.

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Advocates Mobilize to Stave Off Cuts to Federal Student Loan Programs

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jay Galvin, “Don’t Fret Mural” on Flickr. In March, NPQ reported on President Donald Trumps executive order to create an ideological test that would determine whether public service workers employed at nonprofits are eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, based on an organizations scope of work.

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As Neoliberalism Crashes, What Comes Next?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Fred Murphy, 2018, Creative Commons We should not let the follies of Trumps tariffs overshadow the follies of the gung-ho globalization that preceded them. So said the award-winning economist James K. Boyce in a recent interview for Truthout. In 2022, the most recent year that data is available, the US trade deficit totaled $971 billion or 3.77 percent of the GDP.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.