The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 17, 2023
By M.J. Prest Plus, the Connecticut Children’s Foundation has tapped its next leader, and the philanthropic consulting firm Marts & Lundy has appointed Douglas Stewart as CEO.
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 17, 2023
Blackbaud announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2023. Compared with last year's quarter 2 results, GAAP total revenue was $271.0 million, up 2.3%, with $262.4 million in GAAP recurring revenue, up 3.9%. Non-GAAP organic recurring revenue increased 4.4%.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 17, 2023
By Monica Aleman and Ndana Bofu-Tawamba Getty Images In an unusual move, the Ford Foundation helped a grantee build an investment portfolio. Two results: better fundraising and a $20 million MacKenzie Scott donation.
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 17, 2023
Stay organized and save time. Download this 29-step checklist to get your nonprofit through the next audit quicker and easier. Your auditor will thank you!
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.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
AUGUST 17, 2023
You’ve heard the message that sharing content from other sources with your own supporters is not only a good idea because it’s less content you have to create yourself, but also because it positions you as an trusted and reliable source of information. But once you’ve found a bunch of great stuff to share, how do you actually go about doing that?
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 17, 2023
GiveSmart announced its platform's latest innovation, Automated Data Sync. The time savings involved with Automated Data Sync, combined with the accuracy it affords, makes reporting, progress to goals, and increasing donor retention easier than ever.
Nonprofit Leadership Zone brings together the best content for advertising professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 17, 2023
Nonprofits are traditionally lean organizations that depend on a mix of volunteers and paid staff. This makes meeting IT needs challenging. Here are three ways that growing nonprofits can plan ahead to create operational efficiencies in managing technical tools.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 17, 2023
Image credit: Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash Despite some progress in recent decades in reducing the overall number of people incarcerated nationwide, the United States easily remains a paragon of mass incarceration. There are, at last count, some 1.9 million Americans locked up in federal, state, and county prisons and jails—a rate of incarceration that exceeds any in the developed world.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 17, 2023
The average growth rate for new social media followers ranges from.64% to 3% per month, depending upon the platform. In other words, the era of organic growth on social media is over. To grow your nonprofit’s following on social media, you need to make a concerted effort to let your supporters and donors know how to find your nonprofit on social media.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 17, 2023
Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios , and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia sits out on her front stoop.) SAPHIA: The thing about communalism is that it sneaks up on you. We are not meant to be solitary, much as we think we may already be.
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.
Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit
AUGUST 17, 2023
Having an effective email program is an important part of building an engaged community. 48% of donors prefer to receive updates and appeals via email. But accurate data about nonprofit email performance has historically been hard to come by—especially for small to midsize nonprofits—and that makes it hard to gauge your own campaigns’ performance. That all changes with a new sector report, The Nonprofit Email Report: Data-Backed Insights for Better Engagement.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 17, 2023
Click here to learn more about this new series from Edge Studios , and follow @npquarterly and @offthehookshorts on social to see episodes of “Off the Hook” as they are released. (Saphia sits in front of a white wall.) SAPHIA: Hi, my name is Saphia Suarez, I’m the creator of “Off the Hook.” I just wanted to let you know that Nonprofit Quarterly is taking an end-of-summer hiatus, so “Off the Hook” will be taking a break, and we will be back with new episodes at the beginning of September.
Clairification
AUGUST 17, 2023
In Take Heed Nonprofits: The Sky is Not Falling, but it’s Cloudy we looked at trends in giving and how this might impact your strategic fundraising planning. Some of the data-based take-aways included: Less Donors and Dollars Overall Less Individual Donors — Shrinking Slice of Fundraising Pie More Foundation and Corporate Giving Focus of Giving Changed – or Did It?
Jeff Brooks
AUGUST 17, 2023
For most fundraisers, your donors are a lot older than you think. We’ll look at why this is so and what it means for you: How do you communicate with these people? About what? And in which channels? Knowing hold old your donors are — and responding appropriately — is the key to success in fundraising. Knowledge is power! From the archives of the now-defunct podcast Fundraising Is Beautiful.
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.
Fundraising Leadership
AUGUST 17, 2023
It is with deep admiration for each of these extraordinary honorees: Angel City FC, Kathleen Turner, Ms. Magazine, and Darnell Moore, that we look forward to recognizing at the Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference on August 26 , in person at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA and available virtually wherever you are in the world! Tickets are going fast — do you have yours locked in?
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