Wed.Sep 07, 2022

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4 Best Practices for Developing Engaging Volunteer Orientations

NonProfit PRO

Volunteer orientations present the opportunity to make a good first impression. They also allow your organization to get to know supporters, build relationships between volunteers, communicate your mission and confirm that volunteers understand their commitment to the cause.

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Newsletter: Advice for New Corporate Fundraisers ; 25 Hot Retailers to Add to Your Prospect List; How to Use YouTube to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Selfish Giving

The gang at Remarkable Partnerships (RP) in the UK has shared a helpful article for new corporate fundraisers. It's called 5 Top Tips for New Corporate Fundraisers. I agree with every point! Those Brits are so wicked smahht!?????? However, let me take a moment today to expand on their points and offer a few key insights of my own. ?? Be a sponge. You need to learn the job, and the best way to do that is to shadow someone else who is already doing it.

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Development Reporting 101: A Guide to Designing Insightful Reports

NonProfit PRO

Learn how to build development reports that help you strategically pursue your goals. This guide, in partnership with Altrunext, will walk you through all the details around how to design insightful reports for daily and long-term planning. Start here to elevate your reporting and support the growth of your nonprofit organization.

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Time to Chase the Summer Blahs Away: 7 Tips on Getting Motivated at Work Again

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Earlier this summer I shared Why It’s So Hard to Work During the Summer , but since everyone knows that Labor Day means summertime is over (at least here in the US), it’s time to buckle down again. You’ve got annual reports to create, year-end fundraising campaigns to perfect, and the 101 other things nonprofit communicators are asked to do.

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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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FreeWill’s Crypto for Charity Platform Announces Zero Fees for Donations of All Cryptocurrency

NonProfit PRO

FreeWill announced that its Crypto for Charity platform will eliminate transaction fees for real-time donations of cryptocurrency to support nonprofit causes, lowering fees on donations made through Crypto for Charity's website from 3.95% to zero, effective immediately.

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Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Names Interim President for a Planned Leadership Transition

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Date: September 7, 2022. CONTACT: Shara Szott, Chief Solutions Officer, shara@nla1.org. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Names Interim President for a Planned Leadership Transition. KANSAS CITY, MO – After more than 17 years of leadership at the national organization, Susan Tomlinson Schmidt, CNP, is stepping down as President of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance effective September 30, 2022.

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Struggling With Donor Retention?

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits typically lose over 50% of their donors every year. With new donor acquisition costing 10-20x more than retaining existing donors, it's time to dig deep into your database and come up with a plan to re-engage the constituents that have fallen off your radar. Download Fundraising KIT's free email templates to win back lapsed donors and start charming your way back into the hearts of your existing donors.

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Raise More Money With a Better Fundraising Appeal

Ann Green

Can you believe September is already here? Depending on where you live, you may or may not be getting that nice refreshing air September often brings. It also brings us to the start of the busiest time of the year for nonprofit organizations, especially if you’re doing a year-end appeal. If you’re falling short of your revenue goals, you may want to start your campaign earlier than you have in the past.

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Who Qualifies as a Major Donor Prospect for Your Organization? (3 Guidelines)

The Fundraising Authority

The following is an excerpt from our class How to Find New Major Donors and Get Them to Give to Your Non-Profit. Who qualifies as a major donor prospect for your organization? As you are looking for donors to make contact with and insert into your fundraising funnel, you don’t want to waste time. Who can you truly call a “major donor prospect?” Far too many organizations reply “everyone is a prospect” or “everyone with enough money is a prospect.

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Recession-Proof Your Nonprofit…with Grants!

Bloomerang

The post Recession-Proof Your Nonprofit…with Grants! appeared first on Bloomerang.

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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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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jason Saul. For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Many say the challenge is near-impossible: Every social intervention is customized, every beneficiary is unique, every context is different, data is biased, self-reported data is unreliable, there are no measurement standards, and proving causation is problematic.

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Succession Planning: Strategies That Work

Bloomerang

The post Succession Planning: Strategies That Work appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Tips For Becoming The Best Fundraiser You Can Be

The LAPA Blog

You are the most important aspect of your fundraising program, not the latest software, not the latest research findings, not the latest prospect research tactic. Solely, you. Without you, all the rest is grist for the mill. These tips drawn from my own recent professional development experiences may inspire you. Here goes.: Sometimes you must forget everything and start anew.

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Year-End Fundraising Basics: From Donor List Vitality To Finding The Best Angle For Your Creative Content

Bloomerang

Across the nation, as summer draws to an end and mother nature prepare for her fall showstopper, so does the nonprofit sector. Listen carefully and you’ll hear the call going up in charity offices everywhere: What’s the plan for our end-of-year fundraising campaign ? There is no one size fits all answer to this question. While one particular organization may get greater traction with their in-person events , another makes better use of their donor relationships.

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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.

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Standing Ovations for Pianist and Composer Marina Arsenijevic at Take The Lead Power Up Concert on Women’s Equality Day

Fundraising Leadership

“MARINA TORE THE DAMN HOUSE DOWN” as TAKE THE LEAD celebrates 2022 WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY at its THIRD ANNUAL POWER UP CONCERT and CONFERENCE “Marina Tore the Damn House Down” — Felicia Davis , Leadership Brand Strategist Founder of BlackWomanElevate NEW YORK, NY, USA, September 3, 2022 EINPresswire.com — MARINA’S BOMBASTIC PERFORMANCE to be REBROADCAST on her YouTube channel premiering on September 1, 2022.

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Are you planning your critical conversations?

Concord Leadership

As an executive coach, I spend the majority of my time helping clients figure out exactly what to say at various points in their journey: a career change holding firm to a boundary helping a disgruntled client or staff member making a sale asking for money answering objections firing someone Whether business owners, middle managers, […]. The post Are you planning your critical conversations?

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The Big RE Awards: Take The Lead Honors Excellence In Equity Leadership, Philanthropy, Business

Fundraising Leadership

Suzanne Lerner accepting the Wear The Shirt Award at the recent Power Up Concert. (Photo by Karianne Munstedt.). It is the first of many. Suzanne Lerner, co-founder of Michael Stars, was awarded the first-ever Wear The Shirt Award at Take The Lead’s 2022 Power Up Concert & Conference, the Big RE: Rethink, Rewire and Recreate held recently virtually and in person in Phoenix, AZ. “ @Suzanne_Lerner, co-founder of @MichaelStarsInc, was awarded the first-ever Wear The Shirt Award at @Takelea

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Why “branding” matters to the modern nonprofit with Beth Brodovsky

The Charity CFO

In this episode, Tosha will walk you through the most common misconceptions about nonprofit audits to let you know exactly what you can expect (and NOT expect) from a nonprofit audit before you commit. Audits scare the daylights out of nonprofit founders. But at The Charity CFO, Tosha and her team need to prepare 50+ nonprofit partners for audits every year.

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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How (Not) to Scale a Nonprofit

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By KC Hardin. In 2020 I shut down Esperanza San Felipe, a nonprofit I had founded seven years earlier that some, including myself, once thought held the secret to tackling one of the world’s most intractable problems: gang violence. Esperanza demobilized four street gangs in one neighborhood in Panama City with positive social outcomes for many of their members.