The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 22, 2024
For the first time in its 100&Change competition, grant applicants are required to address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. By Alex Daniels Ryan Donnell, Sesame Workshop The first 100&Change challenge was awarded in 2017 to a collaboration between Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to provide educational programming to refugee children in the Middle East.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
MAY 22, 2024
Today’s nonprofit organizations exist in a world that is constantly evolving. This brings complex challenges that require both innovative solutions and exceptional leadership from all levels. Fortunately, there is an often-overlooked pool of talent that has exactly the skillset to thrive in this environment: veterans. As we look deeper into the invaluable contributions veteran leadership can make to a nonprofit, we’ll uncover a wealth of leadership, teamwork, diversity, resilience, adaptability,
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 22, 2024
The rift provides a glimpse into legal gray areas surrounding fiscal sponsorships. By Alex Daniels Jason Whitman, NurPhoto/Getty Images Demonstrators march in a Black Lives Matter rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June 2020. The rift provides a glimpse into legal gray areas surrounding fiscal sponsorships.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 22, 2024
Preparing for a donor meeting can be an intimidating experience. Here are five tips to keep you on track and give you confidence.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters—emphasizing trust, engagement, and community over transactional giving models. 🤝 Industry expert Tim Sarrantonio will explore data-backed strategies to engage supporters as active participants in a community that values their contributions and shared ideals.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 22, 2024
Six immigration-rights nonprofits are working together to raise $3 million for legal aid in asylum cases. Their campaign has lessons for other charities. By Emily Haynes Getty Images Six immigration-rights nonprofits are working together to raise $3 million for legal aid in asylum cases. Their campaign has lessons for other charities.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 22, 2024
Blackbaud announced updates to multiple products to help nonprofits power fundraising, financial management, and more.
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Amy Eisenstein
MAY 22, 2024
The Major Gifts Challenge is back and new and improved. Commit just a few hours each week and you'll be raising major gifts in no time! Watch this video.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 22, 2024
Debates over what, in fact, constitutes anti-Semitism are complex, deeply fraught, and often intensely personal. In the ever-escalating public debate over Israel’s deadly incursion into Gaza and the “Pro-Palestinian” protests (an imperfect descriptor that has become media shorthand) that have erupted in its wake, critics and opponents of those protests have increasingly painted them with claims of anti-Semitism—claims that have dominated headlines and public discourse in recent days.
Amy Eisenstein
MAY 22, 2024
What if you could double your fundraising this year, and double is your impact? Take the "Double Your Fundraising" Challenge and think big!
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 22, 2024
The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: How to Change Our Stories about the Economy.” View the full webinar here. Jeremie Greer: So, I think one of the biggest misunderstandings about the racial wealth gap is this idea that we’re going to person-by-person individualize our way out of it…and then the data points to this, right?
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio
The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.
Nonprofit Fixer
MAY 22, 2024
1. How much is the group coaching program “Fixer Fellowship?” The group coaching program is $2500 ($2000 if you already purchased the Executive Director Boot Camp). You can pay $250 a month for 12 months if you would like a payment plan. 2. What’s included in the Fixer Fellowship Group Coaching Program? The Fixer Fellowship is a suite of resources designed to work together to propel your nonprofit leadership forward.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 22, 2024
Here in the Cochabamba Valley, days after Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Bolivians continue communing with their dead. This is one of many cultural rituals common in the small, majority-Indigenous country—wedged between Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Brazil—of roughly 12 million people. On any given day, you can hear people speaking Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, and Guaraní on the streets; and Afro-Bolivian communities and many other distinct Indigenous groups from the Amazon region live in the
The NonProfit Times
MAY 22, 2024
Round Three of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s $100 million 100&Change competition has launched with roughly 1,000 nonprofits expected to vie for the winner take all award. Think of it this way, the chance of winning the Powerball lottery is one in 292.2 million. The competition is open to organizations and collaborations working in any field, anywhere in the world, according to Chris Cardona, MacArthur’s managing director, discovery, exploration, and programs.
Candid
MAY 22, 2024
The Fundraising Effectiveness Project ’s (FEP) Quarterly Fundraising Report analyzes year-to-date trends in fundraising from individual donors, based on sample data from GivingTuesday and the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Growth in Giving database. Since Candid data is focused on institutional grantmaking, we thought we’d complement that data by highlighting FEP’s findings on individual giving.
The NonProfit Times
MAY 22, 2024
A plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a Blackbaud data breach case has been rejected by a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina Columbia Division. Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. indicated that a method proposed by the plaintiffs’ expert had not shown how class members would be determined. By some counts, the class size could have reached 1.5 billion members, reflecting the number of records compromised.
Big Duck
MAY 22, 2024
Explores recommended practices for leveraging user feedback to make your nonprofit website rebrand a success.
Bloomerang
MAY 22, 2024
For years, when nonprofits would publish digital reports with their best stories, they had to point inspired readers to a separate page to make a donation, disrupting the storytelling to fundraising pipeline. We solved this problem with Storyraise , a solution for nonprofits to create digital annual, impact, and donor reports. Readers can make a donation on the spot, without being directed away from the page they’re on.
Veritus Group
MAY 22, 2024
Unless you take your head and heart to the scene to feel the urgency of meeting the need for yourself, your donor asks will miss the mark. The post The Reason You Lack Urgency and Courage in Asking appeared first on Veritus Group.
Jeff Brooks
MAY 22, 2024
Why do so many fundraisers just fail to say thank you? And why do so many who do thank do it in a heartless, perfunctory way? I think it’s because it feels like an annoying chore that gets added to the larger project of doing fundraising. By the time you’ve really nailed down the asking, you might feel too drained to spend time, energy and heart on a thank you.
Fundraising Report Card
MAY 22, 2024
Your board probably doesn’t know the difference. But you need to. Donor churn is not the same thing as lapsed donors. They are related, but they reveal quite different insights … Continue reading "Donor Churn vs Lapsed Donors – What’s the Difference?" The post Donor Churn vs Lapsed Donors – What’s the Difference? appeared first on Fundraising Report Card.
The Charity CFO
MAY 22, 2024
Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, are an essential part of any successful nonprofit. KPIs give you a better idea of what programs, initiatives, and operations are effective. Choosing KPIs for your nonprofit doesn’t have to be complicated. Keep reading to learn more about some of the most common KPIs for nonprofit organizations and why you might want to use them.
The NonProfit Times
MAY 22, 2024
Accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology firm Sage is partnering with fundraising firm SofterWare to provide a more inclusive financial platform. Sage Intacct Fundraising powered by DonorPerfect is a cloud-based solution. It is intended to provide seamless flow of fundraising data alongside financials, along with clear and transparent donation documentation for small and medium-sized organizations.
The Charity CFO
MAY 22, 2024
What do many successful nonprofits have in common? Good financial management. In nonprofits, managing your finances effectively is essential to running a sustainable organization. Not only does good financial management help keep your organization running, but it also helps bolster trust in your nonprofit. A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a C-suite financial manager for your organization.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MAY 22, 2024
Putting the Best Foot Forward: Why SEO Reputation Management Matters for Your Brand A brand’s online reputation can spell either success or failure. With information spreading quickly through social media , search engines, and review sites, having a clean-cut and positive online reputation is necessary. Enter search engine optimization (SEO) reputation management , a set of strategies that improves your business’s image and helps reduce the impact of negative information.
Mission Minded
MAY 22, 2024
Investing in a transformative strategic engagement stretches the resources of most nonprofits, foundations, and education institutions. A refresh of your brand strategy, embarking on a new strategic plan, or a major fundraising campaign happen at most twice a decade. Here are a few ways we’ve seen nonprofit and school leaders shift their mindsets around budgeting to deliver on the transformative promise of their strategic engagement with Mission Minded.
iMarketSmart
MAY 22, 2024
The Ask. Fundraisers think about it. Conference speakers talk about it. Books get written about it. But is it worth all the hype? Is ‘The Ask’ so monumental to deserve capital letters when referring to it? What’s really going on here is that one component of the fundraising process has been elevated and overhyped by fundraising consultants making it seem much more grandiose than it is.
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