The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 22, 2025

The law permits most colleges and universities to increase spending from their endowments in light of financial pressures, the author argues. By Ellen P. Aprill Charles Krupa, AP photo Harvards endowment totaled more than $53 billion in 2024. Above, visitors at the statue of John Harvard at the school. The law permits most colleges and universities to increase spending from their endowments in light of financial pressures, the author argues.

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Universities Law 177

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 22, 2025

The number of donors to nonprofits has been declining.Here are some insights into why donor count is dropping and what you can do about it.

Nonprofits 189

Nonprofits Retention 189

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 22, 2025

Vera's experience is a 'harbinger' for the rest of the nonprofit world, says Nicholas Turner, president of the criminal-justice reform organization. By Alex Daniels Vera Institute of Justice Nick Turner, president of the Vera Institute of Justice. Vera's experience is a 'harbinger' for the rest of the nonprofit world, says Nicholas Turner, president of the criminal-justice reform organization.

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Nonprofits 321

Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

Volunteering is the backbone of the U.S. nonprofit sector, yet it remains significantly underfunded. A 2023 report from the Do Good Institute found that 78.9% of nonprofit leaders say volunteers enable them to provide essential services they otherwise could not. Yet, the national volunteer rate hovers at just 28% and has not increased significantly in decades.

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Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Community Development Foundations 73

Speaker: Sean Yoder

Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.

Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2025

In the nonprofit sector, effective communication is pivotal for increasing donations, promoting advocacy, and mobilizing communities. Organizations need to choose communication strategies that are effective, scalable, and cost-efficient. While peer-to-peer text messaging has long been used for direct supporter engagement, broadcast text messaging is emerging as the superior solution for nonprofits.

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Nonprofits Communication 68

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 22, 2025

The annual M+R "Benchmarks" report identified an increase in online fundraising driven by monthly giving, plus other findings.

Fundraising 162

Fundraising Fundraising Advertising 162

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 22, 2025

New research revealed that charitybrands are one of the worstfor online experiences, with slow content loading and poor user experience.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 22, 2025

Go Global on a Budget in 2025: Smart AI Translation for Nonprofits When it comes to doing good in the world, non-profit organizations are unbeatableand they do it all on a minimal budget. Of the around 2 million non-profit organizations in the United States reported in August 2024, over 1 million of them report having annual revenues below $50,000 US dollars.

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Non-Profits Nonprofits Culture Charitable Organizations 52

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 22, 2025

Post-Event Surveys for Volunteers: 7 Questions To Ask Imagine hosting an incredibly successful volunteer event for your political advocacy organization, helping more people register to vote than you ever thought possible. But then, you find out that your volunteers felt overworked, underprepared, and dissatisfied overall. While celebrating the win, you also need to make sure your volunteers feel supported and happy with their work.

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Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Volunteerism Volunteerism 41

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 22, 2025

Effortlessly Remove Backgrounds from Your Logos: A Comprehensive Guide In the dynamic world of branding and design, having a versatile logo is essential. A logo remove background tool offers flexibility, allowing seamless integration across various platforms and materials. Creative Fabrica’s Remove Background from Logo tool simplifies this process, enabling users to extract backgrounds from logos swiftly and efficiently.

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Production Marketing Marketing Fundraising 52

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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Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

Nonprofit Influencers Whether a nonprofit Executive Director, Development Director, Board Member you owe it to yourself, your nonprofit, and the positive social outcomes you are a part of creating, to always be learning! Reading just about every book on nonprofit leadership, fundraising, generative governance , etc. works but an even better method to stay on top of nonprofit trends, issues, and get exposed to new ideas is to follow an array of nonprofit experts and nonprofit thought leaders o

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Jeff Brooks

APRIL 22, 2025

Most of what makes writing difficult is your fault. Sure, plenty of outside forces are working against you, but you create the toughest problems for yourself. (Dont worry; its not just you. We all do it.) Here are some great ways to be that self-defeating tendency from the Publication Coach Blog, at 7 ways youre making writing too hard : Youre procrastinating.

Fundraising 59

Fundraising Fundraising Management 59

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

Your nonprofit software is only as useful as it is easy to use. Definitely a no-duh sentence, but we see way too many nonprofit leaders and staff struggling to just learn the basics of how to use their software. And even then, the software often doesnt deliver the automation it should to help nonprofits scale their engagement, fundraising, and operations.

Nonprofits 100

Nonprofits Environmental Marketing Marketing 100

Prosper Strategies

APRIL 22, 2025

Nonprofit leaders are built to think about how to solve our world’s biggest challenges over the long-term. We create bold vision statements, 10-year theories of change and 35 year strategic plans. But what happens when the ground beneath us shifts unexpectedly? We certainly learned what we were capable of during the COVID pandemic, and people […] The post Nonprofit scenario planning, what it is and why you need it appeared first on Prosper Strategies.

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Nonprofits Nonprofit Leadership Leadership 40

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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Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

9 Ways to Greater Efficiency at Your NonprofitWith its seamlessly integrated modules, 9 Ways to Greater Efficiency at Your NonprofitWith its seamlessly integrated modules, Affnetz boosts efficiency so your staff can get more done.Gain efficiency with Affnetz by: The Intranet and Project Management module provides a knowledge base and file sharing to help coordinate activities.

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Recruitment Management Activism Nonprofits 100

CNPE

APRIL 22, 2025

A Joint Letter from CNPE CEO, Das Rooprai, and HR Affiliates President, Jennifer Wheatley A lot of nonprofit employees are under a great deal of stress right now. Continued threats of funding freezes, and policy changes at federal, state, and local levels are leaving many of us wondering about the sustainability of our jobs and our organizations. With each passing week navigating these changes is becoming more and more complex.

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Management Nonprofits Communication Values 52

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

The Top 6 Ways affnetz Helps Associations and Chambers Leverage Their Member Databases Affnetz features a comprehensive Member database functionality that allows your Association or Chamber to capture a robust set of Stakeholder data. The database includes a complete Customer Relation Management (CRM) system to help you keep detailed tabs on the health of your membership.

Associations 100

Associations Recruitment Health Management 100

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 22, 2025

Nonprofits are bracing for what may represent the administration's most direct action against them to date. Experts caution groups not to panic. By Ben Gose Michael Casey, AP President Trump has threatened to revoke Havards tax-exempt status and suggested that other charities have abused their status. Nonprofits are bracing for what may represent the administration's most direct action against them to date.

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Nonprofits 304

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.

Nonprofit Organizations

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

Nonprofit Stakeholder collaboration is an essential component for achieving the organizations mission. Staff, volunteers and Board of Directors all need to pull together to achieve objectives. However, collaboration inside the organization can be hampered if the tools supporting this effort are weak or nonexistent. Among the types of tools supporting collaboration are: Messaging While e-mail shoulders the greatest communication load in organization, Nonprofit Stakeholder collaboration benefits a

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Collaborations Nonprofits Management Associations 100

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 22, 2025

Image Credit: Kamil Mehmood on Unsplash The pictures on social media show a concrete spillway with a large swath of graffiti painted across it. As the nearby river flooded, the water swallowed the graffiti on the spillway, letter by letter. These photos bring me right back to the experience of living by the river, under its constant threat of flooding.

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Insurance Universities Energy Health 101

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

Ive covered how Nonprofits make money and that fundraising is usually the number one way that Nonprofits make money. But, what are the best ways to fundraise? In this post I’ll cover the best fundraising ideas and methods that Nonprofits use to make money. First, a quick statistic : 90 to 95% of a Nonprofits budget usually comes from 5 to 10% of its donors.

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Fundraising Fundraising Retention Communication 100

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

Building a successful fundraising email program can be an effective way to boost your Nonprofit donations. Its essential to stay in front of donors as well as your Nonprofits orbit, and email is a cost effective way to do so. Unfortunately, email is so over-used these days, youve got to really hustle to make sure it will work for your Nonprofit. Here are 6 tips to help you have better success with your Nonprofits email program To create a successful program, start by crafting compelling subject

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Fundraising Fundraising Universities Activism 100

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.

Finance

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

Streamline Event Creation and Management for your Association or Chamber with Affnetz EVENT MANAGEMENT Easy-to-build Event Form to create each event. Built-in workflows to keep event planning and execution on track. Reports for tabulating results. ONSITE TOOLS Check-in and badging are integrated with the Affnetz member database. Scan badges for attendee networking or lead capture.

Associations 100

Associations Management 100

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

A Nonprofit stakeholder is any person or organization that is affected by the Nonprofits mission. Examples are: Donors Employees Volunteers Board members Beneficiaries Therefore, achievement of the organizations mission hinges on positive relationships with Stakeholders. Successful Nonprofit organizations take time to identify and craft tailored communications strategies for each of their stakeholder groups.

Health 100

Health Nonprofits Management Communication 100

Affnetz

APRIL 22, 2025

Among the things Association Members expect from their membership are opportunities for: Networking Education Service Delivering on these expectations increases Member engagement. Associations can go a long way toward leveraging technology to improve Association member engagement. NETWORKING Networking is all about connecting and communicating. Associations can provide technology tools to support both of these.

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