The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Mia Halthon and Ira Hillman. Getty Images. What does it look like to partner with those whose expertise comes largely from lived experiences? An early-childhood program shows why bringing parents to the decision-making table was critical to its work.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 12, 2023
As you begin a New Year, it is a valuable time to revisit your fundraising goals and build a stronger culture of philanthropy among your donors, board members and professional team.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Rasheeda Childress. Charitable giving was up 4.7 percent, but the number of individual donors was down 7.1 percent compared with 2021, according to new data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 12, 2023
As a nonprofit fundraiser and attorney, I do my due diligence if I support a new nonprofit. Unfortunately, it's an open secret that financial firewalls within some nonprofits can be thin or non-existent. But nonprofits are businesses, and we should treat them as such.
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.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Kay Dervishi and Yesica Balderrama. Foundation giving was 15 times greater in the year after the pandemic struck. But the emphasis on immediate relief worries experts, especially as climate change makes natural disasters more frequent and devastating.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 12, 2023
Running one of the 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United States can be fulfilling and meaningful. It can also bring significant risk of loss exposures. Every year, non-profit leaders are exposed to Directors and Officers (D&O) claims made against them and their organizations. Read on for more information about the growing exposures non-profit directors face, and the peace of mind D&O insurance can offer non-profits.
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Joan Garry
JANUARY 12, 2023
Get off to a great start in 2023 with these 3 crucial leadership conversations. Don't get shot out of the cannon — take control of your year! The post 3 Critical Conversations to Have in January appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Rasheeda Childress. Courtesy of Cedars-Sinai Open Doors, a special exhibit at Cedars-Sinai, showcases 23 paintings from Black artists, many on loan from Black donors in Hollywood whom principal gifts officer K.C. Miller had worked with previously. The exhibit was sparked by a call from a donor to a fundraiser to discuss leaving pieces by Black artists so the art would reflect more of the hospital's patients.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JANUARY 12, 2023
Pre-pandemic (March 2020), 67% of nonprofit communicators worked in an office or work site environment , with the rest split equally between home/remote or a hybrid of the two. Now (as of December 2022), only 5% report working in an office or work site exclusively. Over a third (35%) are working from home or remotely, and a whopping 60% are working hybrid (some home, some work site/office).
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 12, 2023
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota nonprofit ThinkTechAct Foundation, as well as its founder/president, a board member and executive director, alleging they ran a sham nonprofit and misused nonprofit funds.
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 Tech for Good
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Neil St. Clair , Co-Founder & COO at B Generous – the first-ever platform allowing nonprofit donors to “Donate Now, Pay Later”. Millennials are coming into their own income-wise. They have a charitable and philanthropic mindset, and yet, many nonprofits say millennials aren’t showing up treasure-wise in the same way as previous generations. According to Nonprofit Pro , “Millennials represent 33 million annual donors, have a $481 annual gift, and contribute to three charities annually.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2023
Image Credit: Seven Shooter on unsplash.com. Nationwide, climate change education does not receive adequate time in K-12 classrooms. In many states, a political divide over how schools should teach about climate change has led to rampant miseducation. Teachers aren’t adequately educated about climate change as less than half have received formal college instruction in climate science, Science reports , further limiting climate change education.
Amy Eisenstein
JANUARY 12, 2023
Brilliant insight. Having spent a dozen years in the financial services industry, and then 10 years in higher education administration and now 18 years with my strategic planning & fundraising consulting business, I challenge my clients to think this way. Kudos for putting it in writing.
Affnetz
JANUARY 12, 2023
How to keep a development director more than 18 months. fundraising campaign management / By Mike Crum. The average Development Director (person who heads up fundraising for a Nonprofit) is 1.5 years. Just think of your sunk cost – you’ve gone through all that time and trouble with your search committee and interviews, conducted training and onboarding, and then they’re gone in 18 months?
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2023
Image Credit: Andras Kovacs on unsplash.com. Organizations that work in organizational and leadership development (aka capacity building) not only support the nonprofit sector, but shape it. How they do so matters. That is why capacity builders need to take a stand. We have power. And we’re uncomfortable with it. For too long, many in the capacity-building field have pretended to engage in neutral skill-building work, but such neutrality is a myth that is no longer tenable.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Susan K. Thomas. How should the philanthropic sector address rising rents and the severe lack of affordable housing across the United States—two primary forces that cause people to lose their homes? About seven years ago I was tasked with developing a funding portfolio for the Melville Charitable Trust to figure out how we—a small funder—could make an outsized impact on the growing supply issue and its cascading effects on our lowest-income friends, neighbors, and family mem
Jeff Brooks
JANUARY 12, 2023
I know professionals in fundraising who have the feeling that fundraising and giving are a zero-sum game: We somehow get money away from people and we have to be careful that they don't notice we're getting richer at their expense. You're always on tip-toes, afraid the donors will figure it out and bring the whole thing to a crashing end. You need to take a listen to some wisdom from Benjamin Franklin, who said: He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than whom
Get Fully Funded
JANUARY 12, 2023
Your nonprofit is launching its first text messaging campaign. You’ve partnered with a reliable text messaging platform, promoted your opt-in keyword, and now you’re ready to send off your very first message. However, texting your nonprofit supporters shouldn’t be as casual as quick texts to friends and family members. To maximize your campaign’s success, you’ll need a robust text messaging strategy that will engage supporters and motivate them to take action.
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.
Clairification
JANUARY 12, 2023
There is more than one way to beat a flood. And when the problem at hand is a flood of ideas, products, strategies and what-not, it helps to have a way to focus and make decisions. And I know no better help-mate than the inimitable Seth Godin. Staring at decisions. “Soap is 85 cents a bar or two for a dollar. Which should you buy? It depends.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Nuri Heckler. Automaker Henry Ford’s name endures on the foundation formed from his fortune. History explains why American donors get to give from the grave.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 12, 2023
By Chris Lisée & Larry McGill. Nonprofit finances in the United States were relatively strong at the beginning of 2022, largely as a result of government and foundations stepping up their support of nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, inflation, economic volatility, increasing demand for services, and a reversion to pre-COVID funding practices indicate that nonprofits will soon face familiar financial challenges to serving their communities.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2023
Image Credit: K F on unsplash.com. What a time-travel novel by Black sci-fi author Octavia Butler can teach us about making the case for justice when it feels like we’re taking two steps back . Dr. Tiffany Manuel. “That’s history. It happened whether it offends you or not.”. “You can’t come back all at once any more than you can leave all at once. It takes time.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
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