Mon.Nov 14, 2022

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3 Ways the Corporate World Has Shaped Donor’s Online Expectations

NonProfit PRO

The corporate world has helped shape people’s online expectations of the brands and organizations they support. Here are a few examples of online expectations created by the corporate world and how nonprofits can meet them with their digital ecosystems.

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Jeff Bezos Says He Will Give Away Most of His Fortune

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By the Associated Press. Charlie Riedel/AP Forbes magazine estimates Jeff Bezos's wealth at roughly $124.1 billion. The Amazon founder whose "real-time" worth Forbes magazine estimates at roughly $124.1 billion, didn't specify how — or to whom — he will give away the money but said he and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, were building the "capacity" to do it.

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Building Engagement With Our Most Important Stakeholders — Individuals We Serve

NonProfit PRO

Focusing on building meaningful engagement with alumni can translate to a stronger and more sustainable organization. Nonprofit leaders can further tap into the knowledge of those we serve and leverage their insight and experiences to fuel our mission.

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MacKenzie Scott's Donations Boosted Beneficiaries and Avoided the Pitfalls Some Feared, New Study Says

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento. Worry that the gifts would lead other donors to pull back their support or that small groups wouldn't be able to handle the money were largely unfounded.

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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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Comment on 16 Tools and Apps for the (non)Tech-Savvy Fundraiser by How to Create a Donor Stewardship Plan for Your Campaign

Amy Eisenstein

[…] you use technology as part of donor recognition? Will you send video thank you’s? Will you use other apps, platforms, or services to […].

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MacKenzie Scott's Giving Total Is Now Over $13 Billion

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Sara Herschander. Art Garcia, Sipa USA, AP MacKenzie Scott says she will release a full database of grantees so others who might be interested in giving can learn more about their missions. Scott released names of more than 1,200 charities that she supported with big gifts over the past seven months.

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Retired Blackstone Partner and Wife Give $25 Million for Early-Childhood Health

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago With his wife, Kathleen, John Schreiber gave $25 million to establish a center at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, which will, among other things, help ensure that new parents have access to quality health care, social services, and the tools to keep their babies safe at home, in cars, and while they are sleeping.

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Thinking and Acting Like a Platform Will Help Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact at Scale

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Irina Snissar Lobo & Maria Zapata. For most of us, participation on digital platforms has become a casual feature of modern life—from purchasing groceries to accessing entertainment, from getting a cab to scheduling an appointment with a doctor. In India, where one of the authors lives, it is becoming common to encounter people in large cities begging for money at traffic lights who now accept Google Pay transfers.

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Companies Seek to Jump-Start Donations From Everyday Donors as Year-End Giving Season Arrives

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Sara Herschander. Courtesy of Walmart. Companies often used to rely on partnerships with big nonprofits, but today many of them typically allow customers to make gifts to any organization that has received charity status from the IRS.

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Giving Tuesday: Don’t Take the Money and Run

Clairification

The absolute worst thing you can do the day after Giving Tuesday is nothing. As tempting as it is to let out a sigh of relief that it’s over, resist that temptation. It’s not time to relax yet. Nothing comes of nothing. And a huge part of your goal with Giving Tuesday should be to strengthen your bonds with donors. That’s the real something you’re after.

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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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How To Improve Your Creative Writing Using a Paraphrasing Tool

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How To Improve Your Creative Writing Using a Paraphrasing Tool. Are you looking to improve your creative writing? A paraphrasing tool can help you boost your creativity and efficiency. Check out what you need to know to get started. Creative writing encompasses expressing ideas and thoughts using your own imagination and creativity. In other words, creative writing is about giving an existing idea a new creative flair using your own creative mind.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

The year 2020 was an astounding year for disaster philanthropy, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. federal agencies, donor-advised funds, and giving platforms.

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Your fundraising might just be "white noise" for donors

Jeff Brooks

There's a certain way things are done. We create printed pieces that look nice and professional. We use tasteful color palettes. We use an elevated vocabulary to signify our sophistication and education. It's everywhere. And it's the equivalence of white noise -- sound that you don't quite hear. When you do things the way everyone does everything, your message becomes white noise.

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The Ultimate Giving Tuesday Promotion Plan

Foundation Group

The post The Ultimate Giving Tuesday Promotion Plan appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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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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Egg, Omelet, or Frying Pan: Exploring the Relationship between Business & Altruism in the Independent Sector

Blue Avocado

Article In Brief: The Problem: The term nonprofit organizations has outlived its usefulness to describe the work that charitable organizations in the independent sector do, argues the author, former co-leader of the Fanning Institute’s nonprofit leadership development and capacity building practice. Why it Happens: The difficult work leaders of charitable organizations do to connect business […].

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How Your Back Office Can Destroy Your Fundraising

Veritus Group

When your back office isn't equipped to support your fundraising efforts, you're going to see higher levels of donor value attrition. The post How Your Back Office Can Destroy Your Fundraising appeared first on Veritus Group.

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How to Turn Your Jewelry Hobby Into a Thriving Business

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Turn Your Jewelry Hobby Into a Thriving Business. Start turning your jewelry hobby into a successful business. Check out the tips and reach your goals faster than ever before. How many of us have turned a hobby into a thriving business? For most, the answer is probably few. But for those who have, the feeling of accomplishment is unparalleled. .

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How to improve your grant writing

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

Whether grants generate a large portion or a small portion of your budget, it is important to be efficient in your grant prospecting process. Today’s guest, Gauri Manglik, explains how nonprofits can improve their fundraising and grant prospecting. Rob’s guest, Gauri Manglik, is the CEO and Co-founder of Instrumentl. Instrumentl is a platform that brings grant prospecting.

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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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The Process was Magic: How a Creative, Skills-Based Volunteer Opportunity Became a Documentary Short

Volunteer Match

In 2020, Cedar Schimke, Executive Director of Slow Food Minnesota , posted an opportunity on VolunteerMatch, seeking creative volunteers to tell her organization's story. At the same time, filmmaker Kish Daniels was looking on VolunteerMatch for an engaging, skills-based project. He saw Cedar's posting and clicked the button, "I Want to Help," what came next was a project neither party could have expected.

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Marketing Your Online Auction: 3 Tips to Boost Interest

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Guest post by Sarah Sebastian, Director of Corporate Communications for OneCause. As those in the nonprofit world realize, few things are as effective—or as time consuming—as fundraising events. Auctions are among our favorites for engaging donors and raising revenue. However, they do require investments of your time and resources to drive results, even when held virtually. .

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Biden-Harris Administration Launches $50M Program for Nonprofits to Make Critical Energy Upgrades

NonProfit PRO

The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), released a pilot program that will help make nonprofit buildings more efficient, saving organizations money to reinvest in mission-driven work.

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Six (Nonpartisan) Leadership Lessons from the 2022 Elections

Fundraising Leadership

Issue 210 — November 14, 2022 I believe so strongly that #votingisleadership that I created a hashtag for it. Civic engagement is in my view a critical part of leadership. We are all shaped by our communities and so must be part of shaping them. Politics, as political scientist Walter Truett Anderson defined it, is the clash of uncertainties from which social realities are constructed.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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!