Tue.Jul 11, 2023

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How Data Can Help Nonprofits Bring in More Donations

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Rasheeda Childress and Emily Haynes Stuart Bradford for The Chronicl When data analysts work hand-in-hand with fundraisers, the results can be bigger gifts and better donor relationships.

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The Second Gift: Turning Donor Impulse Into a Conscience Choice

NonProfit PRO

We celebrate acquiring new donors, track efforts to turn one-time donors into recurring donors, and create winback strategies for lapsed donors. Here are some tips to compel first-time donors to give a second gift.

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Quick Grants From Tech Billionaires Aim to Speed Up Science Research — but Not All Scientists Approve

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Eden Stiffman Alameda Silicon Valley’s biggest names are backing new ways to organize and fund science research. Some worry their experiments signal a “move fast and break things” approach.

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Vanguard Charitable Boosts Donors’ Giving Power by Growing Trusted Investment Lineup

NonProfit PRO

Vanguard Charitable introduced 16 new investments to expand its curated, high-performing donor-advised fund investment lineup. The expansion provides donors with new actively managed funds and more options within U.S. equity markets, enabling even greater portfolio customization.

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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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Easy Ways to Start Using Data to Raise Money

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Rasheeda Childress and Emily Haynes Stuart Bradford for The Chronicle Taking those first steps to incorporate data into fundraising can be intimidating. Experts offer advice on how to get started.

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BridgeTECH Preview: Donor Data Visualization for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

Brandon S. Hemel from WETA, Joseph Miscavige from PBS and Emily Courville from The Humane Society of the United States will be presenting “Data Visualization for Fun and (Non)Profit,” at this year’s inaugural BridgeTECH. We spoke to Hemel to get a sneak peek at his session.

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Are You Missing These Community Conversations?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Today, Dawn Crawford and I had a great chat about feedback styles based on her book, Kindly Review. This occurred not on Zoom or Facebook Live but inside our private, free community. Are you missing out on great info like this? Then you need to join us! Do it now , and you can join the conversation on Wednesday (tomorrow!) with Anysa Holder. She and Kristina will be talking about nonprofit budgeting.

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Tips for Keeping Data Up-to-Date to Avoid Fundraising Pitfalls

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Rasheeda Childress Getty Images Simple steps nonprofits can take to ensure their data is accurate and up to date, such as understanding how information is entered and what it takes to change a record.

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How AI Makes Social Media Marketing Easier For Your Business

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How AI Makes Social Media Marketing Easier For Your Business AI has revolutionized social media marketing, making it easier and more effective for businesses to engage with their target audience. With billions of active users on platforms like Facebook, Instagram , Twitter, and LinkedIn , businesses have unparalleled opportunities to connect with their target audience.

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Nonprofit Helps Women Athletes Navigate the Gender Pay Gap

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Nicole Wallace JOHN SEGESTA The Homestretch Foundation is fighting unequal pay in professional cycling and provides free temporary housing to help women athletes continue their training.

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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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Effective Social Media Marketing for Nonprofits [Course]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Effective Social Media Marketing for Nonprofits [Course] Step-by-step course to improve your Nonprofit’s Social Media Marketing. Ask us and community members anything and become more effective. Nonprofit Marketers are the heroes of our society Get the course with tactics, strategies, tools, and homework to get more out of your social media marketing efforts.

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Why Fundraisers Need to Double Down on Data Security

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Emily Haynes The data nonprofits collect about donors is valuable. Securing and protecting it is essential to maintain a good relationship with supporters.

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How to Use Your Year-End Fundraising Momentum into the New Year

The Killoe Group

Dive into these 7 sure-fire ways to use your year-end fundraising momentum into the new year from OneCause.

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Trust-based considerations for demographic data

Candid

There is promising evidence that philanthropy is changing to be more responsive to the needs and priorities of communities. Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and racial uprisings of 2020, many of these shifts were seen as essential to healing and repairing a society in crisis. As funders scrambled to move money to communities in need, the limitations of conventional philanthropy came into sharper focus.

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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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From Lion Killers to Lion Savers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Uri Gneezy An excerpt from Mixed Signals on using incentive to change culture

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3 Examples of Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns

The Killoe Group

Take your peer-to-peer fundraising to the next level! Here are 3 examples of successful peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns that will help you do just that!

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9 Powerful Lessons I’ve Learned for Personal and Professional Growth from Recording 300 Podcast Episodes

Successful Nonprofits

The post 9 Powerful Lessons I’ve Learned for Personal and Professional Growth from Recording 300 Podcast Episodes appeared first on Successful Nonprofits.

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The powerful 3-part structure for an effective newsletter story [Newsletter Tuesday]

Jeff Brooks

Newsletter Tuesdays: A series about doing more with your donor newsletter. The standard structure for a written news stories is the Inverted Pyramid: Start with the most important elements of the story, then work your way to less-important things. It’s thought to be a service to readers, who can learn the basics about what’s going on, then go as deep into it as they want before moving on to the next story.

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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 to Get more Website Visitors with AI [Course]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Get more Website Visitors with AI [Course] Step-by-step course to grow your website traffic. Ask us and community members anything and become more effective. Growing your website traffic is a must for any business owner. The difficulty is that it’s such a broad subject that one can easily get lost when searching for proven tactics for growing website traffic.

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Affirmative Action Decision Is a Call to Double Down on Racial Equity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Cathy Albisa & Julie Nelson A majority on the US Supreme Court unraveled decades of case law on affirmative action this June when they found that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s use of race as a factor in a holistic admissions process was an unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.