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Rockstar Recruitment: How To Hire The Best People

Joan Garry

Dream candidates could be right in front of you and you could completely overlook them if your recruitment process upholds the status quo. Indeed, using the same standard recruiting criteria as everyone else could be an invisible blocker to attracting and hiring your dream team. These two strategies are how you can reinvent your recruiting process with smashing success.

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Equity Advocates Harm Their Cause When They Insist on a Raised Fist, Not an Extended Hand

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Collaboration — not resistance — is the best path to lasting social change. For proof, just look at the debate over pandemic school closures. By Eboo Patel Getty Images Collaboration — not resistance — is the best path to lasting social change. For proof, just look at the debate over pandemic school closures.

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5 Steps to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Grant Management Process

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits may scramble to gather details or documents and submit last-minute applications for grants. Here are five tips to cut the chaos.

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69% of U.S. Muslims Always Give to Charities during Ramadan

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Giving fulfills a religious obligation, and research suggests that nonprofits should reach out to this small but generous population during the monthlong holiday. By Shariq Siddiqui Adam Gray/AFP via Getty Images Members of the Muslim community gather for the first Taraweeh prayer of Ramadan in New York City. Research suggests that nonprofits should reach out to this small but generous population during the monthlong holiday.

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UpMetrics Launches Free Impact Framework Building Tool for Impact Organizations

NonProfit PRO

UpMetrics released its Impact Measurement and Management Suite to help organizations measure, maximize, and showcase their impact.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Guibson Trindade , Débora Montibeler & Paula Jancso Fabiani Silvio Almeida, Brazil’s human rights minister and a well-known intellectual prior to taking office, writes in his book Racismo Estrutural , “Institutions are racist because society is racist.” Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism.

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[Book Review] Your tool for helping others believe in effective fundraising writing

Jeff Brooks

Book Review : Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please: The Case for Plain Language in Business, Government, and Law by Joseph Kimble This book is a useful and comprehensive guide for the Plain Language movement. It’s light on how-to-write material, but has a ton of foot-noted background information — the kind of stuff bosses sometimes listen to.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: 501(c)3 management

The Charity CFO

Good morning from a Modern Nonprofit Podcast! Today we have a financial professional & co-founder of Fairlight Advisors, Maya Tussing. Maya and her team specialize in investing for nonprofit organizations. So, naturally our conversation today will include many topics from the viewpoint of the financial statements, those within the organization that Maya is working with directly, and so much more.

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What Is Pledge Fundraising? 5 Frequently Asked Questions

Fundraising Coach

Let’s explore two fundraising scenarios. School A and School B are both holding month-long read-a-thon fundraising campaigns to cap off the end of the school year. School A asks students to collect flat donations of $10 from their friends and family. School B uses the pledge fundraising model and asks students to collect $3 pledges for each hour spent reading from their sponsors.

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Mastering AI: Unleashing the Power of ChatGPT in London

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Mastering AI: Unleashing the Power of ChatGPT in London As a global hub of technological innovation, London’s embrace of Artificial Intelligence (AI) propels it to the forefront of this transformative era. Among the pioneering advancements reshaping industries, ChatGPT, OpenAI’s groundbreaking language model, emerges as a true game-changer.

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The Power of Evidence

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Michael D.

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Indecision is exhausting

Concord Leadership

Are you feeling fatigued? Inexplicably tired? Did you realize that “keeping your options open” can be draining you? Leadership coach Kim Nicol did a great post on LinkedIn. She starts the post with: One of the most exhausting things is delaying making a decision. I agree with Kim Nicol. Making decisions is hard. There are […] The post Indecision is exhausting appeared first on The Concord Leadership Group, LLC.

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5 Easy Steps: A Guide to Hiring a Fundraising Consultant

Fundraising Coach

To bring your mission to fruition, you need a clear roadmap. However, developing an optimal fundraising strategy can be challenging, especially when there is already so much on your nonprofit’s plate. Luckily, you don’t have to do this alone! A fundraising consultant can identify opportunities for improvement in your existing fundraising plan and build new strategies to advance your nonprofit.

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The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

Part of my work at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) involves monitoring philanthropic giving in response to disasters through our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy: Data to Drive Decisions (SODP) report. However, due to lags in reporting, that data is two years behind. When we can look at numbers immediately after a disaster, it gives us a unique perspective.