Selfish Giving

JANUARY 11, 2023

I'd wager a coffee (a fancy one too!) that you are not spending enough time thinking about how to get people to open your emails. With more and more emails flooding people's inboxes these days, how can you get yours to stand out and get opened? One tactic that I believe has worked for me and others is using an "emoji identity" in my subject line. For some time now, in the subject line of my newsletter I've used these emojis: ??

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image Credit: AMAL BEN SAAD on unsplash.com. Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. And when they do so, the model that dominates their thinking is the high-tech growth model best exemplified by Silicon Valley.

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2023

The New Year is a time for new beginnings. It’s also a great opportunity to reflect on the past year and what you aspire to do differently in the year ahead. As we enter 2023, we’ve compiled a list of nonprofit books from Candid’s free digital library that can help inspire your nonprofit’s New Year’s resolutions. Whether you’re looking to level up your fundraising skills, invest in innovation, improve your nonprofit’s culture, or take better care of your colleagues and yourself, these 15 books c

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Caring Truth-Teller

JANUARY 11, 2023

What happens when two master storytellers spend a few minutes together? They geek out about how to tell a powerful, engaging story. AND they agree on the fastest way to lose your audience when sharing a story. The wise, fun, brilliant, Jason Ellinger , founder of Beard and Bowler, a nonprofit storytelling and video production company, generously spent time with me this week.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 11, 2023

Impact measurement is mission-critical. After all, it is essentially an assessment of whether or how well an organization is living up to its mission. Thankfully, regardless of how small the budget, there is a lot that organizations can do to maximize their impact measurement dollars.

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Amy Eisenstein

JANUARY 11, 2023

In reply to Shelly. Shelley – I think these are two separate issues. First, you may need a strongly worded letter from a lawyer to encourage the board president step down. It’s clearly time to recruit more board members, although your friend may have a hard time getting them past the president. The second issue it sounds like you’re dealing with through the proper authorities.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 11, 2023

If you find your check engine light on these days, you are not alone. Burnout is a real and persistent challenge for many of us. In the new year, I encourage you to try these check-ins designed to help you ask the necessary questions to get unstuck, avoid burnout, and courageously resist.

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Veritus Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

If you focus on just one thing this year: get to know your donors' passions and interests. Here's a story that shows the impact it can have. The post Improve Your Donor Relationships by Focusing on This ONE Thing in 2023 appeared first on Veritus Group.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press. Andrew Harnik/AP FedEx founder Fred Smith is giving proceeds from the film “Devotion,” which he financed, in part for scholarships for the children of Navy service members studying STEM. He financed the production of the film Devotion, about two Navy pilots in the Korean War. The film's proceeds will go in part to endow a new scholarship fund for the children of Navy service members pursuing studies in STEM.

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Big Duck

JANUARY 11, 2023

The post Words to Avoid—2023 Edition appeared first on Big Duck.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press New York. Adrian Kraus/AP Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin plans to use GoFundMe donations and proceeds from sales of new T-shirts emblazoned with “Did We Win?” to support young people and the Cincinnati trauma center that treated him. The Buffalo Bills safety plans to use that money as well as the proceeds from the sale of T-shirts to support young people through education and sports and the Cincinnati trauma center that treated him after he suffered a cardiac

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 11, 2023

This is a new series from Bloomerang called Why I Donated. In each post, one donor will share what inspired them to make a donation and why they donated to that specific nonprofit. Our hope is that this series will provide fundraisers with an even better understanding of what motivates people to donate to the causes they care about. The Donor : In this post, we talk to Micah, a Communications Manager in Boulder, Colorado.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Drew Lindsay. Downtown Boise The Downtown Boise Association ran about 100 events a year before the pandemic shuttered much of its work. It has used a tax credit to market the return of those events and ensure their quality. Organizations are availing themselves of a nearly three-year-old tax credit that Congress revamped to make more businesses and nonprofits eligible.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 11, 2023

“To stand still is to fall behind,” said Mark Twain. He likely didn’t have grassroots campaigns in mind when he uttered those words, but Twain’s advice is spot-on for grassroots advocacy practitioners as they make a plan to engage the new Congress. The 118th Congress has new leadership and plenty of new lawmakers. Even the incumbents are in new districts.

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Elevation

JANUARY 11, 2023

You’ve just come off a long fundraising season and the lethargy of the holidays still lingers. You want to start the new year on the right foot but your staff needs a serious recharge and you’re not sure how to get them motivated again. We understand, because we've found ourselves in the same boat in the past. Here's some ways to conquer the post-holiday blues with ideas that will energize your staff.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 11, 2023

We’re Launching our new Series of Consultant Profiles! First up: Christy Gilmour. Christy Gilmour. Finding a consultant can be a stressful experience. How do you find the right fit for your organization? How do you know that they’re qualified? That’s why Momentum Nonprofit Partners launched our consultant directory in 2017 and have linked hundreds of nonprofits to qualified consultants in Memphis and across the country.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2023

This episode is sponsored by RoundTable Technology – the Nonprofit IT Partner. On January 26, they are offering a free webinar on the exact steps required to secure and protect your nonprofit IT in the New Year. RoundTable Technology is a managed IT and cybersecurity services organization focusing on the nonprofit sector, with over 200 nonprofit clients.

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The Killoe Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

The post Donor Communication Guide: Creating the Ideal Communications Cadence appeared first on OneCause.

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Amy Eisenstein

JANUARY 11, 2023

This is great, Amy — fee-for-service consulting has been our lifeblood, although we haven’t developed a great strategy for promotion or a standardized fee schedule yet. We have found a niche that fits within our mission and unique skill set — developing civic engagement programs for entities that serve the community and/or building and managing collaborative partnerships — and that those public service entities are often willing to pay for.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 11, 2023

In these uncertain times, nonprofits are forced to consider how they will maintain the capital necessary to drive impact. Givzey and Yearly’s partnership is designed to give nonprofit leaders a place to recognize emerging trends and impacts early, so they can effectively appeal to everyone from donors to board members.

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Prosper Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nearly every nonprofit has a mission and vision statement, but there is a third statement becoming more and more common among social sector organizations. Some call it a “purpose statement” or a “why statement.” We call it a reason for being. We’ve found this statement to be an incredibly powerful asset that brings an additional […].

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 11, 2023

Revenue recognition for nonprofits may seem fairly straightforward, but has unique complexities with important compliance consequences. Nonprofits rely on a mix of sources for their income, from fundraising, grants, and investments to earned income and individual contributions. All these sources must be carefully managed to ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and guidelines.

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Jeff Brooks

JANUARY 11, 2023

I recently came a cross this self-description of what a nonprofit does: "Community catalysts evolving global solutions locally.". Six words, every one of them an abstraction, and most of them jargon. It communicates almost nothing. I can think of a couple of reasons they chose that way to describe their work: They're hiding something. They're afraid if people knew what they really did, nobody would support them.

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Elevation

JANUARY 11, 2023

Would you like a free advertising platform for your nonprofit?

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Amy Eisenstein

JANUARY 11, 2023

It is absolutely about investment vs. expense. Taking the ‘just’ out of ‘but we are just a non-profit’ makes a huge difference. Dan Pallotta talked about this way back in 2013 about thinking like a business. His for-profit business did huge work raising money for Susan B Korman, AIDS and other organizations because they thought like a business and made investments instead of doing everything cheaply.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 11, 2023

Cold calling, for many fundraisers who dislike it, sits right up there with public speaking, which some surveys have found people fear more than dying. Certainly, in our modern digital tech age, there must be a better way to engage major donors and supporters than cold calling them, right? Who uses a phone to call people anymore? Well, as it turns out, a lot of people do – especially many of your top major donor prospects.

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Amy Eisenstein

JANUARY 11, 2023

Let’s do it!

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