Thu.Jan 05, 2023

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Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Lisa Pilar Cowan and Michele Flores. Getty Images. Too often, nonprofits force development officers to grovel for donations from the rich, rather than emphasizing how to connect people in a community to support an organization’s mission.

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How to Pay for Fundraising Costs: Can It Be Fast, Cheap and Good?

NonProfit PRO

Many nonprofit executives still struggle with how to pay for fundraising. That’s a shame because fundraising done well pays for itself. Yet the dilemma is real and persistent.

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Photography Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

If you work in nonprofit communications, suddenly you are a professional photographer. Not only that but you are also expected to coach others on taking good photographs on their phones. And you are also supposed to know how to edit photos and then sort, manage, and store them all in some meaningful way. That’s a lot! Let’s start with taking photos on your own phone.

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Amy Eisenstein

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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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Moore Acquires Merkle Response Management Group

NonProfit PRO

Moore announced that it has acquired Merkle Response Management Group from erkle Inc. Moore is making the investment in Merkle RMG to support its ongoing expansion in processing operations with a portfolio of diverse capabilities and locations across the nation.

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Amy Eisenstein

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Comment on Virtual vs. In-Person Solicitation: Predicting the Future of Fundraising by Check-Up Clinic: Solicitations - CapDev

Amy Eisenstein

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Steps You Can Take to Ensure a Successful 2023

Ann Green

Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice holiday and weren’t affected by severe weather and flight cancellations. My family rented a house on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland that wasn’t well suited for temperatures in the teens, but fortunately our return flight on Southwest took place after they were “back to normal.”. Now that the New Year is here do you wonder what’s ahead for us?

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Comment on Major Gift Fundraising – Everything You Need to Know in 2022 by 3 Easy Ways to Determine Your Campaign Readiness

Amy Eisenstein

[…] they don’t have yet a robust major gift program? Sometimes we are able to use a campaign to grow their major gift fundraising and to engage key donors. But I think we do need to take a serious look and a campaign is much […].

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Top Three Tips for Donor Engagement

Affnetz

Top Three Tips for Donor Engagement. Nonprofit management software / By Mike Crum. From a fundraiser’s point of view, donor engagement is reflected in the fundraising cycle – identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. But, donor engagement really comes down to three basic things: . Promoting Your Nonprofit / Remaining Relevant. Thanking Donors.

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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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Amy Eisenstein

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Predictions for the future of social sector data 

Candid

Chantal Forster, Executive Director, TAG ( Technology Association of Grantmakers ). If you’ve been waiting for an invitation to the data conversation, this is it. Whether you’re a nonprofit, funder, or a consortium of both, fundamental questions are surfacing about social sector data that merit your attention. Last month, at the TAG2022 conference for global philanthropy tech in San Antonio, we featured a panel on the future of social sector data that only scratched the surface of co

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Amy Eisenstein

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[Free Webinar] How to Accept Donate Now, Pay Later™ Donations to Grow Giving in 2023

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Time: 1 pm ET / 10 am PT (1 hour). Cost: Free. Presented by: Dominic Kalms , CEO & Founder at B Generous. Donate Now, Pay Later was inspired by the widespread acceptance of Buy Now, Pay Later in the consumer retail space. Across generations, nearly 60% of consumers say they prefer Buy Now, Pay Later over credit cards due to the ease of set payments and the lack of interest charges.

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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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Why You Should Personalize Your Online Magazine

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Why You Should Personalize Your Online Magazine. Tips to get you started. Hi! Would you like some online magazine tips ? If we had used your name in the first sentence, then it would have been a lot more likely that you would have continued reading. All of us are sensitive to personal attention after all. What’s more, it gives lots of people a huge boost.

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Do You Have the Write Stuff? Top 5 Nonprofit Attention-Grabbers.

Clairification

Take your writing into the stratosphere! Want your writing to take off more this year? Ann Wylie, editor, author, interviewer, teacher and more, is one of the folks I look to for writing tips. And recently she offered 8 tips I believe all nonprofits should take to heart. At least if you want to be persuasive and drive people to take the actions you desire.

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Advertisements in a Responsive Online Magazine

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Advertisements in a Responsive Online Magazine. What are the possibilities and how to get started. I visit publishers quite regularly, and a question that is almost always asked is the following: ‘How do advertisements in digital magazines work?’ In this blog, I will explain the subject of Responsive Advertising. What is the difference between advertisements for print and online advertisements?

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How to Set Up a Donation Matching Campaign and Promote It

Donorbox Nonprofit

A donation matching campaign is one of the best ways for nonprofits to collect extra funds and multiply their impact. Donations to this campaign can be matched by a major donor, a sponsor company, or the donors’ employers. Most employers include this as part of their corporate responsibility program. As per Double the Donation, 65% […]. The post How to Set Up a Donation Matching Campaign and Promote It appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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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 Create a Strong Customer Magazine

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Create a Strong Customer Magazine. Tips to get you excited. This question is becoming increasingly common within organizations. And why not? You invest a lot of time and money in it, so of course you want to know what specific benefits it brings. In this blog, I explain how to assess the success of your customer magazine and how to use this information to make your magazine even more successful.

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7 Essentials Of Nonprofit Financial Management

The Charity CFO

Many nonprofit organizations tend to let their financial management slip on the backburner as they get busy fulfilling their mission. Sure, your mission should be a priority, but managing finances can’t be neglected either. Maintaining healthy financial management is critical for the organization’s sustainability, stability, and flexibility, now and in the future.

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Is AI coming to get your fundraising job?

Jeff Brooks

To hear some people, it seems like Artificial Intelligence (AI, probably pronounced “Aiyeee!”) is a big robot, stalking us all, ready to take our jobs and turn us out into the cold. So I asked AI (at Chat GPT , a free tool set up to answer questions) if it’s after my job. Here’s what AI said: I’m sorry, but I am not capable of taking on any jobs or tasks outside of providing information and answering questions.

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How to Create a Powerful Brand Story

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Create a Powerful Brand Story. With outsiders likely driving conversations about your company, it’s more important than ever to build strong brand messaging that permeates your marketing materials. Does your company have control over its brand? Most organizations make an effort to influence the perception of their brand through social media , various marketing efforts, and customer service.

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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!

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Tech Impact Brings on Heidi Erpelding-Welch as Chief Program Officer

Tech Impact

Seasoned workforce development and programming executive will continue the growth of the nonprofit’s award-winning employment training programs LAS VEGAS, NV (January 5, 2023)—Tech Impact today announces the addition of Heidi Erpelding-Welch as Chief Program Officer. Erpelding-Welch will be responsible for ensuring the IT workforce development programs continue to fit the workforce needs of each of […].

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Keeping the Social Impact Going When a Pilot Project Ends

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Kevin Tan & Nadia Ahmad Samdin. Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. In the United States , private philanthropy totaled $176.7 billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. In Singapore, one of the countries where our firm Tri-Sector Associates works, private philanthropy for the same areas totaled SGD 1.4 billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while g

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How to Leverage the OneCause Fundraising Platform: Customer Examples

The Killoe Group

As we move into the era of mass vaccination and the economy is opening up more and more, it’s time to reflect on the old adage: “Every cloud has a silver lining.”. What will be the silver lining of the COVID-19 storm that kept nonprofits from hosting in-person events , that disrupted traditional fundraising efforts and that estranged donors from some of their favorite charities?