The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 12, 2023

By Eboo Patel Ken Ruinard, USA TODAY NETWORK In the 2019-20 academic year, Black students made up less than 6 percent of the population of colleges in the richest and most prominent conferences in college football. However, they made up 48 percent of the student athletes on women’s basketball teams. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ruling, foundation and nonprofit leaders need to take a hard look at alternative ways to achieve diversity.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 12, 2023

With email deliverability hurdles and cluttered inboxes, text messaging provides an alternate way to quickly reach donors and constituents. Here are four ways to quickly grow your nonprofit’s text messaging list.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 12, 2023

By Emily Haynes Confidence among fundraisers has declined, though most expect to reach their goals, and more than half of organization say staffing shortages will be their biggest challenge ahead, a survey has found.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 12, 2023

Bloomerang launched Bloomerang Volunteer to transform how nonprofits attract, engage, and sustain authentic relationships with individuals while maximizing fundraising. The platform enables nonprofits to create supporters and manage more supporters in less time.

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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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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 12, 2023

By Nimco Ali U.S. foundations need to join efforts to eradicate a practice that harms millions of women physically and emotionally, preventing them from becoming productive members of their communities, says a victim of the procedure.

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Joan Garry

JULY 12, 2023

Nonprofit talent management is a challenge. Here's how to attract, retain, and develop the best people to help your org achieve its mission. The post How To Attract Top Talent and Retain Top Performers appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Amy Eisenstein

JULY 12, 2023

I love all your posts, but this is the best one yet! I have a client who walks during our coaching meetings every week. Thank you for pointing out that “work” can be good and good for you!

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 12, 2023

By M.J. Prest Elissa Monroe, KU Medical Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center will use the Sunderland Foundation grant for a new hospital that will house cancer research, treatment, and patient care. Shown here, Roy Jensen, director of the cancer center. Also, the Bezos Earth Fund has given $50 million for conservation and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon region, and the Ray Charles Foundation has given $1 million to continue Cedars-Sinai's neurosurgery scholarship program

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Amy Eisenstein

JULY 12, 2023

Finally, someone gets me! Thanks for reaffirming the benefits of using physical activity to unlock thinking and engage in more meaningful conversations. People will say the most amazing things while thinking about a walk or hike. Love this!

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Ann Green

JULY 12, 2023

It’s hard to believe we’re halfway through 2023, isn’t it? The midpoint of the year is always a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. For this post, I’m assuming your fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. If you’re on a different fiscal cycle, you can make the appropriate time adjustments. In this continuous time of uncertainty, your fundraising may be down.

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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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Selfish Giving

JULY 12, 2023

Here's something to try this week. Head over to ChatGPT and either signup or, if you already have an account, log in. BTW, signing up is easy and free, so don't sweat it! Here's the prompt I want you to use: Write a [type (e.g., informal, professional, with a Boston accent)] sales email for a corporate partnership with [nonprofit], which is the perfect partner for a company that wants to give back and reach a valuable target audience.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. It’s everywhere. There are peer groups, conferences, webinars, blogs, and even schools dedicated to systems change. And there are as many definitions, theories, and conceptual frameworks of systems change as there are articles written about it.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Abe Camacho on unsplash.com This article introduces a new NPQ series, Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. C oproduced with the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders , a national network of Latinx community development groups, this series highlights community preservation , land ownership, and business development efforts in Latinx and immigrant communities across the United States.

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Big Duck

JULY 12, 2023

Discover how effective communication can enhance board member recruitment and engagement.

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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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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Bree Carlson: I think we spend a fair amount of time nuancing whether or not what we have in the county now is capitalism as it’s supposed to be. Well, no. It’s never actually been—our capitalism, our democracy, none of this has ever been what we say it is in the textbooks. That’s reinforcing the narrative underpinnings of it. But every effort, every structure designed to concentrate wealth among a few requires labor.

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Prosper Strategies

JULY 12, 2023

Nonprofit marketing planning can be challenging if you don’t have an established budget, and many organizations like to maintain some flexibility in case they happen upon additional funding over the course of a year (wouldn’t that be nice?). That’s why, at Prosper Strategies, we developed what we call must-have, should-have, could-have nonprofit marketing planning, and […] The post Must-have, should-have, could-have nonprofit marketing planning appeared first on Prosper S

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Saqib Bhatti: I think that what we really need is a massive redistribution of power and wealth in this country. And I think one of the key challenges we have is when we try to focus purely on legislative answers, we’re not able to get the legislative victories that we need, because at the end of the day, politicians are more beholden to corporations than they are to their voters.

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Donorbox Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2023

At Donorbox, we have always helped you create effective fundraising campaigns on our platform. Now, we’re taking your branding with these campaigns to the next level! Donorbox Custom Domain empowers your nonprofit to display your Donorbox campaigns under your own website subdomain. This means your valuable supporters won’t be redirected to a page outside of […] The post Donorbox Custom Domain – Display Your Campaigns under Your Own Website Subdomain appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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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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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

How do people not only develop a vision of a democratic economy rooted in values of solidarity but come together to make that vision a collective reality? That is the daring question contained in this issue of Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine. Building on last summer’s issue on ownership, NPQ economic justice editors Steve Dubb and Rithika Ramamurthy call on us to consider what they label movement economies.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JULY 12, 2023

Improving Lead Generation for B2B SaaS Marketers [Course] Step-by-step course to grow your website traffic. Ask us and community members anything and become more effective. The days of collecting contact information and sending those ‘ Leads ’, that you call ‘ marketing qualified ’, to your sales team are over. The poor conversion rates and high customer acquisition cost (CAC) should’ve ended this practice years ago.

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Dennis C Miller

JULY 12, 2023

July 12, 2023 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PST The post Summer Webinar Series: Achievement appeared first on DCM Associates.

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iMarketSmart

JULY 12, 2023

Every industry loves to predict the future. We predict stock markets, sports outcomes, educational outcomes, climate change, weather, and performance in just about any business sector. And as Big Data has grown, so too has the attraction to predictive data analytics, and fundraising is no exception. So how well does predictive analytics in fundraising really work?

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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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Jeff Brooks

JULY 12, 2023

In the early morning hours of a late-winter day in 1990, two men dressed as police officers got into an art museum. They tied up the two guards on duty in the basement and proceeded to grab 13 pieces of art, most notably two Rembrandts and a Vermeer. They left with their loot and were never caught. The value of the stolen art was estimated at $200 million dollars.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

By Fabiola Cineas Before taking my seat, I stood in line to greet the ceremony’s other attendees. As I approached each person—tribal elders, community leaders, politicians—we pressed our noses and foreheads together for several seconds to perform the hongi , a customary greeting of the Māori people, the Indigenous Polynesians of mainland New Zealand.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 12, 2023

Image Credit: Luriko Yamaguchi on pexel.com What is public power? For many, it means publicly generated electricity. Indeed, an estimated 49 million people in the United States get their electricity from publicly owned power authorities, including residents of Los Angeles, Seattle, Nashville, and Memphis. In a word, a large share of public services during the neoliberal era of the past few decades has been outsourced.

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