Mon.Jun 02, 2025

article thumbnail

What Nonprofits Need to Know About the July 2025 Postal Rate Increase

NonProfit PRO

Heres what upcoming postal rate hikes mean for your nonprofit and how you can keep your direct mail program both effective and affordable.

article thumbnail

Can a Shift From 'Slacktivism' Win Over Gen Z?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Nonprofits are giving young Americans meaningful work and the chance to direct the change they want to see happen. By James Pollard, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) Nonprofits are giving young Americans meaningful work and the chance to direct the change they want to see happen.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Report Shows Link Between Social Impact Organizations’ Tech Use, Fundraising Revenue Growth

NonProfit PRO

"The Status of Fundraising in the AI Era" report found nonprofits that integrate technology are more likely to report revenue growth.

article thumbnail

The Digital Divide and Climate Disasters

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Rinald Rolle on Unsplash In a region still struggling to recover from Septembers Hurricane Helene, heavy rain combined with Februarys melting ice and snow from unseasonably warm temperatures delivered a devastating flood to central Appalachia. The climate disaster was much like the floods that came before it, in 2021 and 2022 , which cut off the region with impassable roads, downed power lines, damaged cables, and internet service loss.

Poverty 94
article thumbnail

Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

article thumbnail

How Small Nonprofits Can Run a Strong Capital Campaign: 8 Tips

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Nowadays groups of all sizes are pulling off multiyear drives. Heres what you need to know to succeed and how to get started. By Lisa Schohl Getty Images/iStockphoto Nowadays groups of all sizes are pulling off multiyear drives. Heres what you need to know to succeed and how to get started.

article thumbnail

Would You Donate to You?

Clairification

Lets flip the script. This week, youre not the fundraiseryoure the donor. For five easy, eye-opening days, youll experience your organization the way your supporters do: what they see, how they feel, and what might be turning them off (or winning them over). Its a chance to spark fresh insights, fine-tune your approach, and build a more donor-centered experiencewithout adding anything major to your to-do list.

More Trending

article thumbnail

From Transactional to Transformational: How Emotional Intelligence Builds Lasting Major Donor Loyalty

iMarketSmart

Theres a dangerous myth in fundraising: that success is measured by the number of calls made, visits completed, and dollars raised. But the truth is, metrics dont build loyalty. Emotions do. In fact, most organizations dont have a retention problemthey have a relationship problem. And thats why transactional fundraising, focused on short-term asks, often leads to short-lived donors.

article thumbnail

9 Benefits of Sharing GIFs on Social Media (And How to Do It Right)

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

9 Benefits of Sharing GIFs on Social Media (And How to Do It Right) GIFs have evolved far beyond their meme roots. Theyre now an essential part of brand communication, offering quick, expressive, and highly shareable visual content. Whether youre a national brand or a local service provider, GIFs can elevate your presence across social platforms. This guide breaks down the real benefits of GIFsand how you can use tools (including AI) to make your social media stand out.

article thumbnail

Top 5 blog posts of the month

Jeff Brooks

Here are the 5 most-read Future Fundraising Now blog posts of the month of May: Online fundraising benchmark report shows mixed picture What to do if theyre coming for you 4 ways to tell fundraising stories and the only one you should use 5 things good writers avoid but fundraising writers embrace Laws of Fundraising regarding donor complaints Looking for some really good (and specific) advice for your fundraising?

Law 52
article thumbnail

6 Ways OCR Technology and AI Can Improve Data-Driven Campaigns

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

6 Ways OCR Technology and AI Can Improve Data-Driven Campaigns Running smarter marketing campaigns means leveraging all your data, even the stuff hidden in PDFs or forms. This is where optical character recognition (OCR) meets AI. These tools can unlock buried information, allowing you to analyze and act on it. Discover how combining OCR and AI helps you build truly data-driven campaigns that actually convert.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

We can still choose love: Building loving communities that support student well-being and success 

Candid

Current efforts to dismantle the Department of Educationincluding the Office for Civil Rights, Title I funding, support for students with disabilities, and the vital data systems that underpin equity and accountability in educationraise deep concerns. They jeopardize the opportunity to learn for more than 50 million public school students. No matter your stance on the federal governments role in education, weve neglected what we know from experience: Reform falls short when it fails to confront

article thumbnail

Planning

Big Duck

The post Planning appeared first on Big Duck.

52
article thumbnail

Mark Your Calendar: Have the Courage to Lead Every Month, All Year

Fundraising Leadership

Issue 2848 June 2, 2025 May holds multitudes of identities. Its Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Older Americans Month. Jewish American Heritage Month. Mental Health Awareness Month. Victorious Women Month. Military Appreciation Month. AndyesRespect for Chickens Month. June? Its Pride Month. Also, National Iced Tea Month. Caribbean American Heritage Month.

Health 52
article thumbnail

Trainings and Workshops

Big Duck

The post Trainings and Workshops appeared first on Big Duck.

52
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Sustainability Backsliding Doesn’t Have to Mean Back to Square One

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Amanda Williams , Lucrezia Nava & Gail Whiteman In President Trumps second term, a variety of executive actions have reversed social progress. Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement presents a significant challenge to bending the global emissions curve since it is one of the worlds largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, but a variety of other actions will endanger the energy transition.

article thumbnail

Advocates Discuss How Best to Support the Autism Community

NonProfit Quarterly

Public Domain Dedication , April 4, 2014. President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have made it plain that they view autism as a disease in need of a cure. As an autistic man, I beg to differ, and many fellow autists and medical professionals agree with me. Nationally, a recent estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that one in 36 children in the United States have some form of autism.