NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 3, 2023
Whether your nonprofit is applying for a government grant or support from a private foundation, what reviewers are looking for in grant proposals can feel like a secret. So, to improve your grant applications and give funders what they want, here are five tips.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 3, 2023
By Maria Di Mento. Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan, Getty Image John Paulson has given $100 million to New York University to help pay for the newly built John A. Paulson Center, an academic complex that houses educational and performing-arts programs, sports and recreational facilities, and student and faculty housing. Plus, American Technion Society receives $50 million from Lynda and Stewart Resnick and retired racecar driver and oilman Johnny Gray and his wife, Terry, give Jupiter Medical Cent
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NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 3, 2023
Nonprofit professionals rely on strong relationships to help us grow our organizations, build trust with our communities, and advance our own careers. Here are three ways joining a networking group can help grow your nonprofit and how networking can help you, too.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
JANUARY 3, 2023
Written by: Javan Van Gronigen. Reading Time: 5 minutes. Social impact organizations often encounter the paradoxical issue of spending money to fundraise. It’s important to reap the highest return on your investment (ROI) so you don’t lose money on conducting outreach for your cause. . One of the best ways to maximize your ROI on outreach is to cultivate your digital presence through marketing.
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.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 3, 2023
The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI is creating a new digital resource, the Equitable Giving Lab, that will bring an equity lens to philanthropy by measuring funding for under-resourced groups.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JANUARY 3, 2023
We are still going through the data for our 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report coming out later this month, but here is what I have found out from my other sources (aka the Internet) about what’s going to happen in the marketing world in 2023. General Marketing Trends. 80+ Content Marketing Trends for Success in 2023. The Future of Search in 2023: Google Goes Multi-Modal.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 3, 2023
Joseph Phelan: […] Platform accountability doesn’t happen without organizing, right? We can do all the lobbying we want and pay the high price lobbying firms. We can get as many op-eds as we want, et cetera, et cetera. But it actually comes down to organizing. Organizing is contesting for power at the individual and group level. And our opposition, the right wing, is contesting for power.
Affnetz
JANUARY 3, 2023
Keeping Nonprofit Donors Engaged. Nonprofit management software / By Mike Crum. Some fundraising statistics are worse than others. Probably the most perilous statistic is the percentage of first-time donors that never make a second gift. In North America, approximately two out of three donors never make that second gift? Why is this number so low?
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
JANUARY 3, 2023
Here’s Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association. Source: Independent Sector. Nonprofits are Tennessee’s 6th largest industry, and the sector pays more than $13.5 billion in wages each year to 181,300 Tennesseans (or 8% of the state’s workforce). Tennessee nonprofits generate over 31.6 billion in revenues each year, and they hold assets of almost $71.4 billion, accounting for 10% of the Gross State Product.
Elevation
JANUARY 3, 2023
As a nonprofit organization, your website plays a crucial role in communicating your mission, services, and impact to potential donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries. It's important to ensure that your website not only provides valuable and relevant information, but is also easy to use and inviting so that the user engages with the web content.
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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 3, 2023
By Jeremy Utley & Perry Klebahn.
Blue Avocado
JANUARY 3, 2023
Organizations of all types, and especially those that provide direct social services, are frequently met with a lack of community support and even downright opposition. To counteract NIMBY attitudes, a two-step framework is presented for proactive community engagement that will build local support. The post Turning NIMBY into YIMBY! (YES in my Backyard!
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 3, 2023
Sabrina Joy Stevens: […] we’ve got to be thinking in terms of relationship, we’ve got to be thinking in terms of who are we actually connected to, versus trying to say, convince the people who are spreading the false information intentionally. Our goal can’t be to try to change their minds, but rather to think about, when we’re talking to our friends, our communities, our professional communities, all of these places, these are all opportunities for us to be either upholding narratives that are
Foundation Group
JANUARY 3, 2023
The post How to Incorporate Planned Giving into Your Capital Campaign appeared first on Foundation Group®.
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.
Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit
JANUARY 3, 2023
If your nonprofit has been running the same fundraisers on repeat, you might notice a lull in results. Hosting campaigns you’ve had in the past should set your nonprofit up for success in most cases. After all, you have data from the first time you hosted the event to help make future campaigns more successful. However, your supporters may start to get bored seeing the same few annual campaigns over and over again. .
Jeff Brooks
JANUARY 3, 2023
Want to read the posts on this blogs that attracted the most readers in the last year? Here they are: Why fundraisers love boring envelopes. When your fundraising story is not story at all. The 2 times your direct mail envelope should give it all away. Fundraising Is Beautiful 101: the basics of great fundraising [PODCAST]. Why donor-focused fundraising doesn't work.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 3, 2023
03. Shanelle Matthews: I mentioned earlier that using disinformation to delegitimize radical movements in the United States isn’t new. Some of the same infrastructure that we use, that was used in the 20th century, has spilled over into the 21st century. Throughout the 20th century, leftists played a really crucial role in virtually every progressive social movement—labor organizing, civil rights and Black liberation, antiwar and peace movements, feminism, gay rights, HIV and AIDS, environmental
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 3, 2023
Kris Hayashi: Clearly, we are all still…in the midst of a global pandemic due to COVID-19, escalating climate crisis, [and] growing white supremacist and anti-democratic forces. This is a time where the failure of our society to value people, to value humanity, to value our world, is so clear. And what I think is important to know is that for trans communities, even before this current time and moment, we already were struggling to survive, facing high rates of violence, harassment, discriminati
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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