Wed.Aug 09, 2023

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Why Track Giving? Because Nonprofits Need Money to Do Their Work

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Phil Buchanan Getty Images Those who say "Giving USA’s" focus on nonprofit giving is too narrow miss a critical point: To sustain these organizations, individual donations count most.

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Balancing Mental Health in Nonprofit Marketing

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

If you’re like many nonprofit marketers I know, you’re all about making a positive impact in the world through your work. You take your job seriously and don’t mind getting hands-on and hands-in when needed – which happens a lot in our field. We frequently find ourselves knee-deep in the hustle and bustle of our beloved mission-based organizations, balancing scarce resources and endless priorities.

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What is a Call-to-Action? A Quick Guide for Nonprofits

Ann Green

A well-worded call-to-action (CTA) can encourage your nonprofit supporters to engage with your cause in a myriad of ways. Learn more about CTAs in this guide! By Ira Horowitz Your nonprofit exists because you’re seeking to enact positive change in your community, whether that means tutoring at-risk high school students, cleaning local beaches, or providing meals to unhoused people.

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Newsletter: 4 Key Insights From ACCP's Annual CSR Survey ; Why Your Nonprofit Needs Its Own Branded Bikini ; A New Service Let’s You Donate Now But Pay Later ?

Selfish Giving

I recently downloaded the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals' 2023 Annual CSR Insights Survey. The survey has been conducted for the past four years to understand better the trends impacting CSR and ESG professionals. One hundred forty-nine large companies filled out the survey. Here are four things that caught my eye and how nonprofits should respond. ✅ CSR and ESG teams are working harder than ever (Page 3).

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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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Comment on Assess Yourself and Your Fundraising: 5 Profound Questions by Elizabeth Bennett

Amy Eisenstein

Amy, I am convinced that storytelling is now my main job. It’s always been in fundraising, but it’s come more to the forefront as a skill we need to have in this profession. My struggle is with identifying and asking those that we serve to share their story. It’s a sensitive road to travel. Also, don’t give up on running. I committed to running a race this year and got hurt.

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Investing in Black Women Leaders With the Dream Capital They Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Gabrielle Wyatt Black women have always stood up and pushed for social progress—despite being deeply marginalized by the very systems they push to change. But today, as our democracy inches closer to its breaking point, and our leadership is needed more than ever, Black women are too often invested in as fuel for short-term social progress rather than as humans imagining and building multi-generational change.

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[Recordings] Earn a 2023 Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The next series of webinars required to earn a Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good starts January 24, 2024, but if you would like to earn the certificate in 2023 — you can purchase the notes and recordings from the last series presented in June-August 2023: [ Pay $20 ] June 28 Recording: How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy [ Pay $30 ] July 12 Recording: Facebook & Instagram Best Practices [ Pay $30 ] July 26 Recording: LinkedIn 

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Candid Data for Academics: Go back to school with better data 

Candid

Back-to-school season can mean different things for different people. To college students, it might mean the start of a new year of knowledge and self-discovery. For parents, it might mean shopping for supplies and mapping out carpool schedules. At Candid, it means thinking about how we can get more data into the hands of academic researchers for the betterment of the social sector.

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4 Necessary Culture Shifts To Help You Navigate Change Management

Bloomerang

The first lesson I learned while working in the healthcare industry was this: Expect change. Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management , which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. Organizations that successfully navigate change management have also made culture shifts to ensure lasting change.

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Holding Our Ground: Tenant Organizing in San Francisco’s Mission District

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Kenny Eliason on unsplash.com This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. Coproduced 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 country.

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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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How to Accept Stock Donations | The Donorbox Guide

Donorbox Nonprofit

These days, it’s vital to offer as many different ways for donors to support your nonprofit as possible – and there’s one big type of giving that many nonprofits overlook. Stock donations are easy, effective ways for nonprofits to increase their contributed income while offering lucrative perks for their donors. According to a Gallup poll, […] The post How to Accept Stock Donations | The Donorbox Guide appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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The Law Is an Imperfect Tool for Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on “Remaking the Economy: Tenant Organizing in Unexpected Places.” View the full webinar here. As an attorney, I am often talking to organizers about the limitations of the law. I think that’s a really important conversation to always be having. I know that the law can exert a lot of power over folks’ lives, and it is also so not powerful for supporting the causes of tenants.

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The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Crypto Donations

Donorbox Nonprofit

Cryptocurrency is everywhere these days. But is this a trend or is cryptocurrency here to stay? And if it’s here to stay – should your nonprofit start accepting cryptocurrency donations? The answer is simple: yes! If the popularity of crypto continues to hold, as it’s projected to, the 2023 Annual Report on Crypto Philanthropy forecasts […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Crypto Donations appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Best AI-Powered Social Media Ad Copy Generators for 2023

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Best AI-Powered Social Media Ad Copy Generators for 2023 The future is here! AI will probably not replace you as an Advertising Marketer, but someone that uses AI and other marketing tools more efficiently might. The AI Ad Copy Generators in this article come with a free trial. Be sure to check them out and learn how to use them to your advantage. Do you want to improve your Social Media Ad campaigns and improve your ROI?

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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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What I Learned from my Conversation with the Author of The Schmuck in my Office

Successful Nonprofits

Expert, Dr.Jody Foster, shares effective strategies for dealing with difficult people in your nonprofit.

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Our Favorite Nonprofit News and Information Sources

Prosper Strategies

As nonprofit consultants, we are always looking to stay informed about the latest trends, nonprofit news and information in the sector. We read traditional nonprofit news outlets, blogs and other consultant’s websites. Over the years, we’ve compiled a number of nonprofit news sources we regularly follow, and so we thought we would share a few of […] The post Our Favorite Nonprofit News and Information Sources appeared first on Prosper Strategies.

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There’s a Certain Sacredness to Managing People

Veritus Group

What if our concept of managing people was centered on helping our employees to find fulfillment and joy in their work? The post There’s a Certain Sacredness to Managing People appeared first on Veritus Group.

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How to Accept Stock Donations | The Donorbox Guide

Donorbox Nonprofit

These days, it’s vital to offer as many different ways for donors to support your nonprofit as possible – and there’s one big type of giving that many nonprofits overlook. Stock donations are easy, effective ways for nonprofits to increase their contributed income while offering lucrative perks for their donors. According to a Gallup poll, […] The post How to Accept Stock Donations | The Donorbox Guide 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 Hire the Right People for Raising Major Gifts

iMarketSmart

Are the people working as major gift officers at your organization in the right role? Do they have the best skill set and mindset for this job? How would you know if they do or don’t? For your most successful MGOs, what makes them so good at their job? For the others, can they be trained and developed to perform well, or is this the wrong role for them?

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The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Crypto Donations

Donorbox Nonprofit

Cryptocurrency is everywhere these days. But is this a trend or is cryptocurrency here to stay? And if it’s here to stay – should your nonprofit start accepting cryptocurrency donations? The answer is simple: yes! If the popularity of crypto continues to hold, as it’s projected to, the 2023 Annual Report on Crypto Philanthropy forecasts […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Crypto Donations appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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5 magic words that will boost fundraising results

Jeff Brooks

You’re a good writer. Want to be even better? Use magic words. Like those from this excellent post at the Bloomerang Blog, at What Are Some Foolproof Phrases And Words For Successful Fundraising Appeals? You. This is how you make the story you tell about the donor and her opportunity to do something great. Fundraising that skimps this word often is about how amazing the organization is.

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Stories of Organizational Transformation: Moving Toward System Change and a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang By Emily Kawano, Lori Stern, Adoma Addo, and Kelley Dennings 1 The convergent crises we face today—the climate crisis, ecological destruction, a growing economic divide, increasingly virulent racist and anti-immigrant violence, a drift toward fascism—are driving a reckoning. In the United States, a 2021 Pew Research Center survey found that 66 percent of the respondents believe that we need a major or complete overhaul of our economic system. 2 This is reflected in t

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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!