Tue.Nov 01, 2022

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How to Find and Activate Non-Donors on Giving Tuesday

NonProfit PRO

I’ve seen two truths: People want to help those in need and be part of a movement. Giving Tuesday offers both opportunities in one day — Nov. 29 this year — which is why your organization should start planning a Giving Tuesday appeal now.

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Segmenting Donors for Communication: How Research Can Help

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

If you’re a nonprofit leader, you know the importance of forging a deep bond with your supporters in order to keep them engaged with your mission. The best way to do this is to maintain open lines of communication with them. . But your organization shouldn’t stop there when planning your communication strategy. Instead, make sure you’re segmenting your donor base when planning how to communicate with them.

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Positioning Your Nonprofit to Sustain Its Impact

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits should use a spending policy that provides stable support for constituents’ needs through various market cycles. Here is one methodology that can be used to determine what the best spending policy may be for your organization.

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How to Incorporate Gratitude Into Your Year-End Fundraising Campaign

Ann Green

Year-end fundraising coincides with the gratitude season, which includes Thanksgiving in the U.S. and the December holidays. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems as if stores go into holiday mode earlier each year. Now is a great opportunity to show some gratitude to your donors. You could hold a thankathon , especially if you haven’t launched your appeal yet.

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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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Candid Makes It Easier for Nonprofits to Accept Donations with Apple Pay

NonProfit PRO

In time for this year’s Giving Tuesday on Nov. 29, nonprofits that have earned a Candid Seal of Transparency will also become eligible to enable and accept donations with Apple Pay, providing donors with an easy, secure, and private way to give to nonprofits they love.

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How to Use Asana to Organize a Social Media and Communications Calendar

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

In my first blog about how I use Asana , I outlined how I (who is, again, by no means an Asana expert) use this platform to capture, organize and create stories for our organization. I use these collected stories as blogs, newsletter articles, media pitches, and social media content. You may be wondering how I organize all of this communication. If you guessed Asana, you get the day’s gold star.

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Redefining Black Farming

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Centre for Ageing Better on pexels.com. For Black people living along the Black Belt in the American South , history entails stories of enslavement and fortitude. Black farmers exemplify that balance most strongly as, for decades, they have resisted injustices related to land ownership, debt, and social mobility. Patrick Chandler Brown, based in Warren County, North Carolina, is redefining what it means to be a Black farmer.

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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Peter McAteer. An excerpt from Pathways to Action on how market-leading organizations must take the lead in accelerating change.

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Fire and the Coast Salish Three Sisters

NonProfit Quarterly

“XÍCIL KÁY ” (“ANGRY GRANDMOTHER”), CARVED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY SAMUEL BARR/ GUEMESISLANDART.ORG/HOMEPAGE/SAM-BARR. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Editors’ note: This article is from the Fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change. ”. Oftentimes, when people think about the Pacific Northwest and the Salish Sea, they think of lush evergreen rainforests.

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Unlock the Power of Maps to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising

The Fundraising Authority

Uncover the Benefits of Maps for Nonprofit Fundraising. You’ve heard that the power of storytelling is essential when it comes to educating people about your cause and converting people into supporters. It is often much more effective to use as few words as possible and let images tell the stories for us. When we use images that are based on real data and facts, our story, and more importantly – our conclusions – become self-evident.

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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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Cycles

NonProfit Quarterly

“WARRIOR TWINS” BY CHIP THOMAS IN COLLABORATION WITH CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER/ JETSONORAMA.NET. Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change. ”. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. In my community, cycles are fundamental to understanding our world.

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Digital First Impressions: Your Nonprofit’s Homepage

Fundraising Coach

Your homepage is the face of your nonprofit. While marketing appeals will likely be supporters’ first impression of your nonprofit, your homepage tells supporters everything they need to know about your nonprofit (whether it’s intentional or not). To improve visitors’ experience on your homepage, learn how to build and maintain an accessible homepage with a modern design that reflects the sophisticated nonprofit behind it. .

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Highlighting Our Community of Leaders: Grace Atkinson

Successful Nonprofits

The post Highlighting Our Community of Leaders: Grace Atkinson appeared first on Successful Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit CRM – A Compact Guide + List of Software

Donorbox Nonprofit

Who uses Nonprofit CRM software? Regardless of the size of nonprofits, CRM software is essential for all. It can enable your nonprofit to track the success of fundraising appeals and donor trends and help strengthen relationships with supporters. Technology gives nonprofits their choice of software with different features and at various costs. This guide includes […].

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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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Top 5 blog posts of the month

Jeff Brooks

Here are the 5 most-read Future Fundraising Now blog posts in the month of October: What the plumber taught me about bad fundraising. The dream donor who slashed a revenue stream. What to do about your "weakest" fundraising appeal. Keep donors paying attention by raising questions, not spouting answers. 2 things donors NEVER complain about.

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Mid-Level Donor Strategy – Identify, Cultivate, and Engage

Donorbox Nonprofit

Your nonprofit may spend significant time and effort cultivating and soliciting major donors, but do you spend the same effort on your organization’s mid-level donors? Most nonprofits don’t know who their mid-level donors are and don’t have a plan on how to communicate and solicit gifts from these donors. As you read this article, we […]. The post Mid-Level Donor Strategy – Identify, Cultivate, and Engage appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.