Wed.Mar 22, 2023

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Admin Support: The Secret Sauce of a Thriving Nonprofit

Joan Garry

Drowning in administrative tasks? Struggling to make time for high-value work? It's time to buy back your time and invest in your staff. Learn how to reframe the conversation and make a game-changing investment in your nonprofit organization. The post Admin Support: The Secret Sauce of a Thriving Nonprofit appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Newsletter: A Dead, Forgotten President Has More Followers Than You ; Two Fast-Growing C-Stores to Add to Your Prospect List ; Conspiracy Theorists Have Their Own Dating Sites

Selfish Giving

Last week at the New Strategies Forum at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, I talked - for the first time live after a three-year hiatus - about raising more money with audience-centric fundraising. Here's my basic premise: The nonprofits that are most successful with corporate partnerships are the ones that are laser-focused on building an audience that knows, likes, and trusts them.

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How to Tell Prospective Donors What You Do

NonProfit PRO

It’s not about you. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking your organization is the story. People aren’t buying your organization. When someone asks: “What do you do?” they’re not interested in your organization so much as what your organization accomplishes.

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Meet Your Fundraising Goals With Nonprofit Video Stories

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Written by: Doug Scott Reading Time: 5 minutes Nonprofit video stories have the power to evoke an emotional response in prospective donors and compel them to act on behalf of your cause. In fact, studies have shown that 57% of people who watch fundraising videos go on to make a donation. Therefore, video storytelling represents an important opportunity to raise awareness, boost engagement, and drive donations.

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Job Search Blues? 3 Strategies To Ease Anxiety

Fundraising Leadership

Looking for a job can create anxiety, but these strategies will help. Job search anxiety is one of the many factors that may hold women back from professional development. HR Dive showed that 84% of women have the skills to advance their careers, but most of these female professionals feel anxious about their next career moves compared to their male counterparts.

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Legislative Update – March 22

MNA Association

The ceiling of the Montana capitol rotunda. Photo by Liz Moore. There’s a lot going on at the session these days, it’s hard not to feel a little dizzy. Even the rotunda ceiling has us spinning! Several bills we’re watching impact a very specific audience so we ask you to please read each summary to consider learning more or taking action.

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Research Shows Only 1.2% of.org Domains Have Adequate Phishing Protection

NonProfit PRO

New research from email security provider EasyDMARC reviewed a dataset of 9,935,024 verified.org email domains. EasyDMARC found that only 376,497 (3.8%) domains had implemented the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) security standard.

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4 questions to guide your next communications hire

Big Duck

The post 4 questions to guide your next communications hire appeared first on Big Duck.

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What Would a Social Justice Investment Ecosystem Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Anders Norrback Bornholm on unsplash.com In a report published last year for Just Futures , an investment advisory firm that seeks to encourage “values-based investing,” Anand Jahi indicates that the amount of money invested on Wall Street totals $71.4 trillion (4)—nearly three times the value of the annual gross domestic product of the United States.

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Ballmer Group Commits $43 Million to Train More Early-Childhood Educators of Color

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest Cultivate Learning, University of Washington Fueling a pipeline of early-childhood educators in Washington state, Ballmer Group is investing $43 million in the UW College of Education and other partners. Plus, CalOptima Health has given nearly $30 million to bolster services for chronically homeless people in Southern California, and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network received $25 million for research, early detection, and the development of new treatments for the disease.

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Why Your Donor Doesn’t Talk About Their End-of-Life Charitable Plans

Veritus Group

There's a lot of fear around asking donors about planned gifts, but there doesn't have to be. Here's how to get the conversation started. The post Why Your Donor Doesn’t Talk About Their End-of-Life Charitable Plans appeared first on Veritus Group.

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The CEO as Chief Fundraiser: A Role That Should Never Be Delegated

The LAPA Blog

Our recent posts have lasered in on fundraising perennials--retention of fundraising staff, annual funds, and why donors give. Another perennial stacks up as equally worthy of thoughtful commentary, and that’s the role of the chief executive officer in fundraising. A short definition of a CEO is he or she who makes decisions. Nowadays, we recognize the value of consensus decision-making, and that’s fine.

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3 fundraising fears and how to stare them down

Jeff Brooks

What are you afraid of in your fundraising? What does your board worry about? Here are 3 common fundraising fears and how to face them from the BDI Blog: Am I asking too often? Almost certainly not. If communicating too much were a problem, you’d see donor retention drop as you increase communication. That never happens. Retention increases as you add communication.

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How to Make Your Ideas Irresistible with Tamsen Webster

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Nonprofits often struggle with making themselves heard and understood. We have fantastic ideas to share with the world – but why is it so hard to get seen and get noticed? My guest this week is best-selling author and TED speaker Tamsen Webster. She explains, “Your idea has a story, because your idea is a story—and your audience needs to hear that story before they’ll act.” Part strategist, part storyteller, part English-to-English translator, Tamsen helps experts drive action

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Refreshing a brand for a more equitable Brooklyn

Big Duck

The post Refreshing a brand for a more equitable Brooklyn appeared first on Big Duck.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. The agency tasked her with restructuring outreach efforts and increasing people’s awareness and use of agency services in communities of color.

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Thursday Thoughts: thawing your supporter relationships for spring stewardship

EveryAction

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here ! Many organizations reach out to donors at year-end, but some don’t have a plan to engage and retain those supporters after the new year.

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Are You the Non-Profit Leader We’re Looking For?

Joe Garecht

Are you a non-profit leader? Are you an executive director, development director, program manager, board member, consultant, or other type of leader in your organization? If not, do you want to be a leader at your non-profit? Whether you're currently a non-profit executive or want to be in the future, here's your invitation to join me for the single best training opportunity available for non-profit leaders: The Non-Profit Leadership Academy As part of this program, you'll learn everything yo

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Charity Navigator’s Kevin Scally Talks Recurring Giving Stats and Trends

NonProfit PRO

Kevin Scally, chief relationship officer at Charity Navigator shared that with a shrinking donor population, recurring gifts can both democratize philanthropy and lower the barriers for giving.