Wed.Jun 28, 2023

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3 Focus Areas to Develop Self-Sufficient, Productive Managers

NonProfit PRO

Performing well as a sole contributor doesn’t necessarily predict great performance as a manager. Here's how organizations can build these managers’ capacity to lead so they can transition responsibility to their direct reports and free themselves up for more critical tasks.

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To Respond to Anti-LGBTQ Legislation, Fundraisers Turn to Giving Circles

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Rasheeda Childress Illustration by The Chronicle; Getty Image More than 500 such bills have been making their way through legislatures this year, and conservative groups have strong backing.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 79: The Potential Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on the Nonprofit Sector

NonProfit PRO

James Kopp of Edmundite Missions and France Hoang of boodleAI join The NonProfit Voice to discuss the advances in generative AI.

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T. Boone Pickens Foundation Gives Another $120 Million to Oklahoma State U.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest Phil Shockley, Oklahoma State University The foundation of the late T. Boone Pickens (center) is giving Oklahoma State $120 million to expand student scholarships and support construction of a complex that will house the Human Performance and Nutrition Research Institute and the Cowboy Football Center. Also, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has awarded $26 million to the Obama Foundation for its presidential center and leadership program, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America has re

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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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Blackbaud Unveils Vision to Accelerate AI-Fueled Impact for Purpose-Driven Organizations

NonProfit PRO

Blackbaud announced the launch of a major new wave of its Intelligence for Good strategy, with an extensive agenda of initiatives and investments. The strategy is targeted at making AI more accessible, powerful, and responsible across the social impact sector.

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How to Manage Your Team When Everyone’s Working Remotely

Joan Garry

Discover how your nonprofit can transform remote work into a superpower — creating a thriving culture across your team. With humor, flexibility, and a deep sense of belonging, let’s redefine hybrid work models. The post How to Manage Your Team When Everyone’s Working Remotely appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Comment on Major Gift Readiness Assessment: 10 Questions to Ask and Answer by Sindan Erius

Amy Eisenstein

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A Rewarding Nonprofit Internship: Audrey Gale Hall

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Written by: Audrey Gale Hall Reading Time: 3 minutes Researchers estimate that up to 1 million American’s work as unpaid interns each year. Without wages to shoulder the cost of living, an unpaid internship deepens the existing social divide. The road to making unpaid internships a thing of the past isn’t a smooth one. In some cases, particularly nonprofit organizations, simply don’t have the financial means to pay their interns.

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Newsletter: Partnership Contracts: Lessons from the American Revolution ? ; How Cause Marketing Can Help Businesses Get People Back in the Office ; 3 Things That Disconnect Donors from Your Cause

Selfish Giving

The American Revolution started over a broken contract. So, discussing partnership contracts the week before Independence Day seems only appropriate. According to the Declaration of Independence, King George III broke the social contract between himself and his subjects, the American colonists. (Boy, punctuation and capitalization were off the rails in 1776!

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Amina Filkins on pexels.com [W]e must be relentless in centering the needs and voices of workers. The worker cooperative model is one of our best tools for achieving that goal. — Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. Not long ago, the idea of having several congressional champions of cooperatives, spanning the political spectrum, actively pushing employee ownership legislatio

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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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Delivering the right message to the right audience, every time

Big Duck

Segmentation can be key to reaching the right audience with the right message, both inside and outside an organization.

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Your Donor Population Is Aging: 13 Tips To Engage Older Donors & Encourage Planned Giving

Bloomerang

We’re all aging, right? Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving. These tips include how to make a planned gift request without making it awkward. It is essential to adapt your fundraising strategies to engage and involve those age 50 and above effectively. What age group should you target? Older adults tend to be more actively engaged in charitable giving and are more likely to make substantial donations.

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Climate Justice in the field: An interview with the Donors of Color Network

Candid

Though the growing climate crisis makes headlines every day, its enormity and complexity can be overwhelming to donors who often struggle to know where to begin and how to devise equitable strategies to address its impacts. This often prevents funders from engaging, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Candid’s in-depth guide, Centering equity and justice in climate philanthropy , outlines approaches that have worked for experienced funders, including how intermediaries can help motivate and insp

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These are the Best Times to Post on TikTok in 2023

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

These are the Best Times to Post on TikTok in 2023 Learn about the best times to post on TikTok in 2023 and effectively enhance your content’s visibility and engagement. With over 1 billion active users, TikTok has become one of the world’s most popular social media platforms. If you’re looking to maximize your TikTok views, you need to know the best time to post.

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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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Question of the Month: How do you set goals in major gifts?

Veritus Group

In this Question of the Month video, Richard and Jeff discuss how to set goals for your major gifts program in a way that honors the donor. The post Question of the Month: How do you set goals in major gifts? appeared first on Veritus Group.

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How to Maximize Your Team’s Time with Fundraising Software

Get Fully Funded

Think back to your team’s last fundraising campaign. Would you consider the fundraiser a success? Did you have the bandwidth to adequately plan, launch, and run the campaign? Did you find it easy to juggle your team’s schedule along with fundraising activities? Or, were there fundraising tasks that took far longer than they should have? As you reflect on these questions, keep in mind that this is a problem many organizations face.

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Key Markers of a Major Gifts Prospect & How to Leverage Them

Top Nonprofits

Major gifts are the largest gifts your nonprofit receives. And no matter what a major gift looks like for your organization—whether that be $10,000 or $100,000—these large donations can do wonders for your nonprofit. Specifically, major gifts make up a large part of your revenue and empower you to not only strengthen your existing programs and services but also increase your capacity to serve your beneficiaries, potentially through increasing your nonprofit’s endowment.

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The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Tapping into Our Greatness to Truly Empower Others

Concord Leadership

Tonight, the Maryland Area Chapter of the International Coaching Federation is hosting a session by Marc! Self doubt can be incredibly tough for coaches to work through. Marc will show the surprising way a coach’s own doubt can unlock incredible possibilities for their clients! Join us to learn how! The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Tapping […] The post The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Tapping into Our Greatness to Truly Empower Others appeared first on The Concord Leadership Group, LLC.

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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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The triage of thanking your donors

Jeff Brooks

Telephone calls to thank donors for giving are a powerful investment. Research shows shows calls can increase first-year retention by 30%. The impact of calls on ongoing retention, upgrading, and likelihood to give a charitable bequest is huge. You should call and thank every donor, every time they give. But what if you don’t have the staff or resources to do that?

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Nonprofit Chart of Accounts: What It Is and Why It Matters

Successful Nonprofits

The nonprofit chart of accounts is your organization’s central document for effective financial management. Learn what this resource is and why you need one.

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Nonprofit Fundraising: Crafting a Credible Case for Support

Prosper Strategies

With inflation on the rise and individual, corporate and foundation giving expected to decline, it is crucial to build a credible and compelling case for financial support to attract donors and inspire trust. A case for support is a designed piece used as a conversation starter with potential donors and funders. It makes the case […] The post Nonprofit Fundraising: Crafting a Credible Case for Support appeared first on Prosper Strategies.

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Building Lasting and Meaningful Donor Relationships with nik castle

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Are you looking to engage your donors more effectively and create deeper relationships with them? You’re in luck. This episode is sponsored by my friends at Instil , a holistic donor relationship management platform on a mission to revolutionize nonprofit technology. We are hosting a free webinar to show you how to manage donor communications in the digital age, using technology and social media.

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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!

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What are the biggest challenges facing the nonprofit sector, with special guest panel (Part 2)

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

Today’s episode is Part 2 of a discussion on the biggest challenges that are facing the nonprofit sector. This discussion includes five, successful leaders in the nonprofit sector, who continue to discuss how nonprofits can improve and thrive. Rob’s guests are Gayle Smith, Joan Garry, Alison Moore, Tony Martignetti, and Sara Lomelin. Gayle is the CEO of The ONE Campaign.

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FOR FUNDRAISERS ONLY: Read this whenever you feel beaten down by people who don’t understand what you do for humanity

iMarketSmart

If you are a fundraiser… You are not a beggar or manipulator who twists arms. Rather, you are a caring, helpful, generous, joyful facilitator who shares stories, and creates and delivers value through the giving experience. You are an expert guide , much like a lawyer, doctor, financial planner, accountant, or other expert meeting with someone to help them achieve a goal or complete a task.

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The South’s Not Done Fighting for Abortion Rights. Donors, Don’t Abandon Us.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Kwajelyn Jackson and Zaena Zamora The infusion of funds following the Dobbs decision has become a trickle in Southern states, where bans have halted or significantly curtailed abortion. But many clinics and nonprofits are in this for the long haul and need more support.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Anthony F. Pipa & Kait Pendrak As of 2019, the United States was not on track to achieve a single Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) by 2030. Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.