Tue.Jul 08, 2025

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Make it Easier for Your Nonprofit and Your Donors by Keeping Things Simple

Ann Green

Over the years, I’ve realized the importance of keeping things simple. This is even more important now during this time of chaos and uncertainty. I’m sure you’re experiencing those both professionally and personally. I often find pleasure in simple things such as taking a walk, reading (I’ve found the Thursday Murder Club series to be a nice escape right now), and doing yoga.

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12 Ways To Conquer Fundraising Fear Without Crying In A Supply Closet

Bloomerang

If you think public speaking is scary, asking for money is like doing it while skydiving—with no parachute.” So, you’ve been asked (forced or voluntold) to help raise money for your favorite charity. Well, welcome to the Nonprofit Fundraising Club. You are not alone. In fact, you’re in a massive, sweaty-palmed club of nonprofit tribe of do-gooders and boardroom escape artists who would rather wrestle a porcupine in a vat of Jell-O than ask someone for money.

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How Can the Nonprofit Field Better Support Volunteerism?

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Fabrice Florin on Flickr This is the fourth in a series of six NPQ articles that first challenge—and then change—the way we think about volunteers. In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism.

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What do nonprofits struggle with the most?

Blue Avocado

Nonprofits are crucial for communities, but they face significant hurdles. These organizations face many common challenges like securing sustainable funding, managing volunteer engagement, and navigating internal dynamics that can hinder their vital work. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community “What do nonprofits struggle with the most?

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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026

Speaker: Sean Yoder

Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.

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Report Reveals Nonprofits Are a Major Employer in Nearly Every State

NonProfit PRO

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A Step-by-Step Walkthrough to Using the Voter Registration Drive Guides

Non Profitvote

When starting out with any voter registration event, our Voting in Your State voter registration drive guides are the first resource we recommend going to. Even if you’re a seasoned pro and register folks like clockwork, it’s always a good idea to keep up to date with state laws on voter registration. As laws change rapidly, checking these protects your organization while empowering your community to vote!

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A Quick Nonprofit Event-Planning Guide For Virtual Events

Top Nonprofits

Nonprofit events come in all shapes and sizes, and the type of event you choose to host largely depends on your organization’s unique audience, resources, and goals. However, virtual events consistently prove a useful tool to engage with donors and expand your reach. Virtual events erase geographical barriers, letting supporters from across the country and even the world engage with your organization.

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Your Inbox Is Basically a Social Media Feed Now

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

If you’ve ever wondered why your nonprofit’s emails aren’t making it into inboxes – or why some messages get more traction than others – it’s because inboxes work a lot like social media feeds now. Just like Facebook or Instagram only show you what they think you’ll care about, inbox providers like Gmail and Outlook are using user engagement signals to decide what lands in the inbox and what disappears into the void (also known as Promotions or Spam).

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3 Challenges of Donation Channel Attribution — and How to Solve Them

NonProfit PRO

Knowing what fundraising campaign prompted a gift to your nonprofit is important, but often difficult. Here are some fixes to common attribution challenges.

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Philanthropy can help close the tech gender gap with better design, data, and infrastructure

Candid

In 2025, gender disparities in the technology sector remain firmly entrenched. According to AnitaB.org , women account for just 29% of the tech workforce and only 15% of engineering roles. Representation drops further at the intersections of gender and racial/ethnic identity. According to Forbes , Black, Latina, and Indigenous women collectively comprise less than 5% of the sector’s workforce.

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Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

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Return to Office: What’s Happening in the Nonprofit Sector and Why?

NonProfit Quarterly

Tima Miroshnichenko, Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels , public domain. These days, the phrase “return to office” is as inescapable as “work from home” was circa 2020. Fortune 500 firms that were once remote workplaces are now publishing white papers and executive letters that argue the necessity of getting employees back into the office. Yet a March 2025 Gallup poll indicated that 93 percent of remote-capable workers (as in, workers whose jobs can be performed remotely) prefer either compl

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Dataro Launches ProspectAI: AI-Powered Major Donor Prospecting

NonProfit PRO

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Branding Beyond the Logo: What Nonprofits Must Know

The Charity CFO

"Most nonprofits don’t have a branding problem—they have a clarity problem." Discover how refining your verbal identity can transform your nonprofit's outreach and engagement. The post Branding Beyond the Logo: What Nonprofits Must Know appeared first on The Charity CFO.

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Type 2 Board governance, or Micromanagosis [Nonprofit Diseases]

Jeff Brooks

People who serve on nonprofit boards are great. They’re doing more than their share of making the world a better place. But… Most members of nonprofit boards are not fundraising professionals. There’s nothing wrong with that. But things can go sideways when they board members confuse “governance” with “micromanaging” and don’t have fundraising knowledge to make their managing useful.

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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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5 Strategies to 10× Your Giving Tuesday Campaign

Get Fully Funded

Warm-Up: Why Giving Tuesday Needs a Hype Squad G iving Tuesday is like the Super Bowl of generosity—except nobody gets Gatorade dumped on their head, and the commercials are free because you make them yourself. Waiting until Thanksgiving week to wave your pom-poms is a rookie move. Six to eight weeks out, start slipping feel-good stories into inboxes, phones, and WhatsApp chats.

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Should Your Nonprofit Conduct a Competitive Assessment During Strategic Planning?

Prosper Strategies

When many nonprofit leaders hear the phrase competitive assessment, they pause. Isn’t competition a for-profit concept? Should nonprofits even think this way? At Prosper Strategies, we understand that discomfort. That’s why we prefer to talk about “comparator assessments” instead of “competitive assessments.” While nonprofits don’t exist to out-sell or defeat one another, you do operate […] The post Should Your Nonprofit Conduct a Competitive Assessment During Strategic Planning?

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Nonoko Sato: A Leader Helping Nonprofits Plan for Uncertainty

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Eden Stiffman Iowa Nonprofit Alliance The CEO of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits is helping nonprofits raise revenue, be good employers, and build strong boards.

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Tyler TerMeer: An Equity Champion Uniting Groups to Withstand Administration Attacks

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Stephanie Beasley SFAF The San Francisco AIDS Foundation chief is finding commonalities and building bridges among organizations with different missions.

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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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Inside the Leadership Success of a Millennial and Boomer Who Share the CEO Seat

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Co-leaders of a Louisiana community group share what makes their norm-defying intergenerational partnership a boon for their staff, their community, and their personal growth. By Drew Lindsay Illustration by The Chronicle of Philanthropy; Photos courtesy of Metromorphosis. Co-leaders of a Louisiana community group share what makes their norm-defying intergenerational partnership a boon for their staff, their community, and their personal growth.

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Abigail Disney: An Heiress Who Pushes the Wealthy to 'Fight Like Hell' for Democracy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The heiress says it's time for rich people to 'fight like hell' By Sara Herschander The philanthropist is using her “weird voice and weird position” as an heir to the Disney fortune to challenge rich Americans who are afraid to step up.

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Luciana Bonifacio: A Fundraiser Working With Other Nonprofits to Seek Private Gifts

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Stephanie Beasley Nina Nelson, Save the Children The chief development officer of Save the Children is in pivot mode from government to private philanthropy.

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Sulma Arias Knows How to Win Over People With Different Points of View

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Ben Gose People’s Action Institute The organizer, who immigrated to the United States from El Salvador at age 13, has an ability to understand people who don’t think like she does.

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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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Foundation Leaders Increase Payouts and Defend Philanthropy’s First Amendment Rights

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Alex Daniels Chronicle Illustration; Courtesy Images Tonya Allen, Deepak Bhargava, and John Palfrey are united in their determination to give according to their values.

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Gabriel Salguero: A Faith Leader Whose Activism Is an Extension of His Preaching

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Sara Herschander Pastors Salguero Ministries He isn't afraid to speak out about the second Trump administration's rippling impact on his congregation and others.

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Former Librarian of Congress, Fired by Trump, Vows to Improve Public Information in New Mellon Role

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Carla Hayden will join the Mellon Foundation as a senior fellow advising on efforts to advance public knowledge through libraries and archives. By James Pollard, Associated Press NEW YORK Her new position as a senior fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation places her back at the center of the very debates over American culture that surrounded her dismissal.

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Eli Lehrer: A Policy Wonk Building a 'Conservative Agenda for Democracy'

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Ben Gose Erika Fletcher The think tank founder sees a more nuanced picture of Donald Trump than many charity leaders.

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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.