The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 28, 2025

Peter and Bonnie McCauslands donation will back paid internships, neuroscience research programs, and faculty fellowships. By Maria Di Mento University of South Carolina Peter and Bonnie McCausland unveil the newly-renamed McCausland College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Plus, a law school in Nebraska landed $2 million to enhance holocaust and international justice studies, and several other universities and a medical center in Hawaii received big gifts.

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Medical Universities Law 208

Ann Green

APRIL 28, 2025

Your donor database is an effective tool for boosting engagement at your nonprofitif you optimize and leverage it strategically. Learn more in this guide. By Sarah Tedesco Its no secret that effective donor engagement is vital to your nonprofits success. Individual donations make up a large portion of most nonprofits funding, and those donors generally want to feel connected to and appreciated by the organizations they support.

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Management Ethics Education Education 173

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 28, 2025

New reports detail fundraising woes, but do the crises of the moment represent an opportunity to rebuild the donor base? By Rasheeda Childress Getty Images This year's federal funding cuts are devastating many nonprofits. But it appears the sector was taking hits even before 2025.

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Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits 252

The Killoe Group

APRIL 28, 2025

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a powerful approach for nonprofits. It gets your constituents more involved with supporting your organization. It helps you reach new supporters through your constituents networks. It also helps you build a stronger sense of community and raise more funds. And peer-to-peer fundraising programs are doing well these days. According to the 2024 Top 30 and P2P Benchmarking Survey , 18 of the top 30 peer-to-peer fundraising programs in the U.S. increased revenue in 2024, a

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Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Recruitment 96

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.

Marketing

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 28, 2025

Donor-advised funds are growing in popularity, but many nonprofits still dont focus on DAF donors in their outreach. Here are key steps to attract more gifts from them. By David L. Wheeler Getty Images Make it easy for these valuable supporters to give, and more advice from experts.

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Nonprofits 244

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 28, 2025

Here are some of the most pervasive misconceptions surrounding nonprofits and how they operate, and the truths behind them.

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Nonprofits 219

Bloomerang

APRIL 28, 2025

One of the most complimentary phrases is“built to last.” It highlights somethingspecially designed or constructed with the intention of enduring for a long time. It can apply to relationships, structures, or items that are reliable and sturdy. In the context of organizations, being “built to last” means constantly adapting and improving while maintaining a fixed core ideology.

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Disaster Relief Culture Construction Nonprofits 59

Clairification

APRIL 28, 2025

Use of Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) as a way for individuals to make charitable contributions continues to rise and grants from DAFs are becoming a growing source of income for charities of all shapes and sizes. An ever-broader group of donors are embracing them to approach philanthropy in the thoughtful, strategic way once reserved only for mega-donors who could afford to set up private foundations.

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Charitable Contribution Philanthropy Foundations Associations 62

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 28, 2025

As any nonprofit professional knows, implementing a thorough marketing strategy takes work. From segmenting audiences to drafting content to making cross-channel posts, tasks can quickly pile up and take more time than expected. Anything you can do to streamline content creation and lessen your staffs workload will help you get more time back. Thats where automated campaigns come in.

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Marketing Marketing Retention Recruitment 59

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 28, 2025

LG Ad Solutions and AdGood are making Connected TV advertising more accessible for nonprofits by leveraging unsold streaming inventory.

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Advertising Nonprofits 130

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.

Nonprofit Organizations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 28, 2025

By Christine Mahoney How the Bama Works Fund mobilized private, public, and philanthropic capital to transform public housing

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Image credit: Singkham on pexels Black Futures Lab is an organization that seeks to build Black political power by intentionally engaging those that political campaigns often ignore. Through deep canvassing and working in the community year-roundnot just during election seasonthe organization has a deeper understanding of the needs and concerns of rural Black people.

Public and Social Policy 77

Public and Social Policy Healthcare Philanthropy Education 77

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Image credit: Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash In Minneapolis, MN, licensed clinical social workers, like Andrea Hansen-Miller, work in one of the citys public libraries. By handing out transit passes and having granola bars and laundry detergent pods on hand, Hansen-Miller gets unhoused people from around the city through the librarys doors. As Hansen-Miller told The New Yorker , It gets them in here.Then I can ask, Where are you staying at night?

Homelessness 81

Homelessness Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance 81

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

Image credit: Maryland GovPics – Public Swearing In on Wikimedia Commons This is a good resurrection story for Easter, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Martin OMalley texted me on Easter weekend. [It] seems frontline workers are reversing the illegal pain being inflicted on our neighbors by those who declared them dead.

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Law Public and Social Policy Governance Universities 132

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.

Finance