September, 2024

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These 17 Nonprofit Leaders Want to Change How You Vote

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Drew Lindsay Chronicle Illustration; Courtesy Headshots; iStockphoto Organizers, funders, lawyers, scholars, writers, and celebrities (Jennifer Lawrence!) aim to reboot our election system. Also, coming soon from the Chronicle: the people who want to build trust in elections.

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What’s Going on in Nonprofit Direct Mail?

NonProfit PRO

Despite the rise of digital, traditional channels like direct mail are still crucial. Here's what's going on in nonprofit direct mail now.

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Rebecca Cantrell, ACNP: The Greene County Force behind United Way of the Greater Dayton Area

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In the heart of Dayton Ohio’s nonprofit sector, you can find Rebecca Cantrell, MA ABS, MPA, ACNP ( Advanced Certified Nonprofit Professional ). This exclusive interview gives us a peek into her inspiring career journey and the profound impact one individual can have on their community as the Greene County Director for the United Way of the Greater Dayton Area.

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Amy Eisenstein

Dear Amy, I am very grateful to have received your gift of two books that I am sure will help us raise more funds for our organization. Thank you so very much! Ann Miller Woodford Founder/Board member One Dozen Who Care, Inc.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Albert M. Rejouis Joins Nonprofit Leadership Center Team

NonProfit Leadership Center

Stay ready, so you don’t have to get ready. That is Albert Rejouis’ mantra, as he believes preparation is what separates the best from the rest. We are pleased to share that Albert M. Rejouis has joined the Nonprofit Leadership Center team as our new administrative assistant. In this vital support role, Albert will provide comprehensive administrative assistance to ensure smooth organizational operations and exceptional customer service.

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The Five Ws and H of a Good Call to Action

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Nonprofits need people to do things. That’s the only way we can achieve our mission of changing the world. And if you need someone to do something, you need a good call to action (or CTA). Calls to action are our instructions for what we want people to do. And yet, nonprofits sometimes make what should be simple, clear instructions too complicated and vague.

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A Main Reason Why Donors Give and How to Use It to Boost Fundraising Response

NonProfit PRO

One big reason donors give is the desire for action. Here's how you can appeal to this want to boost fundraising success.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Leaders In Your Volunteer Community

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

According to recent volunteer statistics , volunteers represent a significant one-third of the nonprofit workforce. Whether they’re helping at events, staffing programs, or serving on a board of directors, volunteers are key players in the success of every organization — making volunteer management an essential skill for any nonprofit professional. But volunteer management isn’t just about recruiting volunteers and telling them what to do.

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Raise More Money With a Fundraising Appeal that Stands Out

Ann Green

Can you believe it’s already September? Depending on where you live, you may or may not be getting that nice refreshing air September often brings. After a hot summer, I’m ready for that. September also brings us to the start of the busiest time of the year for nonprofit organizations, especially if you’re doing a year-end appeal. Even though you may not launch your campaign until later in the fall , you should get started on your appeal letter now.

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31 Local Nonprofit Professionals Selected for Emerging Leadership Program

NonProfit Leadership Center

Although a growing body of research shows that inexperienced and unprepared first-time managers can be costly for organizations, many individual contributors continue to be promoted into management roles without the proper training, mentoring and support. A new manager recently shared this with us as he takes on a new role: “ It is the first time my position has existed at my nonprofit, and I’m concerned about how to best develop and support my team members.” The Nonprofit Le

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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How Nonprofits Can Curate Content (the Right Way)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Content curation should be an important part of your content creation strategy as it can save you time, improve engagement, establish you as a helpful source of information, and can even improve your SEO. Nonprofits can curate content lots of different ways, but let’s talk about some basics first for those of you who have never curated content before.

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'Money Is Power': 44 Ultra-Wealthy Philanthropists Are Top Political Donors This Election Cycle

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Megadonors like Ken Griffin, Paul Singer, Michael Bloomberg, and Reid Hoffman are collectively giving hundreds of millions to candidates and super PACS to influence voters. By Eden Stiffman Chronicle Illustration; World Economic Forum, Paul Elledge/University of Chicago, Jon Tadiello/MIT Media Lab, Johns Hopkins University, Michael Lisnet/Simons Foundation From left, Paul Singer, Ken Griffin, Reid Hoffman, Michael Bloomberg, and Marilyn and Jim Simons.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 89: The State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising in 2024

NonProfit PRO

Karen Cincotti, Mary Sorensen and Noel Beebe discuss the findings of a survey evaluating the peer-to-peer fundraising landscape in 2024.

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The 3 Secrets to Effective Presentations

Joan Garry

Effective leadership is not just about delivering the right information; it's about how you communicate it. In my experience leading nonprofit leaders, it is the "soft skills” that create a lasting impact that goes beyond words and actions, ensuring your message resonates deeply with your audience. The post The 3 Secrets to Effective Presentations appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Organizing across generations for civil rights 

Candid

Many of us working to strengthen civil rights see recent court rulings overturning affirmative action and campaigns to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and ban books as undermining this country’s vision of pluralism and equal opportunity. In this climate, advocates are working to sustain movements that build on the social progress achieved by previous generations.

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Amy Eisenstein

We’ve always described fundraising in the context of a cycle. But what if we’re looking at it the wrong way? Here's a modern look at raising major gifts.

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Mastering Delegation with Marketing New Hires

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Welcome to the world of nonprofit marketing, where your mission is to make the world a better place by spreading your organization’s message far and wide. And guess what? We do it all on a shoestring budget, with tight deadlines, and too often, with only a handful of resources. Quite often, being a nonprofit marketer means juggling a million things at once.

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The Hidden Patterns Shaping American Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A new report reveals the impact of wealth concentration, geography, and economic factors. By Sara Herschander iStockphoto Where do the country's charitable dollars really flow? A new collaborative report reveals a complex landscape of giving, with patterns shifting dramatically across time, geography, and donor types.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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The Best Major Gift Ask Isn’t a Pitch

NonProfit PRO

Fundraisers rarely engage in balanced dialogues with donors. Instead, incorporate active listening into your major gift asks.

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I Asked For $10,000. He Donated $25,000.

Joan Garry

Fundraising is both an art and a science, where preparation and authenticity play key roles. These are my real-life failures in fundraising and the lessons that you can learn from them. The post I Asked For $10,000. He Donated $25,000. appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.

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Shades of Inequity: Why It’s Crucial to Diversify Medical Illustrations

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Chidiebere Ibe. Image used with permission. Throughout the overlapping worlds of science and medicine, thin, White, young, heteronormative bodies are seen as the standard, and are most often represented within medical textbooks. As a result, these bodies are normalized at the expense of others. For aspiring care providers who use medical textbooks, illustrations essentially provide the first visual guide for diagnosing and treating medical conditions.

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Comment on A Modern Look at Raising Major Gifts: From Cycle to Timeline by Amy Eisenstein

Amy Eisenstein

We’ve always described fundraising in the context of a cycle. But what if we’re looking at it the wrong way? Here's a modern look at raising major gifts.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Grassroots Strategies to Combat Election-Related Misinformation (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Gabriel Marmentini & Jeanine Abrams McLean Targeted, local engagement with communities coupled with civic education are effective strategies to strengthen information ecosystems, alongside national and international efforts focused on laws and regulation.

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New Era in Women's Sports Fueled by Decades of Women Donors

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Since Title IX's enactment in 1972, female athletes, activists, and donors have steadily fueled a slow-burning revolution in women's sports, culminating in today's record-breaking participation. By Sara Herschander Vadim Ghirda, AP Recent years have seen unprecedented levels of donations and investment into women’s sports. One donation of $4 million went to support the 2024 Olympic medal-winning USA Women’s Rugby Sevens team, above.

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A New Way to Engage Advisory Boards in Fundraising Success

NonProfit PRO

As part of your fundraising strategy, advisory board members must engage in fundraising. Here's how to make sure they actively participate.

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How America gives: Who funds what causes and where?

Candid

According to 2023 IRS data, there are about 1.9 million registered nonprofits in the United States vying for charitable giving from individual donors and institutional grantmakers. What do we know about the causes and states each type of funding flows to and the factors that affect giving trends? In this article, we highlight key insights from our report, Dollars and Change: A Look at Individual and Institutional Giving Across the United States From 2015 to 2022 , which combines data from Candid

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.

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Where Is My Land? The Struggle for Black Land Recovery

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “Land Back” by Rhonesha Blaché Working in the land reparations space can sometimes feel like a Sisyphean struggle—and healing collective wounds can be harrowing. There are, however, some halting steps forward. Events like the California state legislature’s approval of a law in 2021 that authorized the return of Bruce’s Beach to the heirs of the family who had lost their land to eminent domain nearly a century before (and the subsequent vote by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors t

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Comment on A Modern Look at Raising Major Gifts: From Cycle to Timeline by Amy Eisenstein

Amy Eisenstein

In reply to Chris Stoddard. Hi Chris – I’m guessing you’re asking me about AI (not steak sauce). Here’s a post to check out.

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Philanthropy Needs More Disconfirmation Bias

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Kecia Bertermann & Andy Martin “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”—Mark Twain* When philanthropists are passionate about the causes they support, it’s no surprise that they are more likely to partner with organizations that share their values and goals. But while this alignment can result in strong partnerships and collaborations, it can also open up the risk of confirmation bias: wanting things to be true even when ev

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Nonprofits, Legal Experts React to the Fearless Fund Decision to Shutter Grant Program to Black Entrepreneurs

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The settlement of a case that would have tested whether charities can make grants based on race — and perhaps put the decision before the Supreme Court — has left the issue in a legal gray zone. By Alex Daniels Rebecca Blackwell/AP Co-founders the Fearless Fund Arian Simone, center left, and Ayana Parsons, center right, speak to journalists outside the James Lawrence King Federal Building in Miami after a hearing in January.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a