Why Nonprofit CEOs Must Be Community Relationship Champions
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 20, 2025
One of nonprofit CEOs' responsibilities is maintaining community relationships. Here's how CEOs and their teams can collaborate to build strong ties.
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AI Can’t Do It All: Why Your Nonprofit Communications Still Need You
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JUNE 24, 2025
Let’s get one thing straight: we’re big fans of AI in nonprofit communications. We’ve hosted webinars, built training resources, and actively encourage nonprofit communicators to use AI to speed up content creation, brainstorm ideas, and reduce the mental load. But it can only take you so far. As helpful as AI in nonprofit communications can be, it still needs a strategic human brain behind it.
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Why Your Board Needs a Give/Get Policy
Joan Garry
JUNE 18, 2025
A give/get policy isn’t just about money — it’s about mindset. It affirms that every board member has a role to play in increasing the organization’s resources, in ways that are both meaningful and equitable. How can you help the board see the impact of having one? The post Why Your Board Needs a Give/Get Policy appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
Event Ideas to Strengthen Donor-Beneficiary Relationships
Ann Green
JUNE 10, 2025
Explore top event ideas to strengthen relationships between donors and beneficiaries, enhance engagement, and maximize fundraising success for your nonprofit. By Jen Wemhoff Nonprofit fundraising is about more than just dollars—it’s about connections. Strong relationships between donors and beneficiaries can deepen donor engagement, build trust, and generate more meaningful support for your organization’s mission.
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.
How to Bring Lapsed Donors Back to Your Nonprofit
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 18, 2025
It's not uncommon for donors to stop giving and become lapsed. Here’s what you can do to encourage them to renew their support.
Is Successful Fundraising Asking Questions or Making Pitches?
Fundraising Coach
JUNE 23, 2025
Here’s something that might surprise you: The most effective fundraising conversations sound nothing like what most people think fundraising should sound like. No PowerPoints. No glossy brochures. No perfectly polished presentations that wow donors into giving. Instead, they sound like…conversations. The Counter-Intuitive Truth About Fundraising When I train nonprofit leaders on making asks, I often hear the same concerns: “I don’t know what to say.” “IR
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What to know about seeking foundation grants right now
Candid
JUNE 17, 2025
This year is proving to be a deeply challenging time for nearly all nonprofits, and the situation is particularly urgent for organizations that abruptly lost their federal funding. In a recent Candid webinar, Funding Beyond Federal: How to Diversify Funding to Ensure Stability in Uncertain Times , we asked participants to share one word to describe how the current funding environment felt, and the top three responses stood out loud and clear: “scary,” “chaotic,” “uncertain.
Why a Nonprofit Needs a CRM
Affnetz
JUNE 4, 2025
Not-for-profit leaders might ask why a Nonprofit needs a CRM. A Customer Relation Management (CRM) System is typically associated with for-profit enterprises. In this sense, a CRM is defined as , technology systems companies use to manage their external interactions with customers at all points during the customer lifecycle, from discovery to education, purchase, and post-purchase.
How Is Your Nonprofit Doing This Year, and How You Can Make Improvements If You’re Behind In Your Goals
Ann Green
JUNE 30, 2025
It’s hard to believe we’re halfway through 2025. It’s been a tumultuous year so far, especially in the U.S. The midpoint of the year is a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. For this post, I’m assuming your fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. If you’re on a different fiscal cycle, you can make the appropriate time adjustments.
Why Do Nonprofits Struggle to Retain Fundraising Staff?
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 16, 2025
Fundraising is a vital part of any nonprofit, but many struggle to keep their fundraising staff onboard. Here's how nonprofits can better retain fundraisers.
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
Types of Tools to Strengthen Your Grants Compliance Approach
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
JUNE 5, 2025
When grant funding is an important revenue source, grant compliance becomes critical to nonprofit success. Without it, grant funding could be jeopardized, putting vital programs and initiatives at risk. This makes optimizing your grants compliance approach not just a goal, but a necessity. However, many organizations struggle with meeting compliance requirements due to outdated systems, manual processes, or limited resources.
How to Determine Which Prospects Are Prioritized for Outreach
iMarketSmart
JUNE 18, 2025
Your database is full of all kinds of supporters, donors, and prospects. Some of them are known to be major donor prospects and your gift officers are pursuing them and building trust. But what about all the others? Who is qualified for outreach? Who might be qualified soon but isn’t yet? How many can you manage at one time? Determining which major donor prospects, and how many, are prioritized for outreach at any given time is what determines how many gift officers you need on your team.
Putting the ‘trust’ in trust-based philanthropy: One leader’s aspiration to shift power and deepen impact
Candid
JUNE 30, 2025
Trust is one of the most essential elements of effective grantmaking. It’s also one of the hardest to practice fully. After more than 30 years in youth development and philanthropy, including 25 at the Charles Hayden Foundation (CHF), I’ve come to believe that to have a meaningful impact with our grantees, trust has to show up in how we work—how we listen, fund, and maintain relationships.
How Can Technology Improve Association Member Engagement?
Affnetz
JUNE 4, 2025
How can technology improve Association Member engagement? Among the things Association Members expect from their membership are opportunities for: Networking Education Service Associations can support these opportunities with strategically deployed technology tools. A foundational part is a Member database and accompanying CRM (Customer Relationship Management System.
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.
To Protect Grantees, Invest Conservatively: A Financial Strategy to Buck the 'Big Beautiful Bill'
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JUNE 17, 2025
A proposed new tax on foundation earnings should push foundations to align endowment investments with mission — and help grantees survive. By Clara Miller and David Morse Getty Images A proposed new tax on foundation earnings should push foundations to align endowment investments with mission — and help grantees survive.
What Nonprofits Need to Know About the July 2025 Postal Rate Increase
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 2, 2025
Heres what upcoming postal rate hikes mean for your nonprofit and how you can keep your direct mail program both effective and affordable.
Can Nonprofits Register Voters? And Other FAQ’s on Getting Started
Non Profitvote
JUNE 10, 2025
Can Nonprofits Register Voters? And Other FAQ’s on Getting Started Maybe you’ve heard about nonprofits registering voters and thought, “ Wait, is that actually allowed? ”. Maybe you want to help folks understand what’s at stake in a certain election, but want to make sure you’re protecting your organization’s 501(c)(3) status. In a time of huge change and shifts in the nonprofit sector, it is more important than ever to address some common anxieties and concerns around nonprofit voter regi
Why Nonprofit Emails Go Unread — And How To Change That
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
JUNE 18, 2025
Nonprofit organizations depend on email as a key communication tool for engaging supporters, sharing impact stories, and driving donations. Yet many nonprofit emails remain unopened or ignored, limiting their reach and effectiveness. Understanding the factors that cause emails to go unread is critical for improving communication strategies and boosting supporter engagem ent The Email Overload Problem The average person receives dozens, sometimes hundreds, of emails daily.
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.
Redefining resilience: Strategies for building nonprofit resilience in a changing world
Candid
JUNE 25, 2025
In a time of rapid change, political uncertainty, and rising demand for services, nonprofit leaders are looking to proactively build nonprofit resilience. Across the sector, organizations are strengthening their adaptability by embracing flexibility, deepening partnerships, and staying focused on their core missions. That includes exploring cross-sector collaboration, investing in community-led solutions, and/or making tough but necessary choices.
How to Boost Association Member Retention: The Database Solution
Affnetz
JUNE 4, 2025
Learning how to boost Association Member retention is a big concern for organization leaders. The logic goes like this: Members will stay if their expectations about being a Member are being met. Yet, do leaders truly know what Members expect and want? Faith in the Value Proposition Associations offer a value proposition to Members that says, If you join, youll receive these valuable benefits.
Program Development & Program Evaluation Series (Non-member)
Anedot
JUNE 30, 2025
Program Development & Program Evaluation Series (Non-member) Fall 2025: Build Stronger Nonprofit Programs with Evaluation Tools Tuesdays, September 9, 16, 23, and 30 Online via Zoom About the Program Development Series Nonprofit organizations that integrate evaluative thinking and strong program design into their work are better positioned to improve services, secure funding, and clearly demonstrate impact.
4 Ways Agentic AI Can Help Nonprofits Focus on Their Mission
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 27, 2025
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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.
From Transactional to Transformational: How Emotional Intelligence Builds Lasting Major Donor Loyalty
iMarketSmart
JUNE 2, 2025
Theres a dangerous myth in fundraising: that success is measured by the number of calls made, visits completed, and dollars raised. But the truth is, metrics dont build loyalty. Emotions do. In fact, most organizations dont have a retention problemthey have a relationship problem. And thats why transactional fundraising, focused on short-term asks, often leads to short-lived donors.
Tens of Thousands Have Lost Nonprofit Jobs to Federal Cuts. Here Are 6 of Them
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JUNE 16, 2025
These workers — at different stages of their careers and representing various fields — illustrate the personal fallout from the federal government's defunding of the nonprofit sector. By Sara Herschander Courtesy of each Clockwise from top left: Grace Mok, Brandon Jirō Hayashi, Adhira Johnson-Miller, Shannon Sullivan, Julie Keller, and Bryan Hall. These workers — at different stages of their careers and representing various fields — illustrate the personal fallout from the federal government's d
In a new era for the nonprofit ecosystem, collaboration is key to survival
Candid
JUNE 11, 2025
Recent federal funding cuts have had a deep and widespread impact on the nonprofit sector. An analysis by Candid found that over 14,000 nonprofits would deplete their reserves within three months without government grants, putting an estimated 2.8 million jobs at risk and impacting nearly every U.S. county. As government support dwindles—for free school lunches, community health clinics, housing initiatives, etc.
4 Ways to Decide On Your Annual Nonprofit Fundraising Events
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 10, 2025
4 Ways to Decide On Your Annual Nonprofit Fundraising Events When you sit down with your team to plan the year’s fundraisers, where do you start? Do you prioritize finances, donor behavior, marketing opportunities , or something else? How do you choose fundraisers that bring in the funds your nonprofit needs to thrive, engage supporters, and inspire lasting support?
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.
What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 4, 2025
Credit: Zoe Urness (Tlingit Alaskan Native and Cherokee). Image courtesy of First Nations. We hear a lot about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion from foundations. Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. But rarely are we asked as Native peoples about our justice, as people experiencing a myriad of injustices perpetrated by this country.
Sprouts Foundation to Award $3M in Grants to Nonprofits Focused on Health and Wellness
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 11, 2025
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[ASK AN EXPERT] Why Aren’t My Donor Meetings Turning Into Gifts?
Bloomerang
JUNE 27, 2025
Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to turn major donor conversations into gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, “I’ve had several promising conversations with major donor prospects. They’re engaged, curious, and even emotional when we talk about our work.
How Foundations Are Using AI to Vet Grantees
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JUNE 23, 2025
Grant Guardian, a free AI tool developed by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, offers program officers insights into organizations’ finances. By M.J. Prest Getty Images Program officers at more than 130 grant makers are using a new artificial intelligence tool to assess the financial health of prospective grantee organizations.
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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