The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 11, 2025
Three nonprofit leaders share the new ways theyre approaching major-gift fundraising in a post-Covid world from Zoom-forward fundraising to outside-the-box events. By M.J. Prest Getty Images Three nonprofit leaders share the new ways theyre approaching major-gift fundraising in a post-Covid world from Zoom-forward fundraising to outside-the-box events.
Ann Green
MARCH 10, 2025
Your nonprofit needs a skilled, dedicated team to advance its mission. Use these onboarding best practices to set your new hires up for lasting success. By Debbie Willis Every new employee brings passion, talent, and a fresh perspective to your nonprofit. However, recruiting and retaining these essential team members is not always easy. In fact, 60% of nonprofit leaders report experiencing staff-related concernswhether thats a lack of staff capacity or losing staff because they cannot provide co
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 12, 2025
Credit: Francisca Espina Have you ever heard of the classic Brothers Grimm tale, The Golden Goose ? It begins with one person touching the magical golden goose, and from that moment, the person becomes bound to it, unable to break free. In their desperate struggle to escape, they unknowingly pull others along, one by one, until a growing procession of souls is tethered to the goose.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 9, 2025
By Shannon Whitehead , Content Strategist at Neon One a software that connects nonprofits with the technology and resources that empower them to build a community of generosity. A peer-to-peer campaign (or P2P) is a type of fundraising where individuals organize and host a campaign on behalf of a nonprofit organization and collect donations from their friends.
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.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 12, 2025
A yin-yang approach to philanthropy has shaped the Ballmer Group. But the husband-and-wife founders have remained focused on one goal: Improving economic mobility in the U.S. By George Anders Meron Menghistab Connie and Steve Ballmer, at the Bellevue, Wash., offices of Ballmer Group. The couple reports giving away more than $3 billion over the past five years.
Candid
MARCH 10, 2025
Nonprofit organizations often collaborate with one another to share resources, seek grants, and scale public service delivery. At the same time, nonprofits also compete directly against one anotherfor attention, for funding, for clientsalthough this competition rarely gets acknowledged. As a scholar of nonprofit management and public service, Ive explored, among other things, to what extent the element of competition affects nonprofit messaging in an online fundraising competition, and what type
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 14, 2025
Image Credit: Alan Mazzocco , iStock We often think of the nonprofit sector as the main origin of charitable activities, but the for-profit corporate space can also be a significant source of philanthropic and social action. INK-nitiative , a charitable program of the tattoo removal company Removery, is an example of a for-profit company leveraging its unique skills to drive meaningful social change through an integrated not-for-profit service.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 13, 2025
After cuts in federal spending, charities are making carefully worded appeals to donors. They're also seeking more DAF gifts and looking for ways to work together. By Rasheeda Childress Save the Children Save the Children has eliminated 300 positions out of 1,000 in the United States because of federal funding freezes. Here, an employee of Save the Children visits a region outside of Antakya, Turkey, that was devastated by earthquakes in 2023.
Candid
MARCH 11, 2025
During my first year as CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, our biggest priority was listening. Since late 2023, weve been talking with community members about how, together, we could make Kansas City a national model for equitable economic mobility. Two significant gaps became evident that we saw as two sides of the same coin: Nonprofits dont often have space to truly think about their strengths and sustainability.
Bloomerang
MARCH 13, 2025
Why tech investments often fall short Youve invested in a powerful nonprofit CRM and fundraising platform, but is your team truly using it to its full potential? Many organizations adopt new technology with high hopes, only to find it underutilizedleaving valuable efficiencies untapped and fundraising opportunities unrealized. The challenge isnt the softwareits the learning curve.
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 PRO
MARCH 11, 2025
Theres nothing like education sessions and meeting your peers at nonprofit sector conferences. Here are the events slated for 2025.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 10, 2025
A new study finds just 36 percent of major foundations feel confident assessing the technical feasibility of AI proposals, raising concerns about philanthropy's response to a rapidly evolving landscape. By Sara Herschander Getty Images A new study finds just 36 percent of major foundations feel confident assessing the technical feasibility of AI proposals, raising concerns about philanthropy's response to a rapidly evolving landscape.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 14, 2025
Credit: Photo by CJ Dayrit on Unsplash Nonprofits are used to thinking of themselves as providersof services, of advocacy, of societal change. Less often do they see themselves as playing a creative role, one of producing valuable content. Yet, nonprofits are creators of media, reports, research, and so on. In this capacity, nonprofits can foster a more vibrant ecosystem of information and media by harnessing the power of the public domain.
The Charity CFO
MARCH 12, 2025
If your nonprofit isnt engaging corporate partners, youre leaving money, volunteers, and long-term support on the table. The corporate world is changing. Businesses arent just looking to give backthey need to. Employees expect it, customers reward it, and companies are building structured programs to make it happen. But too many nonprofits miss out.
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.
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 14, 2025
Most capital campaigns fail before the first askdont let yours be one of them. Join this exclusive session to uncover the critical pre-campaign strategies that will guarantee success and secure transformational gifts in 2025! Attendees will gaininsider strategiesto identify the right donors, build momentum, and craft a rock-solid campaign plan thatpractically guarantees success before the first ask is even made.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 14, 2025
The CEO of a social-service nonprofit and two of its major donors discuss how private support funded a key program and helped win other grants. By Rasheeda Childress Graham Windham Brooklyn-based youths go snow-tubing with coaches from the Graham SLAM initiative. The CEO of a social-service nonprofit and two of its major donors discuss how private support funded a key program and helped win other grants.
Jeff Brooks
MARCH 12, 2025
Good fundraising writing starts with good sentences. And they can be hard to write, because most of us have bad habits in our writing that needlessly weaken our sentences. Heres help from the Publication Coach Blog, at 7 sentences you should stop writing to improve your sentence structure : Sentences beginning with prepositional phrases. Its a weak start.
Joan Garry
MARCH 12, 2025
The world feels heavy right now, and shutting down is temptingbut its not the answer. Glennda Testone shares what she recently discovered as the antidote to fuel ourselves and our leadership: community. The post A Dolly Parton Party Reminded Me Why Community Matters appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting.
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.
Bloomerang
MARCH 14, 2025
Introduction If you’re reading this blog post, you’re probably involved in fundraising in some capacity. I know how lonely that can be. The weight of raising revenue is on your shoulders. And more likely than not, you have to do it alone. But what if you didnt have to? What if your entire organizationnot just the development departmentfelt a sense of ownership and responsibility for fundraising success?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 13, 2025
Data alone can't capture the human-centered results of investments. Here's a solution. By Erik Stegman Amanda Byrd/Alaska Center for Energy and Power The village of Igiugig installed a hydrokinetic system to provide energy from the local river demonstrating the power of small climate projects to produce a big impact. Data alone can't capture the human-centered impact of investments.
Fundraising Leadership
MARCH 14, 2025
An uncertain economy can lead to your definitive choices on trainings, strategizing to pivot. Should you stay or should you pivot? The current economic climate is complicating the career paths of millions due to the factors of unpredictable layoffs, hiring freezes, pay reductions, and a general fear of culture changes and imposed, sudden and unforseeable actions.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 11, 2025
By Erika Gregory & Jenny Johnston The work of social change is always pressing, but those who do that work are under extraordinary stress right now. The polycrisiswhich philosopher Jonathan Rowson neatly defines as the world system of systems beginning to malfunction, with escalating risks due to emerging properties in the whole being significantly more dangerous than the sum of its partsis manifesting all around us.
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!
Clairification
MARCH 10, 2025
Legacy gifts dont fall from the sky. Legacy donors arent delivered by storks. You wont find them hiding behind cabbage leaves. Youll mostly find them living in your donor database, volunteer roster, alumni mailing list, membership roll, client files, service purchasers, and anyplace else folks connect with you and have a positive affiliation. An affiliation with you.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 10, 2025
The money establishes a fund that will provide U.S. Olympians and Paralympians with $200,000 for each Olympic Games in which they compete. By Maria Di Mento Cal Sport Media via AP Images Paralympians Paul Schulte, left, and Ellie Marks, lead the 2024 U.S. Paralympic Team into the closing ceremony as flag bearers in September 2024. Plus, Fordham University landed $100 million, and Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, Cornell Tech, and two other universities landed multimillion-dollar gifts.
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 14, 2025
While small-dollar donors continue to be important for nonprofits, supporters making larger gifts are critical pieces of the revenue puzzle.
Jeff Brooks
MARCH 11, 2025
Back when I was an English teacher, students cheating on their writing assignments was one of the things we worried about. What is cheating? Its getting someone other than oneself to write your paper. Its cheating because the entire purpose of a student paper is for a student to write it. These days, with free AI applications that can spit out an essay on any topic in seconds, I can only imagine how much more challenging it must be to prevent student cheating on papers.
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.
Top Nonprofits
MARCH 12, 2025
As you plan the fundraising events on your nonprofits calendar this year, you likely have questions about which formats will attract the largest audience: in-person, virtual, or hybrid. You may think in-person events are your only option now that the pandemic is far behind us, but thats not the case. Virtual and hybrid events absolutely still have a place in the nonprofit fundraising world.
Blue Avocado
MARCH 11, 2025
The strongest nonprofits are always looking for ways to improve their mission, ways to serve more effectively, ways to reach more people, and more. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community: “What do you believe are the most critical areas for improvement to achieve your mission?” and, once again, nonprofit leaders came through!
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 10, 2025
Here are three mistakes nonprofits must be aware of to avoid common pitfalls in omnichannel marketing efforts.
Jeff Brooks
MARCH 13, 2025
I had a wild idea. Wild ideas are our best and our worst moments. It was back when I worked at a large national fundraising agency. I’d recently made the move from copywriter to creative director, which means I had frontline role in new business pitches. And we were pitching a doozy. It was a large organization. Extremely large and well known.
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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