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Newsletter: 30+ Wicked Awesome Partnership Posts from 2022 ; 3 Readers Win Selfish Giving Tees

Selfish Giving

In my last newsletter of 2022 we had a contest. I got a ton of responses! I think about 75% of you said I was the wise ass on the right. Sorry, but I'm the one ON THE LEFT! ? From the group of people that chose correctly, I randomly chose three people to receive Selfish Giving t-shirts. ?? Congratulations to the winners! ?? TOM MURPHY KARL ZIEGENFUS LAURA ATWELL Hit reply to this newsletter and share your t-shirt size and your address and I will get the shirt right out to you!

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2023 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. In addition to the international days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months. January. 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay.

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What Grant Funders Really Want

NonProfit PRO

Whether your nonprofit is applying for a government grant or support from a private foundation, what reviewers are looking for in grant proposals can feel like a secret. So, to improve your grant applications and give funders what they want, here are five tips.

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Predictions for the future of social sector data 

Candid

Chantal Forster, Executive Director, TAG ( Technology Association of Grantmakers ). If you’ve been waiting for an invitation to the data conversation, this is it. Whether you’re a nonprofit, funder, or a consortium of both, fundamental questions are surfacing about social sector data that merit your attention. Last month, at the TAG2022 conference for global philanthropy tech in San Antonio, we featured a panel on the future of social sector data that only scratched the surface of co

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White Supremacy and the Disinformation Wars

NonProfit Quarterly

Joseph Phelan: […] Platform accountability doesn’t happen without organizing, right? We can do all the lobbying we want and pay the high price lobbying firms. We can get as many op-eds as we want, et cetera, et cetera. But it actually comes down to organizing. Organizing is contesting for power at the individual and group level. And our opposition, the right wing, is contesting for power.

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Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Here’s Why Tennessee Needs a Statewide Nonprofit Association. Source: Independent Sector. Nonprofits are Tennessee’s 6th largest industry, and the sector pays more than $13.5 billion in wages each year to 181,300 Tennesseans (or 8% of the state’s workforce). Tennessee nonprofits generate over 31.6 billion in revenues each year, and they hold assets of almost $71.4 billion, accounting for 10% of the Gross State Product.

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How to Pay for Fundraising Costs: Can It Be Fast, Cheap and Good?

NonProfit PRO

Many nonprofit executives still struggle with how to pay for fundraising. That’s a shame because fundraising done well pays for itself. Yet the dilemma is real and persistent.

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Demographics via Candid: A data-driven approach to encourage equitable funding practices

Candid

In response to the simultaneous global pandemic and racial equity movement, philanthropy committed to act with urgency to better support nonprofit partners, as well as the people and communities hit hardest by the impacts of these dual events. Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices. However, without a comprehensive baseline of the diversity represented within organizations, philanthropy can’t make good on these promises.

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Photography Tips for Nonprofits

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

If you work in nonprofit communications, suddenly you are a professional photographer. Not only that but you are also expected to coach others on taking good photographs on their phones. And you are also supposed to know how to edit photos and then sort, manage, and store them all in some meaningful way. That’s a lot! Let’s start with taking photos on your own phone.

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How to Use the Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing and Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

Today's donors are savvy, skeptical and well-informed. As a result, they know when someone is trying to sell them something — including donating. So how do you motivate people to support your cause in a world of mass messaging? One way to do it is to go old school with word-of-mouth and align it with your fundraising.

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6 Rules for a Trusted Nonprofit Website

Elevation

As a nonprofit organization, your website plays a crucial role in communicating your mission, services, and impact to potential donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries. It's important to ensure that your website not only provides valuable and relevant information, but is also easy to use and inviting so that the user engages with the web content.

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Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Lisa Pilar Cowan and Michele Flores. Getty Images. Too often, nonprofits force development officers to grovel for donations from the rich, rather than emphasizing how to connect people in a community to support an organization’s mission.

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[Free Webinar] How to Accept Donate Now, Pay Later™ Donations to Grow Giving in 2023

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Time: 1 pm ET / 10 am PT (1 hour). Cost: Free. Presented by: Dominic Kalms , CEO & Founder at B Generous. Donate Now, Pay Later was inspired by the widespread acceptance of Buy Now, Pay Later in the consumer retail space. Across generations, nearly 60% of consumers say they prefer Buy Now, Pay Later over credit cards due to the ease of set payments and the lack of interest charges.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Better Expense Management for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

As nonprofits know, managing expenses effectively is critical to staying afloat and maximizing impact within their respective communities. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent changes to how we work and engage with one another have permanently transformed how nonprofit organizations operate. .

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What privilege means and how we use it

CNPE

A guest blog post by Pamela Darnall, CEO of Family & Children's Place. . and CNPE Board Member. I often hear white friends or family members dispute that they have privilege. They will point to challenges they have faced in the past – and may be still facing – unemployment, poverty, health challenges, and more. I understand where they are coming from.

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Real Threat? How AI, Gender Bias, Skills Focus Changing Workplaces Now

Fundraising Leadership

AI is changing the workplace and gender bias is a distinct factor. (Photo by International Women’s Day). “They have skills.” That statement has been universally and historically viewed as a compliment to an employee, colleague or leader. It still is, but now there is an asterisk to the statement. Looking forward with the influx of artificial intelligence and automation in the workplace, it may precede a path to worker replacement.

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Comment on How to Fire Utterly Toxic Nonprofit Board Members by Shelly

Amy Eisenstein

In reply to Shelly. Also this is an animal non profit and this is to rescue and remove animals. This person has become almost a horders situation. So there are precious lives involved. Animal control has been made aware and next step is police. Isn’t there any emergency laws to protect when animals are involved.?

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It’s All About Relationships: Why Your Network Is Your Strongest Asset

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit professionals rely on strong relationships to help us grow our organizations, build trust with our communities, and advance our own careers. Here are three ways joining a networking group can help grow your nonprofit and how networking can help you, too.

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2023 Nonprofit Economic Impact Report

MNA Association

MNA is proud to release our 2023 Economic Impact Report. This report showcases the essential role Montana’s Nonprofit Sector plays in Montana’s economy. MNA-Economic-Report-2023 Download. The post 2023 Nonprofit Economic Impact Report first appeared on Montana Nonprofit Association.

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A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022

Candid

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world. With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond.

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Comment on Major Gift Fundraising – Everything You Need to Know in 2022 by 3 Easy Ways to Determine Your Campaign Readiness

Amy Eisenstein

[…] they don’t have yet a robust major gift program? Sometimes we are able to use a campaign to grow their major gift fundraising and to engage key donors. But I think we do need to take a serious look and a campaign is much […].

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The Envelope Teaser: Should You Use One in Your Next Fundraising Appeal?

NonProfit PRO

The debate has been raging for decades. Add a teaser to the outer envelope of your direct mail appeal. Or don’t. Which is better?

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Why You Should Personalize Your Online Magazine

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Why You Should Personalize Your Online Magazine. Tips to get you started. Hi! Would you like some online magazine tips ? If we had used your name in the first sentence, then it would have been a lot more likely that you would have continued reading. All of us are sensitive to personal attention after all. What’s more, it gives lots of people a huge boost.

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Keeping the Social Impact Going When a Pilot Project Ends

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Kevin Tan & Nadia Ahmad Samdin. Public institution spending dwarfs private philanthropy in most countries in the world. In the United States , private philanthropy totaled $176.7 billion across social, health care, and education in 2021, while government spending in the same areas was approximately 25 times more. In Singapore, one of the countries where our firm Tri-Sector Associates works, private philanthropy for the same areas totaled SGD 1.4 billion (about $1 billion) in 2020, while g

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A guided meditation to start off 2023

Non Profit AF

Hi everyone, I know today is a rough day, since many of us are getting back to work after, hopefully,

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New Equitable Giving Lab to Provide Insights Into Equity and Gaps in Fundraising for Under-Resourced Populations

NonProfit PRO

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI is creating a new digital resource, the Equitable Giving Lab, that will bring an equity lens to philanthropy by measuring funding for under-resourced groups.

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Advertisements in a Responsive Online Magazine

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Advertisements in a Responsive Online Magazine. What are the possibilities and how to get started. I visit publishers quite regularly, and a question that is almost always asked is the following: ‘How do advertisements in digital magazines work?’ In this blog, I will explain the subject of Responsive Advertising. What is the difference between advertisements for print and online advertisements?

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Experts Share Tips on Fundraising Amid Uncertainty

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Sara Herschander. Several frontline fundraisers joined the Chronicle to discuss how the pandemic has changed their relationships with donors and which donor-cultivation strategies are most effective now.

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Turning NIMBY into YIMBY! (YES in my Backyard!)

Blue Avocado

Organizations of all types, and especially those that provide direct social services, are frequently met with a lack of community support and even downright opposition. To counteract NIMBY attitudes, a two-step framework is presented for proactive community engagement that will build local support. The post Turning NIMBY into YIMBY! (YES in my Backyard!

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Moore Acquires Merkle Response Management Group

NonProfit PRO

Moore announced that it has acquired Merkle Response Management Group from erkle Inc. Moore is making the investment in Merkle RMG to support its ongoing expansion in processing operations with a portfolio of diverse capabilities and locations across the nation.

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How to Create a Strong Customer Magazine

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Create a Strong Customer Magazine. Tips to get you excited. This question is becoming increasingly common within organizations. And why not? You invest a lot of time and money in it, so of course you want to know what specific benefits it brings. In this blog, I explain how to assess the success of your customer magazine and how to use this information to make your magazine even more successful.

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Do You Have the Write Stuff? Top 5 Nonprofit Attention-Grabbers.

Clairification

Take your writing into the stratosphere! Want your writing to take off more this year? Ann Wylie, editor, author, interviewer, teacher and more, is one of the folks I look to for writing tips. And recently she offered 8 tips I believe all nonprofits should take to heart. At least if you want to be persuasive and drive people to take the actions you desire.

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Does adding specific details lead to more emails?

NextAfter

A look at how listing out articles in an eBook impacted email acquisition rate. A big driver for Hoover Institution is providing content–eBooks– for downloaders. Hoover Institution tested if adding specifics of an eBook for the potential eBook downloader would actually entice them to sign up. Hoover institution took two variants to advertise a content offer to acquire new emails.

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Listen, Empower and Commit: Uplifting a Neighborhood to Create a Sustainable Economy

NonProfit PRO

In areas nationwide, there are barriers to economic development that need to be met with community engagement and solutions. Transportation, child care, business development, job creation, healthcare — they’re all connected and necessary to create a sustainable neighborhood economy and a thriving community.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Help Nonprofits Reach More Donors, but Fundraisers Can't Ignore Potential Pitfalls

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Daniel Hadley. Getty Images. The emergence of text generating artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT could significantly change philanthropy — for better or worse.

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7 Wishes for Non-Profit Leaders in 2023

Veritus Group

Start out 2023 with a renewed sense of hope about what you can achieve as a non-profit leader. Wishing you every success in the new year! The post 7 Wishes for Non-Profit Leaders in 2023 appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Comment on Virtual vs. In-Person Solicitation: Predicting the Future of Fundraising by Check-Up Clinic: Solicitations - CapDev

Amy Eisenstein

[…] Click here to access Amy Eisenstien’s blog, including the video tutorial included on this post. […].