The Charity CFO
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Nonprofit budgeting best practices are often the difference between success and failure for the organization. Budgeting is a crucial element of understanding the financial health of your organization. Budgeting for nonprofits is very different from for profits, and a well-developed budgeting process can provide meaningful insight into the strength of your organization and your progress toward your mission.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Industry benchmarks reveal just 23% of first-time online donors return, compared to 64% of existing online donors. And over the last decade, nonprofits have continued to raise more funds from fewer donors.
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Ann Green
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Are you looking for tips to elevate your grant management strategy in 2023? Explore three technology tools that can level up your grant fundraising efforts. By Carl Diesing Alongside moves management and capital campaigns, grant fundraising is one of the most intricate fundraising activities that a nonprofit organization will undertake. Rooted in a foundation of strong relationships with grantmaking organizations, successful grant fundraising requires nonprofits to manage and track multiple prio
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Leslie Lenkowsky Recent surveys showing a decrease in volunteering largely blame the pandemic, but the problem isn’t new. Nonprofits need to figure out how to turn Americans’ desire to lend a hand to neighbors into more formal commitments to help their communities.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters—emphasizing trust, engagement, and community over transactional giving models. 🤝 Industry expert Tim Sarrantonio will explore data-backed strategies to engage supporters as active participants in a community that values their contributions and shared ideals.
Amy Eisenstein
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
In reply to Emma Rodriguez. Clearly the majority of residents are ok with things, if the board is 15 yrs old. Boards are elected annually. Time for others (you maybe) to volunteer to run for elections and replace those you are talking about.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Organizations that seek to find growth and success depend on a cause community to carry them. Jamie Bearse of ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer shares how his organization developed the ZERO Flywheel method to build and keep a community engaged.
Nonprofit Leadership Zone brings together the best content for advertising professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
By Rasheeda Childress A new report looks at digital giving trends in eight countries, including cryptocurrency, contactless giving, donor-advised funds, workplace giving, and impact investing.
Affnetz
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
Seth Godin’s Advice for Nonprofit Fundraisers: Overcome the Dip F undraising-campaign-management/ By mikecrum Seth Godin’s Advice for Nonprofit Fundraisers: Overcome the Dip Nonprofit fundraising is definitely a profession for optimists. First off, you have to get used to a lot of “no’s” and “not now’s”. Second, as a fundraiser you’ve got to explore numerous strategies in an effort to engage your donors and prospects, and this requires the energy of an optimist (or someone who likes fishing!).
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Set some time away from your daily nonprofit work to find the missing pieces of your nonprofit’s strategy by attending some of 2023’s in-person nonprofit sector conferences.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
As the communications roles and responsibilities grow in nonprofits, both staff and managers will question the function of the communications team within the organization. Where does it belong, and what does it do? How is that decided? We’ve found that the various communications team models we see in nonprofits are less about the location in the organizational chart and more about how the communications workload is decided.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio
The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Rasheeda Childress Chronicle illustration Early data about year-end fundraising is in, and the picture is mixed. Some charities did gangbusters, while others struggled amid economic uncertainty and inflation. Some organizations that compile fundraising data are still tabulating, so more information will emerge in the coming weeks.
Pam Moore
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. Today I'm diving into the topic of limiting beliefs and how entrepreneurs and business leaders can smash them to reach their full human potential.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
While text messaging has remained a reliable conversion channel over the years, nonprofits are taking advantage of texting’s strong and immediate open rate to focus on retention.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Cosmos. Orange Beach, AL Happy Friday! Ready for the most helpful articles, posts, and tips for nonprofit marketers? This week we have design tips for social media, marketing tips from Rihanna, effective Instagram ads and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Robert Rose says Get Common First If You Want To Develop a Great Content Strategy Here are 10 Social Media Design Tips to Stand Out on the Feed.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
By Christopher Hammett Its free money for nonprofits came with a cost. It led groups to push aside fundamental beliefs to accept easy cash from a corporate behemoth whose business model harms the very communities they aim to protect.
Pam Moore
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. Today I'm diving into the topic of limiting beliefs and how entrepreneurs and business leaders can smash them to reach their full human potential.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The Giving Block announced a new partnership with Omatic. This partnership allows nonprofit organizations to seamlessly connect their fundraising data from The Giving Block with Blackbaud.
Volunteer Match
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. This list offers a few ways to delve deeper into Black history and support a more equitable future.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Maria Di Mento and Drew Lindsay Gordon Davis. (Texas Tech University) The roster includes not-so-typical megadonors — among them a professional clarinetist, a Ph.D. in meat science, and a lawyer who regularly argues before the U.S. Supreme Court.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. And in so doing we are challenging the community development field to do better—by creating new tools to support truly equitable food-oriented development.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Get your copy of this Essential Auction Resource for Nonprofits. When it comes to planning your next benefit auction event, one of the most critical elements for success is making sure that the items you're putting up for bid during your live and silent auctions are irresistible. Download The Ultimate A-to-Z List of Live & Silent Auction Item Ideas for Benefit Auction Success today to get started on brainstorming amazing ideas for unique live and silent auction items!
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Community Brands recently shared donor retention data that reinforced alarming trends that the nonprofit sector has been monitoring for a while. In their survey, they asked nonprofits what their current donor retention rate was: about 60% said they didn’t know and the rest had an average donor retention rate of 45%. On average, donor retention rates increase based on the average gift amount.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
By Drew Lindsay Abdul Majeed Al Qareh, MSF Doctors Without Borders already had 500 staff members in Syria when the earthquake hit. The U.S. charitable response to the disaster offers a mixed forecast of giving in the long run.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Image Credit: itsnnnoa on unsplash.com Nonprofit facilities communicate, and we need to be more conscious, thoughtful, and vocal about what they say about who and what our organizations value. A dilapidated and dysfunctional facility communicates that the work conducted inside it is unimportant, the people served deserve no better, and the surrounding neighborhood is forgotten and forsaken.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Utilizing the Groundswell platform, Wisconsin-based Wipfli has launched a new charitable program that provides each employee $150 and matches an additional $500 that can be distributed to charity how, when and where the employee chooses.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
By Anita Sundari Akella The development sector—whose traditional ways of working are increasingly challenged by global crisis, conflict, and climate change threats that disproportionately impact the poor, women, and girls—has a scaling problem. On one hand, social enterprises and other small innovative organizations can be an engine for conceptualizing, designing, testing, and validating new solutions to old problems.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
By Emily Haynes Colleges and universities saw the biggest growth in giving since 2000 — 4.7 percent — raising nearly $60 billion from organizations and individuals during the 2022 financial year.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Image Credit: Kimberly Cho at bombilla® ( www.bombilla.co ) This article is part of Climate Justice Organizing for Belonging , a series co-produced with NPQ and Mothers Out Front. The key question guiding this organizational shift—and this series—is: what does successful organizing look like for the most impacted when resources fully support them? We all know the song.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
What tactics have you put into place to ensure your organization can continue the essential services you provide? Learn how you can set your team up for success, regardless of any curveballs 2023 throws your way. From empowering your team with data to make informed decisions to staff and community engagement, download the eGuide from Social Solutions to learn from an experienced nonprofit Executive Director.
Fundraising Leadership
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Christian Nunes, president of NOW. The future looks beautiful to Christian Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW , president of the National Organization of Women, the 57-year-old organization built from the grassroots to address gender inequality at the height of the civil rights movement. “ The future looks beautiful to @ChrisFNunes, MBA, MS, LCSW, president of @NationalNOW, the 57-year-old organization built from the #grassroots to address #genderinequality at the height of the civil rights movement. &
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press New York Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless in Turkey and Syria after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Humanitarian access to northern Syria is complicated by the civil war, while sending funds can be blocked or slowed by U.S. sanctions, despite an exemption for relief efforts. The political environment in Turkey also poses challenges.
Non Profitvote
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Traditionally less publicized, state and local elections often see turnout rates much lower and less representative of a given community when compared to midterm and presidential elections. However, this is not to say these elections are any less important. From city councils to school boards, local elections directly affect all aspects of our daily lives and are responsible for deciding how our local community will tackle key issues such as housing, transportation, health, and public safety.
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Basketball legend Michael Jordan proves that it is better to give than to receive by making a record-setting donation of $10 million to Make-A-Wish America in honor of his 60th birthday on Feb. 17. The gift is the largest from an individual in the organization's 43-year history.
Fundraising Leadership
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Learn tips her on how to make your remote team improve their work quality of life. In 2023, women make up 47.7% of the global workforce. They are invaluable assets to any professional team, and yet many feel overlooked and under-supported by their workplace leaders. “ In 2023, #women make up 47.7% of the global workforce. They are invaluable assets to any professional team, and yet many feel overlooked and under-supported by their #workplace leaders. ” Due to the fragmented nature of r
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Plus, Temple University landed more than $10 million to help students with physical disabilities, and three other universities and a community foundation received big gifts.
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