Selfish Giving

APRIL 27, 2022

Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter will be bad news for the platform and the world. This is too bad because you all know how much I like, use, and recommend Twitter. Like you, I would also like to see a better world. With the election in 2016 with the pandemic in 2020 I said the same thing: "It won't be so bad." No more pollyanna for me. I'm preparing for the worse, and you should too.

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Foundation Group

APRIL 25, 2022

The post Are You Misappropriating Your Nonprofit’s Funds? A Look At Restricted Donations appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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Candid

APRIL 28, 2022

As Candid’s online librarian, I often receive questions about starting a nonprofit, what it entails, and whether it’s the best way to pursue a person’s particular passions. Starting a nonprofit organization can be an inspiring way to give back to your community and help those in need. However, it is important to understand this process before moving forward.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 29, 2022

Today it’s not enough to simply have a great product or mission, great organizations must be intentional in creating a positive customer experience. Customer experience is how customers perceive their interactions with your organization, which greatly influences their loyalty and likelihood to recommend or evangelize the organization. .

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 29, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations both large and small need to undergo a financial statement audit every year. Preparing for a nonprofit audit can be overwhelming and anxiety-filled, especially if it’s your first audit or you don’t have a strong and experienced financial team. But an audit doesn’t have to scare you or your management team. The most important thing you can do is be prepared.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

Looing for ideas for your nonprofit’s newsletter articles, social media updates, blog posts and more? Use the following writing ideas from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Sign up now to get prompts emailed to you in advance monthly. As usual, please double-check events to see if they are still happening. On the Calendar. 5/1: National Mother Goose Day.

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Boardsource

APRIL 27, 2022

As nonprofit consultants, we’ve found the need for board guidance and support with regards to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) has been steadily growing over the years. When it comes to this important work, we know that just diversity , or recruiting board members from different racial backgrounds alone, is not enough. Boards of historically white-led organizations must do more to intentionally work to build diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging into board culture.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 28, 2022

Is your organization entering revenue into both Bloomerang and QuickBooks? Is someone spending hours trying to reconcile the revenue between the two? Bloomerang has one of the best QuickBooks Online syncs available. Using it will save your organization countless hours of time. In this interactive webinar, nonprofit QuickBooks expert, Gregg S. Bossen CPA will team up with Bloomerang to walk through exactly how to set up and utilize the Bloomerang-QuickBooks Online sync function!

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Nonprofits 74

Elevation

APRIL 28, 2022

You work hard to raise funds that power your nonprofit’s mission. You promote your online fundraising pages , host engaging fundraising events, and engage with donors on a regular basis to encourage them to continue powering your mission.

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Ann Green

APRIL 28, 2022

Do you feel as if information overload is getting worse every year? There’s so much going on right now. Getting your messages out is never easy, but like everything else, it’s gotten a whole lot harder over the past two years. Your nonprofit organization needs to continue communicating regularly with your donors and you need to do it well. With everything that’s going on, it’s possible they’ll miss your messages.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 26, 2022

For as long as I can remember, people have been concerned with the high rate of employee turnover in the nonprofit industry. This is especially troublesome when it comes to our development staff as we tend to send them out to create relationships with key donors on behalf of our organizations.

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Nonprofits 111

Bloomerang

APRIL 29, 2022

The post Get More Gifts From Your Email Subscribers appeared first on Bloomerang.

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NextAfter

APRIL 29, 2022

How effectively does your nonprofit express its value to prospective donors? This question can often get lost in the shuffle as you focus on growing your prospect pool, increasing your communications, and marketing your brand. But each of those focuses can gain your organization more donors by communicating a strong value proposition. In fact, every ad, email, and landing page you produce presents this vital opportunity.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 29, 2022

Curiosity is a fundraisers greatest asset. Yet even the most curious must learn to ask questions that yield the most insight into donor motivation and to link those propensities to institutional mission. The most important time to put structured curiosity to its best use is when meeting potential donors for the first time – including those who you are meeting for the first time even though they have given to your organization before.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 25, 2022

While the concept of fundraising via e-appeals and mail may sound so last century, I assure you it is an important foundational piece for a fundraising program of the 2020s.

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Caring Truth-Teller

APRIL 27, 2022

So, you want to raise more money this year, right? What if it was as simple as telling better stories to your stakeholders? It can be that simple. Success in life comes down to one thing: communication. What we say. Where we say it. How and when we say it. For me, helping fundraising professionals understand how to tell better stories to raise more money is my passion, calling, and life work.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 27, 2022

Does your blog or website get updated regularly? Perhaps it is time to add more content. Let’s explore why this strategy might be one of the best ways to grow your online presence as a nonprofit organization. . When we think about marketing your nonprofit, we tailor our content strategy to fit your needs. Many organizations use social media more often than web content to grow their online presence.

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Marketing Marketing Nonprofits Children 52

Mission Minded

APRIL 26, 2022

Learn how offering employees access to a professional coach benefits the employee, your entire team, and ultimately your mission. The post Why Coaching for your Nonprofit is a Good Investment appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Nonprofits 52

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 29, 2022

As I was beginning to build my library on fundraising, I knew I had to obtain the book, “Henry Rosso’s Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising.” Can you imagine my joy and excitement when it was announced that Wiley Publishing had published the fifth edition of “Achieving Excellence in Fundraising”?

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Fundraising Fundraising Education Education 105

CNPE

APRIL 25, 2022

Candidates describe how they would work with nonprofits in governing Louisville. On March 29, CNPE convened its inaugural Mayoral Candidate Forum instead of the March CAN meeting. For 90 minutes, seven candidates responded to questions submitted by CAN members, moderated by Stephen George of Louisville Public Media and Rachel Platt of the Frazier History Museum.

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Governance Nonprofits 52

Concord Leadership

APRIL 25, 2022

Habits can be incredibly helpful. They can help us use our time more efficiently. And they can increase our capacity to do more of what we’d prefer to be doing. But making an activity become a habit takes time. And focus. And effort. So much time, focus, and effort that we often confuse the actual […]. The post Do you get stressed when activities become habits?

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 23, 2022

No, this is NOT a get-rich-quick scheme. It's an actual example of how a 15-minute reply to an email may have resulted in a $15K larger gift from a foundation. Let me tell you a story about a donor I had been cultivating for 2+ years to support an organization I care about. After a few rounds of conversation and the submission of a proposal, this donor came back with a question.

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Psychology Foundations Fundraising Fundraising 52

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 25, 2022

Your nonprofit likely has a social media presence. You post to raise awareness for your mission and to gain more donors and volunteers. What goals do you have for your social media? Do you feel like you have an optimal plan and strategy to get the most out of your likely limited time investment? Download our guide to help you answer those questions!

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Nonprofits 104

Bloomerang

APRIL 29, 2022

————. The post AFP & Charitable Gift Planners of Indiana appeared first on Bloomerang.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 27, 2022

Hiring major gifts officers is hard. First, it’s just not an easy position to fill because there is a lot of turnover. But more than that, anyone involved in hiring a new teammate has to have a clear grasp of what separates the great from the good, and the good from the mediocre? This goes beyond things like work ethic, commitment, technical understanding, and all the stuff they may have learned in college.

Psychology 52

Psychology Ethics Fundraising Fundraising 52

M.A.N.P

APRIL 25, 2022

Nonprofit mergers are sometimes seen as a last resort in the face of financial crisis, but as highlighted in this article from Stanford Social Innovation Review, “mergers and acquisitions can be more than an escape plan, and instead help nonprofits preserve their mission and expand their impact.” On the flip side, nonprofits sometimes experience external pressure to merge or consolidate when it may not be the right time or choice.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 25, 2022

Four remarkable leaders, whose life experiences give them inspiration and strength, share their personal stories and reflect on their leadership journeys in conversations with Fred Ali, the retired President and CEO of the Weingart Foundation, and a former nonprofit leader.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2022

————. The post AFP/CGPI Spring Conference appeared first on Bloomerang.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 27, 2022

Hiring major gifts officers is hard. First, it’s just not an easy position to fill because there is a lot of turnover. But more than that, anyone involved in hiring a new teammate has to have a clear grasp of what separates the great from the good, and the good from the mediocre? This goes beyond things like work ethic, commitment, technical understanding, and all the stuff they may have learned in college.

Psychology 52

Psychology Ethics Fundraising Fundraising 52

Ken Goldstein

APRIL 24, 2022

I have just added another online course to my Udemy offerings: When Change Comes to Nonprofits (Ready or Not!) In this course I share several case studies from my experiences of managing through crises as an Interim Executive Director. In fact, an apt sub-title for the course might have been Confessions of a Serial Interim ED. In the first few lessons, I give the details of a couple of successful mergers, and merger negotiations that were ended without an agreement.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 26, 2022

Titled 'Next Gen Donor Learning: Lessons for Effective Programs from Houston and the Field,' the report identifies core questions facing any next gen donor learning effort and offers practical guidance for tackling each question.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2022

————. The post AFP Dallas Philanthropy Conference appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Philanthropy 79

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

If you’re trying to raise money but all you’re hearing is crickets, you may need to work on your message for fundraising. When it comes to convincing people to give, your message is everything. It’s how you explain to a potential donor who your organization helps, what problem you are working to solve, and how your organization is changing lives. And you have to explain it all in a way that inspires people to give you money.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 27, 2022

Tim Kachuriak has dedicated the past 15 year of his life to answer this question…. “Why do people give to nonprofits?”. And while he’s found that the answers vary wildly, he’s managed to identify some core principles that can predictably boost giving to your nonprofit. In this week’s episode, Tim sits down with me to talk about some simple techniques and everyday strategies you can use to attract more donations and build a better relationship with your donors.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 29, 2022

Lasagna Love released findings from a survey it conducted that proves the effect of kindness. The organization, which aims to positively impact communities by connecting neighbors with neighbors through homemade meal delivery, polled its delivery recipients to determine if kind gestures inspire pay-it-forward acts.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2022

————. The post AFP Florida Caucus Planet Philanthropy appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

Nomad Lounge. Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Welcome to another post featuring the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week have a couple benchmarks studies, some feel-good fundraisers, using GIFs in email, insights into Instagram’s new algorithm, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… M+R just released its popular annual Benchmarks Study.

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