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Racial Justice Programs Under Fire: Foundations Are Running Scared When They Should Double Down

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Perceived legal threats following the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling are causing grant makers to backslide, fueling notions that racial justice work is discriminatory or illegal. By Lori Villarosa , Ben Francisco Maulbeck, and Gihan Perera Getty Images Perceived legal threats following the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling are causing grant makers to backslide, fueling notions that racial justice work is discriminatory or illegal.

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Stop Treating Donors Like ATMs: Here’s How

Allison Fine

By Allison Fine Simple steps to get off the hamster wheel of transactional fundraising and move toward relational fundraising.

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Quest for Quality: Your Guide to Overcoming Data Obstacles for Business Success

NonProfit PRO

The first obstacle in any quest for clean data is knowing what’s in it. Download this ebook to learn how data profiling can help you find, fix & monitor the bad data in your system to boost donor engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve decision-making. Plus, learn how to overcome other common data obstacles to achieve a complete 360-degree customer view.

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Types of Content Nonprofits Post on Social Media vs What People Want

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

“What should I post on social media?” is one of the top questions nonprofit marketers ask. To help answer that question and to see if it lines up with best practices, we asked nonprofit communicators to tell us how often you share different types of content on social media. Here are the results found in our 2024 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report : 2024 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report Highlights: 46% of survey takers said they share news or upcoming events most of the time with the sa

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How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

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.

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The Climate Foundation Funded by Laurene Powell Jobs Has More Than $3 Billion to Spend — and a Deadline

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Jared Blumenfeld says the Waverley Street Foundation supports community-based climate groups that have been largely overlooked by past climate philanthropy. By Jim Rendon Courtesy of the Waverley Street Foundation Jared Blumenfeld became Waverley Street’s president in 2022 after a long history in the environmental movement. He began his career as a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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3 Ways to Enhance Donor Experiences with Digital Waivers

Ann Green

Leveraging data and making tweaks to donor-facing forms helps your nonprofit build stronger relationships. Learn how digital waivers improve donor experiences. By Logan Lewis In 2023, donor retention was down significantly from the previous year. The number of new retained donors, or those who gave the previous year but never before, dropped by 18.7%.

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4 Steps to Attract & Retain More Donors Every Month

NonProfit Leadership Center

Did you know that for every dollar spent attracting new donors via email, organizations generate about $40 in return (Source: Litmus)? That’s a pretty convincing equation, but in today’s competitive market with information overload, it can be difficult for nonprofits to consistently find and reach new prospective donors. So, how can your organization break through these barriers and attract hundreds of new donors each month?

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Gen Z Is Open to Nonprofit Careers — but on Their Own Terms

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Ben Gose Tracie Van Auken for The Chronicle Young workers favor an informal work style and want a tightly defined work schedule. They're also demanding changes in how organizations operate. Plus: See the rest of our new issue , published online today.

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How to Fund Narrative Ecosystems

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jason Weingardt on Unsplash How can philanthropy effectively support narratives of liberation? As people who traverse the interconnected areas of narrative and philanthropy, this question has been at the center of our work for decades—and we have seen many missteps and promising practices along the way. Recently, both of us attended an international gathering that sought to provide answers.

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Download GiveSmart’s 2024 Fundraising Calendar

NonProfit PRO

Embark on a year-round journey with our 2024 Annual Fundraising Calendar, capturing moments that matter. Each page highlights giving moments, holidays, and fundraising opportunities. Join GiveSmart in turning the pages of year-round success!

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

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.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jason Wendle Migration is often framed as a crisis : When the issue makes headlines, it’s portrayed as a burden, threat, or tragedy, and almost always politically intractable. In reality, migration represents an opportunity and a solution, and it needs to be disentangled from electoral politics. Indeed, we are at the beginning of a multi-decade, global trend of human movement, a trend which can be harnessed to unlock tremendous good for the world.

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From Activist to Foundation Leader: Deepak Bhargava to Deliver 'Lightning Bolt' to Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The new president of the JPB foundation will increase grant making to $510 million this year to support nonprofits focused on multiracial democracy and worker power. By Alex Daniels The JPB Foundation Deepak Bhargava is a longtime progressive movement organizer who plans to give big to democracy-strengthening efforts. The new president of the JPB foundation will increase grant making to $510 million this year to support nonprofits focused on multiracial democracy and worker power.

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The Vision for Black Lives: An Economic Policy Agenda

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com With this article, we begin a new NPQ series, The Vision for Black Lives: An Economic Policy Agenda. Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice.

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Halt Declining Retention Rates with These Creative and Effective Strategies

NonProfit PRO

Discover the secrets to boosting donor retention and revitalizing your nonprofit in this guide, "Unlock the Secrets of Nonprofit Success: A Strategic Guide to Boost Your Donor Retention Game." Increasing donor retention rates by just 10% can result in a substantial 200% surge in the lifetime value of donors according to the Harvard Business Review. How can we counter the national decline in donor retention?

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Protecting the right to give according to our values

Candid

On January 31, the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals began hearing oral arguments in a case that holds significant implications for U.S. philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last June against race-conscious admissions in higher education, we were concerned that the decision could lead to further limitations on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts across the sector.

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GoFundMe Says $30 Billion Has Been Raised on Its Crowdfunding and Nonprofit Giving Platforms

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The most common donation on GoFundMe is $50. By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press NEW YORK Adrian Kraus/AP GoFundMe crowdfunding campaigns have generated $30 billion since 2010, the fundraising platform announced Tuesday, as younger generations look beyond institutions to make their donations.

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Amid HBCUs’ Financial Challenges, New Funding Offers Renewed Hope

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: LinkedIn Sales Solutions on Unsplash In the wake of the 2023 US Supreme Court decision to strike down affirmative action and amid rising discrimination against Black academics at predominately White institutions (PWIs), renewed attention is being paid to the importance of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Recent events have also drawn attention to the fact that HBCUs are chronically underfunded even as they play a critical role in shaping democracy.

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The Ultimate Nonprofit Accounting Guide

NonProfit PRO

The best accounting eBook for your team is here! Download this comprehensive resource for the latest best practices for budgeting, closing books, audits, managing payroll, compliance, and much more.

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What Does Early Spring Mean for Nonprofit Communications Strategies?

Clairification

This week the groundhog told us it’s going to be an early spring! Spring is always a good time for re-awakening, rebirth and just plain dusting away the cobwebs. And what a dreary, grave, cobwebby period it’s been. We’ve got a lot to clean up, reorganize and rethink. So much, in fact, it’s downright overwhelming. So, as I sat down to write today’s article, I thought about what you actually have within your power to do.

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Largest U.S. Journalism Award Goes to Coverage of Black Liberation, Uvalde Aftermath

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Amidst new industry turmoil, the Heising-Simons Foundation's American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which awards $100,000 grants to two freelancers, is significant. By Sara Herschander Drew Bird Winner Dara Mathis won for her work covering Black liberation movements. The Heising-Simons Foundation's American Mosaic Journalism Prize went to two freelancers for their coverage of Black liberation and the Uvalde mass shooting.

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Philanthropy Needs to Trust the Real Experts—the People It Supports

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com This article was co-produced and co-published with Proximate. Who gets to make the decisions about where philanthropic dollars go? For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that grantmaking should rely on professional staff to make expert decisions, reflecting philanthropy’s move from a values-based tradition to a more technocratic bent.

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New Benevity Report Reveals a Surge in Corporate Volunteerism

NonProfit PRO

As companies look to boost employee connection in a hybrid work world, new research from Benevity reveals an uptick in corporate volunteerism.

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Could AI Speak on Behalf of Future Humans? (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Konstantin Scheuermann & Angela Aristidou AI systems can give voice to previously unheard stakeholders and make collective decision-making processes more inclusive—but only if they are designed thoughtfully and deployed responsibly.

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Lisa Yang Gives $35 Million to Boost Global Wildlife Conservation

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The 1974 Cornell alumna’s gift will expand a center that conducts research, trains future wildlife health leaders, and provides experiential learning opportunities for students. By Maria Di Mento Rachel Philipson/Cornell University K. Lisa Yang’s name will adorn the Cornell Wildlife Health Center. Plus, we report on big donations to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Monmouth College, and a new history museum in Wisconsin.

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Healing Society through the Archaeology of Self™: A Racial Literacy Development Approach

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: “Neurons of the Mind’s Eye” by Martine Mooijenkind Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s winter 2023 issue, “Love as Social Order: How Do We Build a World Based in Love?” Imagine a civil society in which communities, individuals, and leaders (nonprofit, social movement, philanthropy, business, education, and more) regularly engage in the process of self-examination for the sake of improving our world.

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Your Nonprofit Impact Report

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit PRO can work with your non-profit to develop an impressive Impact Report. We have the ability to leverage original and third-party non-profit industry research, a team of non-profit Analysts to analyze your non-profit’s performance and highlight key performance indicators, and a professional Art team to strengthen and enhance your Impact Report.

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Build Donor Trust with a BBB Accreditation

Donorbox Nonprofit

In today’s philanthropic landscape, trust and transparency are paramount. For years, individuals have gone to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to report complaints and issues with businesses and nonprofits. Organizations of all kinds can also receive BBB accreditation to showcase their dedication to good business practices. The BBB provides accreditation to national and regional charities […] The post Build Donor Trust with a BBB Accreditation appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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FTC Orders Blackbaud to Overhaul 'Shoddy' Security Practices Behind Data Breach

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The fundraising software company agreed to pay $45.9 million last year to settle claims for a 2020 data breach that affected 13,000 nonprofits. By Sara Herschander The fundraising software company agreed to pay $45.9 million last year to settle claims for a 2020 data breach that affected 13,000 nonprofits.

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How Foundations Can Co-Create Movement Infrastructure

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: RF._.studio on pexels.com Discussions of trust-based philanthropy have gained increased prominence over the years, but how can philanthropy operate as an effective part of social justice movements—beyond just providing grants to movement nonprofits? It’s a question that I have struggled to answer for years. Moving from being simply philanthropic critics to co-creating movement infrastructure…provided many opportunities to change longstanding practices.

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Will the Election and Economy Hurt Philanthropy in 2024?

NonProfit PRO

There are already concerns about how the economy and election will affect philanthropy in 2024. Here's how to prepare for what's to come.

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Beyond Fundraising Metrics: How Great Managers Get Results

Veritus Group

Are you leaning on fundraising metrics as a crutch, or are you investing in the kind of management that leads to real success in major gifts? The post Beyond Fundraising Metrics: How Great Managers Get Results appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Silent Donor Platform Offers Anonymous Donations to the Mainstream, as Privacy Debate Rages

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The platform allows people to route donations through a donor-advised fund. By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer NEW YORK Nam Y. Huh/AP Tim Sanders founded Silent Donor after making a donation and being put off by the amount of mail he received afterward. “And 10 years later, I was still on their email list,” he says, “and others were coming out of the woodwork.

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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: “ Nature, food, landscape, travel ” on istock.com Creating and preserving quality affordable housing is notoriously difficult, with the number of available units declining each year as landlords raise rents ever higher. An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities.

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Engaging Next Generation Seen as Biggest Headwind for Private Foundations in 2024

NonProfit PRO

Foundation Source released its 2024 client survey to offer a glimpse into how private foundations are approaching charitable giving this year.

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4 Features to Look for in Museum Management Software

Top Nonprofits

If you’re a leader at a museum, you know that managing this type of organization involves many moving parts. From developing educational content that engages visitors to building a membership program to collecting donations , a lot goes into creating a thriving museum. Fortunately, management becomes significantly simpler when you have the right tools on your side.