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How Fundraisers Can Reconcile the Competition that Exists Between Your Donors’ & Administrators’ Hero Stories

iMarketSmart

But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. In the donor-hero story, charity administrators are minions. The administrator’s role is only to dutifully obey donor orders. What works for this group is the administrator-hero story.[1] Example: Nonprofit allows a broad range of donor-created gift restrictions.

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Announcing the Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Speakers!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference + Catalyst Awards will offer a keynote address + 12 breakout sessions The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference returns for its 5th year and aims to address barriers, solutions, and best practices within the nonprofit sector.

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

As a nonprofit management student, preparing to enter this field can be challenging because it’s still developing. The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Today’s public officials are most often trained in areas of administration, policy development, fiscal analysis, and in stewarding public resources and promoting public accountability. That means developing a shared understanding of what those problems are (or will be), how to tackle them, and what success looks like.

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Beyond Survival: Post-Disruption Nonprofit Culture Strategy

Bloomerang

This nonprofit culture strategy post is part 3 in a 3-part series. There are three pillars of transformation required of philanthropically-funded nonprofits that want to thrive in the post-disruption, post-COVID economy. Let’s move now to the third and final pillar: nonprofit culture strategy. . Line staff vs. administration.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

From 2000 to 2021, progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been anemic, registering less than 10 percent growth over 20 years. The same 2017 survey of nonprofits conducted by IBM found that 78 percent of nonprofits with advanced analytics capabilities reported higher effectiveness in performing their missions.

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4 big ideas Dr. Russell James got from scanning donor brains with neuroimaging equipment

iMarketSmart

Philanthropy originates in story. 1] In empathy development of preschool children, story is at the center.[2] Philanthropy was about social emotion. Philanthropy is about social emotion. Visual philanthropy. Exposing preschoolers to storybooks develops their prosocial skills.[28] What is it? 1] Kitcher, P.