Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. One study found that 86 percent of respondents believed that having a strategic plan positively impacted revenue generation through grants, donors, events, and other avenues. Let’s get started.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? We addressed these problems through data investigations and corrections, and enhancements to how we sample data.

Ethics 52

Ethics Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 52

Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 5, 2024

In the digital age, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) content writing has become a vital strategy for nonprofits to increase visibility and engagement. AI apps offer plenty of promising capabilities that can enhance writing strategies and save time. However, AI can struggle with context, extrapolation, and creative thought.

Nonprofits 52

Nonprofits Marketing Marketing Management 52

Lets Talk Nonprofit

JULY 5, 2023

The same question holds true for grants. If you're writing an online application and the response allows 300 words, do you need to use all 300 words? And what about your donor appeals? What's the right length of the fundraising materials you write for your nonprofit? ARE YOU WRITING A GRANT PROPOSAL?

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

How writing skills can help generate more donations for a nonprofit organization Solid writing skills are necessary for growing donations for any nonprofit organization. Writing can support a nonprofit’s cause and help to generate more donations.

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve. Before we write product requirements, design interfaces, or build software, we go to our users to understand how they do their work, what their goals are, and what obstacles are standing in their way.

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

It's called grant writing. more to grant writing than just "writing.". Successful grant writing always starts with. Your review should be a combination of proofreading and editing. The goal is to make your writing more readable. 8 Grant Proposal Writing Tips.

Nonprofits 52

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we enter 2023, we’ve compiled a list of nonprofit books from Candid’s free digital library that can help inspire your nonprofit’s New Year’s resolutions. Take your fundraising game to the next level. Become a catalyst for innovation at your nonprofit. Birkholz and Amy S.

Public and Nonprofit Management 111

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Image credit: Fabio Bracht on Unsplash This article was co-produced and co-published with Civil Eats. From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s ⎯ and the world’s ⎯ food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. Journalism is welcoming the new infusion of philanthropy. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 118

The Charity CFO

APRIL 18, 2024

Let’s look closer at the challenges nonprofits will face in 2024–and how to solve them! Financial Sustainability For nonprofits, financial sustainability means the financial security to cover expenses and advance your mission. The cost of cat and dog food is going up, so your expenses are higher to feed the animals in your care.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can review nonprofits’ tax returns on GuideStar to find out more about their budgets, expenses, and how much top salaried employees are paid. On-demand trainings can be taken any time, with recent topics including fostering an inclusive culture , finding funding , and writing grant proposal budgets.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

For this reason, The California Endowment (TCE) chose Del Norte and the Yurok and Tolowa Dee-ni’ Tribal lands as one of 14 communities included in Building Healthy Communities (BHC), a 10-year-long initiative aiming to improve health outcomes among the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in the state.

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Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

Lets Talk Nonprofit

JUNE 1, 2022

Grant writing is a skill that you hone over time. grant writing books that are on the market today. However, when it comes to proofreading and review, I'll bet you're probably using your word processor's spell check and grammar check features. In fact, there are a lot more writing and editing tools out there.

Education 52

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The solution is to have a recipe or rather, a plan, that maps out all your fundraising for the year. You see, your annual fundraising plan is a treasure map that leads you to the exact activities that will raise the most money for your nonprofit over the course of the coming year. Engage your Board. Can you do it?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Grant research tip: When searching for grants, using geography is an effective way to target funders. Start small and work your way out. Mellon Foundation. The Andrew W. Areas served: US.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Traditional vs. holistic It’s unclear how many nonprofit consultants and consulting firms are currently operating in the United States, but by a quick Google search it appears to be hundreds. There are numerous articles on different types of nonprofit consultants and their specific niches of how they serve nonprofits.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. But if you want to fully fund your nonprofit, you simply must have a plan. You can’t wing your way to success. Without a plan, you’ll spend your time in the Cycle of Reactivity and Panic or CRAP.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a union leader, you likely wear many hats to keep your organization running smoothly. You need a software solution that can support your current operations and scale them over time. That’s why choosing an integrated union management software solution is essential to your union’s success. Reduce human error.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 12, 2021

Whether your nonprofit is an enterprise-level organization or a team of one , your mission statement serves as the heart of both your cause and your fundraising strategy. Your mission statement informs how you interact with your supporters, from how you ask for donations to which corporations you agree to partner with.

Nonprofits 119

Nonprofits Foundations Values Marketing 119

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Once they get to know you and your nonprofit, they can become invaluable for all the tasks they can take off your plate. Hiring a VA can be a perfect solution when your organization does not yet have the financial resources and stability to hire staff. What you need is a nonprofit virtual assistant or VA. Nor should you.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to attract corporate matching gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a question about how to attract corporate matching gifts. Just sitting by the phone waiting for your donor to figure it out—and do all the work—is simply not going to cut it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

It is tempting to allow board members to skip fundraising, but this useful list is designed to give board members a wide range of tasks they can choose from to support the financial growth of your organization, and only a few involve directly asking for money. Creating a page with 3-5 CTAs on your website could be a great tool for engagement.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

Here are three simple, evidence-based practices that have been shown to boost your mood, well-being, and help you savor what is going well. Here are three simple, evidence-based practices that have been shown to boost your mood, well-being, and help you savor what is going well. And yet, this hyper-focus may be counterproductive.

Psychology 98

Psychology Health Associations Nonprofits 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Beth Kanter , Allison Fine & Philip Deng The breakneck rate at which people have adopted the generative AI writing tool ChatGPT has been astonishing. How Nonprofits Are Using AI Now Fully integrating AI into the workplace will likely take years, as a recent McKinsey study indicates, but the process is already underway.

Ethics 133

Ethics Public and Social Policy Technology Public and Nonprofit Management 133

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? . If your nonprofit doesn’t have a diversified funding strategy, you leave yourself vulnerable when a major source of funding dries up. . That’s where the power of grants can come in. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Let’s dig in!

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Nonprofits Foundations Management Collaborations 78

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? . If your nonprofit doesn’t have a diversified funding strategy, you leave yourself vulnerable when a major source of funding dries up. . That’s where the power of grants can come in. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Let’s dig in!

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Activists directly confronted new art galleries with protests and headline-grabbing disputes over who has the right to live and work in a community that has been the center of Mexican-American history and culture for generations. Was our advocacy for community members, including the most marginalized—such as immigrant entrepreneurs—enough?

Culture 102

Culture Community Development Collaborations Activism 102

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2023

It also means freedom – freedom to live how we want to live. I know it’s easy to forget that when you’re up to your elbows in details and administration. Your messaging cannot be all about you – your programs, your budget, you, you, you. The work we do in the nonprofit world matters. We make a difference.

Fundraising 111

Fundraising Fundraising Leadership Energy 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 19, 2023

By Armando Zumaya While I have seen a great many articles on the decline in charitable giving, it is striking how rarely the work of fundraising itself is mentioned as part of the problem. And it’s because our hearts are rich with the impact of our work that I want to improve what we do. Amazing right? Fundraising is beautiful.

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Fundraising Coach

MAY 25, 2021

These documents are a vital foundation for all communication activities a nonprofit will undertake, as Grant Cobb, Head of Marketing and Analytics at GivingMail, explains. Your mission and case statements aren’t just information statements about your nonprofit. Make Your Case Relevant to Your Audience.

Disaster Relief 105

Disaster Relief Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management Foundations 105

Lets Talk Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday challenges us to rethink how we give during the holidays. If you haven't already sent out your last appeal of the year, there's still time. 8 ways to make the most of your year-end campaign. Be sure to match your message to the medium. It's as simple as that.

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Candid

MAY 19, 2021

Nonprofits, like Mental Health America (MHA) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness ( NAMI ), for example, are making practical toolkits available for free so the public can improve their mental health and increase their resiliency regardless of their personal situation. Number of Grants Awarded. billion to mental health causes.*

Health 98

Health Foundations Activism Production 98

Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 2, 2024

To continue generating a meaningful impact on the lives of those you serve, you and your staff members need to adopt a mindset for continuous learning, whether that’s researching cryptocurrency donations or exploring how to inspire birthday fundraisers on your nonprofit’s behalf. Improved employee retention.

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Participation and motivation Nonprofits Retention Management 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 23, 2023

See how to Start. These organizations rely on donations, grants, and other funding sources to operate and accomplish their missions. There are many online resources available that can help students improve their writing skills and develop their critical thinking abilities.

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Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today's article from Grant Hensel, the CEO of Nonprofit Megaphone, dives into how to optimize your current digital presence to make the most of the Google Ad Grant. Grant and the Nonprofit Megaphone team have worked with over 370 leading nonprofits in Google Grant management, and he lends his expertise here. .

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic , which placed restrictions on meeting in person, nonprofit headquarter site visits mainly entailed giving a visitor a tour of your nonprofit’s facilities. . The visitor enjoyed seeing the services described in your marketing and fundraising materials. How to stage your virtual nonprofit site visit.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

” The report , Grassroots, Black & Giving: How Philanthropy Can Better Support Black-led and Black-benefiting Nonprofits , is based on a survey of over 200 such organizations conducted by YBGB. YBGB executive director Ebonie Johnson Cooper tells NPQ.

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Nonprofits Leadership Poverty Social Policy 109