NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JANUARY 31, 2025

Through a hybrid model of facilitator led online trainings and in person check-points along the way, participants will acquire the tools to build leadership, nonprofit management, and social responsibility expertise. Did you enjoy this story?

Nonprofit Leadership 246

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Participation and motivation Nonprofits 246

Affnetz

JUNE 9, 2025

Impact Storytelling: Hopefully, you’re having conversations with your donors and seeking to uncover their motivational triggers for giving to your Nonprofit. Identifying a donor’s motivational triggers and then segmenting your communications to donors based on their deepest interest is essential to keeping a donor’s attention.

Retention 130

Retention Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Management 130

The Killoe Group

APRIL 28, 2025

Peer-to-peer campaigns and events that really stand out offer compelling experiences to participants and donors.And while traditional run/walk/ride events are still powerhouses for peer-to-peer fundraising, there are lots of ways to create unique experiences within these types of events. Make the most of your participant portal.

Participation and motivation 96

Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Recruitment 96

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

The interim also participated in the early stages of the permanent ED search, helping the boards executive committee to jump-start the process. The outgoing ED may even actively participate in the search for an interim and/or the permanent replacement and all key staff and stakeholders can be involved in a collaborative manner.

Leadership 89

Leadership Nonprofit Leadership Culture Participation and motivation 89

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The most recent data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project shows that more donations are coming from an increasingly small donor pool and emphasizes new donor acquisition as a top priority for nonprofits: The decline in donor numbers is largely driven by low participation from the smallest donor size group (under $100), which saw an -12.4%

Nonprofit Organizations 102

Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit Organizations Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 102

Top Nonprofits

MAY 19, 2025

Ideally, these fundraisers should inspire not just participation in the initial fundraising push but continued support long after. This way, participating team members can easily conduct the whole fundraiser online without worrying about going door-to-door or managing inventory. Set a deadline.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Production 52

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Each board member may bring a specific skill or may be a generalist, but in the aggregate, the board provides a full set of business skills to ensure that the executive director is employing best practices — whether it’s finance, budgeting, strategic planning, change management, or succession planning. Your Voice Matters!

Ethics 116

Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 116

Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

The vast majority of these giving circles are led and participated in by women. The report suggests that women, collaborative in nature, are motivated to move capital as a team. billion between 2017 and 2023. When should we start educating young women in philanthropy? Make philanthropy experiential and memorable.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Participation and motivation Children Collaborations 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Including labor , faith , and racial equity groups can help increase homeowner participation in housing justice coalitions, and several are reaching out to homeowners facing housing precarity and involuntary displacement. Additionally, it will train developers, property managers, and other owners on co-governance models.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the challenges of managing a robust volunteer program. A strong management strategy can combat these issues and make your volunteer program a more positive and productive experience. Invest in volunteer management software. Offer positive, engaging experiences.

Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Public and Nonprofit Management Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation 52

Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

These organizations face many common challenges like securing sustainable funding, managing volunteer engagement, and navigating internal dynamics that can hinder their vital work. Nonprofits are crucial for communities, but they face significant hurdles. If they don’t struggle with this, enabling and codependency are the top problems.

Nonprofit governance and management 88

Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Ethics Nonprofits 88

Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

Your case for support should detail the impact volunteers can have through their participation and the personal benefits of volunteering. Consider segmenting or filtering your existing inactive list of volunteers in your volunteer management solution by interest, skills, or other attributes relevant to the roles you seek to fill.

Recruitment 54

Recruitment Participation and motivation Disaster Relief Activism 54

Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the community of women consultants that I work with, members are succeeding in all kinds of projects with their nonprofit clients: research and writing, strategic planning, fractional and interim leadership roles, project management, development and fundraising, and human resources—and they’re doing so at both small and large organizations.

Participation and motivation 64

Participation and motivation Health Nonprofits Construction 64

iMarketSmart

JANUARY 29, 2025

Nonprofit leaders, seeking efficiency and hoping to do more with less, are often encouragedsometimes pressuredto adopt this tool by customer relationship management (CRM) vendors. The fear of missing out is a powerful motivator. That drives messaging that feels out of sync with their motivations for giving.

Participation and motivation 59

Participation and motivation Values Donor Motivation Technology 59

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

alone participated in some kind of volunteering job making it a 25% of the country’s population. What’s more 73% of millennials managed to find employment over social media channels. After all, it’s a fierce competition on the employment market for both non-profit and for-profit organizations. million people in the U.S

Recruitment 64

Recruitment Non-Profits Nonprofits Participation and motivation 64

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We talked about trust by defining it as series of conscious and unconscious assessments we make about someone’s motive, competence, and reliability. While broad participation was essential, sometimes clear, bold, and insightful thinking can only happen in smaller groups. We put a high value on extensive listening and discussion.

Culture 98

Culture Leadership Values Participation and motivation 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Manager of Brand Marketing at Bloomerang – the unified giving platform for nonprofits designed to deliver deeper insights for more targeted outreach, stronger relationships, and greater impact. They are motivated by a desire to be part of something bigger than themselves. By Melaina Chromy , Sr.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Recruitment Participation and motivation 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 23, 2025

This question reveals underlying motivations, values, and goals, and can help reframe action through secondary questions like if those are our motivations, is this work really what would best serve us at this time? For each question, I ask participants to write down the question, filling in the problem or challenge at hand.

Participation and motivation 103

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Health Public and Social Policy 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Similar digital simulations could engage participants to work on fairer distribution of global resources, building on analog exercises like Buckminster Fullers World Game. For example, there are more than 4,000 giving circles globally that give more than $3 billion per year and many of them use the same online platforms to manage their work.

Nonprofit governance and management 93

Nonprofit governance and management Civil Society Collaborations Public and Social Policy 93

Anedot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Other duties assigned, including donor relations.

Food 52

Food Participation and motivation Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Anedot

APRIL 8, 2025

Emergency Assistance & Case Management: Financial and resource support for crises. The ED is responsible for leading and managing all functional areas of the organization, including financial management, staff leadership, program oversight, community engagement and fundraising. Implement the goals of the strategic plan.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

Building and managing a strong nonprofit board of directors can be challenging. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community: “What is your best advice for successfully managing a nonprofit board of directors? You can create a more engaged, motivated, and impactful board by fostering this alignment.

Management 61

Management Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Participation and motivation 61

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 22, 2025

When reading feedback about your onboarding practices, focus on these areas: Clear Expectations: Volunteers should have a detailed overview of their roles, responsibilities, and any objectives associated with their participation. Were they able to easily access and navigate your databases, fundraising tools, or event management software?

Participation and motivation 41

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Volunteerism Volunteerism 41

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I’ve served as a campaign manager, and I’ve also been a candidate myself, so I bring all these experiences into the work that I do. We’re looking at what it means to transform this country’s electoral process so that our people can fully participate in a democracy and in their own governance.

Governance 119

Governance Participation and motivation Health Education 119

iMarketSmart

APRIL 23, 2025

Marketing automation software automates repetitive marketing tasks, like email campaigns and lead nurturing (cultivation), allowing businesses to efficiently manage and personalize engagement communications. It can be responsive and personalized in highly specific ways.

Marketing 40

Marketing Marketing Participation and motivation Communication 40

Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

Owner: Annual Fund Manager. Break large goals into manageable milestones and track them against your timeline. For example, if youre launching a year-round fundraising campaign, set clear benchmarks for securing champions, completing toolkits, and tracking participation levels. Owner: Grant Writer. Create a shared dashboard.

Fundraising 112

Fundraising Fundraising Participation and motivation Recruitment 112

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

These developersengineers, data scientists, and tech leaderscan fall victim to the pressure to be the first and fastest, driven by profit motives and competitive market forces. Artificial intelligence based e-waste management for environmental planning, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 87 (March 2021): 106498.

Public and Social Policy 84

Public and Social Policy Health Environmental Ethics 84

Fundraising Leadership

JUNE 6, 2025

Participants at a recent Chicago PrideFest parade. If people feel unsafe to be out at work, the board, CEOs, managers and employers can make sure people know that at every level of your organization, prejudice and discrimination won’t be tolerated,” NHS Employers reports. This includes 49% who say they’ve participated more than once.

Leadership 52

Leadership Participation and motivation Culture Universities 52

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 14, 2025

Gen Z is motivated to support causes they believe in , and they want to know that their contributions make a real difference in their communities. As ThriftCarts donation tax receipts guide explains, Providing receipts builds trust by clearly documenting each donation and demonstrating how contributions are managed. Be transparent.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofits Values Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Communities Unlimited and PeopleFund have adapted to this larger service area by developing regional referral networks, setting up local “office hours” where staff are scheduled regularly on-site in multiple locations, and participating in community events to increase awareness and engagement. Small Business Administration loan programs.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Nonprofit Administration and Development Entrepreneurship Finance Agriculture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Extracting value through management fees and dividends. In nursing homes, related entities often serve as vehicles for extracting profits through inflated charges for rent (as noted above), as well as medical supplies, management services, and administrative fees. Participate in the regulatory process. Amplify participant voice.

Healthcare 86

Healthcare Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit Administration and Development 86

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2025

Understand different values and motivations of generations: Generation Z and Millennials are becoming increasingly interested in donating to basic needs. Board and management must lead by example: This is crucial! Engage family members early in the gifting continuum. Research repeatedly indicates that they are the more generous gender.

Public and Social Policy 61

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management 61

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2025

She called for a longer-term positive policy agenda anchored on support for stronger civil rights enforcement, for policies requiring better disaggregated data collection, for robust laws that impede Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP suits), and clear rules protecting nonprofit advocacy.

Public and Social Policy 66

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Law Public and Nonprofit Management 66

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 18, 2025

Even if they manage to meet these requirementsimposed arbitrarily by the Trump administrationthey may still face intense scrutiny from those already skeptical of their intentions. The letter establishes the states clear motive to interfere in the inner workings of a nongovernmental organization based solely on political activity.

Public and Social Policy 95

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 95

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 6, 2025

Many facilities came under the control of private entities contracted by the state, whose primary motive was profit. This shift in care management is crucial in understanding the current state of care and what occurred due to COVID-19. It is also efficient, with online participation reducing administrative costs.

Participation and motivation 105

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 22, 2025

Despite insurmountable odds, KCF succeeded, and in the months that followed their victory, organizers across the country puzzled over how they managed to pull it off. Lawmakers, for example, have few incentives to take up the concerns of communities with low rates of political participation (Mayhew 1974).

Public and Social Policy 74

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 74

Anedot

MAY 9, 2025

This year, as in years past, she handed out Lara bars to all participants, with thanks to the Sierra Club of Solano County and Sprouts Farmers Market for making them available. The event drew volunteers with a variety of motivations. The post Solano County Volunteers Participate in the 2025 Earth Day Cleanup first appeared on CVNL.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Collaborations Food Education 52