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5 Lessons from 5,000 Fundraising Experiments

NextAfter

And we’ve experienced our fair share of “aha” moments, forehead slaps, and unexpected learnings along the way. You can learn more in this guide to online donor acquisition. You can learn more in this guide to online donor acquisition. That’s a whole lot of testing, tweaking, and analysis. The result? What would you do?

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Investing in Systems Change Capacity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. True systems change requires solutions to be embedded deeply enough that they can self-perpetuate.

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5 Fundraising Trends for 2021 and Beyond

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The entire social sector learned a valuable lesson in 2020: even the most rigorous planning can’t insulate us from the need to be flexible and adapt to the changing world around us. At the same time, our industry has shown remarkable resilience in times of greatest need, and this year has been no exception.

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How to Lower the ‘Cost’ of Philanthropy So Your Supporters Donate Major Gifts of Assets

iMarketSmart

So does lowering cost. These make the gift easier. But sometimes, these two processes conflict. Number problems. In fundraising, numbers can be a problem. The problem is this. Giving motivation comes from the social emotion system. It comes from story. Introducing math, numbers, and finance can disrupt this process. Number solutions. The solution?

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Questions to ask to advance the donor’s hero story

iMarketSmart

Connects to the donor’s original identity (history, people, or values), Promises the hope of a victory impacting the larger world, and. Connects to the donor’s original identity (history, people, or values), Promises the hope of a victory impacting the larger world, and. But just asking questions isn’t enough. The hero story steps.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Hub / Irvine, CA / $175. Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Nonprofit Management.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Structural racism “identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’ and disadvantages associated with ‘color’ to endure and adapt over time.” Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. The critique has been valuable.