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Fundraising Coach
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Now what do you do? 2 Things To Do When All Other Fundraising Is Done. Here are two things to do this month. We are so used to the stress and adrenaline of getting everything ready that we forget stress and adrenaline is just for sprints. Figure out what your average is. Well, three.
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Clairification
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
I had a pure strategic fundraising post all ready to launch today, but I just couldn’t quite do it. However, we live in a political world. And so do our nonprofits, our staff, our volunteers, our donors and our clients. What are they thinking? What can the social benefit sector do to bring things back into balance?
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Candid
MARCH 9, 2022
We spoke with Zach Huber, Toledo-Lucas’s specialist librarian, to showcase what their library has been able to achieve by being a part of the Funding Information Network. Candid : What would you like people to know about your services and how you view your role in the community?
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Non Profit AF
APRIL 30, 2024
Hi everyone, I am writing from Nairobi Kenya, where I am listening to local leaders and engaging in reflections about.
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Veritus Group
DECEMBER 7, 2022
We asked the Veritus team to describe the fundraisers they work with and what they provide to their donors. Here's what our team shared. The post Do You Realize Who You Really Are? Here’s What We Know About Great Fundraisers appeared first on Veritus Group.
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Non Profit AF
APRIL 23, 2024
Hi everyone. It’s been four years since I left being a nonprofit executive director and became “Financially Untethered” (FU), and.
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Blue Avocado
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Dear Rita, We’re in a disturbing situation that we never had to deal with before. Our agency generates a considerable amount of intellectual property and computer data that we designate as proprietary and confidential. appeared first on Blue Avocado.
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NonProfit Hub
MAY 8, 2015
What I’m not saying is that we need more female leaders just for the sake of having more female leaders. Let’s talk about why this is a problem, and what we should be doing about it. What We Can Do About it as Women—Sit at the Table. What We Can Do About it as Society.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 3, 2011
What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. What nonprofits can do about it: We can’t stop the trolls, but we can prevent them from infecting our online communities. What nonprofits can do about it: Make an effort to get away from your computer, tablet, and/or smartphone!
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 27, 2024
It’s just radically different, and I don’t think we can explain that enough. When we say slow money, that’s what we mean. When we say emergent strategy, that’s what we mean. When we say hyperlocal, that’s what we mean. We need the time to get to explain this methodology.
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Nonprofit Fixer
APRIL 22, 2024
“Leadership isn’t just about deciding what to do, it’s also about knowing what not to do.” - Jeremy Reis “Nonprofit leaders must have the courage to take risks and try new approaches, even in the face of uncertainty and challenges.” - Nancy Lublin ( source ) “Nonprofit leaders are inventors and entrepreneurs.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 4, 2024
Standing in the future, we can look back and see that one of the things we had to collectively affirm is that we are done with calling people out. Today we have to commit to graduating beyond that perspective to move in the direction of our vision, so we can stop fighting against racism and finally end racism.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
How do we build regional economies rooted in community ownership? This webinar explores: What do we mean by a solidarity economy? How do you build a community-owned solidarity economy at the local and regional levels? How do solidarity economy businesses develop viable and sustainable business models?
Candid
MAY 1, 2024
As you may have heard, we’re building new Candid tools to help those working in the social sector to do good even more efficiently and effectively in a fast-changing world. To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve.
Candid
MARCH 14, 2024
At Candid, we don’t have cute animals, we don’t have historical collections, and we can’t even capture the work that we do because it’s primarily digital. At Candid, our mission is to get you the information you need to do good. This will help you understand what your audience may be interested in.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
And I get this question, [what does winning look like?] a lot because we don’t always win. Sometimes we suffer some pretty hard defeats. And we don’t control the conditions, but they often determine whether or not we win or lose. We got a good 20 percent. Sometimes we experience some amazing lifts.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 2, 2024
When it comes to even repair and what Black people need, people have so many different definitions on what reparations is for Black people. We don’t see those campaigns anywhere, because of the insidiousness of anti-Blackness in this country, and how inherent it is! The goal is not to get what White people have.
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Clairification
APRIL 29, 2024
What if you were to view your work as allowing your own and others’ meant-to-be radiance to come forth and shine? So, what about a little improvisation tailored to the work of the social benefit sector? Alas, often inadvertently and unconsciously, we engage in practices that do the exact opposite. Radiance is meant-to-be.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
This organization dedicated to creating racial equity through what they call “radical and reparative giving” committed in June 2023 to giving $20 million over five years to boost campaigns for reparations across the United States. What role do philanthropic organizations play in setting economic justice priorities that include reparations?
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
We sat down with clinician and advocate Rebecca Weston to talk about climate psychology, movement journalism, and the responsibility of journalists and clinicians to connect to the emotional impacts of the climate crisis. What is climate psychology? He talks a lot about what is a witnessing professional.
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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
“What should I post on social media?” 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. Does this content align with what social media users want? Do you have to be funny?
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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MARCH 28, 2024
Nonprofit marketing and communications is all we do here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide. We focus on the needs of nonprofit marketing and communications professionals and offer community, training, coaching, and mentoring. We aren’t trying to upsell you on software or private consulting services. Ready to get started?
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Today I’d like to address something practical: How we learn. What does it have to do with fundraising and nonprofits? Actually, it has to do with everything. And with today’s rapid pace of change, confident learning has become critical to adapting, adopting, and feeling connected to the world we inhabit.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
We still have a long way to go—to scale back all the growth that happened in the era of mass incarceration, but we’re making a dent.” Why do you think now was such an important time to release this report? What we’ve been doing has been working, but there’s still a big problem. There’s still a long way to go.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 19, 2024
Many nonprofits] do not have the resources, the ability sometimes, to deal with these fights,” O’Leary warns. What’s more important to these nonprofits, to these companies?” What’s more important to these nonprofits, to these companies?” Is it doing the work…[they’ve] traditionally done, or is it lowering the risk of litigation?”
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Bloomerang
APRIL 5, 2024
Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when it makes sense to celebrate a nonprofit anniversary: Dear Charity Clairity, We have a 75 th anniversary coming up, and I really think we should do something to celebrate this milestone. What should I do? Opportunity for what?
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Candid
APRIL 1, 2024
From programs that make complex data-based decisions to applications that transcribe spoken words into text, AI offers new opportunities to do things more creatively and efficiently. Setting a framework for AI use At Candid, we acknowledge AI’s value in helping us improve the ways in which we support the social sector through information.
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Clairification
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
And what a dreary, grave, cobwebby period it’s been. We’ve got a lot to clean up, reorganize and rethink. So, as I sat down to write today’s article, I thought about what you actually have within your power to do. People rely on you to do the critical work of the social benefit sector.
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Candid
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Today, we are celebrating our first anniversary of short-form video on TikTok , Instagram Reels , and YouTube Shorts. What began as a three-month experiment has now blossomed into a consistent social media video production program. Here is a snapshot of what happened and our tips for creating short-form videos at your nonprofit.
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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MARCH 22, 2024
Yet when we look at the nonprofit organizations we work for, we often treat them and ourselves as employees like machines, rather than living organisms. But what I mean is when does your organization stop to take stock of what’s been going on? When do you reflect?
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 7, 2024
When Redwood released White Women Cry , she had no idea what the public response would be or if it would resonate with others. Rebekah Barber: What has the response been like since the publication of your book? Those two conversations [before the book’s release] were definitely telling of what I could expect when the book was released.
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NonProfit PRO
APRIL 18, 2024
What do you get when you combine more than 600 nonprofit leaders, 26 speakers and 11 sessions over the course of one amazing day? Together we’ll inspire leaders across our mission-driven organizations, as we work to solve the world's most pressing challenges. You get INSPIRED. Log-on, listen and share with others.
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Nonprofit Fixer
MAY 2, 2024
Here is the tip that I share with all of the nonprofit leaders that I coach : You must say to the person who isn’t performing, “I was expecting you to do X, but you have brought me Y instead. What if your employee misunderstood the assignment? But what I heard at the board meeting tonight was more broad platitudes about our mission.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
We can’t fix the problem until we can see it clearly,” writes Blackstock. “It Isaiah Thompson: What were you hoping to achieve in writing Legacy? We spend the most of any high-income country on healthcare, and overall, we have the worst health outcomes—especially for Black people and people of color.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2024
Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” Darren Ranco: I think what Donald said is accurate. CS: Thank you.
iMarketSmart
APRIL 19, 2024
“Where do we find donors?” To begin, let’s make sure we check all assumptions at the door. We simply want to see if there is an alignment of interests. They are doing just what you hope. Now what do you do? Do you reach out and ask why they gave? There it is.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 19, 2023
If that slice is elderly, White, male, and English-speaking, we ought not to be surprised when a young Latina immigrant opts not to participate. Everyone gains from meeting and learning about neighbors who see the world differently than they do. What Do Volunteer Administrators Say? What do we mean by acculturation?
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
APRIL 10, 2024
Each team was on its own wavelength, doing its own thing, focused on their own mission-driven priorities. The initiatives and campaign didn’t take off when or in the ways they should’ve because we were a fleet moving in too many different directions. Clearly, we needed to bridge these gaps to move forward together.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 21, 2024
What Is Climate Fatigue? This language includes eco-grief , defined as “the anguish and despair we feel when the places we live in and love deteriorate, along with these places’ ability to provide us with solace.” To the list of new climate-related emotions, we must add climate fatigue.
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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
MARCH 19, 2024
” Part of this distrust comes from not knowing what it real or fake on the internet. But with all signs pointing to AI use by marketers only increasing in the coming years, how can we utilize this helpful, time-saving tool while retaining our followers’ trust? What do you talk about after work with friends and family?
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 25, 2024
What makes it so special is its focus on those who do the real work, and a growing horde of doers who show up in Oxford without a ticket has made it that much better. When these big checks started to drop, those of us who were doing, uh, Medium Bet Philanthropy were delighted. It’s like a one-stop shop for the serious funder.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 8, 2024
I had worked for many different types of organizations, made significant impacts (and some mistakes), and I understood what it takes to lead a team and execute strategy. We need BIPOC leadership. I was excited about all the possibilities. I was ready to drive. Or so I thought. For me, the answer is a clear no!
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
In doing so, the group is challenging New Jersey to reconsider its identity, often cast as a relatively liberal “Blue” northeastern state rather than a former slave state whose legislature remains intransigent on the question of reparations. And so we took this up,” says Brutus. These two can exist at the same time.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 11, 2024
On the last day, we stopped to bask in the light and scenery. He turned to me and asked: “So what do you think? Now I needed to fill out my understanding with the quantitative stuff, with all the numbers that communicate the quality of implementation and what changed as a result of their activities. Didn’t I trust him?
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