EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Often, the central issue is a specific policy or a cultural phenomenon that the organization seeks to promote or eliminate. For example, a local nonprofit working on educational issues may raise awareness about specific school board policies with the aim of making them more inclusive.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

For nonprofits and grantmaking organizations committed to racial equity, using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) raises important concerns. Examples in Practice Let’s say your nonprofit wants to use an LLM to help field questions on your website’s chatbot. Complement with human judgment.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While endowments may be more commonly used in larger organizations, smaller organizations can benefit from endowments as well. Nonprofit endowments 101 How endowments work Nonprofit endowment fund rules and policies Benefits of nonprofit endowments How to start an endowment fund Nonprofit endowments 101 Exactly what is an endowment fund?

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Nonprofit Policy Fund Gift 52

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

By creating an endowment or accepting endowment gifts from high-capacity donors, you can set your nonprofit up for growth and greater financial sustainability—all without extensive effort. How to create an endowment and accept endowment gifts Ready to start boosting your financial sustainability with endowments?

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Fundraising Nonprofit Gift Fund 52

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2024

The way you manage and report financial information holds your organization accountable to the government, the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) , and your supporters. Your accounting system , therefore, should be set up in a way that promotes transparency about how your nonprofit is using its resources to further its mission.

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Files Policy Nonprofit Profit 52

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2022

The nonprofit sector is ever-changing, and in this digital age it is now opening its arms to a new way to accept donations : through the blockchain and cryptocurrency. Asian, Black and Hispanic Americans are also more likely to use cryptocurrency than White adults in the U.S. How should nonprofits accept cryptocurrency?

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Argentina Nonprofit Digital Storytelling 97

Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2024

Donors who wish to make a legacy gift can work with their chosen organization to plan what’ll be donated and what the gift will be used for. While planned giving and legacy giving are often used interchangeably, there’s an important difference between the two terms. Gifts of life insurance. Charitable gift annuities. Endowments.

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Guide Giving Gift Donor 52

Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Finally, belonging means ensuring everyone can show up in those spaces and be accepted. This typically involves an assessment of the organization’s culture, which includes interviewing people, conducting surveys, and reviewing policies and collateral. What policies are in place? Barriers can range from physical to financial.

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Policy Reflection Culture Training 52

Candid

JUNE 1, 2022

In this approach, nonprofits launch campaigns exclusively online, rather than using digital tools as a secondary source of revenue. . A donor uses their credit or debit card to make a payment on your nonprofit’s website. . Aggregators, which use one merchant account for many organizations, are cheaper to use but are less secure.

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Aggregator Policy Nonprofit Integration 105

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. The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list.

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Fundraising Mail Law Donation 353

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. This has led to situations where BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately affected by policies meant to address “bad” behaviors.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 10, 2020

In a world with a multitude of social media platforms already out there on the web, why would the world use one more dedicated to support nonprofits? The nagging question however is, will the world accept yet another social media platform? The intent is clearly stated in our policy and all information requested is optional.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The most effective schools make the process easy and convenient for families by accepting payments via checks or money order, secure mobile-friendly online portal, automatic bank withdrawals (ACH), online banking services, cash, debit cards, and credit cards. How a school takes payments also significantly impacts timeliness.

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Time Blackbaud Policy Structure 83

Bloomerang

MARCH 22, 2024

If you do get a new full or even part-time hire approved, and want to use a consultant/coach to help train them, that’s a good use of outside expertise. Develop gift acceptance policies and procedures. This is particularly useful for retreat facilitation and department reorganization.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The company that donates surplus tote bags with their logo on them for families at your food pantry to use when shopping is an inkind donor. Let’s take a closer look so you can handle these special gifts the right way and use them to grow your nonprofit. At a minimum, it will take up space that you could have used for something else.

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Donation Help Gift Nonprofit 116

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Nonprofit organizations are beginning to use indirect costs more frequently in their budgeting processes, whether or not they are pursuing government grants. The primary way to allocate the costs to the different functional expense categories is using resource allocation (or percentage allocation) based on time and function.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Review requirements before applying for or accepting awards to ensure that you understand what is necessary to effectively manage the grant and if the grant lifecycle is a good fit for your organization. Develop top-notch policies and procedures. The OMB’s Uniform Guidance (i.e., Communicate outcomes. Lead the change.

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Grant Process Management Tips 94

Qgiv

MARCH 5, 2024

Political organizations: Political nonprofits engage in advocacy, lobbying, and political activities to influence legislation and public policy. You can use the list below or the IRS’ Tax Exempt Organization Search Tool to discover which type of nonprofit your organization is. This type of organization can’t accept contributions.

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Guide Nonprofit Associations Files 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

By Paul Lamb , Principal at Man On A Mission Consulting , has over 25 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology, and public policy. Most current databases used by companies and nonprofits are centralized on in-house or cloud based servers, which makes them easier to hack and alter. Blockchain Simplified.

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Technology Database Homeless Application 267

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

We also discussed use cases, benefits, limitations, adoptions, and lots of practical tips. If you want to continue learning about AI for nonprofits, register for the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit , using the code VIRTUAL. 65% are using it to clean-up their Monday morning inboxes. (I

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Conversation Adopt Generation Nonprofit 122

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

So how can you minimize these errors and create data entry policies for your users? Or, if you are just now starting your journey to grant funding, how do you plan to report on how you used the grant funds? A spreadsheet can only get your organization so far and hinders your ability to accept more complex gift awards.

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Grant Fund Report Software 93

Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

As every experienced volunteer manager knows, volunteers want and need support, strong leadership, and clear policies and procedures. You cannot be scared or nervous that if you enforce policies and procedures, your volunteers will quit and leave your organization. And, despite this ‘freedom,’ retention was low.

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Relationship Leadership Museum Policy 73

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As fewer and fewer people carry cash and checks, it’s becoming more relevant for businesses to accept transactions with electronic payment methods. Before your church goes out and buys a card reader, there’s a simpler solution—accepting online giving. That’s why it’s important to also accept online donations.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Once there is enough awareness of the program, launch a planned giving committee to review planned giving processes and fundraising policies. Transparent Policies: Nonprofits should always be versed in any relevant fundraising policies. Realistic Revenue Goals: A well-run planned giving program can facilitate long-term growth.

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Giving Blackbaud Gift Policy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations should commit to not using AI for the purpose of driving workers to higher levels of productivity at the cost of well-being. Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace.

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Homeless Research Global System 163

Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise. Is there a media release?

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Volunteer Create Policy Roles 119

M+R

MARCH 9, 2023

In accepting the president’s award at the 54th NAACP Image Awards, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union-Wade spoke about these oppressions and used their platform to advocate for the Black LGBTQIA community. While thanking his daughter, Zaya, for living in her truth, Dwyane stated, “I’m intentional when I use my platform.

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Florida Empowerment Teen Children 88

sgEngage

MARCH 29, 2023

A good way to make certain that the organization’s assets and reputation are protected is to ensure that there are proper financial policies in place, and they are being followed by all who have fiscal responsibility.

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Classes Team Foundation Create 82

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Undoubtably, a significant part of making the best use of organizational resources includes a focus on volunteer retention. Bottom line, volunteer retention is not about policies and procedures, but more about the leadership’s ability to engage volunteers from the perspective of what they uniquely and individually bring to the organization.

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Retention Team Volunteer Strategy 98

Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

Unlike cash, not all in-kind donations are accepted by all nonprofits. That’s why all nonprofits should have a clear, established policy in place for accepting in-kind donations. Because they’re expensive, these are usually only used for donations of jewelry, art, real estate, or other major in-kind contributions.

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Track Donation Guide Laptop 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 24, 2021

Design your communications around those motivations and use examples if you have them of people who have left legacies to you for these reasons. So use images and tell stories about your work which motivate support and make them feel the significance of leaving a gift in their will to your nonprofit. Our marketing spend is limited.

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Guide Gift Nonprofit Charity 97

TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

How do they use one platform over another? You have to first make sure you understand exactly who’s using that outlet, then optimize your content for that unique audience from there. 54% of Millennials use LinkedIn to read professional / business news. But what social platform are they on the most?

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Social Media Stats Audience Media 250

AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

We leverage the tools and infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, bring the ‘security-by-design’ approach to everything we build, and use best practices in automation and data security. It is important for any organization to have solidified, iterable processes they can use to best serve their customers.”.

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Organization Structure Guidelines Evaluation 98

Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

But with the increased importance of data to your strategies comes an increased responsibility to use data properly and respectfully, not to mention legally. Another aspect of data privacy involves how data can and cannot be used to market to donors, which is much more relevant.

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Law Digital California Spam 59

Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 6, 2012

But it's often the case that the database is perfectly fine but wasn't configured properly, or isn't being used or supported properly, or the change to a new systemwasn't managed well and was never accepted. Do you have policies and procedures governing the use of the database? Here are my thoughts so far. © Walt Kelly.

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Database Law Policy Training 156

sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2022

Rather than audits ensuring you pay taxes, they’re used to ensure your organization is using your funding responsibly to advance your mission. . The purpose of a nonprofit audit is to make sure the organization is leveraging effective accounting processes and complying with the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). .

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Nonprofit Process Grant Government 65

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Here are a few approaches (other than locking down data entry): Policies. No one gets access to change data without training on your policies. You might also use vendors to perform cleanups like merge/purges on duplicates. Acceptance. It's a tough problem. You need clear data entry standards. Automation.

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Data Listserv Database Policy 195