EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here ! We are short 100 signatures to reach our goal—act now!”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). Fundar is a 20-year old Mexican NGO in the filed of research and advocacy to fight corruption, impunity, and to adovcate for human rights. Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Advocacy is a long-term calling.  Check out our last installment here!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns give your supporters a new way to get involved while furthering your mission through grassroots action. Plus, your nonprofit can attract new supporters interested in advocacy to your cause, growing your supporter network of donors and volunteers. Stay up to date with current advocacy trends.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 12, 2021

First, we’d recommend considering what’s worked for your organization in the past. Just like last year, common solutions to this year’s problems emerge in the form of fundraising trends. We’ve been paying attention to these developing trends, and have compiled them here for you. Appealing to younger donors. Let’s get started!

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NetWits

APRIL 5, 2013

It contains online fundraising, advocacy, email, social, and mobile results from 55 U.S.-based Nonprofits often use this study to benchmark their own online activities and fundraising ideas. This follows a recent trend that email click-through rates have declined across all industries. based national nonprofits in 2012.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely on the commitment and active engagement of their board members to make a significant impact in their communities. The allocation of time and effort by board members is crucial for the success of these organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Like all social media today, organic reach is very low. There are rage tweeters and arrogant trolls that occasionally trend to the top.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 4, 2022

Member engagement and delivering a member-centric experience are integral to all organizations—therefore, it should be a priority in determining your association’s goals. . To gain further perspective on which goals your organization should set, you’ll need to evaluate the type of members you hope to recruit. Here’s how: .

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. Could there ever be a time when our organizations need to be more adaptable than now?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As of now, nonprofits, activism, and philanthropy are virtually non-existent in the metaverse (pun intended). Without altruism and advocacy being consistently present in these early days of its formation, racism and sexism are already revealing themselves in the metaverse. The Oculus Quest 2 experience. The Metaverse for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

This opens the possibility for multiple activities to occur at once, such as games , a meditation activity, presentations, auctions , and more. Consider searching social media for posts about your organization and interacting with the people who’ve posted them. Uncover data that reveals the latest trends in major giving.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. A press release is just a piece of paper in the absence of media organizations.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, we can revisit the topic of workers’ rights through a new lens by exploring the increasing role that a newer breed of labor organizations plays in the social sector. The rise of “alt-labor” nonprofit organizations. The unique and dynamic needs of such workers have given rise to a new form of labor organizations.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 15, 2022

According to the Community Brands Association Trends Study , members in their mid and late careers rank insightful industry information as their top association priority. To create an authentic thought leadership culture at your organization, listening to your staff and members is vital. “As

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

As a result, the advocacy campaign collected 5,300 youth names and rallied the support of more than 67,000 young people. Working with a nonprofit marketing agency can take this step off your plate if your organization doesn’t have the bandwidth for detailed planning. But what’s behind successful campaigns like these? Your supporters.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MAY 15, 2019

Every year, nonprofit consultants M+R release their annual Benchmarks report , which provides an overview of digital trends in the sector. The report explains, “After years and years of steadily increasing online revenue, including record-breaking 2016 and 2017 gains for many nonprofits, suddenly that trend line flattened out.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis. Enable advocacy and community organizing efforts. Nonprofits need support to engage in activities that influence disaster-related policies. Funding community organizing efforts can activate and engage residents to change those systems. .

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

Fundraising events and one-time campaigns are great ways to raise money for your organization, but infrequent fundraisers don’t provide consistent income. Annual giving campaigns are great opportunities for you to engage with your donors and make them feel like they’re a part of your organization. Plan kickoff and wrapping up events.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. This can range from them being consulted to owning the results.

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Care2

JUNE 24, 2012

Make no mistake, if you are trying to reach Millennials you're organization is going to need spend time and resources developing meaningful campaigns that they feel connected to, and use their prefer methods of online and mobile communications. But once you have them engaged, they can be some of your best advocates.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Interrogating how legacy social media platforms and their harmful content policies impact nonprofit communications, organizing, and fundraising can lead us to prioritize equity and safety when moving to new platforms—or choosing to stay on existing ones. Marginalized users and organizations have been impacted in multiple ways.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

After years of meetings, dialogue, presentations, advocacy, (and yes, maybe even some proverbial hair-pulling in frustration), today was the launch of the Initiative for Strategic Volunteer Engagement and the release of landmark research about how organizational leaders and funders view and prioritize volunteer engagement. Nearly half (46.8

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

In order to be successful in effectively addressing social ills, nonprofit organizations must learn to utilize a network strategy of collaboration amongst diverse stakeholders to create true social impact. private or public foundations), can provide great choices to fill the role of backbone organization in a collaborative movement.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. According to Mashable , The origins of this campaign remain a mystery, as it doesn’t seem to be affiliated with any official organization. What do you think?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a critical element of your brand, your mission statement needs to represent your organization’s ethos but also be informative, succinct, and moving to your supporter base. A nonprofit mission statement is the messaging an organization shares, displays, and uses as a guiding principle. All right, let’s get started.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As a nonprofit organization, you may already be feeling the need to take a stance on the concept of the metaverse or perhaps make decisions about “meta-related” activities like accepting crypto donations. This donor pool could provide an incredible influx of resources to nearly any nonprofit organization. . Environmental impact.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Recruitment challenges have been listed as one of the upcoming trends to look out for in 2024. This is no surprise as recruiting talented staff involves making your organization stand out in a competitive market and maintaining clear expectations, which is an area of improvement for many hiring organizations.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Recruitment challenges have been listed as one of the upcoming trends to look out for in 2024. This is no surprise as recruiting talented staff involves making your organization stand out in a competitive market and maintaining clear expectations, which is an area of improvement for many hiring organizations.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

This more just and equitable approach to philanthropy has been practiced for decades and the ethos it is based in—that those closest to the problem are the closest to the solutions—has deep roots in community organizing, deliberative democracy, and even in philanthropy itself. . The vast majority support human rights. .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. More people working in or with grantmaking organizations now have some term related to knowledge work in their titles or job descriptions.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

First, we aimed to support organizations and social movements combatting racism that need to know where and how they can find the resources to fund their strategies and maximize their impact. service delivery, research, advocacy). We have never seen this volume of giving for racial equity, nor this level of corporate activism. .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Consider this: Within the next 10 years, Millennials will be the leaders of your company or organization. Their buying power is enormous, and their preferences are quickly becoming more than just trends: They’re becoming the norm. Millennials are on track to make up 80% of the global workforce by 2020.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

They are viewed as techies and quite fickle when it comes to activism. Youth Activism Key Findings: Being a part of online communities promotes engagement. The Internet can serve as a gateway to online and offline civic and political engagement, including volunteerism, community problem-solving, and protest activity.&#.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Online Advocacy :: Another technology that launched in the late 90′s was the ability to sign online petitions and send emails to members of Congress. Online Advocacy :: The online action network is now featured under a catch-all “Act Now” link. World Wildlife Fund :: Today. View: worldwildlifefund.org.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, virtual and hybrid events, as well as partially or fully remote operations, are probably the new normal for your organization. If that’s the case, your organization needs a jumpstart to boost your fundraising efforts in new, timely ways. Don’t neglect your ongoing fundraising activities. Embrace hybrid events.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Good outlined how nonprofit organizations are currently harnessing the power of Salesforce?technology?and Over 500 organizations responded to our survey, offering insights into how Salesforce helps create digital transformation, the?trends?and Report , Cloud for?Good technology?and and best practices we can expect to see?over

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