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What Is Volunteerism? A Guide to the History & Benefits

Bloomerang

This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history. In this guide, we’ll take a broad look at volunteerism to explore its history and benefits. Then, we’ll review how your organization can promote volunteerism in your community and manage volunteers effectively.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

Containing five years of real-world learnings, this updated edition provides specific guidance for implementing the Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation (TRHT) framework to support communities, organizations, and individuals. To do so, it explores ways to determine BIPOC-led organizations, as defined by BIPOC communities.

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What Are You Doing with Your Donor Data?

Greater Giving

Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Communication preferences: Know which channels donors prefer being contacted on. Alternatively, you might notice your donor response rates are low, indicating that some of your data is outdated or inaccurate.

Data 98
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Two years later: how our fundraising strategy changed overnight 

Candid

LOHR rehabilitates horses and connects them to people in the community who benefit from equine assisted therapy, including people on probation, victims of domestic violence, first responders, foster children, veterans, and others. We had no time to plan, so we got creative and looked for alternative revenue sources.

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Donor Personas: How to Identify Your Unique Donor Audience

CauseVox

You see, I am a female in my late 20’s-early 30’s, living in an urban area, vegetarian, eco-conscious, middle class, and have been actively seeking plant based alternatives to milk that taste good and are kinder to animals and the planet. She currently lives in a pet-friendly community and owns a dog and a cat.

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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

sgEngage

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. It is critical for you, foundation leadership, and community participants to be clear who is making which decisions. Is this you?

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What You Need to Know About Threads

Forum One

In the early days of Musk’s Twitter takeover, you may have seen many of your peers eulogizing the platform and moving to Mastodon or other Twitter alternatives. That’s because alternatives like Mastodon don’t have two key elements that Threads does: infrastructure and people.