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5 Essential Employee Retention Tips for Nonprofit Managers

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Consider these tips for motivating gift officers with goals and incentives: Use your data to find realistic targets. You’ll need to not only collect it to measure progress and discuss performance but also to establish benchmarks for future reference and growth. It’s also objectively measurable through concrete KPIs.

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How to Make Your Nonprofit Recession-Proof: Perfect Your Operating Reserves Policy

Blue Fox

First off: do you have an operating reserves policy? If so, when is the last time your leadership team reviewed the policy? If it’s been a while read on as we guide you through the process of building an operating reserves policy, and the implementation and ongoing oversight of that policy. A starting point.

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7 Database Goals for Your Independent School’s Capital Campaign

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PRO TIP: Comb your active funds and assign them with a category and type, conforming to CASE reporting standards as closely as possible. You are focused on policies and procedures. Review your gift acceptance policy. PRO TIP: Don’t be afraid to experiment with tools using automation (Power Automate) or AI to free up time later.

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What you need to do NOW to make sure your digital ads program is ready for election season

M+R

Note any platform restrictions or blackout dates The biggest restrictions we’ve come across historically are those found on the Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram, where we anticipate a similar policy to that of 2022 for ads about social issues, elections, or politics. So, how should we prepare for this?

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3 Grassroots advocacy milestones to meet this month

EveryAction

Many organizations delayed their policy agenda-setting until they were certain which party would be in control of each chamber of Congress. Pro tip: you might need to use a benchmark lower than four actions if your action opportunities were sparse over the past six months.

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Donor Database Management: A Quick Guide to Prospect Setup and Tracking

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Responsibilities : Who will be responsible for updating and maintaining the policies? Invest in training each team member to ensure everyone is on the same page and has an opportunity to ask questions and practice the new policies and data entry procedures. Share tips and tricks for quicker entry, dashboard access, reporting, etc.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Do you have a friending policy ? Are you just accepting everyone on every network?

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