Fri.Jul 30, 2021

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Are You Prepared for Your Next Nonprofit Job Interview?

NonProfit PRO

I was recently asked to sit on a nonprofit position interview as an unpaid adviser. I was also asked to serve as an adviser to a nonprofit search committee. Another hiring firm contacted me recently and asked me to recommend them to a prospective nonprofit. There is a great deal of action in the nonprofit hiring world these days.

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26 Sample Email Subject Lines For Your Fundraising Campaign

Classy

This is a guest post by Will Cannon, founder of UpLead and Signaturely. He highlights the importance of email marketing, lead generation, outreach campaigns, customer profiling, and acquisition to maximize ROI for all businesses. When launching an email campaign to raise funds, it is imperative to perfect the copy, segment your email lists, fine-tune the graphic assets, and more.

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MacKenzie Scott and Melinda Gates Use Wealth to Boost Gender Equality

NonProfit PRO

The Equality Can't Wait Challenge — backed by Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, among others — announced $40 million investments will be divided amongst four bold ideas to advance gender equality.

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Walmart pledges $1 billion to pay employees’ college tuition, books

Candid

Walmart has announced a five-year, $1 billion commitment to cover 100 percent of the cost of college tuition and books for its employees through the company’s Live Better U (LBU) education program. Through the program, 1.5 million full- and part-time employees of Walmart and Sam's Club—known as associates at Walmart—will be eligible to earn college degrees or learn trade skills without the burden of education debt, and the $1 daily fee that was part of the program since its launch in 2018 will

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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How you can use design thinking to advance your social impact career post-COVID

Charity Village

Want to learn more on how design thinking can help you gain a more meaningful career? We’ve partnered with the author for a free webinar on August 26. Register here. At MovingWorlds, we’ve worked with hundreds of professionals facing a common problem: they know that they want more purpose in their work and to make […]. The post How you can use design thinking to advance your social impact career post-COVID appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Top Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Platforms for Nonprofits

Qgiv

Peer-to-peer fundraising is an incredible opportunity to leverage your supporters’ personal networks and increase the reach of your campaign. This strategy involves recruiting supporters to fundraise on your behalf, and you might be surprised to find out just how many of them are willing to fundraise for your organization! While baby boomers are less interested in peer-to-peer fundraising, other generations love the idea.

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Mastering Your Virtual or Hybrid Event: Exciting Live Auctions & Appeals – pt. 2

Greater Giving

How do you simulate the thrilling, contagious energy of an in-person, live appeal when some guests are behind a screen? Even with groundbreaking advances in technology and streaming, virtual events still bring an inherent distance between the action and the viewers. And great live auctions depend on the energy in the room, a spirit of generosity in supporting a good cause, and skillful orchestration by an auctioneer.

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AFP IDEA Survey Reveals an Urgent Need for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access in the Nonprofit Workplace

DonorPerfect

DonorPerfect is a proud partner of the Association of Fundraising Professionals IDEA program. This sector-wide initiative advocates for cultural advancement opportunities and creating paths to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in the fundraising profession. A collaboration of nine organizations released a recent study focusing on IDEA issues in the fundraising profession, based on survey responses Read More ».

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Wealth Indicators: The Ultimate Guide for Prospect Research

Donor Search

More than likely, you don’t know how much money your nonprofit donors have in their bank accounts—and how much they might be able to give to your cause. But wouldn’t knowing that make things so much easier? That’s where wealth indicators come in.

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Equity in Action: Best Practices for DEI at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

On July 27, 2021, TechSoup hosted the live webinar Equity in Action: A Chat with EIDC Director LaCheka Phillips. I had the opportunity to interview LaCheka, and we discussed how nonprofit leaders can collaborate with project managers, engage the nonprofit community, and maintain employee buy-in to better create an equitable, inclusive, and diverse culture.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Taking Advantage of Texts for Fundraising and Supporter Engagement

Bloomerang

An M+R benchmarks study found that nonprofit text messaging audiences grew by 26% in 2020, outpacing growth for other popular channels like Facebook and email. To examine just a few reasons why: Text messaging allows for 1-to-1 communication, giving it the upper hand over social media. Text messages have a higher open rate and response rate than emails. .

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The Critical Role Tech Will Play in Eradicating Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

Technology, when used for good, can change the world. That’s something that we wholeheartedly believe, and it’s a driving force in the work of our customers and partners. As a social impact center of Salesforce, our focus at Salesforce.org is to build powerful technology for, and with, our community of nonprofits, mission-driven companies, and education institutions.

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