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Using Science and Mindfulness to Improve the Well-Being of Nonprofit Employees

NonProfit PRO

There’s an important question in the nonprofit world: Who takes care of the caregivers? Or maybe a more valuable thought: How can nonprofits ensure their employees’ well-being? .

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Apply for the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellowship

NTEN

While day-to-day has been moving online for the past decade, the pandemic forced institutions to quickly move all services online. The attempt thrust digital inequity into the public’s awareness. Whether it was trying to attend classes, apply for government benefits, or practice religion, many people were excluded from fully participating in their communities.

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Thinking Beyond Grants: How to Thrive as a Nonprofit With Multiple Streams of Revenue

NonProfit PRO

Perhaps there has never been a more difficult time to be a nonprofit than in today’s society. As the economy continues to change, nonprofits are experiencing a growing need at the same time their funding sources are declining. .

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When There’s Beef On Your Nonprofit Board

Bloomerang

This season is ripe for conflict. So much is going on in the world outside of the realm of nonprofit board service. Folks are divided on issues of police reform, virtual schooling, left or right politics, diversity-focused-vs-not diverse enough, and whether to mask up in this pandemic or not. . It is no wonder some boards are finding it difficult to be productive due to this bickering, eye-rolling, microaggressions, bias, silence, or absence.

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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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National Mental Health Awareness Month

Media Cause

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. But for so many of us, this very personal and critical issue is part of our everyday lives. Our culture as a whole has made great strides in breaking down the stigmas typically associated with mental health by having honest conversations about our individual challenges. But while talking is a significant first step, it’s equally as important for everyone to have access to tangible resources for prevention and support.

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Video teaser: Candid’s brand-new, free training for funders

Candid

We’re pleased to announce today’s launch of a new, free course for grantmakers, “Funding Smarter: Using Candid Tools to Inform and Share Your Foundation’s Work.” This two-hour, online course—which you can take at your own pace—will show you how to use Candid’s tools to: find aggregate and trend funding data about the fields in which you work, identify funding connections and gaps, identify potential peers and partners, discover and learn from what your funding peers are doing, improve what is kn

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A benefit plan shouldn’t only benefit your broker and insurer

Charity Village

A group insurance plan is a key component of competitive compensation packages and plays a vital role in both attracting and retaining valuable staff. As an employer, you offer a benefits plan to staff as a way to reward them for the amazing work they do each day in the community on behalf of your […]. The post A benefit plan shouldn’t only benefit your broker and insurer appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Plain language for nonprofits

Big Duck

The post Plain language for nonprofits appeared first on Big Duck.

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3 Ways to Build Trust with Donors in a Virtual World

NonProfit Hub

How do you build trust with donors? These days, it can be easier to get the attention of thousands of little fish online than a few big fish right in your own pond. It’s the law of large numbers. With sleek one-tap payment options and crowd-funding strategies, you can use this attention to help fund your programs. But first, you have to establish meaningful relationships with your audience.

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The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Changing the world through fundraising with David Love

Charity Village

On today’s podcast, David Love, seasoned fundraiser also known as the Godfather of Good, shares with us his take on the role of fundraisers in achieving change in the world. When we centre our work around the mission and the journey that we are on as an organization and how that aligns with the journey […]. The post The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Changing the world through fundraising with David Love appeared first on CharityVillage.

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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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Extra Extra: the Benchmarks Webinar Recording

M+R

Read time: 2 minutes. There’s no wrong way to dig into our annual Benchmarks Study, covering digital programs from marketing to fundraising to advocacy. Some folks head straight to mrbenchmarks.com , exploring the full data set and following their own path down the rabbit hole of charts and findings. Others prefer a sense of community and the chance to ask questions, and a few hundred of them joined us for a Benchmarks webinar yesterday. .

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Even More Apps to Address Food Insecurity in 2021

Tech Soup

The United Nations World Food Programme predicts that, due to COVID-19, the number of people experiencing hunger will double. Here at TechSoup, we've been exploring the food security topic to learn how we can use tech to address this important issue, leading us to host our fourth Public Good App House demo event on the topic. If you didn't see our first three food app demo events, you can watch our November recap here , the February recap here , and the March recap here.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. This honorary board of industry experts, which represents the larger spectrum of the social sector, collectively determines the annual Classy Awards Winners, and today we’re proud to announce the 2021 Leadership Council that will be hand-selecting this year’s award recipients.

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How A Coach Differs From A Mentor

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Kristi Hedges , in her book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The coach is not afraid to push you because she sees the best in you. This leader has a good sense of what's going on in the rest of your life and isn't afraid to mention it as it relates to your performance and potential.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Community Funded Offers Matching Gifts Automation to Educational Institutions and Nonprofits with 360MatchPro by Double the Donation

Double the Donation

All-in-one fundraising solution Community Funded has teamed up with Double the Donation to offer a new integration to their clients: matching gifts automation. With 360MatchPro, the most robust matching tool by Double the Donation, Community Funded clients will now be able to educate their donors about their employers’ matching gift programs and empower those same donors to drive their matches to completion. .

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The Positive Social and Business Impacts of Employee Relief Grants During COVID-19

sgEngage

As we know all too well, the global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has impacted far more than our health; COVID-19 has hindered personal, professional and economic vitality for many people as well. Businesses saw this firsthand in 2020, both in their own financial uncertainty and among the employees they serve. Employees are the lifeblood of every organization, and as many households struggled to make ends meet, compounded by unexpected hardships, companies realized the urgency of an employee p

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5 Hybrid Event Ideas We Love and why

Qgiv

Ligers, tigons, and galas. Oh my! What do these things have in common? They’re hybrids, of course! Obviously, a fundraising gala can be held in person or virtually, too. But the hybrid event format has proven to be highly effective for many kinds of fundraising events. Hybrid fundraisers are becoming more popular now that some areas are able to host small, in-person gatherings again.

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5 Website Features All New Nonprofits Should Know and Use

Get Fully Funded

Your website is vital to keep your nonprofit running by enabling you to connect with donors, volunteers, and members that provide needed support. However, figuring out and implementing the exact features that lead your website’s visitors to become long-term supporters can require trial and error, especially for organizations lacking a tech background.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Omnichannel Marketing for Mission-Driven Organizations

Forum One

Today’s audiences don’t engage with the missions they care about through a single channel, or in the same way across different channels. Often, they engage in one, then progress to another, such as reading a tweet and then clicking on a website link in an email, to eventually make a donation on a landing page. This online behavior and user journey are why modern mission-driven organizations need to have an effective omnichannel approach within their marketing strategy.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 192: Building a Network

sgEngage

Relationships are everything. While networking may be a buzzword, intentionally building a community and making deep and meaningful connections can have vast positive professional impacts. But how do you get started? Today’s guest has answers. Susan McPherson, founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies and author of the new book The Lost Art of Connecting , joins the podcast to talk about how she became such a prolific networker, the differences between networking and connecting, and the steps to t

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Key Findings from the 2021 donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit

sgEngage

The seventh annual donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit brought together, via webinar, 31 of the nation’s largest national fundraising organizations to share results and discuss sustainer growth and retention strategies against the backdrop of the pandemic and other significant events that impacted donors and giving in 2020. This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons.