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New Year’s Resolutions For Your Website in 2024

The MatrixFiles

It’s the New Year and all of us are bubbling over with resolutions. So many of us resolve to exercise more, be kinder, spend more time with family, and so on. What about our websites? Shouldn’t we have resolutions for making our websites, email, and social media accounts better? I am a big fan of Dan Pink, author of the best-selling books Drive , When , The Power of Regret , and so many others.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

.orgSource

You thought your team would be excited, or at least pleased. Automation, analytics, and all the other digital timesavers should be making their lives easier, right? The truth is no one seems happy. Some employees have invented tortuous workarounds to keep using their new toys to continue working in the same old way. What went wrong? Why did your digital transformation fail?

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6 Ways to Be a True Partner to Your Donor This Year

NonProfit PRO

Here's what needs to be in place to grow your relationship with a donor and how to handle various situations that may come up.

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[Webinar] Social Media Fundraising for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Fundraising on social media is not easy. With millions of nonprofits worldwide asking for donations on social media, donors are increasingly tuning out fundraising asks. This two-hour webinar will provide an honest analysis of what is working in social media fundraising – and what’s not – and provide current best practices to help your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns stand out on social media.

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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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New Year’s Resolutions For Your Website in 2024

The MatrixFiles

It’s the New Year and all of us are bubbling over with resolutions. So many of us resolve to exercise more, be kinder, spend more time with family, and so on. What about our websites? Shouldn’t we have resolutions for making our websites, email, and social media accounts better? I am a big fan of Dan Pink, author of the best-selling books Drive , When , The Power of Regret , and so many others.

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

Candid

As the saying goes, “knowledge is power.” At Candid, we believe that sharing and learning from one another helps empower our sector’s collective success.  Candid’s Issue Lab is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing social sector knowledge. This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more.

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Want some action? Use emotion.

Hands on Fundraising

Years ago, on vacation, as I read 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson a phrase stopped me cold. I had to dog-ear the page. “Reason can’t work without emotion. People who are cut off from their emotions can’t decide.” Reason can’t work without emotion. People who are cut off from their emotions can’t decide. So, ok, […] The post Want some action?

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

Blue Avocado

What can nonprofits do to continue supporting marginalized communities with the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action? The role of nonprofits in a post-affirmative-action world. Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court’s consolidated decision held that the use of affirmative action (or “race-conscious” admissions) at two higher education institutions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause […] The post The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action appea

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How To Be A Superboss

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are ten questions (or bundles of questions) you should ask yourself to ensure you are thinking and acting like a superboss. These are from Sydney Finkelstein 's well-worth-reading book, Superbosses. Do you have a specific vision for your work that energizes you, and that you use to energize and inspire your team? How often do people leave your team to accept a bigger offer elsewhere?

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11 Can’t-Miss Nonprofit Conferences in 2024

Donorbox

In an ever-evolving landscape of nonprofits, staying current on the latest trends, forming meaningful relationships, and gaining insight and inspiration is crucial to achieving your goals. One of the best ways to do this is by attending nonprofit conferences. In 2024, several can’t-miss events are poised to provide invaluable resources for nonprofit professionals.

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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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Seven Important Questions To Ask Your Team

Eric Jacobsen Blog

High-functioning teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. And, they can challenge each other to think differently. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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Planning and Hosting Your First Fundraising Committee Meeting

Greater Giving

Mastering Your First Committee Meeting for a Successful Fundraising Event with Greater Giving Organizing a fundraising event can be a thrilling endeavor, but success hinges on effective planning and collaboration. We’re here to guide you through the crucial first step: hosting a fundraising event committee meeting. Let’s delve into the key aspects of creating a productive session that sets the stage for a triumphant fundraising event.

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How Energy Resilience Achieved with Online Learning

Gyrus

Building energy resilience is the need of the hour for organizations across all industries and sizes. Online training can play a critical role in helping organizations build the knowledge and skills to navigate this evolving landscape. Read on to know how.

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Custom GPTs and how your nonprofit organization can use them!

Care2

Happy New Year, nonprofit professionals! We have a fantastic "how to" guide to jumpstart January. In a recent Tech For Good, Made Easy episode, host Randy Paynter explains how your charitable or nonprofit organization can use custom GPTs to improve your creativity and efficiency in 2024. First things first, what’s a GPT? A GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence language model that can generate content, answer queries, translate text, and even design code.

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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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Ep. 23 | Special Year End Highlights Episode Featuring 2023 Guests

DonorDock

Join Matt as we recap some of the best moments and tips from Beyond the Donation in 2023.

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

Blue Avocado

What can nonprofits do to continue supporting marginalized communities with the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action? The role of nonprofits in a post-affirmative-action world. Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court’s consolidated decision held that the use of affirmative action (or “race-conscious” admissions) at two higher education institutions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [1] These suits were brought by the (ironical

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