NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 25, 2023

Since leading a nonprofit involves so many moving targets, it can be easy to forget to build the people around you. Remembering the lyrics from a Spice Girls song might help you with this essential-but-often-overlooked part of leadership.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Just a decade ago, machine learning was only accessible to the largest, most well-funded companies and research institutions. Opportunities for nonprofits to use it to advance their work were simply out of reach due to high costs and lack of technical expertise.

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DonorPerfect

JANUARY 31, 2024

Balancing workforce dynamics in today’s job market is a shared challenge for nonprofits and for-profits alike, where competitive salaries, benefits, and flexibility are non-negotiables. Limited resources can present even more obstacles for nonprofits.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2022

In today’s business and nonprofit climate, the rank-and-file workforce has the advantage for demanding better pay, benefits and working conditions. Right now, frontline fundraisers (but really all workers) have the advantage. And, for many workers, they are getting it.

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DonorPerfect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Starting a new job, especially your first job in the nonprofit sphere, can often feel like you’re learning a new language on top of the new skills, new processes, new technologies, and new donor relationships you’ll need to learn to thrive.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Nonprofits need money to make social good happen. Nonprofits must consider themselves businesses first before they layer on their unique, social-good-generating challenges. We just need to spend all our money on our mission and can’t give it to shareholders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

With 51% of Facebook’s referral traffic now coming from mobile and more than two-third’s of Twitter users being mobile, many nonprofits are finally starting to come to the realization that their social media campaigns are doomed unless they embrace a mobile-first approach to online communications and fundraising.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2022

For many nonprofits, in-person meetings and events are key to carrying out their mission. From maintaining strong donor relations to providing necessary services, both nonprofits and their communities benefit from in-person interactions. Many nonprofit organizations opted to move in-person operations online.

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Charity Village

APRIL 16, 2021

At age 22 during the COVID-19 pandemic, I enrolled in British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Nonprofit Management Associate Certificate program. Being a relatively younger professional in the nonprofit field, I was drawn to the program to …. advance my career learn industry-specific […].

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 14, 2022

Nonprofits have radically needed to change their business models in light of the pandemic. In the early days, some nonprofits found themselves scrambling and struggling to adapt. Two years later, nonprofits report that digital fundraising, in some cases, actually led to better results. One executive director in the U.S.

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Double the Donation

MARCH 15, 2024

Your organization’s supporters receive political advertisements and donation appeals alongside those from your nonprofit, and donors may even wonder where your organization stands on key election issues. In major election years, political campaigns are at the top of everyone’s minds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

If you have donated to a nonprofit within the last 12 months, then please take the 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report ! This week Nonprofit Tech for Good donated $25 to 25 nonprofits in order to study how nonprofits are progressing in the design of their donation pages and in the efficacy of their online donation process.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Whether data is on your nonprofit’s radar as a tool for good or not, you will be inspired by the stories of these three organizations. The program provides nonprofits with a team of experts and software that will help organizations leverage their data to drive impact with AI. LEARN MORE. The World Bank estimates that 1.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2024

By Patrick Ciccarelli , Founder & CEO of Varsity Technologies – a Certified B-Corp and Managed IT Services Provider (MSP) providing first-class IT solutions tailored to the nonprofit sector to help mitigate risk and support their mission. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming various sectors, including the nonprofit realm.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 18, 2014

And what can your nonprofit learn from ALSA’s fundraising success? Here’s what’s made the campaign the most successful social media movement in recent memory, and what your nonprofit can learn from it to improve your fundraising potential. But what makes the Ice Bucket Challenge so successful?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 21, 2023

Four marketing strategies that Taylor Swift used that your nonprofit can implement too 1) Give your fundraising campaign a creative and memorable theme. The post Your Best Fundraising Era Yet: What Your Nonprofit Can Learn From Taylor Swift’s Marketing Strategy appeared first on Bloomerang. Are you…Ready For It?

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Charity Village

MAY 14, 2021

To start designing for active learning, consider your session as an opportunity for you to share what you know with participants but also a chance for them to share what they know with each other. In active learning environments we aim to bring everyone’s experience and knowledge into the room, not just the facilitator’s.

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TechImpact

JUNE 20, 2013

These days nearly every nonprofit has people tasked with maintaining the organization’s presence online. According to a recent post from Beth Kanter’s Blog, these professionals have a lot to learn from each other. Blog Industry News Leadership Social Tech best practices nonprofit professionals social media SXSW conference'

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

While machine learning is increasingly used by companies across the private sector, few nonprofits have integrated this kind of technology into their operations to date. To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Do you have access to useable data?

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To learn more about what’s happening in the nonprofit sector, here's a sneak peek at NonProfit PRO's “40 Nonprofit Trends of 2024.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.” Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise our skills are quickly outdated. That’s the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Have you heard the expression, “You learn something new every day?” And if you don’t feel that it’s true for you, then you should make a conscious effort to make it true, especially in the case of your nonprofit career. Therefore, we’ve compiled a couple of strategies that can help you continue your learning in the nonprofit sector.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In November 2003, NonProfit PRO published its first issue. To celebrate the brand’s debut in 2003, we spoke to two nonprofits that started in the same year as us to learn how they’ve been able to serve their mission as long as they have, and share what other nonprofits can learn from their success.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At NonProfit PRO, we strive to keep the pulse of the nonprofit sector. Here's a recap of the lessons we've learned this year through stats.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 16, 2024

Reporting is essential for nonprofit organizations to demonstrate the impact of their work to funders and donors. You’ll also learn how an impact management solution with built-in reporting capabilities can help. In this e-book, you’ll discover the four most common reporting mistakes you may be making and how to fix them.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 23, 2024

Accidentally ended up in charge of the tech at your nonprofit? In just a few hours a week, you’ll learn to assess your tech, trust your data, solve team issues, and create a thriving digital culture. Because guess what, the solution to your nonprofit tech isn’t tech, it’s you! Us too, and we know it’s lonely and overwhelming.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The top 10 posts on Nonprofit Tech for Good in 2023 reflect the trends that nonprofits were most interested in this past year. Thank you for being a part of the Nonprofit Tech for Good community in 2023. Learn more & register ! Social media still dominates the list as it has every year for the last decade.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Download the report to glean insights from 939 fundraising professionals, benchmark your nonprofit's success, see where other nonprofits plan to invest their budget, learn how the nonprofit sector feels about AI, and more.

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Achieve

JULY 21, 2022

Between the dozens of responsibilities that crop up within the course of running a nonprofit organization—from cultivating donors to event planning—filing tax returns probably isn’t at the top of your list of priorities. that is essential to the nonprofit tax reporting process: Form 990. The Importance of Form 990 for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 17, 2014

Thanks to a partnership with Salsa Labs , Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good was able to report live from the FUSE Conference on August 6-7 in Annandale, VA. Over 250 nonprofits were in attendance represented by staff mostly from the Millennial Generation who actively contributed to the conference hashtag: #FUSEcon2014.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 19, 2024

Join us on April 30th at 3:30pm EST for an exclusive panel conversation with nonprofit leaders who have achieved remarkable campaign, event, and fundraising success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

” Post election many nonprofit have been feeling the impact of “ election trauma ,” and many individuals report cutting back on Facebook and other social media due to being overwhelmed. The bottom line that nonprofits need to adapt to a new reality. Learn stress reduction strategies for yourself and your team.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Recently, I asked ChatGPT to create a strategic plan for a made-up nonprofit. Here's what I learned about using AI for strategic planning.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 18, 2024

Part of the IMAGINE Grant program, funding will be provided to nonprofits pursuing scaled, repeatable solutions that directly accelerate mission through the purposefully application of Generative AI. New this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to announce the Pathfinder – Generative AI Award.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2013

My e-newsletter is by far the driving force behind Nonprofit Tech 2.0. And even though a recent report pointed out that email open and donor response are dropping in the nonprofit sector, I can’t help but wonder if current (yet old) e-newsletter design trends have a lot to do with the results.

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