Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In this article, we’ll catalog ten nonprofit website best practices your organization can use to maximize your investment. Here’s a great way to avoid those roadblocks: Choose a nonprofit-specific service like Neon Websites that incorporates nonprofit website best practices into their products from the ground up. Others do, too!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 27, 2024

With all of this in mind, even if it has never been a targeted approach at your organization, delving deeper into the trove of research we have about Women’s Philanthropy could be an incredible tool for your fundraising success. You can find it here at the Proven Practices website. Let us know in the comments.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, Lindsay Currie of CUR has a Board that practices anticipatory planning and has an innovation fund. These are organizations that are not going back to their pre-pandemic structures and offerings. Research and reports are helping members navigate the future and create amazing member value.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Foundation leaders need to understand how grantmaking practices affect nonprofit organizations and structure grantmaking practices in ways that best support nonprofit organizations. Mowrer’s Grant-seeking Challenges highlights that funder practices and requirements are considered one of the greatest challenges for grant-seekers.

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2024

Within the social sector, AI is a powerful tool for fundraising , researching, grantwriting , and maximizing organizational impact. Today, our AI policy—which focuses on best practices, not specific tools—is integral to how we work and helps us use AI in a way that amplifies our mission. The future of AI is uncertain.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Do the research. We strive to include diversity, equity, and inclusion practices at the center of our daily work. We commit to using these practices for our business and our communities. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. Collect, analyze, and share the data.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Whether we like it or not, many traditional fundraising practices create an inner circle of supporters. That doesn’t mean that a high ROI is a bad thing, or that these fundraising practices should be retired. Therefore, we recommend taking the following steps to apply DEI best practices for your nonprofit: Lead From the Top.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. The Association for Institutional Research ( AIR ) provides resources and connections for those “working at the intersection of people and data.”

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2020

Research shows that it’s much more difficult and expensive to attract new supporters than it is to retain the ones you already have. Armed with this information, you can structure your call: . Research shows that supporters love to know the impact that they’ve created through their giving. Ask them how they’re doing.

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Achieve

AUGUST 27, 2021

Nonprofits professionals turn to prospect research time after time to enhance and strengthen their fundraising strategies. This research method has the innate ability to uncover valuable information on prospective donors, helping your organization better understand its audience and determine key cultivation steps. . fundraising plan.

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Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

Public Sector & Nonprofit Case Management Software Improve Impact Drive stronger outcomes with a solution that empowers your staff, enables more data-informed decision making, and provides expert guidance and best practices.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Explore these four best practices when creating great professional development programs: . Remember that the best development opportunities are born from upfront research and the best nonprofit development resources. Keep in mind the industry and your audience as you research your materials. . Let’s get started. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 24, 2020

According to research by Pratt & Light, there are varying opinions of how nonprofit employees should be compensated. This public perception influences nonprofit leadership when determining compensation structures for their employees, and can lead to significant pay disparity between the nonprofit and for-profit sectors.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

One form this input takes at Candid is User Experience Research (also known as UX research). When done well, UX research allows us to design in anticipation of our users’ needs rather than reactively correcting issues as they emerge. We do this through a program called Follow Me Home (FMH).

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, Lindsay Currie of CUR has a Board that practices anticipatory planning and has an innovation fund. These are organizations that are not going back to their pre-pandemic structures and offerings. Research and reports are helping members navigate the future and create amazing member value.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to the 2020 Smithsonian Magazine article, The Storied History of Giving in America , the practice of philanthropy can reflect and reinforce inequity. Black youth face barriers such as historical exclusion, structural racism in schools and resources in Black communities.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2024

This applies to a multitude of characteristics including personality, work habits, reporting structure and much else. You don’t know how much research or clearance is required by the other party to respond. Despite following best practices, you very much might be stymied.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy. Register here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Written by Findjoo , this is the second post in a series of three about best practices in digital marketing and fundraising for membership organizations and associations. Research can often help you decide which ones you want to target. It can often help to do some research, to find which hashtags will deliver the best results.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Her specialty is blending communications theory, field research, and practical sales experience to help professionals and non-professionals become more polished and persuasive presenters. Preparation and practice are the keys to managing nervous energy. The book is, Presentation Ready , by Terri L.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

This critical research informs many of our current practices. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. The second report of the series, Living with Pocket Change: What It Means to Do More With Less , examines the impact and real-life experiences of chronic philanthropic underinvestment.

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M+R

MARCH 1, 2024

powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy. Register here.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

As you research your options, look for an advisor with low fees, demonstrated nonprofit experience, and expert investment portfolio management services. Decide how to structure your endowment. Next, work with your investment advisor to determine the best way to structure your new endowment.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

Along with many funders incorporating trust-based philanthropy practices and principles, this growing trend may affect giving to nonprofits and impact the way nonprofits are asked to share organizational information with funders. Staffing in the new world of work The COVID-19 pandemic led to the nonprofit sector losing at least 1.6

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

The term encompasses a wide range of tools and practices that can support an equally wide range of work and strategies. Headless” and composable architecture, which de-couples the front-end design from the content structure, is increasingly our recommended solution for this ever-changing technology space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. (There is a whole book devoted to the topic, “ Rituals at Work.”) I just received my 2023 email. I just received my 2023 email.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We are designers and researchers, communications professionals and developers. DEIA principles need to be baked into how we approach the sites we build, the research we do, and the plans we make in a way that is systemized, documented, and repeatable. DEIA is also about what we do. So where are we now? Staff manager training.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The ideal social network structure, as well as organizational structure, would contain a mixture of both types of ties between individuals in the network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Our most recent research, Unlocking Generosity with Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Giving. While this particular research was focused on giving and fundraising, we have looking at topic with a broader lens. This research was supported by Microsoft’s AI for Humanitarian Action Initiative. . AI and Wellbeing .

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. Want to see more?

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

They serve as educators, advocates, idea forums, and compilers of industry research and best practices. As part of our product development strategy, the Nimble AMS team has conducted extensive research into membership trends outside of the association industry. Download the Association Trends 2020 research study.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Manager of Knowledge Resources, Research and Academic Affairs, ASU Lodestar Center.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Create Impact with Inclusive Audience Research. You may even be planning some audience research in the near future. Who you speak to and how you structure your research has a big impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on. What does it mean to conduct this research in an inclusive way?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today I’d like to address something practical: How we learn. For many it’s simply reading and writing, which is the way most of our schools are structured. There are plenty of books, articles, and research papers (see, e.g., here , here , and here for just a few) on the topic of how people learn, but the reality is there’s a continuum.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. consistent, structural challenges. Read Angela Francis'' " Research Friday: The Results are In - State of the Sector 2012.". Angela Francis , Senior Associate.

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