NonProfit PRO

APRIL 15, 2024

Gen Zers are drawn to authentic, visually appealing brands. Here's how to refresh your look to hook the next generation of donors.

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DonorDock

APRIL 15, 2024

Elevate your fundraising game with donor-centric strategies. Check out four practical ways to personalize donation appeals and connect with your audience.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 15, 2024

Your donors are critical for your fundraising goals. Discover the best practices for engaging donors and how to create an effective donor engagement strategy.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2024

Every profession likes to claim ethics are essential to its success. But you can make an especially robust case that this is indeed the case in fundraising. What does it take to be successful in fundraising? Strengths like persuasion, problem solving, and persistence come to mind quickly. But integrity is squarely at the top. Fundraising is a profession directed at nurturing friendships that culminate in gifts of time, talent, and treasure.

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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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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 15, 2024

Learn how to elevate every aspect of your fundraising programs—from acquisition to reactivation, digital co-targeting to housefile optimization. Packed with practical advice and proven best practices, the Field Guide will help you boost the performance of your direct mail and digital fundraising, and serve as a collaborative checklist of tactics for you team.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

The ongoing FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) delays have left students with less time to compare financial aid offers and make a college decision than in a typical year. In response, many colleges have postponed their commitment and financial aid deadlines for the 2024–25 academic year. According to the US Department of Education, about 330,000 federal financial aid applications will need to be reprocessed following yet another data error.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach to direct mail. It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Then, once you understand your audience members and which strategies resonate with them, you can build a strategy. In this guide, we’ll explore the basics of donor acquisition and some nonprofit digital marketing best practices for finding new donors.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 15, 2024

Your strategic plan could be thought-out and have buy-in across the board, but it will still fail if you’re doing this one key thing.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

Your nonprofit puts a lot of time and effort into planning your events. However, if no one knows that your event is taking place, you won’t be able to achieve a high turnout or meet your fundraising goals. This is why a strong marketing strategy is essential. By sending the right donor communications and reaching your target audience where they are, you’ll be able to successfully promote your event and expand your nonprofit’s reach.

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Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2024

Sustainability is one of the key concerns in the fundraising world, and it’s important for your nonprofit to identify ways to find additional funding so you can continue supporting your community for a long time. One way your donors can help you extend your impact is through legacy giving. Legacy gifts provide your donors an opportunity to help your organization past their own lifetime!

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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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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Direct mail fundraising should be an integral part of your nonprofit’s direct response strategy. When leveraged with other communication channels, direct mail can generate significant engagement and gift-giving from donors. Direct mail fundraising can also feel more personal for donors, especially when your messaging aligns with their preferences. This guide walks through the basics of direct mail fundraising for nonprofits and how to launch a direct mail campaign: Top Direct Mail Fundraising FA

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 15, 2024

The U.S. Postal Service proposed mailing services price changes, including a five-cent bump in the cost of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Grants management software Unify giving and grantmaking Build strategic nonprofit partnerships that drive more social impact with less work for your teams. Request a demo Explore pricing nicole.kowalcz… Sat, 04/13/2024 - 18:14 Deliver strategic funding with maximum efficiency With access to the largest network of vetted nonprofits and easier approvals for your team, you’ll deliver better, faster funding.

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Hands on Fundraising

APRIL 16, 2024

Answer honestly: how much attention do you pay to the thank you letters or emails you receive after giving? Do you quickly review it to be sure it’s a thank you letter, then file it for your taxes? And does that make the whole experience feel a bit… impersonal? I’m asking not because I think […] The post Why you should write a thank you from the heart appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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Advertiser: Digital Ocean

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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. Adopting inefficiency, experimentation, and messiness as a strategy sounds counterintuitive, but Parker – backed by 25 years’ experience working with Fortune 50 companies – proves it’s necessary for progress.

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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. However, many organizations struggle to capture, interpret, and utilize meaningful data due to outdated reporting practices. In this e-book, you’ll discover the four most common reporting mistakes you may be making and how to fix them. You’ll also learn how an impact management solution with built-in reporting capabilities can help.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

How do young people today see their role in making the world a better place, and what are the implications for the social sector? A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve.

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DonorDock

APRIL 16, 2024

Join Val on Beyond the Donation as she discusses nonprofit accounting and the role of board members with Ken Cerini.

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Advertiser: Syncrony

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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Nonprofit AF

APRIL 16, 2024

Hi everyone, real quick before we focus on this week’s topic, for the past few months, Crappy Funding Practices has.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 16, 2024

MacKenzie Scott recently awarded $640 million as part of her open call for grant applications. Here's the impact it's already having.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

If you are a grantmaker, you know how important it is to have a reliable and efficient software system that can help you manage your grants, track your impact, and collaborate with your stakeholders. You probably also know that the world of philanthropy is changing rapidly, and your software needs to keep up with the new challenges and opportunities that arise.

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Candid

APRIL 15, 2024

Whether for expanding programs, launching new initiatives, or sustaining current projects, securing institutional funding is crucial to your organization’s ability to deliver on your mission. Institutional funders are typically organizations with large budgets and long grant cycles, such as government agencies, corporations, and foundations. Here, I’ll share some of the funder prospecting strategies that have helped me as I’ve learned to navigate this landscape.

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Advertiser: DonorDock

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Forum One

APRIL 16, 2024

At Forum One, we’re talking a lot about composable architecture, and leading with it in many digital projects with current and new partners. But there’s still a lot of confusion about just what composable architecture is. This post, and a recent webinar, Demystifying Composable Architecture , are here to help explain. Not a new tool, a new way of working It’s helpful to think about composable architecture as an evolution.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 16, 2024

The Blackbaud Institute released its 2023 Trends in Giving Spotlight, which showed growth in online giving and more.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Nearly everyone has had an idea for a business or nonprofit they’d like to establish. Personal experiences — both good and bad — often lead us to a product or service that can help others. But where do you even start? And once you’ve founded your organization, how do you know when it’s ready to grow? We recently spoke with Elana Frank about her experience founding and scaling the Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF).

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 15, 2024

With over 1.9 million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. alone, it’s easy to see that there is a lot of competition to obtain members and donors and find unique and impactful ways to keep those members engaged and happy. Members should want to be a part of an organization, but how and why? Today, nearly everything is digital, so it makes sense that your nonprofit’s website is often the first point of contact for potential members and donors.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Corporate giving software Scale corporate funding Power philanthropy to its full potential with a single platform that connects all of your programs — from employee giving to grantmaking. Request a demo Explore pricing nicole.kowalcz… Sat, 04/13/2024 - 18:07 Benefits for your business and nonprofits From increased retention to more strategic funding, Bonterra’s corporate giving software helps you unlock both business and social outcomes.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 16, 2024

When it comes to marketing, nonprofits often find themselves at a disadvantage, but unconventional strategies can help boost their reach.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

As a nonprofit event planner, you know that any successful event needs a clear blueprint, volunteer and staff support, and strong attendee engagement. Event management software for nonprofits brings all planning elements together in one place, streamlining your preparation and saving your team time and stress. Research shows that over 85% of event planners use event management software to bring their events to life.

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