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The 8 Best Nonprofit Conferences for Any Fundraiser in 2023 & 2024 Copy

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An important part of being an effective fundraiser is staying up to date on current fundraising trends , industry best practices, and donor preferences. AFP ICON is the most well-known (and most widely attended) conference, but many smaller AFP chapters host their own conferences and workshops. They’re the best!

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Fundraising Apps: 25+ Tools To Help Your Org Raise More

Bloomerang

With this fundraising app, your chapter can better plan fundraising events, collect dues, and communicate with members. Not only does OmegaOne help your chapter better raise money and plan revenue-generating activities, but it also helps you manage your money and your organization’s future projects. Chapter communication.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value.

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Tapping Giving USA Data for Year-Round Success

Connection Cafe

Although some might argue this is backward looking, there is true value in understanding the trend and how, for example, giving was affected during recessionary periods. Read the chapters on how different types of nonprofits fared over the previous year and why.

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kris Moore, Karen Walker, and David Murphey of Child Trends , expresses this well in this chapter from Leap of Reason – Performance Management: The Neglected Step in Becoming an Evidence-Based Program. Probably a lot more than you wanted, but you’re hitting on one of the Achilles heels of the sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

ASU Lodestar Center

Backman and Smith have called commercialization a major trend with potentially portentous consequences for civil society. I appreciate your analysis of the claims that the sector is becoming more commercialized. Have you shared your analysis with those who have argued otherwise? It's not my analysis. Good post Mark.

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Can you use social media to spread thought leadership? Yes you can!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter. It's about field scanning, pattern analysis, and trends.