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Book Review | Fundraising for Introverts: Harnessing Our Powers for What Matters

Pamela Grow

If you’re also an introvert and you’ve ever felt overwhelmed or anxious about the prospect of raising money for nonprofits, Fundraising for Introverts: Harnessing Our Powers for What Matters is an absolute game-changer. With a compassionate approach, Fundraising for Introverts gently encourages you to embrace your innate qualities.

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Three Imperatives for the Modern Nonprofit CFO in the Digital Age

sgEngage

Our team identified three concepts in Gartner’s report that can help nonprofits position themselves for growth: Setting solid digital strategies, commitment to reducing waste wherever possible, and investing in the right technology. Are we raising enough money (restricted and unrestricted) to fund our mission now and in the future?

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

As a founder, you may experience this as a lack of competence, dedication, or understanding, and justify the churn as a matter of finding the right people for the job. After all, people take nonprofit jobs because they believe in the mission. For this reason, new nonprofits often grind through workers.

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Donor Privacy: Protecting Your Revenue and Reputation Online

OneCause

An online solicitation strategy has indeed become a staple element of a comprehensive end-of-year fundraising campaign. Nonprofits understand that donor retention is a much more cost-effective and desirable strategy for stewarding a healthy, loyal donor pool than new donor acquisition. Easy Strategies to Safeguard Donor Privacy.

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3 Principles Fundraisers Should Adopt from Service Providers

Connection Cafe

Steep billing rates, adversarial positions, and dense subject matter hindered my ability to be really great at my job, so I turned to more mission-driven work in the nonprofit sector. As fundraisers, it’s easy for us to gloss over the more logistical aspects of our jobs. I thought nonprofit fundraising was the opposite of lawyering.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It used to be twenty years ago that the “do gooders” would go off and take lower paying jobs in the nonprofit sector. And, those who wanted to make money would head to Wall Street. That’s changed. Rob started off with some observations about the young people he sees in his business school classes.

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Reflections from Center for Nonprofit Excellence Annual Conference, Louisville, KY

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second group is ready to brainstorm a strategy, select tools, or has lots of nitty gritty question about implementation. Some key takeaways: Your nonprofit can't continue to do a good job of doing an average job of doing too many things. You need to blend the best practices of marketing and social movement building?