Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2015

Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their nonprofit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). What will be our annual report's theme?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Plain Language Resources: Big Duck’s Plain Language for Nonprofits. 2) Write and distribute quarterly Impact Reports. . According to the Fidelity Charitable Overcoming Barriers to Giving Report , 65% of donors would give more if they knew the impact of their donations. Why Quarterly Impact Reports? M+R Benchmarks Report.

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Candid

JUNE 29, 2023

i (See previous blogs from the 2022 and 2021 surveys.) The Foundation Giving Forecast Survey provides timely estimates and helps inform the Giving USA annual report on philanthropy. In this first blog, we outline what we learned about annual giving and payout in 2022. Every January, Candid surveys large U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2015

Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their nonprofit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). What will be our annual report''s theme?

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

The 16th annual Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmark Report is here! We look forward to this report every year. It’s a reliable touchstone to identify giving trends as well as shifts in sustainer and email engagement in the nonprofit digital space.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their nonprofit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). What will be our annual report''s theme?

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. What Are Restricted Funds?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Pull these reports for the quarterly board meeting. And then there is your annual IRS 990 series filing deadline. With an ever-changing landscape of fundraising, economic conditions, and tactics for expanding mission-related programming, finding time for IRS tax reporting and filing 990 Series returns can be beyond challenging.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last week Candid hit a milestone, launching our biggest, most robust nonprofit compensation report yet. Featuring 40% more compensation data compared to last year’s report on 14 top leadership positions—including CEO, CFO, and more. However, organizations in the highest budget band (>$50M), saw a decrease of -0.9%.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

By applying these helpful ways to measure and optimize nonprofit performance, you can drive positive change for your organization. Ideally, all nonprofit goals should have numerical measurements that are referred to as key performance indicators (KPIs). How do you present nonprofit outcomes?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike many cycles of nonprofit operations, grant reporting doesn’t really have a season; it’s all year long. Grant reporting also varies widely by funder. Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Annual giving folk are a strange breed. But, what if you’re the kind of fundraiser who is expected to complete your annual giving program “off the side of your desk,” with no fancy agency to guide you on the latest trends, no idea what your donors really respond to, no current data segmentation strategy to contend with?

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sgEngage

MARCH 13, 2024

The 12th edition of the Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Benchmark Report is here! This report compares peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising data from 2020, 2021, and 2022. We encourage you to read the full report where we dive into these questions and more. Download the full Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Benchmark Report today.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Effective financial management is critical for operating a nonprofit. Your organization’s ability to further its mission depends not only on successful fundraising , but also on allocating your funds so you can cover all of your expenses while setting your nonprofit up for long-term sustainability and growth. Let’s get started!

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A group of concerned nonprofit leaders in the Washington, D.C. area have been discussing a disconcerting trend: Black women and Black gender-expansive nonprofit leaders are leaving their positions, some exiting the nonprofit sector altogether.

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M+R

APRIL 24, 2024

The latest edition of the annual M+R Benchmarks Study has arrived, and here’s your ticket to ride. This year, 225 wonderful nonprofits partners joined in the fun, contributing data on fundraising, advocacy, engagement, mobilization, and marketing. Nonprofits more than doubled TikTok audiences in 2023, while Twitter/X fans declined.

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Hands on Fundraising

JUNE 22, 2021

What purpose does your nonprofit’s annual report serve? Too many organizations see an annual report as part requirement and part brochure. The post How to take your nonprofit’s annual report from chore to score appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising. But if yours […].

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 29, 2021

Summer is here, and this month we’re featuring stories from nonprofits who are successfully achieving their mission using Wild Apricot. Check out our blog post, The Ultimate Guide to Creating Nonprofit Annual Reports to learn how to effectively.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 14, 2021

You know you are making a difference in your communities, but do you know how to showcase that impact to your grantmakers, board members, donors, and volunteers without spending countless hours building endless spreadsheets and reports? What’s changed in the last year that has made an important impact on nonprofits?

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

Each week, I interview association and nonprofit CEOs, Presidents and Executive Directors about the things their organization is doing to increase membership, generate revenue, and ultimately thrive. The BAAA’s annual conference is held at different times of the year, in different locations, and with different program elements.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

With just a little digging—using the tools and resources I will share in this blog—you will be able to get a picture of who donates to a particular nonprofit. Finding the names of individuals that donated to a nonprofit is difficult because the IRS doesn’t require most nonprofits to disclose where their donations come from.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2023

The Giving USA 2023: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2022 is the most comprehensive report on philanthropy in America and the data within sheds light on the state of fundraising and ways nonprofits can overcome shortfalls in funding. Religious organizations , for instance, reported a 5.2%

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Donorbox

AUGUST 9, 2023

And if it’s here to stay – should your nonprofit start accepting cryptocurrency donations? If the popularity of crypto continues to hold, as it’s projected to, the 2023 Annual Report on Crypto Philanthropy forecasts […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Crypto Donations appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Donorbox

AUGUST 9, 2023

And if it’s here to stay – should your nonprofit start accepting cryptocurrency donations? If the popularity of crypto continues to hold, as it’s projected to, the 2023 Annual Report on Crypto Philanthropy forecasts […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Crypto Donations appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So, a year-end fundraising goal and plan is important for nonprofits to take full advantage of donors’ kindness. In fact, recent research shows that a quarter of annual nonprofit revenue is raised in the month of December. After over 20 years of fundraising, consulting, and teaching nonprofits across the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The third edition of the Global Trends in Giving Report (the sister report to the 2019 Global NGO Technology Report ) will be published September 15, 2020 , and for the first time, we are conducting an open call for partners worldwide. Example 1: You are an environmental nonprofit based in Spain. About the Report.

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Candid

JULY 19, 2023

As a result, nonprofits were hit hard in multiple ways. Last month, Candid published results from the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, an annual survey of large U.S. Due to economic conditions and indications of a recession, we saw a … decrease in annual giving.” private and community foundations. Here’s what we found.

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Qgiv

JULY 22, 2021

Data released in the Giving USA 2021 Annual Report shows that Qgiv clients raised more than their peers in several key sectors and in overall dollar amounts raised! Giving USA’s annual report compiles data from the previous year, 2020, to see how nonprofits fared. Read the Press Release.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this blog, I will share how you can use your head and heart to inform your giving and to ensure your donations make a difference. million IRS-registered nonprofits in the United States alone. Nonprofits are as diverse as their donors. Consider the type of nonprofit you want to support. Consider your values There are 1.8

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

By Scot Chisholm , CEO and Co-founder of Classy ––a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. That’s partly because underlying trends that have been driving the nonprofit sector for years have completely changed.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Giving USA 2022: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2021 is the most comprehensive report on philanthropy in America. Luckily, we’ve got you covered with our breakdown of the most important findings of the Giving USA 2022 Annual Report. billion for nonprofits in 2021. Individuals gave $326.87

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sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2024

There are millions of wonderful nonprofit organizations working to make this world a better place. Ensure that your policy outlines that the individual who reports the violation will be protected from retaliation. Create a separate email address, telephone number, and fax number to report violations.

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Candid

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Once you’ve established a new nonprofit , one of your first considerations will likely be fundraising. This includes creating an annual operating budget , a document that breaks down your organization’s revenue, or the money you’ll bring in, and expenses, or the money going out to cover your costs, for each fiscal year.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

By creating an endowment or accepting endowment gifts from high-capacity donors, you can set your nonprofit up for growth and greater financial sustainability—all without extensive effort. In this guide, we’ll explore how nonprofit endowments work and what steps to take to start fueling your long-term fundraising success.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. In case you missed our webinar, feel free to watch it here and learn how to create annual reports that rock! Take this 2-minute quiz to learn the secrets to growing your nonprofit.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Digital Annual Reports Click With Donors - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times : "The trend of interactive, digital annual reports has been gaining steam since at least 2011, according to Scott Martin, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Hauppauge, N.Y.-headquartered

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2023

Let’s imagine a familiar scenario: the end of your nonprofit organization’s current fundraising campaign is approaching. Given these high stakes, nonprofits want to drive donations as efficiently as possible. Here’s how—and why—nonprofits should move from legacy systems to data-driven decision-making.

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