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How can nonprofits acquire skilled talent to better achieve their mission?

ASU Lodestar Center

If an organization is willing to invest in a positive and extensive support structure, it is likely leadership will follow. A byproduct of low overhead spending and reduced recruiting efforts is demographically underrepresented leadership in the sector. “As Human resource investment. Recruiting diverse leadership. As the U.S.

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Why You Should Do A Cost-Benefit Analysis Before Throwing Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

Bloomerang

Once people have demonstrated a desire to become more engaged, your job is to match their desires and values to your own. When it comes to individual giving, an acceptable cost-benefit ratio can depend on a range of factors: Your organization’s history, age, and size. Funding structure. Local demographics. Volunteers.

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5 DEI Strategies for Nonprofit Fundraising Success

Saleforce Nonprofit

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. This can include incentive structures, remembering DEI in programming, speakers, professional development, etc. By: Yolanda F. and several countries.

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Why Individual Giving Strategies Often Don’t Work for Communities of Color

Connection Cafe

Development professionals know that demographics are changing, and that there are significant potential resources available from donors of color. Several parents of students in the after-school program that I used to run asked me if I had a “real” job in addition to my much-appreciated “volun- teering.”

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Frogloop wrote about the seeming decline of direct mail in February due to rising costs and the fact that direct mail appeals largely to an aging demographic. “Moving to an online fundraising structure allows us to move quickly and react to campaign needs in a way that direct mail never could.” So what’s the verdict?

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. The fastest growing demographics are over 35. This isn’t just a change in youth culture.

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