The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This involves both choosing who these new leaders will be, as well as preparing them with the best possible leadership skills. But anything can happen: executives can move on to different opportunities or personal circumstances can emerge unexpectedly at a crucial point in fundraising. Mentor and train your future leaders.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2021

Have you noticed that when talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in fundraising , the conversation frequently mentions the lack of suitable candidates of color? Another aspect of the discussion is the business case for hiring for fundraising success. After all, is not the business of fundraising, well, to raise money?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Fundraisers often lament that board members are shirking their commitment to helping fundraise. Even if your development team and your board work well together, there is probably more that the executive director, development director, and board chair can do to ensure that the organization is taking advantage of everyone’s strengths.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Factors including lingering COVID-19 disruptions and widening socioeconomic disparities continue to challenge nonprofits’ budgets, resulting in revenue concerns that keep CEOs, executive directors and other nonprofit leaders up at night. Fundraiser talent investment interventions. Pay and compensation: Increase base salaries.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. And local Boys & Girls Clubs helped open the door to opportunities young people might not have otherwise, offering career training, skill building, positive mentors, and pathways to a great future.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to encourage their Development Director to take meetings with major donors. . The real work of major gift fundraising is relationship building. for events and $1.00

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Bloomerang

APRIL 8, 2021

It is transcendent leadership and planning for turnover by mentoring and grooming leaders to take the helm when the opportunity arises. It is a way to use your God-given and acquired skills to help others and make a difference. This is called sponsorship. .

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. Glenn taught himself the skills needed to maintain and repair computers. Glenn founded Byte Back in 1997 and served as director for three years. He realized that IT professionals didn’t need a degree to get a great job.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Executive Director. Fund , released a report revealing some unfortunate statistics which provide real insight into the fundraising industry. Moreover, the apathetic and even sometimes fearful attitudes toward fundraising among staff and board members can lead to a philanthropic dead-end. Lindsay Walker. Be innovative.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Meet Sandra Munoz, Director of Product – Fundraising . Sandra: One of the things I’m most proud of is helping develop Qgiv’s original peer-to-peer fundraising system. On top of that our CEO, Todd, is a phenomenal mentor and has never made me feel like being a female has anything to do with my ability to lead.

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Qgiv

JULY 12, 2022

Here are our tips for recruiting new members to serve on your board of directors. This is especially helpful advice if you’ve got volunteers with skills that would be helpful on a board of trustees. Match new board members up with a more experienced board member so that they can form a mentor/mentee relationship.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Marla Cornelius , Senior Project Director. If you're interested in learning more, this topic will be explored in more depth in the upcoming Daring to Lead 2011 brief: Inside the Executive Director Job , which you can find on the Daring to Lead website next month. Guiding, supporting, mentoring, and coaching staff is indeed rewarding.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Director of Development, ASU Health Initiatives. It starts with a commitment by nonprofit CEOs, but also requires the skill and will of senior leaders, board members, and funders to build processes for leadership development within organizations (Landles-Cobb, Kramer, Smith Milway, 2015). Planning and facilitating fundraising events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

"    She invited me to contribute one sentence for a social media fundraising project she's leading to support female entrepreneurs in the Philippines. Some of the contributors so far: Anita Pahor , Women???s   (You can see an example of a slideshare (and some early contributions) here.) 

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The executive director of the nonprofit was quite clear when she was recruiting me for the board of directors: Fundraising would be part of my responsibilities. Surely, I rationalized, they just talked about fundraising to everyone. They couldn’t actually expect me to fundraise. But they did. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

During my tenure as the Executive Director of GLAAD, I struggled with them constantly. Often, it’s Executive Directors who set this kind of tone. More than that, I’ve been that Executive Director. I’m the ED whose intensity nearly killed my own Development Director. They are complex, built into the DNA of nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

It expands your organization’s social footprint and presence beyond what the lone communications director or marketing team is capable of reaching on their own. The communications director, Gerard Matthews, set up a champions program for staff to help expand reach and his capacity to do social effectively.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. We want to help nonprofits that implement year-end fundraising campaigns be successful. Goals don’t come out of thin air.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 10, 2018

They’re often instrumental in the development of strategic plans, including fundraising plans. Randy Hawthorne is the Executive Director for Nonprofit Hub, and a Professional Certified Marketer. Board members play a crucial role in helping an organization drive its mission forward. They can help form valuable connections.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management. They implement content management systems without getting users and executive sponsors on board.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. It cannot and should not be all about fundraising. As such, no longer can we think of our advancement system as just a ‘database ’.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And if you’re watching this recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter when and where you are because we are here to talk about the four-step plan to get more donations and greater fundraising results. So like you said, the four-step plan to get more donors to grow your fundraising results. I’m Steven.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Because the Village Enterprise Fund's administrative office is in San Carlos, CA, about 25 miles from San Francisco, we were lucky enough to have VEF's Development Director, Barbara Lamb Hall, there to chat with us and to show us a quick PowerPoint presentation. This month's organization was the Village Enterprise Fund. Here's how VEF works.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

of donors prefer going online to make a donation People receive 121 emails per day on average 76% of people trust ads they receive in the mail 56% of donors regularly attend fundraising events Text fundraising has grown 205% over the last year. Looking to grow your nonprofit fundraising program? There’s Power in Numbers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. I’m a social scientist by passion, but a fundraising consultant and executive by trade.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Tim Kachuriak is the founder and Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer for NextAfter, a fundraising research lab consultancy, and training institute that works with charities, nonprofits and NGOs to help them grow their resource capacity. The Nonprofit Value Proposition Index Study), and The Midlevel Donor Crisis.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

For more on motivating board members, see Boards on Fire: Igniting Passion for Joyful Fundraising.) For more about strategic plans, see How to Develop a Strategic Fundraising Plan. BONUS: this will look great on fundraising event swag! Well-crafted statements give them the language and the confidence to make the important asks!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right?

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 5, 2016

They also have experience with fundraising. Utilizing social media and online communication; • Improving board document management; • Initiating new types of fundraising events; • Developing marketing strategies. Their security is based on skills developed through discrete achievements. How are they different?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Just a little bit about who we are, I am the founder and principal of Sarah Willey, LLC, and as Steven alluded to, I’m also the interim co-executive director at the moment of Missouri Health Care for All. Corinne: Mentor and leadership. Surprisingly and excitingly, 47% want to help fundraise. So we really encourage that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

With that in mind, I decided to take a look at some of some interesting fundraising tools, ideas, and approaches for small grassroots organizations that came across my reader or inbox in the past month or so. " Amazingly 350 people signed up and this lead to the Mentoring Worldwide project. Another new tool is PledgeBank.

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