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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Answers on grant proposals if nonprofits were brutally honest with funders. Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Nonprofits Struggle to Implement Diversity Measures, Survey Finds. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue. On Not Being Constrained by the System You’re In.

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5 Things to Know Before Hiring a Nonprofit Web Consultant

Get Fully Funded

Internal management consultants help nonprofits develop their organizational structure. Develop a request for proposal. A request for proposal (RFP) is a document that communicates your current needs and your expectations from your consultant. After you receive a response from each consultant, begin reviewing their proposals.

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3 Keys to Pitching Pro Bono Opportunities for Your Nonprofit

Connection Cafe

At Common Impact, we’ve identified three keys that will help you confidently structure a pro bono project, identify organizational challenges your potential partner could help solve, and propose a skills-based volunteer engagement that meets your nonprofit’s needs and supports the interest of the volunteers.

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Choosing the Best CSR Software: A Guide for Smart Businesses

Nonprofits Source

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs. Who Uses CSR Software?

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture.

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When Worlds Collide: Major Gifts and Direct Marketing Team Up to Maximize Mid-Level Donors

Connection Cafe

Progress is incremental, costs are high and returns on investment are measured in percentage points. And there is more structure to ease any cultural or tactical friction that might arise between the departments. Direct marketing is the ground game. But since the 2014 study, cooperation between this fundraising odd couple has improved.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Within the wide-ranging program, structured by experience levels and topical areas, you can tailor a learning program specific to your interests. Finance / @southwestfdns. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $480.

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