The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s a new year and with a new year comes new year’s resolutions. Many of us resolve to tidy up our closets and garages. This past holiday season, I decided to declutter my digital life. Here’s what I ended up doing: Cleared my Email. I have unlimited storage in Gmail, which is a good thing and a bad thing. To be honest, I had a lot of unread emails, mostly promotional and social emails, but still.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 12, 2022

Here are five strategies to redefine philanthropy for the New Year. These actions will prepare you to build a strong culture of giving and amplify your development program as we continue to navigate a dynamic environment.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 12, 2022

The post How to (Finally) Make Analytics a Priority appeared first on Association Analytics.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 12, 2022

For nonprofits that are looking to expand their international presence, charity: water has shared its three most effective grantmaking strategies to make fundraising efforts more successful.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 12, 2022

The post New Year, New You: How to (Finally) Make Analytics a Priority – 1/19/22 appeared first on Association Analytics.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 12, 2022

If this post’s catchy subject line made you click to read it, we just proved that when it comes to marketing, the words we choose make all the difference. So if messaging is so important, why is the nonprofit sector referred to by a tax code assigned by the IRS 100 years ago? Can we agree that we are put at a disadvantage when we describe ourselves as what we are not?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 12, 2022

Illustration by Yuxin Qin. posted by Sabrina Esquivel Spring 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. No matter the industry, success is made possible by the individuals hired to achieve results. Employees are frontline; their talents and efforts determine success within any organization. Employees choose specific nonprofit organizations because they have a personal connection or emotional attachment to the nonprofits mission.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Storytelling is an invaluable tool for non-profits. Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. But so many non-profit professionals get discouraged by storytelling because they think it’s going to require the unparalleled writing skills of a Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 12, 2022

Thursday, February 10, 2022 11 a.m. PT, 2 p.m. ET (60 minutes) What happens when a potential board member requests board coverage? Or the venue for your nonprofit’s annual fundraising dinner requires a certificate of insurance? Does the grant that your organization just received require your nonprofit to have coverage? This webinar clarifies and educates […].

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Achieve

JANUARY 12, 2022

Very few people enter the nonprofit sector to put together financial reports. Those working at nonprofits likely started doing so because they want to make a difference in their communities. However, nonprofit accounting is essential to effective operations at the organization. . Just like. for-profits. , how nonprofit organizations manage their finances will dictate the organization’s operational success.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2022

Is your nonprofit an environmentally-focused organization that uses vibrant green hues, forest imagery, and a serious tone in your branding? Or, does your brand feature primary colors and round, playful fonts to represent your child-friendly mission?

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Gyrus

JANUARY 12, 2022

Employee training tracking software makes sure that employees are learning at their best capabilities. To ensure workforce productivity, companies must make sure that they are adopting this tool.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

As nonprofit fundraisers, we’re always thinking about our donors first. We’re focused on recruiting them, retaining, engaging, and so on. And it’s all worth the effort because our donors are part of the lifeblood of our organizations—they’re the people who financially fuel our missions and help us produce real results. But donors aren’t the only people who make your fundraising events and campaigns successful, and they aren’t the only people whose needs you should be considering.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 12, 2022

The start of a new year is a time many organizations revisit their strategic goals to make sure their teams’ initiatives for the year are aligned with those goals. Unfortunately, a common output of this exercise is the realization that your entire organization isn’t on the same page and that somehow the goals got lost in translation from the board level down to those executing the tactics.

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Advertiser: Digital Ocean

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Once the hallmark of marketing professionals and financial analysts, data analysis has now infiltrated almost all aspects of our life from fitness trackers (got to make sure you get those steps in!) to the custom playlists created for us by Spotify (yep, they use data to figure out what similar songs you might like). Data analytics for nonprofits is just as valuable … and even more crucial.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 12, 2022

This nonprofit productivity post is part 1 in a two-part series. . Procrastination is so very tempting! Just one more look at social media or another quick trip to the coffee shop, what harm can it do? But it’s more than mere distraction, it can have a serious impact on your long-term productivity. Amazing as it sounds, just ten minutes an hour of a nine to five job adds up to almost a full work day gone to waste by the end of the week.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

This is a guest post from Aly Sterling, founder of Aly Sterling Philanthropy. Aly’s expertise includes fundraising, strategic planning, search consultation and board leadership development for the well-positioned nonprofit. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S. News & World Report.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 12, 2022

Michael D. Smith officially started last week as the new Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps. Nominated by President Biden in June 2021, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Dec. 8, 2021.

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Advertiser: Syncrony

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Emily Friedrichs is the Communications and Content Marketing Manager at Elevation, a nonprofit digital services agency. She has been both volunteer and activist for organizations working on human rights, poverty elimination, non-violence, and cultural exchange. Emily has taught in underprivileged communities in New York and Buenos Aires. Her passions are community-building and behavioral psychology, and so she is excited to be working at their crossroads in nonprofit technology.

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