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A Penny (or $20 Amazon Gift Card) for Your Thoughts?

NonProfit PRO

NonProfit PRO is looking for insights from our community of experts on the condition of the nonprofit landscape. Contribute to this research study by providing details on charitable giving, how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted your organization, technology investments that would benefit your team most, and more.

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37 Facebook Groups Every Nonprofit Professional Needs to Join

Wild Apricot

I was talking to an administrative coordinator recently who had just started at a small nonprofit in Toronto. Although she loved her new role, she was having some trouble figuring out who to reach out to about some industry questions she had. Since.

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Post-Pandemic Considerations for Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Strategy

NonProfit PRO

As we enter a new, more hopeful era, there’s one question that we’ve begun to hear from clients and organizations in the nonprofit space: What now?

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Upgrade Your Nonprofit Website With This Member Directory Template

Wild Apricot

Does your organization have a member directory? It may seem like a simple list of members, but the benefits of having a member directory make it one of the most important sections you can add to your website. A member directory helps create a more.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

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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Book Review: The Surprising Gift of Doubt

NonProfit PRO

“The Surprising Gift of Doubt,” written by Marc Pitman of Concord Leadership Group, is a book that’s not just about nonprofit leadership. It can be applied to leaders in any situation, especially if you, as a leader, needs some re-grounding or refocus.

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Facebook Group vs Facebook Page: Which One Should You Use?

CauseVox

If you’re part of an organization or business, or even just an individual with a blog, chances are you know that you need a presence on Facebook. But navigating the best way to share your message on Facebook can be…overwhelming. This guide will help you understand the two main ways of using Facebook: a page and a group. Here’s what you can expect: Top Tools to Use with Facebook What is a Facebook Page?

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12 Donation Form Best Practices to Inspire Your Online Fundraising

Donorbox

In today’s digital landscape, a nonprofit is synonymous with its donation form. Imagine this. Your nonprofit is out there, fighting the good fight for a cause that is close to your heart. You’ve received tons of encouragement from people everywhere. What could go wrong, right? Well, a poorly designed donation form can be all it […]. The post 12 Donation Form Best Practices to Inspire Your Online Fundraising appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Learning from lived experience creates potential for self love

Charity Village

We often refer to the lived experience of those who access service, but what about the lived experience of those who offer it? Rather than being encouraged to pay close attention to our experience, service providers are often reminded that our energy and focus is better directed toward others. We become robotic in our lives […]. The post Learning from lived experience creates potential for self love appeared first on CharityVillage.

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How To Install Modal Popup Donation Forms On Squarespace

Donorbox

In order to make our checkout process even faster, Donorbox supports modal popup donation forms. This feature allows your donation form to pop up on the same screen. A donate button will be installed on your web page. When someone clicks it, the popup form will appear, instead of redirecting your donors to a separate donation […]. The post How To Install Modal Popup Donation Forms On Squarespace appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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CanadaHelps’ annual Giving Report reveals online donations more than doubled in 2020 in response to crisis

Charity Village

CanadaHelps has released the 2021 Giving Report, an annual report that provides an in-depth, data-driven look at the state of Canada’s charitable sector. Since the onset of the pandemic, the charitable sector has experienced significant challenges, including a projected decline in overall donations. There are, however, positive signs as 2020 saw a striking increase in online […].

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

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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9 Ways to Build Strong Donor Relationships

Donorbox

If you ask someone the most important job of a fundraiser, only a few will answer, building donor relationships. In reality, that is the whole job of a fundraiser. Without these relationships, any donations a nonprofit receives will be temporary and ineffectual. Nonprofits may feel too overwhelmed and understaffed to focus on this critical task. […].

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The Small Nonprofit Podcast: A feminist COVID recovery with Chi Nguyen

Charity Village

How do we recover from the exhaustion and pain of the pandemic? How do we lead our organizations into the post-pandemic world with responsible leadership and in service for our communities? On today’s episode, social impact leader Chi Nguyen gives us the real talk on how to approach our leadership and the way we show […]. The post The Small Nonprofit Podcast: A feminist COVID recovery with Chi Nguyen appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Read all about it: The 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study is here

M+R

Read time: 2 minutes. We are excited to report that the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study is ready for you. Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . Thanks to contributions from 220 amazing nonprofit participants, this year’s Benchmarks Study covers detailed data including digital ads, social media, email, web traffic, mobile messaging, and more. .

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How to Keep Your Website Fresh, Interactive and Engaging

Elevation

First impressions matter, especially in the digital world. More and more nonprofits are realizing the importance of maximizing their digital potential. How? By having a fresh and interactive website with engaging content. This will help leverage the organization’s image, drive traffic and potential support for programs and services, as well as getting more volunteers to spread the word about the organization’s mission and vision.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

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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Building a Resilient Nonprofit Organization Through Proactive Risk Management

Charity Village

Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021. Summary: Nonprofit organizations continue to face a growing list of risks that have the potential to create significant disruption to operations, harm to brand and reputation, and financial losses. Whether it’s property damage from a natural disaster, or human-caused events like embezzlement, cyber-attacks, or allegations of misconduct, a proactive […].

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Change your thinking, change your work

Pamela Grow

“What if, instead of being exhausted, worn out, disillusioned, and depressed, you were energized and inspired by your important work as a social change leader? What if you were surrounded by endless supporters helping to move your work forward? What if money flowed easily and endlessly to you and your organization? What if the social change you envision happened easily and joyfully?

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eLearning Pricing Models: 5 Ways to Price Your Courses

Forj

Are you creating new eLearning courses to provide value to members and bring in revenue for your association’s learning business? If so, you’ve probably encountered the challenge of how to price those courses. Pricing them too high may deter members from investing. But, pricing them too low will prevent your team from making any meaningful revenue.

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Sustainability at Classy: Project Green and Our Corporate Commitments

Classy

This is a guest post by Tori Callahan, Chief of Staff and Head of Sustainability and Stakeholder Impact. When it comes to sustainability, Classy ’s core competency is our ability to empower the environmental nonprofits who use our platform to activate their online fundraising. Organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, the Clean Air Task Force, the Trust for Public Land, the Arbor Day Foundation (to name a few) are on the frontlines of the sustainability and climate crisis.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

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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What Does an eLearning Consultant Do? The Complete Guide

Forj

So, you’ve decided to invest in growing your association’s learning business to provide more value to members and bring in non-dues revenue. That’s great! But, where do you begin? An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. However, it’s important that you understand the parameters of their services, whether they’d be a valuable addition to your team, and how to find the ideal partner for you.

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DrupalCon 2021: What We Learned

Velir

DrupalCon Global 2021 , which took place April 12-16, 2021, offered me the chance to get virtual face time with a lot of people in the Drupal community. I talked to them about their ideas, things they're working on, and what's going on in their lives. In these conversations, I spoke with people I wouldn't normally interact with outside of the Drupal Association Slack, which was exciting.

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How To Reach Your Goals

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson , wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. Because many of us struggle each year to fulfill our New Year's Resolutions (goals), Halvorson's book, packed with the findings from her own research, along with the most useful tips from academic journals and handbooks, is a worthwhile read.

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Candid and COVID-19: All virtual, all the time

Candid

In March 2020, Candid canceled all in-person events until a time to be named later. Later in the month, we closed all of our offices and began working 100 percent remotely. In this article from our 2020 annual report , Candid employees share how these changes affected them and the stakeholders they serve. “Working virtually for our team meant we worked collaboratively in a way that wasn’t possible prepandemic.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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CanadaHelps’ annual Giving Report reveals online donations more than doubled in 2020

Charity Village

CanadaHelps has released the 2021 Giving Report, an annual report that provides an in-depth, data-driven look at the state of Canada’s charitable sector. Since the onset of the pandemic, the charitable sector has experienced significant challenges, including a projected decline in overall donations. There are, however, positive signs as 2020 saw a striking increase in online […].

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How to Embed Recurring Donation Forms in Weebly

Donorbox

We’ve partnered up with Weebly, a premiere website builder, to make it easier for you to embed donation forms onto your website or blog. Embedding donations forms directly onto your site will make it easier for donors to give donations and easier for you to receive donations. Further, you will offer a fast and secure […]. The post How to Embed Recurring Donation Forms in Weebly appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Imagine Canada releases statement on 2021 federal budget

Charity Village

In response to the federal budget that was released on April 19, 2021, Imagine Canada has released the following statement: “Today’s federal budget laid out a series of measures that will support the nation’s charities, nonprofits and social entrepreneurs in what may be an unprecedented show of recognition for our sector by the federal government. […].

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Where Are Your Donations Coming From?

Greater Giving

Nonprofits are masters at creating new and inventive ways to fundraise every year. For many, that involves a combination of income sources that, together, make up their funding model. A funding model is defined as the methodical and institutionalized approach to bring in revenue to support an organization’s core programs and initiatives. Most funding models include multiple income streams that are active throughout the year.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Applications being accepted for Law Foundation of Ontario’s Catalyst program

Charity Village

The Law Foundation of Ontario‘s Catalyst program provides nonprofit organizations working to advance access to justice in Ontario a unique opportunity to secure time-limited core funding. The program supports organizations with a proven track record of high-quality services to improve their ability to adapt, innovate, and respond to emerging needs.

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Philanthropy Cloud Adds New Volunteer Management Capabilities for National Volunteer Week

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Melissa Hill-Dees, Founding Partner of HandsOn Connect Cloud Solutions. In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. The app was initially launched with Points of Light affiliates across the U.S.

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Canadian HR Reporter is searching for the most innovative HR teams

Charity Village

Entries for Canadian HR Reporter’s Innovative HR Teams 2021 will close on April 30, 2021. HR leaders interested in putting their team forward can get involved in the initiative at no cost by completing the online entry form. The report will recognize teams that are breaking boundaries to move the HR industry forward in what has been a tumultuous […].

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Donor Appeals: The HOW Matters as Much as the WHY

Bloomerang

I leafed through my stack of mail the other day, and there it was: another colorful, overfull packet from Treesavers International (not the nonprofit’s real name). I opened the thick envelope and pulled out a stack of stat sheets, membership forms, and return address labels I’ll never use (seriously, nobody has called me “Andrew” since 1987. Is that you calling from beyond the grave, Nana??).

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.