Tue.May 25, 2021

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Transformational Gifts Aren’t Out of Reach — All You Need Is a Big Idea

NonProfit PRO

Transformational gifts can take your organization to the next level. Pursuing transformational gifts from a select group of interested and capable donors is not only the best way to achieve your annual fundraising goals, but it can also catalyze further growth and provide a stable future for your organization.

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Corporate Sponsorships 101: Everything You Need to Know

Wild Apricot

Individual giving makes up a large portion of funding for many nonprofits. While these donors are vital to your organization, many of these supporters may need to pause or shift their donations when difficult economic times hit. This is one reason.

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Meyer Foundation Announces Director and Inaugural Cohort of Partner Organizations for $20M Fund for Black-led Change Commitment

NonProfit PRO

The Meyer Foundation, one of the Washington area's largest and oldest locally focused philanthropies, announced Stephanie Sneed as director of its recently launched Fund for Black-led Change, effective June 1, as well as the inaugural cohort of organizations awarded resources through the Fund.

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How to Identify and Support Future Leaders at Your Nonprofit

Hands on Fundraising

All nonprofits have growth in mind. When you grow your organization, you raise more funds. You increase your impact on the community. And you spread the word far and wide about your admirable mission. The recipe for growth requires one vital ingredient you already have access to. This ingredient is leadership. You are likely an […]. The post How to Identify and Support Future Leaders at Your Nonprofit appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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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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How Nonprofits Can Prevent Prevent Negotiation Failure

NonProfit PRO

Negotiators, even professional ones, make surprisingly many wrong decisions that doom negotiations that should have succeeded. Fortunately, recent research in these fields shows how you can use pragmatic strategies to address these dangerous judgment errors.

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3 Reasons Your Nonprofit Needs a Brand Guide

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes 3 Reasons Your Nonprofit Needs a Brand Guide. Branding is not just your organization’s logo and website design. Your organization’s brand is a much broader concept, more along the lines of how your organization makes people feel. It encompasses identity, language, consistency, and voice—much like a personality that provides cohesion for your organization.

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Nonprofit Communications Plan: How-To Identify an Audience and Create an Avatar

Bloomerang

Any experienced marketer would tell you that understanding one’s audience is key to success in communication. When creating a strategic communications plan, it is important to identify your goals for each particular communications effort. After you identify the goals and objectives of your communication efforts, you can identify an audience. Brainstorm different groups of people you hope to reach that can help you accomplish your organization’s objectives.

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[WEBINAR] Empower Your Community With Fundraising Toolkits

CauseVox

Peer-to-peer fundraising activates your supporters to fundraise for you. But you can take your peer-to-peer event to new heights by creating an engaging plan to empower your participants to raise even more for your cause. This plan begins with a strong fundraising toolkit. By focusing more attention on empowering your participants, you create energy, excitement, and a genuine connection that helps them raise more—not just this year, but into the future—and takes your cause further than you ever

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Nonprofit Leaders, Prioritize Mental Health for Employees of Color

sgEngage

Between emails, meetings, and Zoom calls, phones are buzzing with alerts of police killings, anti-Asian hate crimes, and check-ins from concerned friends. For nonprofit employees of color, these daily stories and experiences are compounded by the injustices we see in underserved communities every day. When the need is never-ending and the reminders are relentless, prioritizing mental health feels nearly impossible.

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Announcing the Launch of Our Philantech® Cloud

Givinga

Fintech solution provides partners with technology-fueled charitable giving capabilities, unleashing the power of modern philanthropic giving. Today we unveiled our Philantech ® cloud technology, the first set of modernized, customizable tools that unlock the full potential of charitable giving by removing barriers to philanthropy. Philantech enables partners to easily integrate and manage a wide range of charitable giving capabilities into their existing digital experiences.

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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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6 Key Tips to Optimize Your Nonprofit Donation Page

Classy

A strong conversion rate for your nonprofit donation page depends on a number of factors, including a clear call to action, mobile-responsive software , customized visuals, and a streamlined checkout process. Focusing on just one element can detract from your overall user experience and leave donors feeling unmotivated to give. To ensure that your nonprofit donation page is appealing, compelling, and optimized for conversion, here are six best practices that our Classy team recommends to elevate

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It’s Time To Reclaim Your Nonprofit’s Assets

NonProfit Hub

This blog was sponsored by Escheatment. Could your nonprofit have thousands or even millions of dollars in assets that it doesn’t even know about? It’s entirely possible, given the tangled maze of laws and processes relating to these unclaimed assets. Here’s what you need to know. What is “escheatment”? When certain assets are left unclaimed, those assets are transferred to states and other governmental entities in a process known as escheatment.

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5 advantages of a learning management platform

Gyrus

Learn about the various advantages of a smart and cloud-based learning management platform and how it can boost employee performance and enhance your organization's productivity with Gyrus

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Candid and racial equity: Testing personal and professional limits

Candid

Today marks the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police. His death sparked urgent calls for racial justice across the world. Externally, Candid responded by updating our funding for racial equality page and publishing a statement on racial justice on all of our websites. Internally, colleagues reached out to each other to share grief, anger, and emotional support.

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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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Top Corporate Giving Software to Drive Employee Engagement

Double the Donation

When it comes to engaging the employees at your company in your workplace giving programs , it can be challenging to find the right tools that promote participation. But the easier it is for your employees to take part in your giving programs, the more likely they are to do so—and the more nonprofits benefit as well. For companies all over, finding the right software that helps you manage your corporate giving online is essential.

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5 Steps to Uncover Employee’s Skill Gaps

Gyrus

Identifying the skill gaps plays an important role in building effective communication and helps in the increase of production. Companies can organize skill development programs to make their employees aware of new skills that are much needed in the industry and relevant to the era.

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Top 2021 TechSoup Products for Medium-Sized Organizations

Tech Soup

As many organizations pivoted entirely online in the last year, they were forced to reevaluate their daily operations and how they work as a team. How can your organization continue producing visual content? How can you manage documents and keep track of your workflow? These are all questions every organization asks at one point or another, and TechSoup is here to help.

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Announcing the Launch of Our Philantech® Cloud

Givinga

Fintech solution provides partners with technology-fueled charitable giving capabilities, unleashing the power of modern philanthropic giving Today we unveiled our Philantech® cloud technology, the first set of modernized, customizable tools that unlock the full potential of charitable giving by removing barriers to philanthropy. Philantech enables partners to easily integrate and manage a wide range of charitable […].

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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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How To Lead With Purpose

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“ Purpose is the why behind everything within an organization ,” says author John Baldoni , of the book, Lead With Purpose. Baldoni also believes that it is up to leaders to make certain that organizational purpose is understood and acted upon. And, to harness the talents of their employees, leaders must recognize their responsibility to instill purpose in the workplace.

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5 Essential CME LMS Features for Your Healthcare Association

Forj

Administering continuing medical education (CME) is no simple task— from the advanced accreditation reporting to the ongoing evolution of medical best practices, it can be a huge administrative task for your team. This task is made even harder if your CME learning management system ( CME LMS ), the platform that delivers eLearning to your association’s members, fails to support you in the effort.

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Omnichannel Marketing: Lessons from the Commercial Sector

Forum One

On any given day, you interact with a number of marketing touchpoints from a variety of companies. Maybe you notice when they are good, maybe you only notice when the experience is bad. Either way, as a consumer, you probably know more about omnichannel marketing in the commercial sector than you realize. So take this knowledge and apply it to your own mission-driven omnichannel marketing strategy.

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What You Really Need When Changing Your AMS

Association Analytics

When moving homes, you get rid of things you no longer need. When changing your AMS, you should also take time to determine what you really need to bring or else you could find yourself drowning in an unnecessary pile of (data) boxes. In an attempt to provide a seamless member experience and aggregate all member data in one place, associations have been working with technology partners to perform system integrations through single sign-on, pushing all of their transaction data back into the AMS.

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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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5 Ways to Destigmatize Mental Health in the Workplace

Saleforce Nonprofit

How about a little break? If you’re not already sitting, find a comfortable seat. Let’s do some quick “box breathing,” a technique used to help alleviate stress and anxiety. Close your eyes. (But not before reading the instructions below!). Step 1: Breathe in for 4 seconds. Step 2: Hold for 4 seconds. Step 3: Breathe out for 4 seconds. Step 4: Hold for 4 seconds.