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2 Ways to Increase Nonprofit Direct Mail Response

NonProfit PRO

If you are looking to increase your direct mail response rates in time for your year-end appeal, time is running out. Here are some tips based on behavioral science to help you right now.

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7 Tips for Fundraising on Social Media

Tech Soup

In our increasingly interconnected world, about 82 percent Americans use some form of social network. Social media has become an important channel nonprofits can use to boost their outreach and fundraising capabilities.

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What Nonprofit Leaders Should Say to Employees to Help Them Grow

NonProfit PRO

Leadership gets easier as you plan for the critical conversations you have daily. Having some phrases and questions ready will help you and your team move forward.

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Tips for engaging your nonprofit board

Charity Village

This article was originally published on the Pinpoint Governance Group’s blog, and is reprinted with permission. I have been extra busy this year helping nonprofit boards and organizations across the country! The common concern I hear more and more from Executive Directors, CEOs and Board chairs is that board engagement has been very challenging. Perhaps it […].

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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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Donations for Ukraine Have Not Damaged End of Year Giving, New Study Finds

NonProfit PRO

A survey finds the majority of donors are giving at the same level on Giving Tuesday and in December, despite giving more than unusual throughout the year for Ukraine and other emergencies.

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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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The application process is an organization’s first real look at how you work with grantees. It’s also your chance as a foundation to see if this organization is a good fit for your program. A 10-page application doesn’t make sense—for the applicant or the reviewer—but you need enough information to know if you are making a good decision. There is a lot riding on this delicate dance, but with the right due diligence, you can feel confident in your selection.

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Building Online Portals for Full-Text Searches of Historical Archives

Forum One

There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public. However, with institutional support and the help of volunteers, these documents can be made available and searchable by anyone on the web.

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Where to Start Your Search for Silent Auction Items

Get Fully Funded

So, you’ve decided to have a silent auction to raise money for your cause. Good for you! When you do it right, hosting a fundraising event that includes an auction brings many benefits. However, it also comes with challenges, including the work of finding the best auction items. You need to ensure that the items in your silent auction will be attractive to your bidders.

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Intercultural Sharing Circle: Open team development sessions

Charity Village

Sights on Success Consulting hosts the Intercultural Sharing Circle as a culturally safe team-building workshop in intercultural competence development. The ISC uses leadership coaching techniques and takes both a culture-general and culture-specific approach to Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Reconciliation based on a broader and more complex understanding of culture.

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | 5 Things You Can Do to Start the New Year Strong

Pamela Grow

We’re winding down the year. Hopefully, you have all your plans completed between now and the end of the year. But, what do you do when the holiday’s are over? In this week’s MotivateMonday, Jeff Schreifels, Principal of the Veritus Group , shared five tips that as a fundraiser will help you start your new year strong. These tips will help you not only care for your donor, but for yourself as well.

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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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How (RED) is Fighting AIDS and Saving Lives

Saleforce Nonprofit

Four decades ago, San Francisco was the epicenter of the AIDS crisis. It took another two decades for the epidemic to reach its peak – claiming roughly 5,000 lives every day, particularly in the world’s poorest countries. Governments were slowly waking up to the emergency, creating organizations like the Global Fund, one of the largest global health partnerships on the planet, but companies were still fast asleep.

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How To Hire And Invest In Top Talent

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Dig into the book, Talent , to learn the case studies of Johnson & Johnson, Hemnet, Argus Media, HireRight, Vishal Retail, Depop and Oak Street Health. Authors Anish Batlaw and Ram Charan provide you through these case studies a guide for how to take a data driven approach and playbook to identifying, hiring and investing in the right people, placing them in the right roles, and then setting them up for success.

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Client Spotlight: Joseph Maley Foundation

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This is a very special client spotlight in honor of International Day of People with Disabilities. What is International Day of People with Disabilities? According to the World Health Organization , International Day of People with Disabilities is a “United Nations Day celebrated on December 3 rd every year. According to the WHO, “The day is about promoting the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities at every level of society and development, and to raise awareness of the situation of

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How Your Website Can Enhance Your Membership Program

Tech Soup

Membership programs are a great way for organizations to generate consistent and reliable revenue from their most loyal supporters. Member-only benefits are enticing and help to increase impact by forming passionate, aligned groups of supporters.

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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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Update: Guidance on Post-Musk Twitter

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Read time: 5 minutes. Developments out of Twitter have been coming in fast and furious since our last blog post providing initial guidance on Musk-era Twitter. The platform is hanging on for the time being — but of course, we can’t tell yet how things will ultimately pan out. Here are some top recommendations for organizations wondering what to do right now , and considerations for how to think long-term.

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Use HubSpot to Improve Program and Services Operations

Tech Soup

HubSpot is a customer or constituent relationship manager that has the tools community-based nonprofits need to better serve their program enrollees or those using services. HubSpot offers a way to keep track of all of the people you come in contact with, gather valuable data and behavioral information, communicate with them directly, and act as a single source of truth for your organization.

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Three Keys for Transforming Your Association with Analytics

Association Analytics

While change in your association is inevitable, it’s important not to change for change’s sake. To make a real impact, harnessing your association data as a guide to meaningful change will benefit your members — and your organization. In this blog, we’ll examine how successful associations manage change and transformation of technology, with wisdom from Reggie Henry, Chief Information & Performance Excellence Officer for ASAE.

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