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Don’t Fear Your Dirty Data

Association Analytics

The concept of “dirty data” and how to approach it can be daunting. Simply put, dirty data is data that is inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, duplicative, or outdated. At Association Analytics, we sometimes hear concerns about data quality in the context of associations starting their journey into analytics.To help alleviate your fear of dirty data, we have some tips on how to tackle cleaning it up and getting your database in great shape.

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What Makes Your Nonprofit Stand Out?

NonProfit PRO

Do you want to get a clear picture of how your organization compares to others in the sector? Use this free worksheet to identify your nonprofit’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT). By doing so, you can plan more strategically, set realistic goals, and uncover new growth opportunities. Download the free worksheet.

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Don’t Fear Your Dirty Data

Association Analytics

The concept of “dirty data” and how to approach it can be daunting. Simply put, dirty data is data that is inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, duplicative, or outdated. At Association Analytics, we sometimes hear concerns about data quality in the context of associations starting their journey into analytics. To help alleviate your fear of dirty data, we have some tips on how to tackle cleaning it up and getting your database in great shape.

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Donor-Advised Fund Giving Could See Another Record Year

NonProfit PRO

In the first half of 2021, donors have recommended a record $4.3 billion in grants, a 27% increase over the same six-month span of 2020. Fidelity Charitable, an independent public charity and the nation’s largest grantmaker, distributed those gifts to more than 123,000 charities.

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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 To Overcome Nonprofit Imposter Syndrome

Bloomerang

A majority of all adults experience imposter syndrome at some point in their careers; 70% by the latest figures. . It affects professionals of all occupations and backgrounds, with the impact on individuals in the nonprofit community being a significant one. . Be you a newly qualified doctor or starting up your own charity, doubts can creep in that you don’t deserve your success or promotion.

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Getting Forward to Normal: What Ketchup Packets, Yeast and Nonprofit Mail Pieces Have in Common

NonProfit PRO

During the pandemic, it seemed like every week there was a shortage of something you just assumed would always be available. There's even a Wikipedia page called "Shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic," that includes not just the titular ketchup packets and yeast.

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6 Easy Steps to Grow Donors and Contributions Using Data

NonProfit PRO

Technology and data don’t have to be intimidating and you don’t need to be a tech-savvy guru to make them work for your nonprofit. This eGuide gives you six easy steps to harness your own data and fuel more donations.

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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

2020 was a rough year. It flipped our reality on its head and forced us to completely reframe the most basic tasks, whether that meant purchasing groceries, doing homework, or seeing our friends. It also helped us reframe what it means to have access to the tools that allow us to fully engage with the world around us. While many in the digital inclusion sector have been pushing for digital equity for decades, there are others for whom the pandemic brought these issues to light.

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How to Right-Size Impact Management for Your Organization

Saleforce Nonprofit

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. They have to do all this while regularly drafting and submitting grant requests from funders who have different and changing priorities. Nonprofits, corporate foundations, social enterprises, and organizations working in the social sector can struggle with how to approach understanding their impact: How do the

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4 Things Your Fundraising Writer Needs From You In Order To Produce Effective Fundraising Appeals

Kindful

In order to create the best possible fundraising appeals, you’re going to need to provide certain resources to your fundraising writer. Whether you have a person on staff to handle your appeals or you outsource your needs to a consultant, you should equip them with all the information they need to produce the content that will inspire your supporters to donate to your nonprofit. .

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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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Nonprofits Using Qgiv Exceed Giving USA National Fundraising Trends

Qgiv

Data released in the Giving USA 2021 Annual Report shows that Qgiv clients raised more than their peers in several key sectors and in overall dollar amounts raised! Giving USA’s annual report compiles data from the previous year, 2020, to see how nonprofits fared. On average, nonprofits Using Qgiv’s fundraising tools in 2020 raised 5% more than their peers.

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The Power of Pretzels

VQ Strategies

Sometime after two hours on the tarmac last Saturday, the flight attendances kindly walked up and down the aisle offering a little snack bag containing a mini bottle of water, a small pack of cookies, and, of course, pretzels. Clearly these were meant to be distributed as we were 30,000 feet above Ohio perhaps, partway into my flight between Newark and Denver.

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Break Out of Your Comfort Zone…and into Breakout Rooms!

AccelEvents

When analyzing the full scope and value of attendee engagement, we at Accelevents try to think in terms of both large and small-scale interactions. Some events call for a convention-style keynote address, in which case we suggest utilizing our Main Stage module. If you want all of your attendees to view one particular session, that large-scale main stage session is for you, but when it is time to break off and digest material on a smaller scale, we have our Breakout and Workshop sessions.

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How To Run An Effective Nonprofit Campaign On Facebook

Elevation

Facebook is by far one of the leading social media platforms, with an estimated audience of 2.14 billion people. That also makes Facebook one of the largest platforms for marketing. Unfortunately, social media algorithms make Facebook advertising quite tricky, especially with organic posts. That's why more and more nonprofits are pooling their resources together to invest in social media advertising.

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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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Government Websites on Drupal 9

Forum One

As Drupal 8 heads towards its end-of-life this November, we are starting to see more government websites on Drupal 9. Whether taking a big step from Drupal 7 to 9 or an easier switch from Drupal 8 to 9, a number of agencies have successfully made the move. Near the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Drupal extended the end-of-life dates for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 to allow more time for organizations to migrate from either Drupal 7 to 9 or Drupal 8 to 9.

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Things Donors Want to Know, but Won’t Ask

NonProfit Hub

Ever wonder if there are things donors want to know but won’t ask? In the midst of a fundraising campaign, you get accustomed to hearing the same questions over and over. It’s as if the same training protocols for buying a car or a house are applied to administering philanthropy, only rather than answering questions about warranties or interest rates, you provide the details of prior year’s support and break-even points.

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Google Analytics 4: What Nonprofits Need to Know

Media Cause

Tracking your website’s activity with Google has just gotten easier. You may have not heard, but Google has officially rolled out Google Analytics 4, a new kind of tracking property. It is different from Universal Analytics properties, which only supports websites, as it supports both websites and apps across multiple devices. Like more Google updates, there are many new advantages to implementing and transitioning to Google Analytics 4.

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Want to Attract New Nonprofit Donors? Do Your Research

Qgiv

JoAnn Lawrence serves as the Fundraising, Marketing, and Communications Specialist for Soukup Strategic Solutions. She’s spent her entire professional career in the nonprofit sector in Florida, and–in her 20s–founded a nonprofit organization that still thrives today. Dr. Louis Traina serves as a Senior Consultant at Soukup Strategic Solutions.

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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 Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot

Cloud 4 Good

Increasing website conversion rates is a perpetual priority for both higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. Considering the massive investments of both time and resources put into building effective websites and marketing campaigns, it might be concerning to learn that the average conversion rate on website visitors is 2.6% in the higher education space and only 1.0% for nonprofits.

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Your members’ favorite coffee shops are rewarding loyalty. Are you?

Nimble AMS

What does coffee have to do with keeping your members around for the long haul? It might be more than you think. Consider your local Starbucks. How many times do you pass by only to see a long line of cars in the drive-through? And it’s not just during the morning commute. It’s All. Day. Long. Aside from delicious coffee, what’s the attraction? You guessed it — the rewards!

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How to Connect Your Wild Apricot Account to Over 950 Apps and Services

Wild Apricot

If you want to go above and beyond the features we currently offer in Wild Apricot, there's a tool for you. Integromat lets you automate customized workflows without writing a single line of code. With over 950 online apps (e.g., QuickBooks, Google.

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Managing eLearning Podcast: Episode 6 Summary & Highlights

Forj

In this week’s episode , Matt Harpold and Jon Aleckson interview Hope Liu , the Senior Director, Organizational Learning for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities. . Hope Liu discusses how their merger with Council on Accreditation (Alliance- COA) makes for the perfect combination of an organization committed to education, systemic change, and the proliferation of best practices and standards for community-based organizations.

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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!