Wed.Nov 10, 2021

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Transactionalism — The Monster in Your Staff’s Closet

NonProfit PRO

The ultimate expression of transactionalism is assuming that people will not support your mission with their money or time if they are not directly impacted by whatever it is your mission fights.

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[EXAMPLE] See A Before And After Of An Effective End-Of-Year Appeal

Bloomerang

In this short post, I’ll give you an example of a successful and effective end-of-year appeal. I hope this example saves you time when you sit down to work on your appeals! . I recently had the opportunity to share feedback with an independent K-12 school on their end-of-year appeal. . Here’s the appeal they shared with me. Here’s a look at the updated appeal.

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How To Engage Women Philanthropically in Today’s World

NonProfit PRO

Activities in which we engaged to keep us safe from the pandemic took a toll on our ability to sustain relationships with women. Nonprofit organizations that overcame these obstacles found creative approaches to continue to engage women in meaningful ways. Here are three ways to engage women in your mission.

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Loss and Grief in Volunteer Engagement

VQ Strategies

I speak often with colleagues who are planning conferences or trainings for the upcoming year, and many have asked me which topics are surfacing as most pressing in the field. We discuss the varying states of “reopening” across different types of organizations, the changing needs in the field, the desire for effective recruitment strategies, as well as the level of continued interest in some of the fundamentals of volunteer engagement.

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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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2021 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study

NonProfit PRO

Though education around peer-to-peer fundraising has improved over the years, there is still a significant number of nonprofits unaware of what this fundraising method is or, more importantly, the benefits it can have on revenue. Peer-to-peer revenue was hit hard by the pandemic, but regardless peer-to-peer efforts -- even when pushed to virtual formats -- continue to get results.

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Expressing Thanks at Work: Better in Person or Text?

Charity Village

Is it better to express thanks to someone in person, in video, or text? Many people may have a belief that thanking someone in-person is ideally the best way. However, with the past two years being predominantly a virtual work world, this question has recently attracted some interest with some research and an interesting twist. […]. The post Expressing Thanks at Work: Better in Person or Text?

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DonorSearch Partners with UC Innovation

Donor Search

Marriotsville, MD: DonorSearch today announced a new partnership with UC Innovation. This partnership will bring DonorSearch’s extensive range of prospect research tools to UC Innovation’s innovative ascend solution for fundraising and constituent engagement, built natively on the Salesforce CRM platform.

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Create a FREE Fundraising KPIs Dashboard

NonProfit PRO

Are your donors engaged? Is your organization growing? Are your email campaigns being effective? In this three-part toolkit, we include a guide and a master list of metrics you should really care about to determine the success of your organization, as well as a dashboard to track your data and measure your trends. Download the FREE Guide.

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3 BIG reasons not to build a Mobile App!

Whole Whale

To someone with a hammer, everything is a nail. This adage is commonly referred to as the Law of the Instrument , and this cognitive bias pushes our solutions towards what’s familiar. So when conversations about mobile strategy come up, the idea of an app hammers the nail. According to data compiled by Statista in 2021, Americans spend 5-6 hours a day on mobile devices.

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The Ultimate Year-End Giving Guide

NonProfit PRO

Download CharityEngine’s Ultimate Year-End Giving Guide to learn how to maximize donations for the rest of 2021.

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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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3 Ways to Say Thanks (at Work) Better and More Meaningfully

Charity Village

Your people are working hard. Times are challenging. And they are digging in and producing good work. You want to acknowledge this and thank them for their efforts. Specifically, you want to thank them individually for more impact. But you aren’t quite sure what to say. “Thank you for your good work,” is okay. It’s […]. The post 3 Ways to Say Thanks (at Work) Better and More Meaningfully appeared first on CharityVillage.

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4 Top Nonprofit Job Trends In 2021

CauseVox

The job market for nonprofits is heating up again and it might mean that 2022 is the year to shake things up in your career. Four clear job trends in the nonprofit field signify major changes coming next year and it might be worth paying attention to see if a change is in the cards for you. The “Great Resignation” is a recently coined phrase that describes the phenomenon of nearly four million Americans leaving their jobs per month in 2021 in the wake of the pandemic to reevaluate their careers

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The Power of Innovative Tech in an Evolving Fundraising Landscape

Saleforce Nonprofit

You may be expanding your supporter base to new generations of donors, pivoting to livestream fundraising, or trying to understand new payment options. Whatever the future of fundraising and engaging donors looks like for you, the essential question is how will you prepare for it now? Today’s donors expect to be able to make payments using a method of their choice — whether that means using traditional cheques or payment slips, or using digital mobile payment methods.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

The COVID-19 pandemic has filled our newsfeeds, our schools, our politics, and our living rooms for two years. Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. For the next 700 words, I invite you to remember the disaster events that occurred in 2019, just months before the pandemic outbreak. . In our eighth annual research report, Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2021: Data to Drive Decisions , developed in partnership with Can

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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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CROS Ministries Grows Individual Gifts by over 533%

Qgiv

Success is the predictable result of hard work, patience, sacrifice, and learning put into practice. And CROS Ministries’ (CROS) hard work and business decisions in 2020 helped pave the way to their incredible fundraising successes. In late 2019, CROS found themselves looking for new vendors to host their website and to provide a fundraising platform to process online donations.

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Use Drill-Down in Your Dashboard to Discover Your Best Prospects

Donor Search

Our last two posts on fundraising dashboards described the benefits and best practices for using data visualization to monitor and manage fundraising efforts. With charts, graphs, and images, dashboards summarize essential information about the strength of your fundraising efforts and your prospect pipeline.

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Leader's Handbook

Eric Jacobsen Blog

New to your leadership position? Read the Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook. It's also a good refresher read for any leader wanting to hone their leadership skills. The book's six chapters cover: Building a Unifying Vision Developing a Strategy Getting Great People on Board Focusing on Results Innovating for the Future Leading Yourself Decide today to spend some time with this book's step-by-step guidance, concise explanations and in-depth case studies -- all designed to help you make an

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Use Drill-Down in Your Dashboard to Discover Your Best Prospects

Donor Search

Our last two posts on fundraising dashboards described the benefits and best practices for using data visualization to monitor and manage fundraising efforts. With charts, graphs, and images, dashboards summarize essential information about the strength of your fundraising efforts and your prospect pipeline.

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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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49 Simple & Successful Fundraising Ideas for Kids

Qgiv

Whether you’re fundraising for your church’s youth group, your school, or your kid’s sports team, investing in the education and wellbeing of your kids is priceless. With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause. If you get kids in on the fundraising fun, you have a great opportunity to teach them important values like leadership, responsibility, goal-setting, team building,

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How to Plan a Bowl-a-Thon Fundraiser (Steps + Ideas)

Donorbox

Bowling events are a fun way to have some family fun while raising a few hundred dollars for your organization. With the creation of Bowl-a-thons and peer-to-peer fundraising, nonprofits can now make thousands of dollars and spread the word about their organization to people across the country. This article gives a step-by-step breakdown of how […].

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What Behavioral Science Has to Do with Your Communications Strategy

Forum One

Behavioral science—which encompasses the fields of psychology, sociology, and behavioral economics—is getting a lot of attention these days. Private, public, and nonprofit organizations are seeing that the more they invest time and resources into their communications, the more likely they are to create impact and inspire real behavioral change. . Behavioral science is, at its core, the why and the what of human decision-making.

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How to Create a Nonprofit Fundraising Events Strategy for 2022

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Kevin Santiago , Marketing Director at Paybee – an all-in-one charity fundraising platform that specializes in virtual, hybrid, and in-person fundraising events. Nonprofit fundraising changed drastically in 2020 with a shift toward virtual galas and a need to raise money online. It shifted again in 2021 as small social gatherings returned, enabling nonprofits to produce hybrid fundraisers that connected them with in-person and online donors.

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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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Impact and Interoperability: How Technology Powers Collaboration

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country. Humanitarian responses, whether to a natural disaster or a protracted conflict, have always been complex and have rarely, if ever, involved a single agency, nonprofit, or entity.

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Partner Alliances Manager in the USA or Canada

Cloud 4 Good

Cloud for Good is looking for a Partner Alliances Manager to be part of an Alliances team responsible for managing our Salesforce org and our Salesforce ecosystem partnerships. The position requires experience working within key partnerships to drive new revenue through relationships, enablement, and evangelism of Cloud for Good capabilities. This role will be part of an Alliances team and also work closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Services teams.

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