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Monthly Giving Will Grow in Popularity in the Post-Pandemic Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

Recently, I read "The Post-Pandemic Nonprofit: 12 Disruptive Trends Your Nonprofit Must Master" by Jeremy Reis. I like how Jeremy broke up the book by: who we are, how we operate, how we grow and where do we go from here?

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3 Tips to Create Unforgettable Moments for Donors

Bloomerang

There’s a hotel in Hollywood where the rooms are dated, the furnishings are sparse, and the walls are bare. Its name is the Magic Castle Hotel, but it’s not a castle. It’s a 1950s converted 2-story apartment complex painted canary yellow. . Next to its small pool is a cherry red phone. When you pick it up, the person on the other line answers, “Hello, popsicle hotline.” Moments later, a waiter wearing white gloves delivers your orange, cherry, or grape popsicle to you on a silver tra

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There Is Enough to Give

NonProfit PRO

If you could do your work as a fundraiser from a mindset of abundance rather than scarcity, you would love your job. In our western, white male-dominated culture in North America, the view we grow up with is that there is not enough, and, therefore, we should get as much as we can for ourselves before someone else gets it.

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Still Publishing Donor Names? Ditch the List

Blue Avocado

“We nonprofits often put a great deal of time and effort into our annual reports, especially compared with how briefly most recipients will look at them,” begins the Blue Avocado article, The Secret to a High Impact Annual Report. “Rather than slave and anguish over the parts almost no one will read anyway,” the author […]. The post Still Publishing Donor Names?

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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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The Best Way To Protect Your Nonprofit From A Security Breach

NonProfit PRO

Most malicious cyberactivity is not a technology breach but rather a socially engineered job. Read this article from CharityEngine’s VP of Information Technology about the simplest, most direct path to improving digital security and protecting your organization’s data from cyber risk - Security Awareness Training (SAT) for your entire staff.

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Digital transformation: We can’t put it off any longer

Charity Village

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the fundraising base of most charities will likely shrink in the next five to 10 years unless they transition to online platforms and use more digital tools. We’re living in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, during which physical and digital spheres are merging, and digital adoption and expectations are […].

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Sponsorship Sales Meeting Strategy

The Sponsorship Collective

Although it took a few games of phone tag to coordinate a time when you could both talk, you finally got on the phone with your target sponsor. Even better is they agreed to your request for a meeting! This is what all your hard work, research, and preparation have been leading up to. Through […]. The post Sponsorship Sales Meeting Strategy appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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Get More Pledges With The*New* CauseVox Auto-Pledge

CauseVox

CauseVox is launching Auto-Pledge: a state-of-the-art pledge form that’s optimized for the digital world. Auto-Pledge forms help you increase your gift size and get more large gift pledges online, while also automatically fulfilling them. This way, you’re making your donors happy and saving yourself a lot of time. There’s no need to chase down your donors for their promised gifts!

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Cloud for Good Honored as #2 on the 2021 list of 100 Best Small and Medium Places to Work in IT by IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld

Cloud 4 Good

July 12, 2021 [Asheville, NC] – IDG’s Insider Pro and Computerworld announce Cloud for Good as #2 on the 2021 Best Places Small and Medium Places to Work in IT. This award recognized the 100 top organizations that challenge their IT staff while providing great benefits and compensation. Organizations will be included in coverage on IDGInsiderPro.com and Computerworld.com, along with results from the 2021 Best Places to Work in IT survey. .

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Observation checklist: A must-have LMS feature in 2021

Gyrus

Observation Checklists records the evaluation of trainees bringing convergence between learning inputs and their application in the real environment.

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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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Key Insights from the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Report

Tech Soup

2020 was a unique year for everyone. A global pandemic changed the way we live, and NGOs worked hard to keep their communities safe.

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Fundraising Statistics: Incredible Insights to Raise More [Updated for 2021]

Qgiv

It’s nice to talk about fundraising in the abstract and offer up best practices and tips for making the most of your fundraising techniques and tactics. But sometimes it helps to have some numbers and figures thrown in with the abstractions. Having said that, we’ve taken a look at some fundraising statistics that we think are very interesting and deserve to be brought to your attention.

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Post-Pandemic Outlook on the Sustainable Development Goals Through a CSR Lens

sgEngage

Impact on SDGs 1 – 3. The corporate philanthropic community has been working hard to make an impact on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past 6 years. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the progress towards accomplishing the SDGs, reversing years of improvement for Goal 1–no poverty, Goal 2–zero hunger, and Goal 3–good health and well-being, in particular.

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Winning the Midwest for SEIU

M+R

CHALLENGE: How can we mobilize infrequent Black and Latinx voters in Wisconsin and Michigan and defeat Donald Trump? OUR APPROACH: We used the SEIU’s core issues—including the fight to raise the minimum wage—as a jumping-off point to connect with potential voters, layering in additional creative concepts constantly to reflect what we were hearing on the ground and our own internal research.

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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.