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3 Steps for Nonprofits To Take Advantage of the Great Resignation

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit leadership across the country should be chomping at the bit to attract motivated, purpose-driven candidates among the millions searching to hit the reset button on their careers in search of a more meaningful path. Here are the three steps nonprofits must take advantage during the Great Resignation.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

To talk about mental health is to understand it; to understand it is to remove the stigma; and to remove the stigma is to provide a safe space and support for those suffering. Thanks to global entertainers like Lady Gaga and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and world-class athletes like Kevin Love and Simone Biles, there’s already a shift toward candid public conversations, making mental health far less stigmatized than ever.

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#GivingTuesday Checklist

NonProfit PRO

#GivingTuesday is around the corner, do have a plan to promote your campaign, effectively engage supporters and raise more for your cause? Now is the perfect time to start planning your #GivingTuesday fundraising campaign and with FrontStream’s #GivingTuesday Checklist, you’ll learn how to engage with your donors and create a meaningful campaign and raise funds for your nonprofit!

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How Salesforce Is Speeding Up Safeguarding Support For Bipolar UK

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Laura Croudace, Head of Impact and Technology Impact Evangelist at Cirrico. Many nonprofit organisations and their services were heavily impacted by the pandemic, but especially those with programs relying on in-person support that suddenly, and quickly, had to go virtual. One of these nonprofits is Bipolar UK, the only national charity in the U.K. dedicated to empowering individuals and families affected by bipolar.

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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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Keeping Your Attendees Engaged: 4 Virtual Event Ideas

NonProfit PRO

These tested virtual event ideas are sure to help you connect with your supporters and raise awareness about your cause. Here are my top four virtual event ideas to add to your fundraising calendar.

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Low-Risk, Low-Cost Digital Fundraising for your Small Shop

Charity Village

On November 25, join us for a free webinar to learn how your small organization can get started with low-risk, low-cost digital fundraising. Digital fundraising is no longer a nice-to-have option for small and mid-sized charities. Even as in-person gatherings return to our fundraising mix, your donors’ new found habits and familiarity with online giving […].

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9 Tips for Creating a Social Media Advocacy Campaign

Media Cause

Social media is one of the most powerful tools for activating people to take action. Amidst the constant stream of news updates, social media advocacy campaigns offer people a relevant way to make a difference on the issues they care about. As we enter an era of record-breaking advocacy numbers, here are 9 tips for positioning your advocacy campaigns on social media: 1.

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Grow Your Association’s Membership with a Customized Member Portal

Charity Village

Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021 Summary: Learn how to deliver the best experience for your members with a custom member portal that meets the needs of your members and helps automate tasks that are keeping your staff busy. With the independence and professionalism of a strategically designed member portal, your member satisfaction and retention […].

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How to Get Your Visitors to Post About Your Arts and Cultural Organization

sgEngage

We are now living in the age of click and snap-happy visitors, but it’s not enough to simply count on the fact that they will post about your organization on social media when visiting. Even if tech-savvy visitors do post, who’s to say that they will be sure to tag you? A genuine social media shout out from a happy visitor is fantastic for marketing your arts and cultural institution; consider it like a testimonial but not as arduous to solicit.

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Participate in a new research study about meaningful work

Charity Village

Are you between the ages of 20 – 45? Does your current job require a university or college degree? Is your work based in Toronto? If you answered ‘Yes’ to all 3 of these questions, please consider taking part in a study that is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, […]. The post Participate in a new research study about meaningful work appeared first on CharityVillage.

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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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Sponsorship Alchemy 

The Sponsorship Collective

Do you know what alchemy is? It refers to a creation or transformation process that’s “seemingly magical,” as the Oxford Dictionary puts it. Yet alchemy does have real roots in science and chemistry. The kind of alchemy I’ll talk about today is more of the nature of Cinderella’s carriage becoming a pumpkin after midnight. You […]. The post Sponsorship Alchemy appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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Nonprofit Advocacy: 4 Strategies You Should Consider

Get Fully Funded

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns give your supporters a new way to get involved while furthering your mission through grassroots action. Plus, your nonprofit can attract new supporters interested in advocacy to your cause, growing your supporter network of donors and volunteers. Nonprofit advocacy campaigns require focused planning and robust software solutions and outreach resources.

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Overcome the Challenge of Defining Impact

Forum One

Defining and measuring impact is a tough nut to crack. In addition to thinking about “mushy” or qualitative complex concepts, the mission-driven industry has no set rules, so approaches and terminology can differ majorly from one organization to another, making communication and collaboration more difficult. In our recent webinar, “Measuring Impact: A Recipe for Mission-driven Work” , we shared how we approach impact, challenges we are looking to overcome, and a framework for building an impact

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Applications open for funding to advance more inclusive employment practices for immigrants and refugees

Charity Village

The WES Mariam Assefa Fund is looking to identify and fund promising new ideas from organizations working with employers to advance more inclusive practices that improve economic mobility for immigrants and refugees in Canada. The Fund is particularly excited to meet organizations that: are led and staffed by people who bring lived experience from immigrant and refugee communities […].

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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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Three Reasons You Should Have a #GivingTuesday Campaign

Donor Search

“#GivingTuesday is touted as a “global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.” Wikipedia Since #GivingTuesday is the most prominent digital fundraising event of the year (It raised $2.47 Billion in 2020!), nonprofits are making it a key component of their annual fundraising strategy.

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Join a free, virtual climate education experience for women this November

Charity Village

Do you want to learn more about the climate crisis in an accessible, supportive and non-judgy environment? If so, join Talk Climate to Me this November, a fun, free, virtual, climate education experience for women in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, powered by Project Neutral! TCTM is packed with the most engaging climate knowledge. Take it with your family, […].

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Matching Gifts & Giving Tuesday: How to Double Donations

Bonterra

One of the best fundraising strategies for all sorts of nonprofit organizations involves making the most of matching gifts?—which are essentially a two-for-one sale on donations. As Giving Tuesday approaches this year, ensuring impactful matching gift practices is more critical than ever before.

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How to Build The Perfect Church Website – A Nonprofit Guide

Donorbox

Churches are behind other organizations when it comes to websites. Smaller churches are less likely to have a website at all, let alone one that includes everything they need. Websites are the primary source of information for any organization. A website can increase a church’s search engine optimization (SEO), encourage online giving, and provide attendees […].

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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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Learning Everything You Can From Everyone You Can

Eric Jacobsen Blog

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Each chapter in the book shares a part of Reffkin’s life story and eight practical lessons , such as: Love your customers more than your ideas.

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Toronto and Calgary releasing new Vital Signs reports

Charity Village

With the 2021 report, the Toronto Foundation has just released their 18th Vital Signs Report. Their most in depth and broadly cited report yet, it tracks 10 quality of life issue areas and amplifies the voices of sector leaders. Their insights and hopes for a better future informed the data analysis and the opportunities and […]. The post Toronto and Calgary releasing new Vital Signs reports appeared first on CharityVillage.

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10 Tips That Will Help You Create an Engaged Nonprofit Board

Bloomerang

Depending on who you ask, your board of directors can be the single most important element in determining your organization’s success or failure. As you’ve likely seen within your organization, board experience matters and board engagement should be a top priority. When board members are engaged , they’re more effective in moving your organization’s mission forward. .

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Create a VIRAL Micro-philanthropy Campaign

Greater Giving

Use your existing marketing and inspirational stories to jumpstart a killer micro-donation campaign! What are micro-donations? Micro-donations are those small contributions of $5, $10 or $20 that many fundraisers dismiss or overlook as insignificant. But dozens—or hundreds, or thousands! —of micro-donations can mean a stable source of revenue, or even funding a whole new project.

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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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Guide to the Best Free Nonprofit Webinars

NonProfit Hub

High performing nonprofit leaders have at least one thing in common: they invest in their education. No, not necessarily with money, but with their time and energy. The good news is that the nonprofit sector has plenty of amazing opportunities to access free, cutting-edge, professional development content. The bad news is that the nonprofit sector has an overabundance of product-specific sales pitches and lead capture mechanisms doubling as professional development content.

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Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation now accepting grant applications

Charity Village

The Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation is pleased to inform you that the local grants application portal is now open. The local grants will provide funding to organizations that directly support family caregivers in communities across Canada. The local grants are single year grants with a maximum value of $7,500 and the goal for this grant is […].

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System Error: Stanford Professors Tackle Tech Disruption and Democracy

Non Profit Quarterly

Amy Costello: Welcome to Tiny Spark , a podcast of the Nonprofit Quarterly. We focus on what is required to build a more just society—in matters of race, health, the environment, and the economy. I’m Amy Costello. Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude.

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