Wed.Dec 15, 2021

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 58: Why Video Is Vital to Nonprofit Storytelling

NonProfit PRO

Host Mark Becker is joined by Joel Resnik, chief revenue officer at Gather Voices, in this episode of The NonProfit Voice Tech Series where they examine the power of video to tell your nonprofit's story, and even how beneficiaries and supporters can assist these efforts through user-generated content.

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Top 10 Reasons to Have a Strategic Marketing Plan

Byte Technology

It’s the end of the year. If you are a small business, you’ve no doubt completed your annual budget and hopefully your business plan for the new year. The natural next step is a marketing plan, right? You can do it that way – but ideally you would have your business plan drafted, then your marketing plan drafted, and then your budget. Next, tweak the two plans to match your budget; otherwise it’s the cart before the horse – so to speak.

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Getting Forward to Normal: The 2022 Fresh Start Effect

NonProfit PRO

What if I told you there was a way to hit the reset button? There is (psychologically at least). It's called the fresh start effect. This also has implications for your fundraising. Your donors are going through this same self-assessment and those are perhaps most pliable in their giving habits.

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7 Reasons To Try A Virtual Nonprofit Focus Group

Bloomerang

Ease of organization, larger participant pools and technological advances have helped the virtual nonprofit focus group overtake its traditional format. It may lack the coffee and cookies, but it has many other reasons to dominate the field of supporter feedback. Here are 7 reasons to try a virtual nonprofit focus group. 1. You have more flexibility.

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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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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration by Yuxin Qin. posted by Brian Hetzer Spring 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Most nonprofit organizations in the U.S. rely on volunteers to provide their critical mission-focused services. These important team members give their time, talents, and resources, unmotivated by financial compensation or contractual obligations.

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Solving Business Problems with Root Cause Analysis

sgEngage

Did you ever wonder why…. Your solution to a business problem didn’t work? Something you thought you fixed keeps having errors? You feel like you’re solving the same problem over and over again? These are frustrating situations. Wouldn’t it be great if there were some tools or techniques we could use to reduce our experiences with them? Good news – there are so let’s learn about one of them called root cause analysis!

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

Forum One

It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. And so, we approached it that way: Is this website “compliant”? Can a screen reader process this content? Is this color choice ok, or out of bounds? How do we budget for required accessibility ? More and more, I can feel a shift away from this mindset.

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Apply for the 2022 Pizzigati Prize

NTEN

Join NTEN in celebrating and spotlighting open source projects for the social good with the next Pizzigati Prize! As we announced earlier this year, NTEN is thrilled to steward for the Pizzigati Prize , an annual award honoring the life and legacy of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. In Tony’s brief life, he was committed to the vision that open source technology could be a powerful tool for supporting social change.

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New poll reveals two-thirds of Canadians ready to leave their job

Charity Village

Findings from a recent Hays Specialist Recruitment survey show two-thirds of Canadians (65%) are seriously considering leaving their current role. The new figures represent a 16-point spike over last year’s high of 49 per cent as employees cite factors including compensation, well-being, declining job satisfaction and a lack of career growth. Hays experts say the country’s rebounding […].

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Top 10 Benefits of Cloud-Based LMS

Gyrus

Cloud-Based Learning management system has a lot to offer in terms of training and development. In a time where work demands are rising, its demand has increased even more. Read this blog to know what are its top 10 benefits.

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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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Donor Communication for Nonprofits: Essentials & Best Practices

Donorbox

Fundraising is primarily about relationship building. Without donor communication, these relationships are shallow and less likely to continue. Donor communication plans are a vital part of fundraising. This article shares the essential elements of a donor communication plan and a few best practices your organization should include. What is Donor Communication?

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How To Go Beyond Happiness

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Jenn Lim is the CEO Of Delivering Happiness, a company she and Tony Hsieh (the late CEO of Zappos.com) cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. Lim ’s mission is to teach businesses how to create workplaces—led with happiness and humanity—that generate more profit, sustain all people at every level of the organizations, and share how we can make an impact by being true to our authentic selves.

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Year-end report card from CanadaHelps reveals positive giving trends despite serious challenges facing charities

Charity Village

CanadaHelps today released a year-end report card highlighting the ways Canadians have stepped up to help charities in 2021. As of November 30, 2021, donations through CanadaHelps totalled $304 million. This represents a year-over-year increase of 6.9%, which is a significant drop compared to the tremendous growth in online giving seen in year one of the […].

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Raise Money for Animals with These Donation Form Best Practices

Qgiv

It makes sense that animal organizations are the second most popular type of organization people want to support—right behind youth and family causes, and tied with medical research organizations. After all, we’ve all gotten sucked into a black hole of cute puppies and kittens on the internet, only to emerge hours later, dazed and slightly confused. .

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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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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis

Saleforce Nonprofit

In the past, the climate crisis was mainly the concern of environment and conservation organisations. Today, largely thanks to the work of Greenpeace , WWF , and others, it is recognised as the defining challenge of the century. We all have a responsibility to solve it, and civil society organisations play a critical role. As not all organisations have climate action integrated into their strategy yet, let’s have a look at five key ways the nonprofit sector can help to solve the climate crisis —

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Four Food Charities Fighting Hunger Locally During a Pandemic

Tech Soup

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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Canadian workforce survey finds productivity gains offset by mental health issues

Charity Village

The results of PwC Canada‘s most recent Canadian workforce survey are in—bringing together insights from more than 2,000 Canadian office employees and employers. Much of the Canadian talent base has fully embraced technology, and there’s a growing feeling people can be productive from anywhere. Significant gains have been made since the beginning of the pandemic, but […].

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February Open House

Big Duck

The post February Open House appeared first on Big Duck.

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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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Apply for funding for the Early Learning and Child Care small projects component under the Enabling Accessibility Funds

Charity Village

The Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) small projects component of the Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) aims to improve accessibility and safety in regulated and/or licensed ELCC centres. This will help support children with disabilities, parents/guardians with disabilities and/or employees with disabilities. The goal is to ensure that all Canadian families have access to high-quality, […].

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix. The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. It isn’t because nonprofits are fundamentally inept with technology, however. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team.

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Imagine Canada introduces HR Intervals – a free HR toolkit for nonprofit professionals

Charity Village

In collaboration with sector organizations, Imagine Canada is proud to debut HR Intervals – a new and entirely free human resources toolkit specifically designed for nonprofit professionals. With the pandemic disrupting the sector’s workplace practices, adding significant stress on the people working in organizations and driving increased demand for services and programs, accessing HR best […].

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Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSER) accepting papers for annual conference

Charity Village

The Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSER) has issued a call for papers for their annual conference being held virtually May 13-15, 2022. This year’s theme is Transitions: Reflecting on the pandemic, understanding change, leading new conversations. The conference is an opportunity to welcome and explore the power of ideas to connect people […].

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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!