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Top 5 Reasons Tech Team Augmentation is Necessary for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact and sustainability organizations and causes. First of all, what is “Tech Team Augmentation”? Not exactly a term that rolls off the tongue. Simply put, “Tech Team Aug” means establishing a dedicated tech services partner for your nonprofit.

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Is Your Association Using Data to Increase Event Revenue?

Association Analytics

The pandemic unexpectedly transformed how organizations hosted their events and meetings, forcing event planners to quickly pivot and move their meetings to virtual platforms. Now, as the world is opening back up, your association may be planning to go back to in-person meetings or use a hybrid approach. Whichever format you choose, you should consider your historical event data as you develop your event marketing strategy.

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What is the Primary Role of a Nonprofit Executive Director?

NonProfit PRO

The leader of a nonprofit organization plays many roles with many constituencies. But there's one primary role every executive director should have. It's a role that consists of marketing, public relations, communications, programs, finance and many other interwoven elements.

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Charitable giving grew 5.1 percent in 2020, ‘Giving USA’ finds

Candid

Total charitable giving grew 5.1 percent on a year-over-year basis in 2020 (3.8 percent, adjusted for inflation), the latest edition of the Giving USA report finds. Produced by the Giving USA Foundation and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , Giving USA 2021: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 20 20 (key findings, 5 pages, PDF) estimates that charitable giving totaled $471.44 billion last year, up from a revised $448.66 billion in 2019.

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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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Place Matters: How Collective Impact and Place-Based Investment Can Empower Communities to Lead

NonProfit PRO

In philanthropy, a top-down approach and lack of lived experience has often led to funder-driven decision-making that lacks authentic community expertise and inclusion. The place-based approach gives communities and funders the authority to identify their own greatest assets and needs, and to articulate their own priorities.

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Integrating WordPress with Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

*This post was originally published on 12/3/2017, and it was updated on 06/17/2021. Advice for nonprofits on going from web forms to results. WordPress is the world’s most-used Content Management System (CMS), and Salesforce is the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Together they are a powerful set of tools for nonprofits, especially with integrations to automatically sync data between them.

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Beyond the Ballroom: A Shift to Virtual Fundraising Events

Charity Village

Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021 Summary: Amid the cancellations and rescheduling of events during COVID-19, fundraising teams were faced with the challenge of reimagining how nonprofits fundraise during a global pandemic. At this free webinar, we’ll present a case study that will demonstrate how creative minds and pie-in-the-sky ideas helped reimagine a long-standing […].

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NEW RESEARCH: The 2021 Giving Experience Study

NonProfit PRO

30% of adult donors in the U.S. identify as Social Donors. Are you tapping into them? We conducted an online survey of 1,000+ Social Donors to examine how giving experiences evolved over the past year. The study offers findings on Social Donor motivators, engagement, retention, as well as insights on when donors will be ready to return to in-person events.

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10 Support, Implementation, and Adoption Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

Volunteer Hub

“Overall, we are very happy with the relationship that we have with the VolunteerHub team and the features that the volunteer management software is providing our nonprofit on a daily basis,” said John Bode, Food Center & Volunteer Manager for The Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank. “The flexibility and ease of adoption are two very beautiful aspects of VolunteerHub,” said Myra Khalife, General Secretary for Donner Sang Compter.

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Ten Smart Ways to Diversify Your Fundraising and Raise More

NonProfit PRO

Learn how your nonprofit can diversify fundraising efforts and raise more with FrontStream’s free eGuide: 10 Smart Ways to Diversity Your Fundraising Efforts. Explore benefits and best practices for planning and running virtual, hybrid and in-person events like auctions, DIY, peer-to-peer walks, runs and rides. Engage supporters in multiple channels, including email, mobile and social media to increase donor engagement and raise more for your mission.

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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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Will Nonprofits Move Away from One Big Gala Every Year?

Greater Giving

The world of nonprofit fundraising changed dramatically in the last eighteen months. We’ve detailed many of these shifts, and the lessons learned from them, in the recently-published The State of Nonprofit Fundraising report. As nonprofits were forced to postpone, and often cancel, their large, in-person fundraising galas, something else took its place: the virtual event.

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Community Brands Adds MobileCause to Its Suite of Fundraising Tools

NonProfit PRO

Community Brands, a leading provider of cloud-based software and payment solutions for associations, nonprofits and schools, recently announced its acquisition of MobileCause, a premier comprehensive digital fundraising platform. MobileCause complements the Community Brands fundraising suite by.

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How To Hire Top Talent In An Instant

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The following statements from author Scott Wintrip convinced me to read his book, High Velocity Hiring: How To Hire Top Talent In An Instant : "Hiring is broken. There's a new way to hire that's faster, efficient, and effective. Instead of waiting for the right person to show up, the new way to hire is to wait for the right job to show up. Instead of waiting until a seat is empty to search for talent, the new way of hiring starts the talent search before that job opens.

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The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Giving trends with Jacob O’Connor

Charity Village

How have donors been giving this past year? And what’s the outlook for the future of giving? On this week’s podcast episode, Jacob O’Connor, Vice President of Engagement at CanadaHelps, shares with us the latest giving trends published in the CanadaHelps 2021 Giving Report. Jacob’s highlights of 2021 giving trends Charities are adopting digital giving […].

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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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Delivering Authenticity in Your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Messaging

Forum One

Over the past year, we’ve seen many organizations pledge their commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Staff and external audiences alike have often called out that many of these pledges were simply lip service with no follow-through. This is because DEI messaging is only as valuable as it is authentic. If it’s lip service or checking a box, people can see right through it. .

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Apps Helping Nonprofits Successfully Respond to COVID-19 Challenges

Tech Soup

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the daily operations for many nonprofits all over the world. With organizations quickly needing to adapt to a remote way of working, how will this change the way nonprofits operate? What's the strategy for post-pandemic planning? How can we work with volunteers remotely? These are all common questions we've heard many organizations ask in recent months, and on May 5, 2021, we held another Public Good App House event to address them.

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Is a cohesive brand built on white supremacy culture?

Big Duck

The post Is a cohesive brand built on white supremacy culture? appeared first on Big Duck.

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Recapping the 8th Annual Education Summit

Cloud 4 Good

On June 16, 2021, Salesforce and their co-sponsoring school, The University of Colorado, brought together an international Education Community for the 8th Annual Education Summit. For the second year in a row, this event was held virtually and featured appearances from inspirational educational leaders, including Former First Lady Michelle Obama, Professor Yuval Noah Harari, and a number of influential industry experts from across the Salesforce ecosystem.

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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 Classy Weaves Wellness Into Its Work Culture 

Classy

This guest post is written by Golnar Tahriri, senior recruitor at Classy. . If personal wellness was not at the forefront of everyone’s minds before, the year 2020 made it an unavoidable priority. In parallel, businesses that were fortunate enough to be able to retain their employees were given a challenging opportunity to reimagine what employee wellness and support can look like, throughout the pandemic and beyond.

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Starting your ESG Reporting Journey

sgEngage

If you’re a social responsibility professional like me, sustainability reporting is on your mind. I literally don’t go a day without seeing something new pop into my inbox about Environment, Social and Governance (ESG). It might be a report issued by another company, a seminar on how to tackle thinking about a key material issue, or a question from a peer asking, “How do I get started?”.

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Nonprofit Finances: 3 Reasons Your Tax Returns Matter

Achieve

As a nonprofit professional, you’re likely passionate about the mission you're serving. You may care a lot about finances and accounting, too, but you also might not. It might even bore you. But boring or not, your nonprofit’s finances are critical for multiple reasons. Whether you're getting your nonprofit ready for the. upcoming tax season. or you're looking to get your financial statements in shape for a new fiscal year, you need to have the knowledge and the resources to manage your nonprofi

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New Webinar: Donor acquisition best practices for 2021

Care2

Every year, charities and nonprofits experience churn on their donor file. A significant percentage of supporters will eventually stop responding to direct mail, donating online, following a charity on social media, or opening cause-related emails!

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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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What Does the Post-Pandemic “Normal” Look Like for Associations?

Forj

orgSource , a leader in helping associations improve efficiency and create growth strategies using technology, recently released a report that provides valuable insight into how associations handled the pandemic, and how it is shaping their future. Leaders from more than 100 associations responded to the survey , rating how they did adapting to everything from remote work environments and virtual conferences, to embracing online learning platforms.

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Understanding Digital Tracking

Byte Technology

Nearly everything can be traced and tracked, from cell phone records to ATM withdrawals. For online marketers, there is customer behavior digital tracking. It presents itself in the form of permission-based tools, such as device IDs, cookies, Geo-location, and IP mapping. At Byte Technology, we are experts at ensuring your website is well secured. We provide website security services and other strategies to improve your website and increase revenue.

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How To Make The Most of Google For Nonprofits

Kindful

On average, there are over 70,000 Google searches conducted every minute, which averages out to be approximately 5.5 billion total searches per day! Multiply this out and you’re looking at over one trillion Google searches every single year—and this number will keep growing. Statistics like this make it clear that it’s in the best interest of every nonprofit to explore all of the ways that using Google for Nonprofits can benefit your organization.

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Grow member engagement?with your learning program

Nimble AMS

Associations are viewed as the top trusted source for professional education and training. Your continuing education program is one of your association’s key value propositions. According to Community Brands research , career advancement benefits – including?training and?certification/ credentials –?are important and/or increasing?in?importance?to?members.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Constructively Confronting Your Fears: A Strategy for Nonprofit Success

Bloomerang

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”. —Dale Carnegie. From tycoons of industry to single unit startups, everyone has to deal with negative emotions which are a very natural part of life. We can however — with a bit of practice — use them to our advantage. .

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Good Finds For Nonprofits: Bonjoro

NonProfit Hub

Each week we’ll bring you a new resource that we think could revolutionize the nonprofit sector—or at least your workweek. It may be an app, platform, podcast, or product that will help you do more good. This time, we’re looking at Bonjoro , a video messaging app. Bonjoro. “Bonjoro!” More than a greeting, this email video platform provides a new level of engagement for donors.