Thu.Nov 11, 2021

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Ask Donors To Consider a Recurring Donor Advised Fund Gift

NonProfit PRO

Donor advised funds are all the craze lately. Now is the time to motivate those donors who want to optimize their tax deductions this year to consider a gift from their donor advised fund. But did you know that you can ask donors to consider recurring gifts from their donor advised fund?

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Training Nonprofit Staff & Volunteers Effectively in 5 Steps

Get Fully Funded

Remember Captain Obvious? He was a character invented not long ago to sell bookings on Hotels.com. If he was on television today, he’d be telling us, “In 2020, the world changed.” No kidding! But what a lot of people are expecting (really, hoping) is that after a while, we’ll go back to normal. Not so fast. The world has changed a lot, and it’s not likely to get back to the old normal.

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How to Win the War on Talent — Attraction Strategies for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

It’s important for employers to know what prospective and current employees want in a nonprofit organization. To remain competitive in today’s market for talent, nonprofit employers would benefit from taking this opportunity to reimagine their employee value proposition with these talent attraction strategies.

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How And Why To Run A Nonprofit Focus Group

Bloomerang

If you’re looking to collect feedback from your constituents, you may want to consider holding a nonprofit focus group. It can offer a great way to gain access to invaluable information from your supporters and local community members. What’s the point of a nonprofit focus group and when should you hold one? Although there are many benefits to holding a nonprofit focus group, the main goal is to collect specific data from a certain group of people.

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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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Event Recap: Apps to Amp Up Your Recruitment and Admissions

Cloud 4 Good

Cloud for Good recently hosted an Application Showcase webinar where we invited Blackthorn Events and Mogli to talk about how their third-party applications work with Salesforce to help universities throughout their recruitment and admission processes. You can check out some of the highlights below, but make sure to check out the short, 30-minute webinar for more information and product demos.

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sgENGAGE Episode 215: Embracing New Volunteer Trends in a Virtual World

sgEngage

Volunteering is changing. Many volunteer opportunities went virtual because of the pandemic, and like other types of work, it may never look exactly like it did in a pre-pandemic world. So what does volunteering look like now? What resources are there for professionals in this space who want to learn more about how volunteering has changed and how to rise to those changes?

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

Edited by Wil Renderos. This article references the book The Politics of Design. Danielle Coates-Connor: Hello, I’m Danielle Coates-Connor. I am the Chief Creative at Nonprofit Quarterly. I’m here with our Art Director, Devyn Taylor. Good morning, Devyn. How are you? Morning. Devyn Taylor : Morning, I’m good. Danielle Coates-Connor: Yeah.

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[WEBINAR] Ask Me Anything Lunch Session With CauseVox

CauseVox

We’re starting a free, monthly webinar series, Ask Me Anything so you can gain insights and answers to your most pressing fundraising questions in a fun, hour-long, live Q&A! Our first session will be on Thursday, November 18 @ 12pm ET. Hop on for a quick lunch call and ask all of your questions about donations, #GivingTuesday, year-end, CauseVox, or really anything at all!

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How to Accept Cryptocurrency Donations at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Cryptocurrency is surging in popularity, with the market cap reaching over $2 trillion in 2021. Many donors are now holding appreciated Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other coins and donating them to nonprofits that are equipped to accept them.

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Veterans Leverage Their Pro Bono Skills to Rise to the Call of Duty from Afar

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban just days after the U.S. and coalition forces withdrew their troops, Afghan allies that served alongside the U.S. and others had an extremely short window to flee their country. In order to be eligible for a spot on one of the few remaining flights out of the country, Afghan allies had to demonstrate their affiliation with allied organizations and navigate dangerous checkpoints.

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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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Success Stories From 10 Successful Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur.

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One foundation’s quest for better demographic data

Candid

We are in the midst of a timely and important discussion in philanthropy about increasing support to organizations led by people of color and women. However, many grantmakers like the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation have lacked access to the empirical data on race, gender, and other characteristics of leadership in the organizations we seek to fund.

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How to Make an Online Giving Page that Generates Donations

Greater Giving

Online giving is the future of fundraising, but not all nonprofits are prepared for it. Shouldn’t you be capitalizing on the potential of e-giving, too? Online giving has been an important branch of fundraising for more than a decade now—but the pandemic has made the ability to accept donations digitally an absolute necessity. Donations made through online donation platforms climbed dramatically in 2020, even though the average amount of gifts has decreased.