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Recycle, Reuse and Repurpose Creative

NonProfit PRO

Often, we fundraisers and direct marketers want to try something new because we were tired of it long before the donors are. We are always trying to come up with new stories, new ideas, and new approaches. But at some point, the creative juices stop flowing and we’re getting closer to burnout.

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[Free Webinar] The Giving Tuesday Cheat Sheet for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Last year, 35 million people and 80 countries participated in Giving Tuesday, and these numbers are steadily increasing each year. When the big day is over, more than one-third of annual giving happens in December alone. This presents an amazing opportunity for any size nonprofit to enter the New Year with new relationships, new insight into their retention strategies, and new ideas to engage their community online.

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Cigna Foundation Announces Grant Availability for Nonprofits Working to Address Health Disparities

NonProfit PRO

The Cigna Foundation announced it is accepting applications for its Health and Well-Being grant program. This grant cycle will focus on mental health as part of the foundation’s continued commitment to improving access to care and eliminating health disparities.

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Digital Must-Haves for Fall Fundraising Success Part 5: Digital Advocacy Forms

EveryAction

Editor’s note: this post was originally published in October 2020 and was last updated in August 2022. It’s never too early to start planning for your nonprofit’s GivingTuesday and year-end fundraising efforts. In this 6-part blog series, we’re highlighting key digital features your organization can start implementing now to boost fundraising this fall.

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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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What Should Organizations Do With a Large Unsolicited — and Unrestricted — One-Time Gift?

NonProfit PRO

In just three years, MacKenzie Scott has given more than $12 billion in unrestricted funding to hundreds of nonprofit organizations. While Scott’s efforts — and those of like-minded donors — are a welcome development, recipient organizations are left wondering what to do with these transformational gifts.

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Autism After 21 Utah Project: Lessons from a first-time fundraiser

Candid

In May 2021, I had to face the inevitable: I could no longer avoid fundraising. I had recently joined Madison House Autism Foundation as the Director of the Autism After 21 Utah Project (AA21 Utah). As is often the case for smaller nonprofits, everyone was involved in development. I’ll be the first to admit that I had a lot of fears about fundraising (deep insecurity about my ability to make small talk, the general awkwardness of asking for money, etc.).

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Employment contracts: What nonprofits need to know

Charity Village

When you hire an employee in Ontario with no talk of a set end date, the presumption is that the relationship will continue more or less forever. Of course, this is not by any means a practical expectation. Employers change, businesses expand or sell or close, and changing business needs may mean the natural elimination […]. The post Employment contracts: What nonprofits need to know appeared first on CharityVillage.

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How to Improve Donor Retention in a Subscription Economy

NonProfit PRO

Research has shown a subscription model for recurring giving programs can boost retention by nearly 30%. Join us to learn how to increase donor retention in your monthly giving program. To increase your donor retention, we'll discuss how fundraising software can simplify your internal processes in communicating with and retaining your donors, as well as grow your revenue. .

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Announcing New Matching Gift Auto-Submission Functionality

Double the Donation

The Double the Donation team is constantly improving our matching gift solution to provide users with the best possible technology for their fundraising needs. Today, we’re announcing innovative matching gift auto-submission, now built into our software platform. This revolutionary feature will make it easier than ever before for donors to complete and submit their matching […].

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Why are Canadian nonprofits still not embracing digital transformation?

Charity Village

Why have some nonprofits missed out on the digital revolution? In our latest episode of the CharityVillage Connects podcast, we spoke to sector experts who say now is the time for Canadian nonprofits and charities to embrace digital transformation, especially as we’re in an economically challenged environment and still recovering from the effects of COVID-19. […].

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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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How Public Speaking Skills Can Help You Run Your Nonprofit

Achieve

As a nonprofit professional or leader, your days are full of conversations. You’re constantly engaging with others, whether it’s meeting with your staff about. connecting with younger donors. or communicating with major donors to win their support for an upcoming campaign. . Since you spend all day talking, it can be highly beneficial to set aside time specifically to. build effective presentation skills.

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Leverage the power of young generations for the future of your nonprofit

Charity Village

For nonprofit organizations to remain vibrant and relevant well into the future, they must understand what drives younger donors and how they will expect to interact with organizations. We aim to bring a fresh perspective on the young mind and how these younger donors will impact the future of nonprofits with our upcoming webinar: Leverage […].

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 237: Workplace Wellbeing in a Post-Pandemic World

sgEngage

The shift to remote work post-pandemic has caused many employees to feel stressed, burnt out, and out of control of their workplace dynamic. Meico Marquette Whitlock, founder of The Mindful Techie , shares tools and strategies on how to regain control and relieve the stressors that face us. Topics covered in this episode: Major impacts of the pandemic on wellbeing.

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Apply now for the IONS Change Management Fall 2022 cohort

Charity Village

Applications are now open for the IONS Change Management Fall 2022 cohort. In partnership with PROSCI, IONS is offering an immersive 10-week virtual Change Management Program to help nonprofit professionals engage, adopt, and embrace a change in day-to-day work. The overall approach focuses on the processes and tools that enable people to thrive through change to achieve the […].

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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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Your Expert Guide to Grants Research

Tech Soup

Finding the best grantmaker, or a set of grantmakers, to fund a specific program or project is not an easy task. Unless you have access to a good database that profiles active grantmakers, and a process you use to filter through the opportunities, things can feel pretty overwhelming pretty quickly.

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Apply for the Thriving Nonprofits leadership training cohort

Charity Village

Applications are now open for the Thriving Nonprofits leadership training cohort. The training program helps nonprofit leaders explore nine entrepreneurial revenue diversification strategies. The program is designed for nonprofits of all sizes, ideally with annual revenue of $500,000-$5 million. Executive Directors, board members, and senior staff members are invited to apply for the program.

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Why All Companies Must Explore the Role of Ethics in Technology

Cloud 4 Good

NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. For most modern businesses, technology is the engine of transformative change, driving companies toward profit. No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

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Open call for nominations to two Government of Canada advisory committees

Charity Village

The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada is seeking applications from professionals interested in sitting on the Technical Advisory Committee on Science and Knowledge. The Committee provides expert advice on topics related to impact assessment, as well as regional and strategic assessment. The topics include but are not limited to scientific, environmental, health, social, economic and gender […].

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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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Autism After 21 Utah Project: Lessons from a first-time fundraiser

Candid

In May 2021, I had to face the inevitable: I could no longer avoid fundraising. I had recently joined Madison House Autism Foundation as the Director of the Autism After 21 Utah Project (AA21 Utah). As is often the case for smaller nonprofits, everyone was involved in development. I’ll be the first to admit I had a lot of fears about fundraising (deep insecurity about my ability to make small talk, the general awkwardness of asking for money, etc.).

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Alberta Bhayana Family Foundation Awards: Nominate now

Charity Village

The Bhayana Family Foundation partners with the United Way to commemorate the efforts of leaders in the nonprofit sector. The Invisible Champions Awards recognize the contributions of nonprofit professionals. The awards recognize excellence in the form of innovation, creativity, dedication, team achievement, leadership, and community partnership/building for the professional staff of nonprofit organizations.

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A Leader’s Guide To Work In An Age Of Upheaval

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Part call to action, part strategic roadmap, RESET , the book by Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. , challenges leaders’ underlying assumptions about workers and the workplace. Taylor, the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), shares his personal experiences and candid, compassionate and practical thoughts on how to transform the way to select, retain and train employees in today’s, post-COVID and radically changed business environment.

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The Science Horizons Youth Internship Program is now open for 2022-2023

Charity Village

The Government of Canada has announced the creation of more than 450 internship opportunities for recent graduates through the Science Horizons Youth Internship Program. The internships are made possible through partnerships with environmental science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) employers across Canada. The Science Horizons Youth Internship Program provides up to $25,000 in funding to […].

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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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Year-End Fundraising Campaigns: Tips + Action Items Based on 2021 Trends

Media Cause

Despite another challenging year, 2021 fundraising was up 5.1%, raising a total of $471.44 billion. This gives us good insight into tips for building a strong year-end plan for 2022. As you begin planning for your year-end fundraising, we wanted to provide some action items and insights based on our findings from 2021. Here’s what we found: Giving Tuesday.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

Several recent studies have shown that technology can exacerbate bias and discrimination. For instance, Amazon’s recruiting algorithm discriminated against women applying for technical roles , artificial-intelligence researchers Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru have found significant racial and gender bias in face-recognition technologies, and search engines are also biased, according to Dr.

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