Fri.Mar 26, 2021

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6 Steps to Increase Board Diversity at Your Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

If you’re concerned about your board’s diversity, you’re not alone. Statistics Canada conducted a survey between December 4, 2020 and January 18, 2021 , surveying over 6,000 nonprofit board members and confirming that lack of diversity.

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Why Now is the Time for Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Invest in Digital

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. Opening doors. For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs around the country opened their doors each day to millions of kids and teens, literally and symbolically. Clubs offered, for many, the only safe places in their communities.

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How to Use Twitter to Engage the Right Community for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Twitter has evolved significantly since it launched in 2006 as a simple, short messaging service. Twitter is no longer simply a platform to "microblog," as it was initially designed. Twitter is now a powerful platform to know, understand, and segment your community.

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Drupal 9 Grandmaster: Kevin Quillen Receives Full Acquia Certification

Velir

We are proud to announce that Velir’s very own Kevin Quillen has received his Drupal 9 Grandmaster certification! Kevin is one of only 11 people worldwide to receive the certification, and the first developer outside of Acquia to receive the certification in the United States.

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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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Salsa Personalities: Donna Myers

Bonterra

This is the first in a series regular blog posts we are calling Salsa Personalities to share the stories of the amazing people here at Salsa who, well, make the Salsa! Since we are starting this series during Women's History Month, we sat down first with Salsa's CEO, Donna Myers.

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Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Big Duck

The post Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine appeared first on Big Duck.

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4 Reasons Why VolunteerHub is the Best Solution for Volunteer Centers

Volunteer Hub

VolunteerHub can help your center engage, recruit, and manage volunteers. Here are 4 reasons you should consider VolunteerHub when vetting volunteer management software. Your volunteer center relies on the support of volunteers and community partners to reach goals and obtain its mission. Investing in a volunteer management solution can help your volunteer center develop and deploy a streamlined process for engaging, recruiting, and managing volunteers and partnerships.

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Walkthrough The *NEW* CauseVox Admin + Ticketing

CauseVox

You may have heard we’re launching ticketing… well we figured we’d also throw in a new backend too! We’re improving the CauseVox backend to help you intuitively navigate your campaign setup, peer-to-peer, donations, reporting and data management. You’ll love the new layout, and we want to give you a tour so you will be familiar with the new backend the next time you login.

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Progressively Decoupled Experiences with ReactJS in Drupal 9

Velir

There's an increasing demand to create decoupled or hybrid experiences ( progressively decoupled ) on the web. This means treating your back-end system as your data/content storage and using client-side frameworks to power your website's user interface instead of using traditional theming methods.

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Working Together to Elevate Online Giving: Shift Marketing Selects Double the Donation as Matching Gift Software Provider

Double the Donation

Double the Donation and Shift Marketing are proud to announce an exciting new partnership that will bring industry-leading matching gift functionality from 360MatchPro by Double the Donation to one of the industry’s best online giving experiences from Shift Marketing. Nonprofits and higher educational institutions utilizing Shift Marketing for its result-driven fundraising campaign management platform and donation pages can now employ a matching gifts strategy with 360MatchPro’s matching g

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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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Fundraising Friday | March 26, 2021

Pamela Grow

Storytelling. With Saoirse’s Story, the online visitor chooses their own interactive story in a concept that would work well for a domestic violence shelter. The Power of Storytelling | What a powerful interactive storytelling experience looks like. What you need to know about before and after is critical in storytelling. Mary Cahalane explains. Donor Communications.

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Joe Phoenix: 5 Things I Learned Becoming Givinga’s CEO

Givinga

Parveen Panwar from Medium ’s Authority Magazine interviewed our CEO and co-founder Joe Phoenix about the five things he wishes he knew before becoming a c-suite executive. Joe shared leadership insights, dispelled some CEO myths, and discussed how Givinga was created for meaning and impact. . “Very few people are fortunate to find their true passion.

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Management And Leadership Books To Read This Month

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Pictured above are two books to add to your list for reading this month. Let The Story Do The Work explains that at the heart of leadership lies persuasion. And at the heart of persuasion likes storytelling. In her book, author Esther K. Choy teaches you how to: Dispel any fears that you can't tell great stories. Connect with an audience by determining their point of view and speaking to their concerns.

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How TechSoup's COVID-19 Recovery Fund Helps Nonprofits

Tech Soup

As we collectively mark one year since COVID-19 altered our lives immeasurably, we pause to reflect on just how much has been lost, how drastically our lives have changed, and what lies ahead. While there is hope on the horizon in the form of widespread vaccination, the COVID-19 pandemic has inevitably changed the way we do many things permanently.

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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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4 Ways to Support Your Nonprofit’s Outreach with Direct Mail

Connection Cafe

Successful outreach requires understanding your donors and what makes them decide to give. Of course, no two donors are exactly alike, which means your nonprofit has to account for lots of different supporters with different motivations and different ways to reach them. Expanding your outreach strategy to attract new donors (and keep the interest of current ones) necessitates diversifying your marketing approach.

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Marketing: Why Email Strategy Is Important for B2B Business?

Connection Cafe

Email campaigns are the platform and bedrock for any email marketing effort to engage businesses with their customers and build relationships. But for any email campaign to get successful and to perform a successful email strategy, it is the chisel that shapes your content effectively to communicate with this B2B audience. To harness the power of outbound email marketing, use a sound strategy to increase your business conversion rates.