Thu.May 06, 2021

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6 Essential Membership Management Tools for 2021

NonProfit PRO

2020 presented a heap of challenges for membership organizations. Association leaders had to adjust to remote operations and figure out how to keep members engaged without the benefit of in-person interactions. .

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The Ultimate Guide to Donation Website Builders for Your Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

So your nonprofit has been taking off, and you realize you’ve gotten big enough that it’s time to build a donation website. Exciting, right? Objectively, yes. But the idea of building a website can seem daunting depending on your experience.

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Establishing Recurring Donors: 7 Ways to Create Long-Lasting Impact

NonProfit PRO

With a dedicated approach to inspiring repeat giving, you can attract new donors and create long-term recurring revenue that will enable your organization to grow its mission and impact for months and years to come. Download this eBook today and start generating reliable revenue that can be counted on to support your organization and its mission.

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Top Nonprofit Influencers to Start Following Today (2020)

Donorbox

In recent years, organizations around the world have been using “influencers” — fitness gurus, beauty bloggers, fashionistas and others — to supercharge your fundraising. Influencers usually endorse products – from lipsticks to cars – by sharing about them on their social media platforms and spread viral conversations about brands online.

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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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Bad Data Happens. We’ll Help You Fix It.

NonProfit PRO

You can’t improve your fundraising strategy unless you know what’s wrong with it. Inaccurate data keeps you from reaching donors and leads to missed opportunities. Melissa’s solutions for data quality, address verification and identity resolution will help you find, fix or flush bad data so you can connect with supporters, prevent bad data from entering your database and fuel marketing effectiveness.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.” – Elon Musk. We do not know the full power of artificial intelligence (AI) yet. Further, I don’t think we fully understand what the future holds for us concerning AI.

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While nonprofits remain hopeful about a post-pandemic future, 42% expect further decline in staff morale

Charity Village

This article is an excerpt from Human Resources Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Charities and Nonprofits, a report published by CharityVillage and The Portage Group. The full report covers staffing, volunteering, and the use of government subsidies and relief programs and is based on a survey completed by 1,361 Canadian charities and nonprofits in February 2021. […].

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NonProfit PRO March/April 2021 Member Spotlight

NonProfit PRO

We asked our editorial advisory board members the following question: How are you looking to improve your organization’s digital strategy? Here's what they said.

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Background Checking 101: An Introduction to CharityVillage’s Screening Services for Canadian Nonprofits and Charities

Charity Village

Original Broadcast Date: Thursday, May 6, 2021 Summary: Come learn about the ins and outs of background checks with CharityVillage and ScreeningCanada! We’ll outline why screening checks are so important when recruiting staff and volunteers, as well as the difference between different screening tools such as reference checks and criminal record checks.

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Making an Impact: Workflow in Nonprofit Management

NonProfit PRO

New Workflow White Paper features examples in bill pay, grants management, budget development, payroll, purchase orders and other critical areas where approval processes and key steps can be automated to improve efficiency and accuracy. Download Mastering Workflow in Nonprofit Management.

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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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The sgENGAGE Episode 193: Preparing for Budget Shifts

sgEngage

There’s always something that can throw your organization’s budget off track. Some crises are worse than others – the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, for example, brought completely unforeseen challenges – but even if internal or external factors don’t rise to that level, you can count on some type of shift. Today’s episode covers how to prepare for budget shifts so you are ready when they come.

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Free Guide: Campaign Calendars for Virtual Fundraising Events

NonProfit PRO

Whether you already have a virtual fundraising event in the works or you’re deep in the brainstorming phase, you’ll need to manage the multitude of tasks on your plate quickly and efficiently. Download these calendars to get your virtual fundraising event organized and ready to raise more for your cause with confidence and ease.

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How to Add a Donate Button on Weebly to Accept Recurring Donations

Donorbox

Accepting monthly donations on your Weebly site has never been easier with Donorbox. Using Donorbox’s auto-generated code, you can embed a form or install a donate button in your web page. If your website does not support SSL, our donate button is a great solution. The Donorbox donate button will take donors to an SSL-secured donation page that’s hosted […].

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Free Checklist: Virtual Fundraising Events Checklist & Planner

NonProfit PRO

Whether your nonprofit is gearing up for a fully virtual fundraiser or planning a hybrid virtual and in-person event for a future date, there are a lot of elements to plan: tools, strategies, outreach, promotion and more. Check out our Virtual Fundraising Events Checklist & Planner for a handy and comprehensive list of everything you’ll need for a successful virtual event.

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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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The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Collecting Courage Part 1

Charity Village

On today’s podcast, editors of the book Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love – Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira, and Nicole Salmon – share with us their insight and wisdom on how to confront systemic racism in our sector, starting with speaking up and sharing stories. Ways that Nneka, Nicole and Camille encourage us […].

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Infographic: 3 Ways to Use a Fundraising Landing Page

NonProfit PRO

Planning, setting up and running an effective fundraising campaign is challenging enough. Why complicate it with multiple web pages? This infographic shows you ways to incorporate these powerful tools into your planning so you can streamline all your campaign needs into one convenient online place while increasing giving, event attendance and more.

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What Nonprofits Need to Know About the Apple iOS 14 Update

Classy

In an effort to strengthen user privacy and informed data use, Apple recently launched changes that apply to iOS 14 devices and others moving forward. Specifically, this change requires that apps in the App Store provide a prompt to iOS 14 users if they’re doing any “tracking” activity. Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework prohibits certain data collection and sharing unless people opt in to tracking on iOS 14 devices via the prompt.

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Free Infographic: Mobile Messaging Strategies for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

Did you know, 98% of texts are opened and a whopping 90% are read within 3 minutes of being sent? That creates an incredible opportunity for nonprofits to communicate the unique story around their cause and better connect with supporters. Download your infographic today and start utilizing the most effective marketing channel for growing your donor database.

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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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The 2021 Guide To Text-to-Donate For Small Nonprofits

Qgiv

What happens when we combine a near-universal dependence on texting with the desire to do some good? Text fundraising! More specifically, text-to-donate for small nonprofits can be extremely beneficial. Even without the resources of a larger organization, your organization can use a reliable text-to-donate tool to collect gifts, send quick communications, and provide convenience for donors.

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How To Write A Great Donation Receipt For Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

Whether you’re creating a receipt for a general donation form on your website or for a specific a fundraising campaign, one of the essential components is creating a donation receipt that will get automatically sent to donors following their donation. With automatic donation receipts, you have the ability to immediately acknowledge your donor’s gift, which has been proven to increase donor retention rates 400%.

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Planning for Success: What is a Monthly Giving Program?

Qgiv

As 2020 taught us, times of economic stress create uncertainty for everyone, including nonprofits. That’s why recurring donations are so important: they create stable donation streams for sustained fundraising. But while some donors are happy to give monthly for an unspecified length of time, others prefer more structured giving. That’s where a monthly giving program can help!

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Five Essential Principles For Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements — Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day. Su shares both Western management thinking and Eastern philosophy to provide a holistic yet hands-on approach to becoming a more effective leader with less stress an

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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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Innovating for Dramatically Greater Scale and Social Impact [VIDEO]

Top Nonprofits

This is a multi-post series comprised of a transcript of the presentation from Nonprofit Changemakers:BEING THE CHANGE ; the entire video is embedded below. Hello, my name is Steve Nagai-ma and I will be talking today about innovating. First, I’m making the case for why we need to innovate in the social sector broadly. And I’m going to talk about how to innovate, effectively.

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What Impact Has COVID-19 Had on Nonprofit Employers and Job Seekers?

Tech Soup

The pandemic disrupted the nonprofit sector like never before. Nonprofits learned how to pivot their business models, held fundraising events through virtual platforms, adjusted theories of change, and looked at their staffing models from a new lens. Now that we see the light at the end of the COVID tunnel, the team at NPO.net , a nonprofit job board serving the Chicago region, wondered how COVID-19 impacted nonprofit employers and job seekers.

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6 Skills Nonprofit Job Seekers Need to Have

NonProfit Hub

Writing a flawless resume, winning the competition, and landing a job is never easy. It always requires marketing yourself the right way. And, often, simply showing your qualifications is not enough. This is true for the traditional job market. But when it comes to hunting for nonprofit jobs, things can get even tougher. That’s because the requirements and expectations for such positions go beyond having some professional experience and education.

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Migrating Your Government Services to Digital: Getting Started

Forum One

Co-authored by Brian Stewart , Senior Government Executive, Siteimprove. Modernization can change the way you serve your clients, reduce work for staff, and help better achieve your mission and goals. There are a number of drivers for migrating your government services to digital such as the Integrated Digital Experience ACT (IDEA). It aims to improve the digital experience for end-users while formalizing standards to ensure federal government websites provide cohesive, user-friendly online serv

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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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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

While not a new concept or strategy, environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs are on the rise. Over the last couple of years, as natural disasters continued to pick up in intensity and COVID – 19 brought rising income and healthcare inequalities to center stage, corporations have increasingly been pouring more focus into their own ESG measurements and practices in conjunction with their corporate social responsibility efforts. .

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7 Ways to Help Your Virtual Fundraising Events Achieve In-Person Results

NonProfit PRO

Download this quick-guide infographic to help you with your next virtual fundraising event. Inside, you’ll find all the expert tools, creative tips and how-tos you’ll need to execute a successful virtual event that rivals even your best in-person fundraiser.

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