.orgSource

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As technology continues to shape member expectations and operational efficiencies, associations that lag are at risk of becoming obsolete. Its no longer enough to simply keep up, associations must stay proactive in integrating digital tools and strategies. Our recent.orgSource Digital Trends Survey reveals several key gaps in how associations are currently using technology to meet member needs and adapt to industry shifts.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Here are three key questions that can help nonprofits assess their financial landscape as we move into 2025 and position them for success.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Often, the first step in getting a grant is a Letter of Inquiry (sometimes called a Letter of Intent ) – or LOI, for short. A Letter of Inquiry is a quick way to introduce your organization to a prospective funder and to open up a conversation about how a grant would make a positive impact on the community you’re serving and change lives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. How do you turn good intentions into action? That complex question can be answered in part by QR codes. Imagine a potential donor who happens to pass by a poster for your organization’s annual festival.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) uses the internet to self-diagnose their own mental health conditions, but not in the ways one might reflexively (or judgmentally) assume. A new survey and report from the Made of Millions Foundation, a nonprofit mental health advocacy organization, found that only a small fraction of Gen Z youth relies solely on the internet to interpret their symptoms and make their own conclusions about a diagnosis or disorder.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Discover friendly tips for using AI tools in your business while avoiding common pitfalls. While having lunch with a few fellow business owners recently, our conversation turned to the topic on every entrepreneurs mindartificial intelligence.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

"Stories strengthen communications and presence for leaders," explains Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power of Presence. She recommends you consider adding stories to your communications when you : Want to motivate others and paint a picture of what's possible. Need to show others -- whether a large audience or one person -- that you have shared commonalities.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One of the reasons an estimated 30% of nonprofits dont last more than 10 years is poor organizational development. Developing an organizational plan that clearly defines your groups objectives is key to achieving long-term success and sustainability. An organizational plan, the equivalent of a private-sector business plan, lays out a nonprofits mission, goals, programs, and strategies for raising and managing funds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their nonprofit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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John Kenyon

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Imagine choosing an expensive high-end smartphone with dozens of fancy featuresa high-resolution camera, advanced productivity apps, and complex settingsbut never bothering to get educated about those features, only using it to make calls and send texts. While some people do this without feeling stressed or thinking about the wasted dollars, in a nonprofit setting this approach means wasting money and missing out on the value of technologies that can dramatically improve a team’s mission i

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When you start a nonprofit, one of the most important things to figure out is how to manage your organizations finances. Understanding the fundamentals of accountingkeeping records of revenue generation and expendituresis critical for your nonprofit to launch successful mission-driven programs, plan engaging fundraising campaigns, and even just keep its lights on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director at iMission a full-service digital-first marketing agency working exclusively with nonprofits and social sector organizations. Successful nonprofit fundraisers have always understood the power of personalization in effective communications. Tailoring messages to resonate with individual donor interests and giving levels fosters stronger connections and inspires greater generosity.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As technology continues to evolve, associations face both exciting opportunities and new challenges. While the future can feel uncertain, one thing is clear: associations that take a proactive approach to digital transformation will be better equipped to adapt, grow, and succeed. Our recent. orgSource Digital Trends Survey highlights the essential strategies associations need to thrive in the coming years.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With a new administration in the White House, shifting policies, and declining donor retention, the nonprofit landscape is evolving faster than ever. How can your organization stay ahead, adapt to change, and drive impact in 2025? 40 Nonprofit Trends for 2025 brings together insights from 31 industry experts including nonprofit professionals, technologists, consultants, and educators to predict the most important trends shaping the sector this year.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States but there are vastly fewer AI tools developed with ASL data than data representing the countrys most common languages, English and Spanish. NVIDIA, the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday are helping close this gap with Signs, an interactive web platform built to support ASL learning and the development of accessible AI applications.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Many of us want to get promoted at work, but dont often stop to consider what that means. Moving into the executive ranks often means leading the very people you once worked alongside. And while you might attract attention with stellar performance, it’s not enough to secure your success as a leader. As a CEO and C-Level coach, let me tell you that I, nor any of my most successful clients, would risk elevating a leader to the next level if it would lead to a systemic risk of losing talent o

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

For years, the conventional wisdom for wide-eyed youngsters about to enter the job market was "learn to code." Now, it seems like some of the programmers themselves could use the same advice. That's according to Namanyay Goel, an experienced developer who's not too impressed by the new generation of keyboard-clackers' dependence on newfangled AI models.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A supplemental post to 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the statistics listed below can guide your nonprofit in creating and maintaining a successful social media strategy. Facebook Facebook has 3.05 billion monthly active users of which 65% access the site daily and spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform. [ HootSuite ] By 2027, Facebook will reach 75% of the worlds population and is currently the worlds third most trafficked website after G

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

People are afraid of flying right now — but that fear isn't based in much data. There's been a huge uptick in content about plane crashes over the past few weeks. If you look at Google Trends for searches about aviation accidents and incidents, we're searching for them nearly 50 times more often now than we were at any point since Google started collecting data — including when the infamous lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that took over our breaking news banners in 2014.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

CEDAR PARK, TexasEarly Sunday morning, while most of America is sleeping, a couple dozen engineers in Central Texas will have their eyes glued to monitors watching data stream in from a quarter-million miles away. These ground controllers at Firefly Aerospace hope that their robotic spacecraft, named Blue Ghost, will become the second commercial mission to complete a soft landing on the Moon, following the landing of a spacecraft by Intuitive Machines last year.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Scientists everywhere can now access Evo 2, a powerful new foundation model that understands the genetic code for all domains of life. Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University.

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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Student loan debt has an influence over borrowers career choices long after graduation, affecting their job satisfaction, career advancement, and investment strategies. According to a recent study conducted by MissionSquare Research Institute, the debt thats carried by one in four Americans under 40 affects job-acceptance decisions for 56% of public-sector employees and 62% of those working in the private sector.

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Snowflake partners with Anthropic to launch Cortex Agents, bringing Claude's enterprise-grade AI capabilities directly into corporate data environments with 90% accuracy on complex queries while maintaining security controls.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Charity golf tournaments are a viable option for nonprofits to elevate their reach, forge and strengthen relationships, and raise mission-critical funds. Successful tournaments require careful planning, strategic partnerships, and the right tools. Join us for an informative, fast-paced webinar that draws on insights from thousands of successful charity golf tournaments to introduce these five key points of golf fundraising: Tournament Basics: Find out how to set goals, outline a budget, and dete

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Elon Musk's encroachment into U.S. governance has hit another legal obstacle. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (or EPIC) filed a lawsuit against the Department of Government Efficiency (or, sigh, DOGE) on Monday, per the privacy-focused non-profit's website. According to the lawsuit, DOGE and its leader Elon Musk have "illegally forced" the Office of Personnel Management and Treasury Department to disclose huge swaths of digital information about U.S. citizens to "unauthorized, untraine

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