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SpaceX’s Inspiration4 Campaign for St. Jude Surpasses $200M Fundraising Goal

NonProfit PRO

Inspiration4 returned from orbit Saturday, raising millions for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the process. Though the campaign goal was met, it will continue raising money through February 2022.

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Solutions in Action Connects Leaders to Problem-Solvers

.orgSource

Ninety percent of success is having the right connections. I love helping my colleagues make those important contacts.orgCommunity’s Solutions in Action webinar features the association industry’s most resourceful experts. They are providers of the products and services we all need to stay ahead in the digital marketplace. On our September 14th show, we […].

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Web Accessibility: 5 Smart Designs to Engage Everyone

Association TV

As your website or content platform grows, so will your audience. Your devotion of energy and resources to create a beautiful, content-rich and relevant hub for your members and potential members will draw eyes, peak interest and encourage engagement.

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Use Engagement Scores to Point Your Members in the Right Direction

Association Analytics

According to Marketing General Incorporated’s 2021 Marketing Benchmarking Report, 50% of associations surveyed believe lack of engagement is the top reason members didn’t renew. Yikes! Because engagement is critical to retaining members, many associations are using a member engagement score to track and build loyalty. In case you aren’t familiar with a member engagement score, here’s a quick overview: it’s an analysis to assess member and customer behavior over a certain period of time (we recom

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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’s New in Year-End Giving?

NonProfit PRO

Engaging new realities can significantly increase your year-end giving drive. While the fundamentals of year-end giving still apply, 2021 also brings us three unique approaches on which you can capitalize, literally.

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[FREE WEBINAR] How to Prevent Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Website from Getting Hacked in 2022

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021. Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. Presented by: Chuck Spidell , Security Expert at ILLUSIO. Cost: Free. If you’re part of a small nonprofit communications team, your WordPress website updates probably aren’t high on the priority list – but they should be because it’s just a matter of time before your website gets hacked.

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How the Air and Space Museum is Using Virtual Docents

The MatrixFiles

My younger son and I are listening to Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Andy Weir also wrote The Martian, which was a great movie and an even better book. Both The Martian and Project Hail Mary are adventure books set in space. Both are full of science and science fiction. If you love space stuff and science fiction, buy this book. Anyway, Project Hail Mary inspired me to take the boys to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum.

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Charting Your Major Donors’ Journey — And Why It Matters

NonProfit PRO

As a fundraising professional, you already know how important your major donors are. Having a dedicated and data-driven strategy to engage and build relationships with major donors is critical to your fundraising goals and success.

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The Complete Guide to Mentorship Programs for Membership Organizations

Wild Apricot

One of the biggest reasons why people join professional associations is to take advantage of mentorship opportunities. What better way to advance in your career than to sit one-on-one with someone who works in the same field and has been in your shoes?

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The Problem with Complex Passwords

VisionLink

For each of us, our online security depends on passwords, and like much of human activity--during the rush of day-to-day effort, we often take short cuts to accomplish tasks the easy way. When it comes to password complexity, NIST has done some research revealing that forcing users to change passwords has negative and unintended consequences. The same can be said of random sets of letters, numbers, and symbols.

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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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Job, career, calling: Which leads to happiness? 

Charity Village

Shawn Achor in his book, The Happiness Advantage, refers to the research of Yale psychologist Amy Wrzeniewski where she found that employees can have three “work orientations”. We can see our work as a Job, Career or Calling. If we see it as a Job, then our work is more of a chore and the […]. The post Job, career, calling: Which leads to happiness?

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Social Media for Nonprofits, Part 1: 9 Ways To Maximize Your Approach for Greater Impact

NonProfit PRO

Establishing a presence on social media is an important communications tool for nonprofits to raise awareness and achieve goals. It can be used to build your email list, cultivate current donor relationships and attract new supporters, enlist volunteers, and promote your organization as a thought leader.

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How Asking Questions Helps You Connect With Your Donors

Bloomerang

During a hectic work day where many can only squeeze in a lunch break between firing off emails, it can be hard to know if you’re making your donors feel appreciated or if you’re giving them the impression that they’re getting copy and paste interactions. This isn’t something to ignore or worry about until later; good communication skills are invaluable to your nonprofit’s income stream.

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How to prepare your association for the unknown

Nimble AMS

The future might be uncertain, but you can still be prepared. Read on to learn a great approach for staying adaptable and resilient in changing circumstances. Were you ready for the year that was 2020? Not likely. No one saw that one coming. Nonetheless, there your association was, suddenly needing to switch to virtual engagement with members. And not just for a few days or weeks, but months and months.

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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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A Climate Change Solution That’s Delivered to Your Door

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Mary Phillips, Head of Garden for Wildlife at the National Wildlife Federation. Plant with a purpose to help wildlife, people, and the planet. Sourdough starter. A new furry family member. A bevy of new plants adorning the house-turned-virtual-office. During the COVID-19 lockdown, when companions and new hobbies became a focal point for millions of people, these were some of the most popular go-tos for those looking to make the most of their quarantined time at home.

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How To Diversify Your Nonprofit Board

NonProfit PRO

Building a multi-faceted board can help your nonprofit organization make better decisions, diversify its supporter base and better serve the community. While everyone understands the need for diversification, many nonprofit professionals and voluntary board members don’t know where to begin.

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Introducing: Bloomerang + Kindful Fundraising

Bloomerang

We’re excited to share that the beta of Kindful Fundraising is now available to Bloomerang users! You’ll have the best fundraising tools on one platform , which creates a seamless giving experience for your donors. And as you know, the easier it is for them to give, the more money you’ll raise for your cause. With Kindful Fundraising, you have access to a whole suite of beautiful, easy-to-use, and effective fundraising tools, right from your Bloomerang database. .

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Small Shop Stewardship: Tools for nonprofit staff, leaders, and board members

Charity Village

Original Broadcast Date: September 23, 2021 Summary: Many staff members of small teams have the responsibility of wearing multiple hats within their organization. So how do we manage to adequately develop, and maintain relationships with donors with a lack of time and resources? In this session, we will discuss the fundamentals of donor stewardship, with a focus on […].

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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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Nonprofit Cloud Dreamforce Keynote: Deliver Unique Experiences to Drive Impact

Saleforce Nonprofit

Once a year, the global nonprofit community comes together to collaborate, share best practices, and connect at Dreamforce. This year, the focus is on building unique experiences to drive mission impact. Dreamforce welcomed trailblazers of all sizes in the nonprofit sector, including International Justice Mission , UNICEF Australia , Canadian Cancer Society , Autism Plus , and more to share their stories and speak at the event’s global mainstage and in breakout sessions — all of which are availa

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What’s Your People’s Strategic Plan? Why Nonprofit Leaders Should Invest in Talent and Culture

NonProfit PRO

What nonprofit leaders need is a "people’s strategic plan," a clear and consistent framework and set of measurable actions to invest in their people and culture. Just like organizations have a strategic plan to achieve financial and programmatic goals, they need a roadmap to invest in talent development, too.

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What You Should Include in Your Nonprofit’s Annual Report

Bloomerang

Every Nonprofit Needs One, But What’s Really Needed in Your Nonprofit’s Annual Report? So, you’re one year into the adventure of starting your own nonprofit and now the time has come to put together your first annual report. Or, perhaps you’ve just been tasked with putting together the annual report for your organization for the first time. No matter what position you’re in, you likely have some questions about what you need to include in this important piece of collateral. .

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How can you push for equitable research? Here are 4 ways

Charity Village

After witnessing the world spiral in the past few months (and seeing how far we must go to achieve social justice), I think we all can agree that there are no quick routes to work through the social injustices around us. In fact, our efforts must go beyond bringing alive the concepts of diversity, equity, […]. The post How can you push for equitable research?

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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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Force Multiplier Podcast Episode 4: Housing Stability

Saleforce Nonprofit

Consider the various ways you might describe yourself: parent, sibling, college grad, writer, activist, baker. Few of us define ourselves by the structures we live in. So why do we call people experiencing housing instability “homeless”? Their housing status is no more representative of who they are than it is for someone who rents an apartment or owns a house.

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Fundraising Isn’t Transactional — 3 Case Studies That Solidify the Importance of Strategy and Relationships

NonProfit PRO

While we have many superstars in the nonprofit arena, too many professionals don’t understand the art, science and nuances of nonprofit leadership — boards, strategic planning, program evaluation and fundraising — and too many others aren’t willing to insist on proven best practices.

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Email Marketing for Nonprofits: An Essential Guide

Donorbox

Developing a solid email marketing program is absolutely essential to building a reliable, revenue-generating fundraising department. Whether you’re creating a new supporter automated introductory email series or designing a one-time campaign for Giving Tuesday, email marketing is the perfect way to show donors your gratitude via consistent and exciting engagement.

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“Unsubscribe” is not a Dirty Word in Email Marketing

sgEngage

As a user experience consultant at Blackbaud, I’m often tasked with reviewing a nonprofit customer’s email messages to see if any improvements could be made. One of the improvements I often suggest is to make the unsubscribe link easier to find. Let’s face the facts here – we all have them, so why hide them? In the earlier days of email marketing, “unsubscribe” was kind of a dirty word.

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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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When you’re too big to succeed

Hands on Fundraising

Too big to succeed? My family recently made what was for us a large gift to a national charity. The response was underwhelming, and that’s being kind. An 8.5 x 14 sheet of paper, with the bottom being a tear-off, generic response form. The thank you letter – such as it was – consisted of […]. The post When you’re too big to succeed appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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National Philanthropic Trust Donor-Recommended Grants to Charities Grow 179% to $6.46 Billion During Fiscal Year 2021

NonProfit PRO

National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), an independent public charity that manages donor-advised funds (DAF), granted $6.46 billion on behalf of its donors in Fiscal Year 2021, representing an increase in value of 179%, compared to Fiscal Year 2020. All eight charitable subsectors experienced increased volume of grantmaking.

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Do This Immediately After Signing a New Sponsor

The Sponsorship Collective

Wow. You finally did it. It took a long time (weeks, months, maybe longer), but you finally signed a new sponsor. This is a hugely exciting time, I know. You deserve congratulations for reaching this point, but you can’t rest on your laurels just yet. What you do from this moment forward can lay the […]. The post Do This Immediately After Signing a New Sponsor appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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How to get a corporate sponsorship for your nonprofit

Charity Village

When it comes to funding, the best way to prepare for the unexpected is to expect it.? A corporate sponsor is a great way to diversify your income sources, protecting your organization during uncertain economic times. While you may rely on donors for financial support, adding a corporate sponsorship to your funding mix gives you […]. The post How to get a corporate sponsorship for your nonprofit appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.