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Should Your Nonprofit Blog in 2023?

NonProfit PRO

There is a lot of data that supports both sides of the blogging discussion and whether or not your nonprofit should take up this practice. When debating a topic like this, it's best to weigh the pros and cons.

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Nonprofit Startups: Apply for 501(c)(3) Status or Secure Fiscal Sponsorship?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Jeni Putalavage-Ross , SVP of Operations at Ribbon – a platform helps nonprofits and charitable individuals start nonprofits quicker while saving time, money, and effort. Inspiration has struck and you have an amazing, world-changing idea for a public good group that you would like to make a reality. What do you do to get started? “Lean startup”, “bootstrapped startup”, “pre-seed startup”… Silicon Valley uses these terms all the time, but what is the nonprofit equivalent?

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Are You Done With Digital Transformation?

.orgSource

Your CMS, LMS, and AMS are chatting happily together. The team is using the new analytics software to plan more effective outreach initiatives. And, members are enjoying your responsive and customized approach. Is it time to put a wrap on digital transformation? After all, you’ve been working to improve your tech game for the last two years. Is there more to accomplish?

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99 Ways To Get New Members For Your Organization

Wild Apricot

The post 99 Ways To Get New Members For Your Organization appeared first on WildApricot.

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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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How to Tell Prospective Donors What You Do

NonProfit PRO

It’s not about you. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking your organization is the story. People aren’t buying your organization. When someone asks: “What do you do?” they’re not interested in your organization so much as what your organization accomplishes.

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Google Alerts for Your Nonprofit: Why You Need Them and How to Set Them Up

Bloomerang

You’ve got donors, supporters, and potential supporters out in your community and beyond. If they’re talking about your nonprofit, you probably want to know what they’re saying, right? That’s great in theory, but how do you go about doing that? Do you have the time or resources to find out what people are saying? If you’re like most nonprofit professionals, you’re too busy focusing on your day-to-day tasks to search the internet for mentions of your nonprofit.

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Instagram For Nonprofits: The Ultimate Guide

Wild Apricot

The post Instagram For Nonprofits: The Ultimate Guide appeared first on WildApricot.

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The Influencer Effect: An Immune Booster to Help Grow Your Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

The Influencer Effect is an economical and simple way to imbue all facets of your organization with the supplements needed to fulfill your mission. Here are some ways it can have a profound effect on donors, especially Gen Z and millennials.

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How to create your new nonprofit’s first budget

Get Fully Funded

When you’re just getting started, it’s critical that one of your first steps is to create your nonprofit’s first budget to help you manage both your organization and your finances as it grows. A budget combined with a fundraising plan can help you make sure there’s always money to pay for the things you need to operate your programs.

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Defining equitable access begins at home 

Candid

Roughly 10% of U.S. nonprofits are led by individuals from Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color, yet they only receive about 4% of grant dollars annually. The reasons for this are many, but it is no coincidence that over 90% of foundation CEOs are white. Organizations led by individuals of color face barriers to funding that their white-led counterparts simply do not, resulting in significantly less financial support.

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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 to Host a Pledge Drive: The Complete Guide

Qgiv

A pledge drive is a fundraising campaign where donors promise a gift amount to your organization based on a goal set by you or your participants. As your organization or participants meet those goals, donors increase their pledged donation. Pledge drives are great for urgent fundraising and can be centered around an event or peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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MacKenzie Scott to Give Away $250M in Funding to Small Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving will provide 250 $1 million unrestricted operating gifts to small nonprofits. The application process is now open, with awardees expected to be announced early next year.

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Making Your Nonprofit’s Donation Page Accessible to All

Donorbox

Did you know that less than 2% of the world’s top websites can be considered fully accessible? This means that individuals with disabilities – an estimated 1.3 billion people around the world – are often barred from accessing important information and resources found on these websites. Nonprofit organizations are among those that can benefit most […] The post Making Your Nonprofit’s Donation Page Accessible to All appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Congratulations to Canada’s Best Diversity Employers

Charity Village

Canada’s Top 100 has released their picks for Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. CharityVillage congratulates the CAMH / Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, and the other not-for-profits included on this year’s list. Applications for the 2024 competition will be available in early 2023. For further details about the selection process and […] The post Congratulations to Canada’s Best Diversity Employers appeared first on Charit

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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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How To Use The MOVE Framework To Be A More Effective Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In their new book, Real-Time Leadership , leadership coaches David Noble and Carol Kauffman teach leaders how to use their unique MOVE framework to help leaders adjust their reflexive reactions and optimize their responses to any situation – including unexpected and complex leadership challenges. The MOVE framework includes these four key elements : M : Be Mindfully Alert.

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3 Ways to Stand Out With Impact

NonProfit PRO

With so many options from which donors can select, standing out through a stellar impact offering is imperative. So here are some tips for doing just that.

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Your Best Fundraising Era Yet: What Your Nonprofit Can Learn From Taylor Swift’s Marketing Strategy

Bloomerang

Millions of people around the world followed Taylor Swift’s promotional campaign for her Midnights album—a feat that proves she knows what she’s doing when it comes to marketing. You may not have the same amount of time, money, or resources at your disposal, but you can still implement some of her marketing strategies when planning your fundraising campaign.

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How to get an Executive Director role

Charity Village

A CEO is typically considered to be the most prestigious role within a private sector company. In contrast, becoming an executive director is often seen as one of the most impressive roles that you can eventually earn in a nonprofit. An executive director is responsible for leading a nonprofit organization. Duties include (but are not […] The post How to get an Executive Director role appeared first on CharityVillage.

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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 Data is in. Nonprofits are getting more operational support.

Blue Avocado

A compelling case for how nonprofits can build organizational capacity and infrastructure to ensure longevity by getting funding for those investments for their nonprofit. The post The Data is in. Nonprofits are getting more operational support. appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Research Shows Only 1.2% of.org Domains Have Adequate Phishing Protection

NonProfit PRO

New research from email security provider EasyDMARC reviewed a dataset of 9,935,024 verified.org email domains. EasyDMARC found that only 376,497 (3.8%) domains had implemented the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) security standard.

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The Ethics and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence in the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit AF

Hi everyone, and happy Spring if you are in the Northern Hemisphere. Last week, I moderated a conversation on Artificial.

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4 questions to guide your next communications hire

Big Duck

The post 4 questions to guide your next communications hire appeared first on Big Duck.

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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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Volunteer Management: Master it in 2023

Volunteer Hub

Leveraging technology to manage volunteers in 2023 is essential. In this post, learn more about effective volunteer management and the value of volunteer management software. So, you’ve been tasked with running a volunteer program. Running a successful volunteer program means managing a lot of moving parts. If you want to make a significant impact, volunteer engagement and management strategy should be at the top of your list, especially if volunteers play a vital role in helping your organizati

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Beyond Beds: The Case for a Better Housing Solution

NonProfit PRO

Invest in the right technology that better empowers you to serve people in need and reduce homelessness in your community. Apricot has the capabilities to help you meet the growing number of participants, guide participants to a pathway of self-sufficiency, and quickly build reports that show impact, all while fulfilling compliance needs.

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Ten tips for successful onboarding

Charity Village

Onboarding your new employee starts as soon as you have a signed contract. As the last part of the hiring process, onboarding can sometimes be overlooked when it comes to planning. If you consider that 33% of new employees will decide within the first 30 days whether or not they wish to stay with an […] The post Ten tips for successful onboarding appeared first on CharityVillage.

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AI in Grantmaking: Taking Careful Steps Toward the Future

sgEngage

By now you’ve likely seen or heard about artificial intelligence (AI), and the predictions that it’s going to upend everything we do. Maybe you’ve even played around with ChatGPT or some other AI language tool. Maybe your organization even uses some early AI for administrative tasks, like a chatbot for questions. I tried ChatGPT and can tell you it writes wonderful haikus, crafted a pretty decent Valentine’s Day message for my sweetheart, and correctly predicted many of the matchups in my collea

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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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Exceptional Digital Experiences for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Forum One

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. Crafting digital experiences for institutions thought of as “in-person” or “hands-on” may seem like a challenge, but it’s a practice we relish at Forum One. Our work with museums and cultural intuitions goes way beyond websites with easy-to-find visitor information (though that’s important too!

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Common Good Achieves B Corp Certification

NonProfit PRO

Health and happiness advertising agency Common Good has been granted B Corp status—a private certification of for-profit companies of social and environmental performance—by nonprofit B Lab.

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Pro tips for acing your next job interview

Charity Village

If you’ve found yourself in the market for a new job this year, you aren’t alone! Whether you are looking for your first job, have found yourself recently unemployed, or are ready to move on to greener pastures at a new organization, you’re joining the many Canadians on the hunt for new career opportunities. While […] The post Pro tips for acing your next job interview appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Trends in Grantmaking: Achieving Lasting Impact Through Trust-Based Philanthropy

sgEngage

Trust must be earned. “Earning” denotes work. And that work can come in a variety of forms: work by your grantee to fill out long applications with questions about programs, finances, staff, sustainability, and internal controls that get read and then filed. Or it can be your research and conversations to confirm the dedication to a shared mission. While there will always be a baseline of information needed to make sure your grant funds are stewarded well, the best place to start is with trust.

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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.