NonProfit PRO

APRIL 22, 2025

The number of donors to nonprofits has been declining.Here are some insights into why donor count is dropping and what you can do about it.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2025

If your nonprofit has ever tried to revamp its website , acquire a grant, or prepare for an audit, you know there are some roles for which your team simply isnt prepared. Its uncommon for nonprofit organizations to have a comprehensive skillset in-house. For this reason, nonprofits often seek expertise from external consultants and vendors. Whether you currently have a handle on your mission-critical tasks or need to outsource immediately, creating a request for proposals (RFP) sets the stage fo

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2025

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Eco-Friendly Fundraising: Sustainable Ideas for Earth Day and Beyond Sustainability isnt just a buzzwordits a value that resonates deeply with many nonprofit missions. Whether your organization works in environmental advocacy or not, Earth Day (April 22) offers a timely opportunity to think about how your fundraising and operations can be a little greener.

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Media Cause

APRIL 24, 2025

Introduction This guide brings together key themes and actionable strategies designed to help nonprofits achieve sustainable fundraising success. From the fundamentals of strategic planning and goal setting to the latest digital tactics and innovative trends , you’ll discover practical tips that can be adapted to your unique mission and donor base.

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Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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DonorPerfect

APRIL 23, 2025

Your guide to securing corporate donations, sponsorships, and long-term giving partnerships Corporate giving is no longer just a line item in the budget it’s a meaningful driver of change in philanthropy. For nonprofits, company donations to charity represent more than financial support; they open doors to valuable partnerships, community engagement, and long-term impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2025

In the nonprofit sector, effective communication is pivotal for increasing donations, promoting advocacy, and mobilizing communities. Organizations need to choose communication strategies that are effective, scalable, and cost-efficient. While peer-to-peer text messaging has long been used for direct supporter engagement, broadcast text messaging is emerging as the superior solution for nonprofits.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2025

Its a bold questionbut its the one association leaders must ask themselves today: Are we writing our own case study in innovation, or are we inching toward irrelevance while clinging to yesterdays strategies? The truth is disruption doesnt ask for permission. It doesnt care if youve had a stellar year or if your team just got comfortable with your new AMS.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 21, 2025

Ask ChatGPT anything latelyhow to poach an egg, whether you should hug a cactusand you may be greeted with a burst of purple praise: Good question! Youre very astute to ask that. To some extent, ChatGPT has been a sycophant for years , but since late March, a growing cohort of Redditors, X users, and Ars readers say that GPT-4o's relentless pep has crossed the line from friendly to unbearable.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

A new survey is a wakeup call for parents who believe their teen would never exchange sexually explicit imagery of themselves for money or other valuable items like gift cards, clothing, gaming currency, and social media followers and likes. The survey, conducted in fall 2024, found that 1 in 7 young people participated in a "commodified sexual interaction" at least one time before they turned 18.

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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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 25, 2025

Independent bookstores have long been champions of community, curiosity, and cultureand on Saturday, April 26, they get their moment in the spotlight. Independent Bookstore Day , a nationwide celebration of indie bookstores, invites readers to shop locally and support the spaces that keep storytelling vibrant. But this year, the festivities come with a wrinkle: Amazon is holding a major book sale at the same time, and many booksellers and readers aren’t having it.

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The MatrixFiles

APRIL 22, 2025

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In honor of Earth Day, I want to share a story about our recent office closing at Matrix Group, and how we tried to do it in the most sustainable, community-minded way possible. Closing our Arlington, VA office was a bittersweet milestone. After years of working fully remotely and knowing that remote work was here to stay for us, it didnt make sense to renew our lease.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 25, 2025

A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case admitted using artificial intelligence in a brief that has nearly 30 defective citations, including misquotes and citations to fictional cases, a federal judge said. "[T]he Court identified nearly thirty defective citations in the Opposition. These defects include but are not limited to misquotes of cited cases; misrepresentations of principles of law associated with cited cases, including discussions of legal principle

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Futurism

APRIL 25, 2025

Now here's a legal-drama-worthy twist in the recent spate of dumb lawyers getting caught using AI : it turns out that the very bar exam administered to aspiring attorneys in California was itself created with the help of a large language model, The Los Angeles Times reports. The admission was made by the State Bar of California on Monday, following complaints about the quality of the test's questions, and numerous glitches experienced by test-takers when they took it in February.

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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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

For decades, huge swaths of Brazils Cerrado ecosystem have been used to support the global demand for burgers. Forests and grasslands were replaced by pastures along with farms growing soy to feed cattle. But a major restoration project is now underway on an area nearly twice as large as Manhattan. If you fly over one part of southwestern Brazil, youll see a patchwork of dozens of square plots where a local university is studying different methods of helping native plants regrow on former cattle

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

For supporters of rail travel, which offers more environmental benefits than autos or planes , Earth Day 2025 is the best of times and the worst of times. Best of times: Privately-funded Brightline is in pre-construction for a project connecting Las Vegas to the L.A. suburb of Rancho Cucamonga , while boasting impressive ridership on its Miami-to-Orlando route.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 25, 2025

The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion last year into sensitive networks belonging to multiple US telecommunications companies. Salt Typhoon is one of a half-dozen or more hacking groups that work on behalf of the Peoples Republic of China. Intelligence agencies and private security companies have concluded the group has been behind a string of espionage attacks designed to collect vital information, in part f

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Futurism

APRIL 19, 2025

Unperturbed by the dystopian optics, the Royal Thai Police have deployed a humanoid police robot during a festival. As the Straits Times reports , the unsettling robot, dubbed "AI police cyborg 1.0" even though it's technically more of an android and not a cyborg surveyed the streets during the country's Songkran festival using 360-degree cameras.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

The 2025 NFL Draft is next week, and the front-runner for the No. 1 overall pick, University of Miami quarterback Cam Ward, is an anomaly. In any other year, the top prospect being a journeyman who attended three schools in five years and ended his career by losing the Pop Tarts Bowl would be nearly impossible. But now it may be the new reality of the college-to-pro transition.

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VentureBeat

APRIL 21, 2025

Anthropic's groundbreaking study analyzes 700,000 conversations to reveal how AI assistant Claude expresses 3,307 unique values in real-world interactions, providing new insights into AI alignment and safety.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 25, 2025

There's a curious contradiction at the heart of today's most capable AI models that purport to "reason": They can solve routine math problems with impressive accuracy, yet when faced with formulating deeper mathematical proofs found in competition-level challenges, they often fail. That's the finding of eye-opening preprint research into simulated reasoning (SR) models, initially listed in March and updated in April, that mostly fell under the news radar.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of iron carbonate, could be crucial evidence to support the theory that Mars once had a thick carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, allowing a warm enough environment to support oceans , lakes, and streams.

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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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the regions vast petrochemical industry. A new study led by Tulane University backs up that view, revealing stark racial disparities across the U.S.s petrochemical workforce.

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Futurism

APRIL 24, 2025

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's well-documented shift to the far right has proven disastrous for the carmaker's brand. On Tuesday, the company revealed that its net income had plummeted by an astonishing 71 percent. Sales have plummeted across the globe as consumers are becoming wary of being associated with the highly divisive personality. And as The Economist points out , it's not just progressive voters who've become turned off from the carmaker's offerings.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 24, 2025

Comcast executives apparently realized something that customers have known and complained about for years: The Internet provider's prices aren't transparent enough and rise too frequently. This might not have mattered much to cable executives as long as the total number of subscribers met their targets. But after reporting a net loss of 183,000 residential broadband customers in Q1 2025, Comcast President Mike Cavanagh said the company isn't "winning in the marketplace" during an earnings call t

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

Motorola finally shut off all the leaks surrounding its new Razr phones on Thursday by just announcing them officially. The American tech firm announced its latest batch of foldable phones, which consists of three new Razr devices: The Razr (2025), Razr Plus (2025), and Razr Ultra. You can see a full rundown of specs and features in Motorola's company blog post , but suffice it to say, the Ultra with the wood finish is probably the star of the show here.

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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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