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6 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Text Fundraising Effectively

DonorPerfect

By Jessica Kottkamp, Constant Contact VP of Partner Marketing In the fast-paced digital landscape, nonprofits must find effective ways to connect with their supporters. In recent years, SMS marketingknown to nonprofit professionals as text fundraisinghas grown as a preferred method of communication for many people, offering organizations an edge for direct, real-time communication.

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How to Find High-Value Donors: 5 Steps for Nonprofits

Achieve

Whether youre looking ahead to a capital campaign , bolstering your reserve funds, or simply trying to raise more for your cause, donors are the first group you turn to. In particular, generous donors who give significant financial support can be like a jetpack on your nonprofits fundraising efforts, flying you toward your goals. High-value donors, or major donors, are the individuals who make the largest contributions to your organization.

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How to motivate your team in times of uncertainty

Fast Company Tech

Many leaders are struggling right now with how to lead their teams to be productive with so much financial and regulatory uncertainty. Few would blame them. After three years of pouring their hearts and souls into developing vehicle safety technology, Jacobs team suddenly found itself wondering if it was all for nothing. Grants they had already received suddenly had new requirements that were challenging to meet, budgets theyd allocated were frozen by their parent organization fearing a coming r

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Is It The End of Your Fiscal Year? It’s Time for a Nonprofit Tech Checkup

Neon CRM

The start of a new fiscal year is a great time to review your nonprofits budget and update your strategic plan. But its also an opportunity to take a step back and evaluate the tools and platforms you use to manage your everyday operations. If youre like many nonprofits, the tools you use were chosen to meet an immediate need instead of as a part of a larger strategy.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

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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Mobile-First Fundraising: Why Your Team Needs Flipcause LIVE This Summer

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Mobile-First Fundraising: Why Your Team Needs Flipcause LIVE This Summer Summer is a time for festivals, community gatherings, and outdoor fundraisersand that means your fundraising tools need to move with you. Whether you’re managing a donor table at a local event, running a volunteer check-in tent, or juggling your campaigns from the road, being mobile-ready isn’t a luxury anymoreits a necessity.

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Health insurance is fundamentally broken. Here’s how to fix it from the ground up

Fast Company Tech

Its no secret that when it comes to simplicity and convenience, insurance has lagged behind modern businesses across most industries. While many legacy products have been overturned by newer, intuitive solutions or adapted to meet todays consumers needs, insurance offerings have remained a complex anomalybuilt more for business and regulatory needs rather than real people.

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AlphaMind Labs: Redefining Web3 Fundraising with Community-Driven Innovation

Medium Technology Section

In the evolving landscape of Web3, AlphaMind Labs emerges as a transformative force, reshaping how blockchain projects launch and grow.

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Squarespace for Nonprofits: Building Websites Made Easy

Donorbox

Did you know that 94% of consumers/donors say their first impression of a brand is based on its websites design? A well-designed nonprofit website can be the deciding factor between gaining a donation and losing a potential supporter. Squarespace is a popular website builder known for its sleek templates and simplicity, making it a great […] The post Squarespace for Nonprofits: Building Websites Made Easy appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Do you ‘hurkle-durkle’? Here’s why it’s not always a good idea

Fast Company Tech

Recently, an ear infection and subsequent case of hives kept me in bed for a week. The first few days, I was tired and told myself to rest. But the rest of the week? Well, I enjoyed staying in bed, drinking coffee, and lingering over Wordle , Spelling Bee , and emails. So, the following week, I stayed in bed a little longer than usual, too. Turns out, I was hurkle-durkling.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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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How Fundraisers Can Escape the Perfectionist Trap

NonProfit PRO

Fundraising success depends on getting it right, which can trigger perfectionist tendencies.But perfectionism is an impossible goal. Here's how to escape it.

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Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour

Mashable Tech

You've probably heard that statistic that every search on ChatGPT uses the equivalent of a bottle of water. And while that's technically true, it misses some of the nuance. The MIT Technology Review dropped a massive report that reveals how the artificial intelligence industry uses energy — and exactly how much energy it costs to use a service like ChatGPT.

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Signal resorts to “weird trick” to block Windows Recall in Desktop app

Ars Technica

Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store almost everything a user does every three seconds. Effective immediately, Signal for Windows will by default block the ability of Windows to screenshot the app.

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FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season

Wired

Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

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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House Passes Budget Reconciliation Bill That Would Tax Nonprofits Nearly $50B

NonProfit PRO

The budget reconciliation bill Republicans are calling The One, Big, Beautiful Bill heads to the Senate despite cries from the nonprofit sector that it would hand over a $50 billion tax bill to tax-exempt organizations over the next decade.

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RCS for Nonprofits: A Game-Changer for Text Messaging

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Evan Johnson , Content Manager at Mobile Commons a mobile messaging platform purpose-built for nonprofits to spread their message and engage with supporters. The mobile messaging landscape shifted dramatically with Apple’s 2024 announcement: starting with iOS 18, iPhones will support Rich Communication Services (RCS). This move marks a new era where rich, secure, interactive texting becomes the normacross Android and Apple devices alike.

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German court takes a stand against manipulative cookie banners

TechSpot

Lower Saxony Data Protection Officer Denis Lehmkemper has won a legal battle in his push for fairer digital privacy practices in Germany. The Hanover Administrative Court ruled that websites must display a clearly visible "reject all" button on cookie banners if they offer an "accept all" option. The recently unsealed.

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Rushing to Check AI Off Your List Could Cost You

.orgSource

Do we have an AI policy yet? If that question sparked a flurry of emailsor worse, got added to someones already overflowing to-do listyoure not alone. Across the association landscape, leaders are feeling the pressure to keep up with AI. Draft a policy. Hold a quick training. Show the board youre on it. Check the box. But lets be clear: treating AI like a compliance task instead of a strategic priority is a recipe for confusion, risk, and missed opportunity.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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The Scarcity of Money from Nonprofit Major Donors

NonProfit PRO

With the uncertainty in the economy now focused on nonprofits, here's how these organizations should approach their major donor programs.

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Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

Futurism

Your DNA results are in and they're 100 percent the property of a pharmaceutical manufacturer. American biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced today that it's buying 23andMe, the bankrupt consumer-genomics company that sold take-home DNA kits. Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire " substantially all " of 23andMe's assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

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NVIDIA and Microsoft Accelerate Agentic AI Innovation, From Cloud to PC

NVIDIA AI Blog

Agentic AI is redefining scientific discovery and unlocking research breakthroughs and innovations across industries. Through deepened collaboration, NVIDIA and Microsoft are delivering advancements that accelerate agentic AI-powered applications from the cloud to the PC. At Microsoft Build, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Discovery , an extensible platform built to empower researchers to transform the entire discovery process with agentic AI.

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Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spying

Ars Technica

The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking operations as varied as ransomware, wartime cyberattacks in Ukraine, and spying against foreign governments.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

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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Google Meet can now do AI-powered live voice translation

Mashable Tech

You already know Google Translate, but what about live voice translation in Google Meet? This feature is one of the major Workspace announcements Google shared at its annual I/O event on Tuesday. Starting today, Google is rolling out real-time speech translation in Google Meet for subscribers of its AI Premium plan. When a user on a Google Meet video call turns on this feature, an AI audio model uses their speech to live translate what they're saying into another language.

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At Google I/O, Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance — and declares Google will build the first AGI

VentureBeat

Google co-founder Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance at Google I/O, declaring "Gemini will be the very first AGI," revealing philosophical tensions with DeepMind CEO Hassabis who urges scientific caution in the high-stakes AI race.

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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

Wired

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

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A Billion Dollar AI Startup Just Collapsed Spectacularly

Futurism

As the artificial intelligence industry struggles with ever-rising costs not to mention a steady uptick in hallucinations investors are getting impatient. One investment firm went as far as seizing $37 million from accounts owned by Builder.ai, a UK-based AI startup meant to make developing apps "as easy as ordering a pizza." That left the company with just $5 million, according to Bloomberg , prompting its senior lenders to place it into default.

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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.