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[FREE WEBINAR] 6 Ways to Prevent Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Site from Getting Hacked

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. Presented by: Chuck Spidell , WordPress Security Expert at ILLUSIO. Cost: Free. If you’re part of a small nonprofit comms team, your WordPress website updates probably aren’t high on the priority list – but they should be. It’s hard to stay on top of the site maintenance but in the back of your mind, you know it needs to be done.

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As the Pandemic Ends—The Need to Reinvent Grows

.orgSource

I found a relic of my former life when I was organizing my files. It was a presentation I created back in January 2020. The title was Association 4.0—Creating Community in a Less Social World. I planned to use the deck to launch a new series of in-person Think Tanks. The topic was going to […]. The post As the Pandemic Ends—The Need to Reinvent Grows appeared first on.orgSource.

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How To Activate Your Board For Fundraising

Wild Apricot

This is a guest post from Candace Cody, Manager of Content + Education at CauseVox. Your nonprofit’s board is one of the most powerful fundraising assets you have. But often our board members go untapped: either because you don’t think.

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How to Nail the Perfect Elevator Pitch

Greater Giving

You have just 2 minutes with a prospective donor. It’s time to #NailYourPitch. One of the most common situations you’ll find yourself in working in the nonprofit field: Having a casual conversation with someone—someone who might even be a prospective sponsor or major donor!—and getting the question, “So what does your organization do?”. This is the perfect segue to a meaningful, productive dialogue about your nonprofit’s mission.

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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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Making Strategic Planning (Relatively) Painless

Blue Avocado

Strategic planning time! Do I hear groans or cheers? In my experience sitting on nonprofit boards and employed as a nonprofit staff member, I typically hear some grumbling when the topic of strategic planning comes up. Volunteers (or very minimally paid directors) are usually not so excited about adding several more hours to their meeting […].

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Why Hybrid Events Are Necessary For The Event Marketer’s Tool Belt

AccelEvents

As the event industry moves into the digital age, more and more brands are seeking ways to capture audience engagement and garner revenue through event marketing. No matter what the future holds in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and hybrid events are here to stay , and marketers need to take advantage of this powerful revenue generation tool.

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How to Become a Nonprofit Leader

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes How to Become a Nonprofit Leader. Finding your passion is an incredible feeling. It’s even better when your head can follow your heart into a career you love. Whether you aspire to be an executive leader, hold a director’s position, or even launch your own nonprofit, there are rarely clear paths to career development within the nonprofit sector.

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12 Ways to Engage Major Donors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

DonorPerfect

Major donors thrive on their ability to fuel the causes they care about in a very substantial way. Even in a year when overall giving growth declined, revenue from major gifts increased. Adapting your major giving strategy to succeed in the next normal should top the list of every nonprofit. That’s why DonorPerfect teamed up Read More ». The post 12 Ways to Engage Major Donors During the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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How to Send a Nonprofit Appeal and Get Results

Get Fully Funded

Direct mail is a valuable fundraising strategy, but figuring out how to send a nonprofit appeal can be confusing. It seems like it should be simple. You’re just mailing a letter asking for a donation, right? But there are dozens of ways it can go wrong. And SO many questions that need answering before you start. Should you use a mailhouse? Recruit volunteers to stuff and stamp hundreds of envelopes?

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Books That Changed Us in 2020

Media Cause

There are so many big things, scary, unexpected things that changed us as individuals, families, communities, and a collective human race in 2020, that as I was trying to write this blog post, it was hard to know where to start. But frankly, I’m not sure we really need another blog post talking about all those things right now. What’s left to be said that hasn’t already been written?

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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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Ask Rita: We Can Require Employees to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine—But Should We?

Blue Avocado

Dear Rita, Our nonprofit has several employees who provide a variety of direct services personally to our clients, in our offices as well as other locations. We have taken great measures since the pandemic struck to protect both our clients and our employees and to keep them as safe as we possibly could. Now that […]. The post Ask Rita: We Can Require Employees to Receive the Covid-19 Vaccine—But Should We?

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A Message from the Future of Sponsorship

The Sponsorship Collective

If you could go back in time three months ago, what would you tell your old self? I’m sure you’ve learned a lot more about the ins and outs of sponsorship since then, so you’d probably have some valuable information to share. Now imagine what the future you three months from now would have to […]. The post A Message from the Future of Sponsorship appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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3 Financial Statements to Watch Closely Each Month For Your Nonprofit

Blue Fox

Our philosophy at Blue Fox is that social impact organizations will thrive if they pay as much attention to financial management as they do fundraising, events, and marketing. There are so many resources (conferences, webinars, ebooks, and consultants) in the “fun areas” of nonprofit management but not as many focused on nonprofit organizational growth through financial stewardship.

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Digital Transformation: How to Identify and Rely on Your Partners, Advocates, and Champions

Forum One

Change is hard. Even seemingly minor changes can give us a sense of dread — something could go wrong—or worse, could fail completely. So, it makes sense that something as all-encompassing as digital transformation feels herculean. And, whether you are taking a piecemeal approach or attempting a radical change in the way your organization operates, the greatest challenge you are likely to come across isn’t selecting what technologies or tools to implement, rather, it’s getting everyone on board w

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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 handle a bully

Hands on Fundraising

Lately, we’ve seen a rash of stories about the problem of bullying in nonprofit organizations. Yes, these organizations meant to make the world a better place can be the place where people are made to feel awful. We’re not at all exempt. Sometimes, I think we might be more at risk. During a Twitter conversation […]. The post How to handle a bully appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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5 Clichés About Sponsorship You Should Avoid

The Sponsorship Collective

Love is blind. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Actions speak louder than words. Clichés are sometimes true, but more often than that, they’re tired and what’s worse, tiring. Sponsorship companies have been around the block so many times that your clichés might put them to sleep. What are some sponsorship clichés to […]. The post 5 Clichés About Sponsorship You Should Avoid appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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Hybrid Events and Your Marketing Goals

AccelEvents

You’ve decided to run a hybrid event because you’ve realized their potential as a powerful revenue driver. So what’s next? You must align your hybrid event schedule, features, and planning process with your marketing goals to maximize your hybrid event’s profitability. Hopefully, you’re encountering this guide in the early stages of planning your hybrid event.

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Launching Accountable Now to Advocate for Police Reform with Data

Velir

Incidents of police violence in the past decade have fueled the national conversation about racial disparities in policing.

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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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Creating a More Robust Volunteer Development Program During the Covid-19 Crisis

Blue Avocado

What does your volunteer engagement program look like right now? Two case studies—League of Women Voters of Oakland and Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County—explored in this article show us that a successful volunteer program blends elements of human resources management and donor management: Recruiting Training Engaging Appreciating Evaluating Retaining No matter what […].

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Build Donor Engagement Before You Start A Campaign 

NonProfit Hub

When a nonprofit organization decides to undertake a capital campaign, it has most likely identified a need and developed a project to address that need. Usually, the campaign is designed to resource the project. For many organizations, information about the project is first shared with key supporters during a feasibility study. A feasibility study when a third party gathers feedback to evaluate the viability of the fundraising goal and then recommends a path forward.

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5 Steps to Evaluate Employee Learning Performance

Gyrus

An efficient performance management system concentrates on aligning the workforce, improving employee development and performance, building competencies within the work environment, and eventually driving better business results. Read the article to know the 5 steps organizations can follow to evaluate their Employee Learning Performance.

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See You (Virtually) at #21NTC!

Forum One

We are counting down the days until March 23rd when we can connect with you at #21NTC! The Forum One team is excited to be a part of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) , which is taking place online this year. While we will miss meeting everyone in person, we are excited to connect with you virtually. Here are some opportunities to connect and chat with us during #21NTC.

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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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Re-Opening After Covid-19: What Nonprofits Need to Know about Reasonable Accommodation of Employees with Disabilities

Blue Avocado

Although the number of Covid-19 cases varies throughout the United States, nonprofit leaders are undoubtedly eager to re-open organizations and get back to business. While many continue to allow some staff to work remotely, others choose to or must have employees working in the physical workspace to service clients and stakeholders. In re-opening their physical […].

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Funders: Here’s a tool to make your grantmaking more equitable

Nonprofit AF

It is not a secret that I am not a big fan of the way grantmaking has been done in.

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Hybrid Events and Your Marketing Goals

AccelEvents

You’ve decided to run a hybrid event because you’ve realized their potential as a powerful revenue driver. So what’s next? You must align your hybrid event schedule, features, and planning process with your marketing goals to maximize your hybrid event’s profitability. Hopefully, you’re encountering this guide in the early stages of planning your hybrid event.

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Beyond Personas: Data-Driven Audience Insights and How to Use Them

M+R

Read time: 1 minute. Have you ever seen this kind of “donor profile”? Or relied on one yourself? This kind of profile is the result of a line of thinking based on figuring out (or just plain assuming) what a “typical” donor on your file looks like. Sometimes, nonprofits build out a set of personas and plan journeys for them. But that’s only one way to understand your donors…and it’s probably of limited use TBH.

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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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[Register Now]: The Ultimate Virtual Fundraising Course 2.0

CauseVox

Today only! Last-minute registrations are $100. Over the last year, we’ve looked at hundreds of top-performing virtual fundraising events to distill what it really takes to run the most successful virtual fundraiser. And now, we want to share with you a step-by-step process to help you effectively plan and execute a virtual fundraising event at your nonprofit.

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10 Ways To Project A Professional Image

Eric Jacobsen Blog

From Jay Miletsky 's book, 101 Ways to Successfully Market Yourself , here 10 tips for projecting an effective professional image : Discipline yourself to be positive and enthusiastic. In tense situations choose positive responses by maintaining perspective and getting along well with others. Acknowledge mistakes and shortcomings and learn how to correct them.

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Why Hybrid Events Are Necessary For The Event Marketer’s Tool Belt

AccelEvents

As the event industry moves into the digital age, more and more brands are seeking ways to capture audience engagement and garner revenue through event marketing. No matter what the future holds in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and hybrid events are here to stay , and marketers need to take advantage of this powerful revenue generation tool.

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What To Do When One In-Person Event Accounts For All Of Your Fundraising Revenue

Kindful

Nearly a year after the pandemic hit, nonprofits across the country are getting used to fundraising in new ways. While some have found quick success, however, others are struggling to make up fundraising revenue that came from in-person events they can no longer hold. In this guest post, Track15, a nonprofit consultant firm, shares a case study that explores what best practices to implement during this pandemic and in a post-pandemic world.

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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.