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Good Culture Makes Good Sense

.orgSource

Smiley or sad—which describes your culture? Some people work on a dream team. Others are ready to be a statistic in the Great Resignation. What makes the difference? If your answer was people, go to the head of the class. When I want to explore interpersonal dynamics in the workplace, I look to.orgSource consultant […]. The post Good Culture Makes Good Sense appeared first on.orgSource.

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5 Oculus Quest Tips for Nonprofits New to the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you have yet to experience virtual reality (VR), your first adventure into the metaverse using an Oculus Quest will provoke many self exclamations of awe and amazement. From the first experience of surround sound to seeing your hands function and your body moving through a digital world, nonprofit marketers and fundraisers absolutely need to explore this next iteration of the internet.

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The Individual Donor Problem — Are You Addressing It?

NonProfit PRO

America is a very giving nation, and individual donors are leading the way. Americans gave more in 2020 than in 2019. In fact, of the record $471 billion contributed in total, about 80% were from individuals. However, despite growing giving dollar totals, there is a individual donor problem.

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How to Make Analytics a Priority – Finally!

Association Analytics

It’s a new year with a new start. You probably have a long list of great things you want to accomplish this year…including making analytics a priority. We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. This may seem like a daunting task, but it’s easier than you think.

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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 Write The Best Thank-You Letter for Donations + Three Templates and Samples

Wild Apricot

You’ve worked hard to bring in those donations, but does the work stop there? Absolutely not. In fact, in a lot of ways it’s just starting. When a donor makes a gift to your organization — especially if it’s their first one.

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4 Tips for Managing Massive Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you are a NPO development pro, there are a few things we know about you for sure: The world needs more benevolence creators like you, and you are driven to serve others, ease suffering, and bring hope to the world. That is a GREAT start. However, to achieve your goal, what else do you need? an identified need in the community you serve. people who want to help. a revenue goal and a budget. the tools to help you do your job.

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Strategies for driving non-dues revenue for your association

Nimble AMS

Taking a strategic approach to driving non-dues revenue might seem challenging. But it doesn’t have to be. . Read on for proven techniques and technolog ies that will help you boost your non-dues revenue in no time. . Driving non-dues revenue is critically important to your association’s long-term success. It helps smooth out the bumps in the financial road. .

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Candid

The Great Resignation was a long time in the making. The warning signs included the ongoing toxic combination of low pay and overwhelming workloads endemic in nonprofit work that leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and ultimately burnout. The pandemic exacerbated these rumblings not only because these stressors increased but because people experienced a different kind of work life, with more flexibility to work from home and less hovering by management.

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[FREE WEBINAR] How to Host a Successful Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. Cost: Free. Presented by: Nidhi Doshi , Co-founder of Paybee. Franco Finn , Charity Auctioneer and Emcee. A virtual fundraising event can outperform an in-person event if it is well-planned and hosted using secure technology. In this webinar, learn what it takes to make your virtual fundraising event a success from planning, to execution, to follow-up.

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2 Arguments for Why Nonprofits Should Stay on Facebook

NonProfit PRO

Facebook seems to always make controversial headlines. When the platform created fundraising tools, it was an exciting new innovation for nonprofit organizations. However, this too was eventually regarded in a controversial manner. Here's why your nonprofit should continue using Facebook despite these criticisms.

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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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10 reasons Nimble AMS clients love Person Accounts

Nimble AMS

The data model used by your association management software (AMS) matters. . As Nimble AMS celebrates its 10 th birthday (and 30 th product release!), take a look at these 10 reasons Nimble AMS clients love the Person Accounts data model. If you use (or you’re thinking about moving to) an association management software (AMS) system built on the Salesforce platform, there’s something you should know: You have a choice of data models, and the Person Accounts data model is ideal for associa

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Four steps to improving productivity in your nonprofit workday

Charity Village

“Ruthless” is not a word you often hear in the nonprofit sector. Yet, it’s a necessary approach if you want to be productive as a nonprofit professional. In my upcoming webinar, I’ll be discussing how being more ruthless with your time and energy will help you advance your nonprofit’s mission, work more effectively, and avoid […]. The post Four steps to improving productivity in your nonprofit workday appeared first on CharityVillage.

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The Future of Inclusive Nonprofits: Where do you stand with nonprofit DEI work?

DonorPerfect

In the nonprofit sector, DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) work refers to initiatives that promote safety, advocacy, and belonging for nonprofit employees and donors of color, especially in professional and educational settings. Recent studies show that many organizations fall short in this fight, lacking an understanding of the level of inclusivity necessary to properly represent Read More ».

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Transform Charitable Giving by Accepting Donated Stock

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits must diversify and grow funding strategies to compete. Appreciated stock represents $100 billion in untapped funding, and new ways of stock gifting have enabled 60 million American investors to donate stock in minutes.

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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 can the strategic planning process promote effective nonprofit decision-making?

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration by Yuxin Qin. posted by Bob Sell Spring 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Nonprofit leaders make decisions. In fact, the nonprofit leader’s job description could be described as: Worry about worst-case scenarios. Sign your name on things. Make decisions. Every nonprofit leader must be comfortable making decisions and be willing to own the outcomes no matter what.

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12 Can’t-Miss Nonprofit Conferences in 2022

Donorbox

Attending nonprofit conferences is necessary if you want yourself to keep up with trends and best practices being utilized in the nonprofit world. Conferences are usually short (1-3 days), efficient, and wildly helpful approaches to learning from experts. Collaborating with and meeting a diverse array of nonprofit professionals from various casual areas helps take your […].

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Tips For Unlocking Hidden Dollars at Your Next Fundraising Event

Greater Giving

Every event has the potential to exceed your fundraising goals. At Artisan Auctions, we like to call that potential “Hidden Dollars”. Hidden dollars exist in all facets of your fundraising gala, whether it be virtual, live, hybrid, from your appeal story to your auction items and more. It’s important to unlock that potential at every opportunity during your event.

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Swipe Right: Tips for Approaching Your Donors Taken From the Online Dating Scene

NonProfit PRO

In this swipe left/swipe right world, those in the dating scene have learned to make very quick decisions about whom they are interested, often with very little information at the outset. In an instant, they decide to swipe left (delete) or swipe right (connect), deciding if a person is worth getting to know based on a profile picture, a tagline and maybe a few key facts. .

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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 Marketing: 3 Easy Ways To Grow Your Audience

Top Nonprofits

Your nonprofit pursues a worthwhile mission, and as a marketing professional, it’s up to you to find the unique channels and messages that help current and potential supporters see that. Otherwise, they might take their support to a different organization that better communicates its purpose and inspires its audience to take action. Not to mention, you’re likely working with limited marketing dollars, meaning the strategies you choose should not only spread the word about your mission, but also

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Using smart tech to reimagine nonprofit work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AI and other smart tech can make work culture more human, but only if you know how the tech works and focus on using it to do what it does best (answer rote questions online) and allow people to do what we do best (e.g. strengthen relationships, tell stories, empathize with others.). Here is an article on the Candid blog that I wrote with the brilliant Allison Fine on how to use smart tech to create more work-life balance for all.

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The 11 Stages of the Sponsorship Journey 

The Sponsorship Collective

What does your sponsorship journey look like? Without a documented methodology for how you get from Point A to Point B, your company or organization is forced to start from zero with each new sponsorship prospect. This can create stress where there doesn’t have to be any. Although every sponsor is different, I’ve found through […]. The post The 11 Stages of the Sponsorship Journey appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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Get a Big Fundraising Vision

NonProfit PRO

Don’t get me started on what we’re seeing in donor and donor value attrition. Terrible. Big donors are disappearing faster than you can blink. Why? No fundraising vision.

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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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The Final Step of the Nonprofit Audit: Presenting Financial Statements to Your Board

sgEngage

Preparing for a successful nonprofit audit requires partnership between Program and Finance to manage risk and program results. In previous posts, we cover the steps to take to ensure the annual audit is a byproduct of leadership and oversight of our programs. For a refresh on the steps and internal controls that need to be established, you can read my previous blogs here: How Finance Can Partner with Program for Audit Success.

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Reaching Senior Volunteers with Management Software

Volunteer Hub

Updated: 2/15/2022. Reaching Senior Volunteers: Volunteer management software can help your nonprofit recruit and register tech-savvy and non-tech-savvy senior volunteers. Volunteerism offers a variety of benefits for seniors who are looking to provide support to their community. Active volunteering has been shown to provide socialization, mental-health, and physical health benefits.

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Ask Rita: Religious Exemptions from Regular Work Duties—What Am I to Do?

Blue Avocado

Dear Rita, I am the HR Manager in a medium-sized nonprofit of about 30 employees. We are a social services organization, and among other things, we actively participate in food distribution to people in need around the holidays. Recently, one of our newly hired employees advised us that they have an objection to participating in […]. The post Ask Rita: Religious Exemptions from Regular Work Duties—What Am I to Do?

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The State of Nonprofit Technology

NonProfit PRO

This insightful resource highlights how nonprofits are investing in technology, what value these technologies have on their organizations and which technologies will be trending upward in the future. Download this report to learn how technology has transformed the way nonprofits operate, which solutions and services you should be investing in and more.

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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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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 222: U.S. Public Policy: Look Ahead for 2022

sgEngage

Public policy impacts decisions made around charitable giving. These policies can influence how people give, when they give, and how much they give. So what are the likely effects for 2022? In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Brian Flahaven to learn how policies have impacted giving over the past few years and what’s ahead for the coming year. Listen in to hear what Brian has to say about his role in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and what they do, what current legi

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Online Volunteer Management: Making the Transition

Volunteer Hub

Updated: 2/14/2022. Choosing the right online volunteer management system is an important decision. Below are a few things to consider when making the best selection for your organization. Is your nonprofit considering the leap to an online volunteer management system ? It’s a big step, but it can deliver tremendous return on investment for your organization.

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Boost Your Media Literacy Skills with Free Online Courses on Hive Mind

Tech Soup

Hive Mind , powered by the TechSoup Global Network , is a safe learning space for activists, trainers, and organizations around the world. It helps civil society actors build their digital resilience.

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How Nonprofits Can Help Meet Growing Demands for Authentic Corporate Social Responsibility

NonProfit PRO

For an industry that’s long been faced with the challenge of donations coming seasonally — during the holidays, for instance — the opportunity to fuel new growth and greater, more consistent impact through brands seeking corporate social responsibility is enormous.

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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.