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How to Know When It’s Time to Close Your Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

The reality is that with more than 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S., there's a lot of duplication. And donors are more selective, which means you must work twice as hard to give them a reason to provide you with their hard-earned money. Let’s explore six reasons why it’s time to close your nonprofit.

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Build a Culture To Fit the New World of Work

.orgSource

Who on your team is spending the lunch hour scrolling the job sites? I can guarantee that someone is seriously searching for their next opportunity. And, the most likely candidate is probably one of your rising stars. If that thought gives you an uncomfortable shiver, read on. In a world where the office, as we […]. The post Build a Culture To Fit the New World of Work appeared first on.orgSource.

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[Webinar] How to Create a Social Media Strategy for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social media can be an effective communications tool for nonprofits, but only if nonprofits understand that creating engaging content is essential to acquiring new supporters and donors from social media. Customized for small nonprofits with limited time and financial resources, this 90-minute webinar demonstrates how to create and maintain a successful social media strategy.

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21 Association Management Software (AMS) Options to Transform Your Org

Wild Apricot

“I’m drowning here! I wish I could afford an admin assistant!” This is what an association manager posted in a Facebook Group I’m a part of.

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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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What’s Driving the Surge in Monthly Giving?

NonProfit PRO

Monthly giving revenue grew by 24% in 2021 over 2020, according to M+R. Not surprising. Why is monthly giving so attractive to so many donors? And how are nonprofits positioning and promoting the giving vehicle to donors?

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The Ultimate Guide to Year-End Giving for Nonprofits

Bloomerang

The year-end giving season is your nonprofit’s final push to meet and exceed your financial objectives before the start of next year. This is a popular time for charitable giving because supporters are motivated by the holiday spirit and because it’s the last opportunity for donors in the U.S. to submit tax-deductible gifts. 50% of nonprofits receive the majority of donations from October through December, so it’s critical that you have a plan in place to maximize your fundraising efforts during

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How do you choose a payment processor for your nonprofit?

Candid

Whether you’re a nonprofit professional with decades of experience or thinking about starting your own organization , you know how crucial donations are for fueling a nonprofit’s ability to deliver on its mission. One of the most recent trends we’re seeing in the fundraising world is digital-first fundraising. In this approach, nonprofits launch campaigns exclusively online, rather than using digital tools as a secondary source of revenue. .

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Welcome to Your Donor’s Story

NonProfit PRO

Writing a successful fundraising communication — be it an e-appeal, social media post, direct mail letter, personal letter, program copy or anything else — can feel daunting. Especially given the high rate of failure (since 100% response is rare), having to write the ask can seem like a pathway to failure.

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How to Develop a Successful Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy

Bloomerang

Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy encompasses more than just earning donations from supporters. It involves your efforts to recruit new supporters, engage with existing ones, and grow your organization’s influence, all with the goal of funding your mission more efficiently. That’s why developing a strategic fundraising plan is necessary. Whether you’re looking to take an improved approach to your existing strategy or design a new plan from scratch, this guide will steer you through the proce

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10 Great Tech Solutions for Small Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Small nonprofits are often the lifeblood of their communities, providing essential services on very limited budgets with only a few paid team members. Investing in technology can be difficult when time and money are short, but it's important to equip your team with robust tools in order to work towards your mission securely and efficiently.

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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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The June 30 CRA filing deadline is fast approaching!

Charity Village

Reminder, if your charity’s fiscal year ended on December 31, the deadline to file your T3010 annual information return is June 30. As this deadline approaches, the Canada Revenue Agency encourage all charities to file their return using the digital service for charities offered through the My Business Account (MyBA). If you haven’t done so […].

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How Is Fundraising Like Tangled Wires?

NonProfit PRO

Have you ever wondered why wires have a tendency to tangle up in ways you’d never imagined when you put them away? I always marvel as to why this happens.

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration by Yuxin Qin. posted by Nathan Bezzant Fall 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. The International Society for Third Sector Research published a recent paper that summarizes why nonprofit leaders must use technology to connect with stakeholders in the emerging digital, civil society. According to Huiquan Zhou and Shihua Ye, “The rapid development of information technology has boosted nonprofit organizations’ ability to reach out to a larger and more diver

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How to Promote a Festival: Event Branding, Marketing, and Social Media 

The Sponsorship Collective

Before you dive in, if you are interested in sport sponsorship, check out these titles in our “sponsorship for festivals” series: What Companies That Sponsors Festivals Are Looking For In a Partnership 12 Festival Activations to Make Your Next Event Amazing What You Need to Know For Your Event to be a Hit You could […]. The post How to Promote a Festival: Event Branding, Marketing, and Social Media appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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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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Top 10 Charities Planting Trees and Encouraging Reforestation

Donorbox

The US cities are said to lose about 36 million trees on an annual basis. Moreover, the latest stats suggest that from 2001 to 2020, in 19 years, the country has lost 42.2 million hectares of forests. It amounts to a tree cover loss of 15%. These are shocking and it is high time people […]. The post Top 10 Charities Planting Trees and Encouraging Reforestation appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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Developing Board Time, Talent, Treasure — and Tradition

NonProfit PRO

In your experience, have you dealt with board volunteers that have contributed the right combination of time, talent and treasure needed? Do board members in your organization understand their roles and responsibility to assist their nonprofit generally and with fundraising specifically?

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Security Tools to Protect Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

From accidental data loss, to viruses that can destabilize your systems, nonprofits are more susceptible than they might think to cybersecurity threats. Make sure you identify the weaknesses in your systems and invest in training and tools to reinforce them. All organizations need reliable data backups, antivirus software, and education for their staff on spotting and mitigating an attempted attack.

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How to Lose a Meeting with a Sponsor

The Sponsorship Collective

Here at the Sponsorship Collective, I’m all about providing you with tips and advice for acing your sponsorship program. Sometimes though, knowing what not to do is just as important. This way, you can avoid critical missteps that your fellow sponsorship seekers have fallen victim to before you. Today’s post is going to be presented […]. The post How to Lose a Meeting with a Sponsor appeared first on The Sponsorship Collective.

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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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[ASK AN EXPERT] How Do You Calculate Your Nonprofit’s Average Dollar Retention Rate?

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to calculate an accurate nonprofit dollar retention rate. Dear Charity Clairity, When you write “the average dollar retention is just 47%,” I’m not sure what that means.

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Corporations Share What Nonprofit Partnerships Work Best and Why

NonProfit PRO

Corporate sponsors share what has worked in building their relationships with nonprofits. Your nonprofit's staff or board members might not know your mission statements verbatim, but your corporate partner might surprise you.

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What actually happened: Apple Mail Privacy Protection

M+R

Read time: 8 minutes. About this time last year, we all started talking about Apple’s new Mail Privacy Protection , a.k.a. Apple MPP, a.k.a. “that thing Apple is doing to email that’s going to change everything.” There was a lot of speculation about how it would affect email, ranging from laid back to predictions of doomsday. There were frenzied discussions about how to cope (wait and see?

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Up Your Game with Skills-based Volunteering

Blue Avocado

Every nonprofit has that project which is both vital to the organization but beyond their reach. It might be a new accounting system, a website upgrade, a fundraising strategy, or a complete strategic plan. That project is always on the to-do list but there is never the time or knowledge to begin working on it. […]. The post Up Your Game with Skills-based Volunteering appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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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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Major call for proposals launched to connect persons with disabilities with good jobs

Charity Village

Persons with disabilities continue to face barriers in finding and keeping employment and many are unable to participate fully in Canadian society and the economy. That is why the Government of Canada is working with partners and the disability community to invest in programs and services that will help to increase the accessibility of workplaces and connect […].

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Merkle Launches Inflation Resilience Dashboard to Support Business and Marketing Strategy Decisions

NonProfit PRO

Merkle announced the launch of its Inflation Resilience Dashboard. With inflation at its highest level in decades, the interactive dashboard provides business leaders and marketers with critical consumer insights to help influence key marketing and business decisions.

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Everything You Need To Know About QuickBooks for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

QuickBooks is a ubiquitous tool among small to mid-sized businesses, but did you know that it’s also a great accounting software option for nonprofits? If you run a nonprofit, the importance of meticulous record keeping cannot be overstated.

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10 Engaging Content Ideas for your next non-profit Newsletter

The Storytelling Non-profit

Newsletters are an unquestionably good way to build relationships with your constituents, in particular, donors. When done well, your newsletter can even help your organization raise money. But for any of that to happen, you must have content to put into your newsletter. Content is the backbone of your newsletter and it’s in your organization’s best interest to select great content.

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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 dangers of the rumour mill

Charity Village

A key principle that runs through all of the dismissal cases we report on is that employers are free to terminate employment relationships, with the provision of notice or payment in lieu of notice. The exception is where the law expressly prohibits termination for discriminatory reasons or reasons connected with a leave of absence. In […]. The post The dangers of the rumour mill appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Crawl, Walk, Run: The CTV Advertising Playbook

NonProfit PRO

Data Axle’s CTV advertising playbook is filled with best practices and tactics to help nonprofits get the most out of their CTV campaigns; and truly integrate CTV into a long-term, omnichannel strategy. Download the playbook to learn about consumer behavior, data-driven insights, and discover a nonprofit case study that increased mission awareness and donations by incorporating CTV.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 232: Best Practices for Due Diligence in Grantmaking

sgEngage

Why is due diligence important in grantmaking organizations? The process of satisfying legal requirements impacts many areas within an organization— mission alignment, stewardship, duty of care, reputation, outcomes & impact, and overall effectiveness to name a few. In this episode, learn from Elizabeth (Liz) Gousse Ballotte, principal at PKF O’Connor Davies, about what the staff at grantmaking organizations need to know to be compliant.

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The Value of Corporate Partners

Hands on Fundraising

How to find & attract corporate partners In 2020, companies gave $17 billion to nonprofits. That’s significant. But individual donations totaled $324 billion and overshadowed corporate giving. Does that mean corporate partnerships are not worth pursuing? No! Money is only a part of the story. Read on to learn what corporate partners can do to […].

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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.