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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Seeing a problem—like the February earthquake in Turkey and Syria —many will act to mitigate it. Foundation funding for climate-related grantmaking increased 25% between 2020 and 2021.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. We had to understand the problem and the challenge we were working on.

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Nonprofit Donor Newsletters | Print or Enews?

Pamela Grow

Here’s why: Donor retention continues to be the biggest problem in nonprofit fundraising. Strong donor retention is the foundation of your loyal giving, your monthly giving, your mid-level giving, and your major gift program. For instance, a headline like Helping Families in Need becomes: Helping Families Through Crisis.

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grist.org: Measuring Along the Ladder of Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Source: grist. I’m curious to hear from all of you if you’ve developed a ladder of [.]

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How Nonprofits Can Protect Their Mission By Protecting Their Data

Saleforce Nonprofit

And although major data breaches tend to get all of the headlines, not all data loss comes from nefarious sources. This modern approach detects and alerts you to data anomalies, safeguards data and metadata with complete data backups, and makes precision repair of data problems effortless. Fox Foundation.

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Attention Nonprofit #DataNerds: A Few Recent Research Studies on Data, Technology, Funding, and Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Foundation Center’s Glasspockets Site ReLaunches with A Wealth of Data About Foundation Transparency. One of my favorite sections of the site includes the benchmarking data for foundation use of social media by channel which makes it very easy to do research. The Glasspockets Site has just been relaunched.

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Elevating Community Impact Through Healthcare Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

As the organization shifts to a more community, value-based module, the foundation will need to shift as well. And younger philanthropists are becoming more entrepreneurial, continuously searching for new ways to solve problems and believing traditional methods have not adequately addressed current problems. Donor Alignment.