sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A trusting relationship with donors contains shared perceptions and values, openness, transparency, and a willingness to grow the connection. Here are some strategies your organization can consider for improving donor retention by building donor trust in your brand. Such a pledge can be your foundation for trust.

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

For small or lesser-known nonprofits to fundraise successfully, they need a strategy focused on increasing public visibility and cultivating long-term and diversified funder relationships. Platforms such as LinkedIn can also help you find and contact decision makers at foundations through your existing connections.

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Relationship Effective Fundraising Linkedin 111

Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

Finding the right foundation to write a grant for is confusing, especially if the organization has no prior relationships to build on. Some foundations have open RFIs (Request for Information), open LOIs (Letter of Inquiry), RFPs (Request for Proposal) and others have open calls for applications around a campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. agriculture CIMSANS climate change CSR food security Gerald Nelson open data open source SocialCoding4Good'

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You see, if the email doesn’t get opened, you get no donations. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email. Dismissing the subject line will cost you opens and it will cost you donations. There is a split second when we decide whether or not to open the email. Big mistake.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Strategies for driving non-dues revenue. They’re in the buying mood and open to complementary suggestions of other things to buy.? Improve registration for your events by using predictive analytics to determine which event locations will bring in the highest number of registrations and what time to open registration for your events.

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Associations Strategy Registration Analytics 133

Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

They scrambled to connect with donors in new and fresh ways with an updated nonprofit digital strategy. What kind of digital touchpoints did you incorporate into your development strategies? These are all great adaptive strategies, but now what? . Pillar #1—No Longer Optional: Your Nonprofit Digital Strategy in 2021 and Beyond.

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Digital Strategy Nonprofit Phase 118

sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here are a few features you might consider when looking at your long-term grant management goals: Ability to work with other systems : Look for open APIs to help your GMS pass information to other systems, such as your fundraising or document management systems. The post Need a New Grant Management System?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Grantmaking foundations have the financial resources that nonprofit organizations need to accomplish their work. Nonprofit organizations are doing the work essential to further the grantmaking foundation’s mission. Grantmaking practices are important to grantmaking foundations. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Heed legal requirements.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2021

Quickly moving from in-person meetings, events, and general office work to a completely virtual strategy forced organizations to make decisions faster than ever before. On the upside, it gave us freedom to try new ways of working towards our missions; on the downside, it exposed the lack of diversification in fundraising strategies.

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Strategy Nashville Platform Fundraising 112

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. For nonprofits, this moment presents an opportunity for a social media strategy “do-over.” Lean into your organization’s values and consider how they show up in your social media strategies and policies.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 94

.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. Free and Open-Source Apache Spark provides a powerful platform for large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface. This was a controversial move.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 52

CauseVox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For the past few years, the Fiver Children’s Foundation has used CauseVox to grow their fundraising efforts. Whether you have a #GivingTuesday strategy in the works or you’re starting fresh, check out some #GivingTuesday insights gleaned from The Fiver’s Children Foundation. About The Fiver Children’s Foundation.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Pull the board out of the weeds and train their focus on strategy, where it belongs. Our board’s primary role is fiduciary, and they also guide our strategy. After we identify our strategy together. We’re open and honest about initiatives that didn’t work. Begin with this simple recommendation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.”

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Digital Foundation Community Strategy 93

Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. Take a look at how much money you might otherwise leave on the table, and you’ll see the merit of such a strategy. Make sure your website donation landing page is simple and optimized for mobile, since this is the way a majority of folks today open emails.

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Action Strategy Donor Calendar 137

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At this year’s virtual bbcon, Ashley Thompson (Managing Director, Blackbaud Institute) and Lawrence Henze (Analytics Architect, Senior Principal, at Blackbaud) expanded on the data and insights from this report to offer a roadmap to build a strategy for resiliency.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. If performance issues have been a problem, keep an open mind. Provide a mix of multiple-choice and open-ended questions allowing for individualized responses. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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DipJar

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your nonprofit’s website is an instrumental part of your fundraising strategy and can directly impact how many donations you earn. Make sure its design is supporting your fundraising strategy by making it accessible to everyone and crafting a user experience that prioritizes donor convenience. Follow accessibility guidelines.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Kellogg Foundation in partnership with the University of New Mexico This report examines how W.K.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

Open, honest, and transparent communication with grantee partners can help minimize power imbalances and help foster a sense of mutual transparency and accountability that is critical to our success as grantmakers. Webinar: Transparency as a Grantmaking Strategy to Build Trust and Mutual Accountability.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Meyer Memorial Trust is a private foundation in Oregon, USA, that has a pioneering spirit and is always up to something new, different, and meaningful – plus it is quite near to my heart. Meyer Memorial Trust is the largest private foundation in Oregon, established from Fred G. Meyer’s personal estate.

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Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Glasspockets.org is a website sponsored by the Foundation Center that is focused on transparency among funders. foundations still don’t have websites, quite possibly intentionally. The objectives of the Glasspockets project are actually pretty simple: Inspire private foundations to greater openness in their communications.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Instead , they pursue a variety of other strategies centering on litigation, education, and industry-wide advocacy. Similarly, the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) has pursued a legal strategy of suing restaurant owners for wage violations and used the legal settlement process as an opportunity to negotiate additional rights for workers.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only 10% of philanthropic foundations have a website to communicate their work. What that statistic means is that for 90% of foundations, the 990-PF is often the only means for communicating their work. Open Data Defined. You might think that the 990 has always been open, so what has changed?

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Communication Oregon Grant Portland 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps. Then we ran.

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sgEngage

MAY 13, 2022

In my years as a grantseeker and nonprofit consultant, I’ve waded through dozens of ambiguous foundation websites that make it impossible to know how to get even a foot in the door to be considered for funding. Philanthropy has had a history of being notoriously opaque and inaccessible to organizations seeking funding. Be accessible.

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Relationship Foundation Grant Fund 77

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking offers this definition: “Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding–including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions–to the very communities that funders seek to serve.”. published by the Ford Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Imagine your nonprofit’s social media fundraising strategy as planning a trip to a new country. Fox Foundation, and The Trevor Project. While building this community takes time, it will ensure you always have a full pipeline of people interested in engaging with your cause.

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Social Media Organization Media Fundraising 247

sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

We also believe it is critical to prioritize a trustworthy approach to AI, grounded in: Fairness, inclusiveness, reliability, and trust: The foundational principles of Blackbaud’s responsible AI framework. Every manual process is an opening for human error, data loss, or outright theft.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With average email open rates at 20% for nonprofits , many organizations struggle to grab the attention of supporters, volunteers, and donors. Using either service, in order to make the process come full circle, you need a killer follow-up strategy. With text-to-give, the donation is charged to the donor’s cell phone bill.

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Communication Donation Tech Tools 300

sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even though these strategies were very successful, many of these efforts and energies have unfortunately reverted back to 2019 comfort zones and lost momentum. When I was a grant writer, my favorite people to connect with inside foundations were those staff who had previously worked in nonprofit organizations. How do they function?

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Grant Foundation Philanthropy Application 80

Bloomerang

APRIL 22, 2024

ShowerUp: Building connection with hot Showers and open hearts In urban environments where the needs of the homeless are often overshadowed by the daily hustle, ShowerUp steps in to provide not just cleanliness but dignity as well. Volunteers are happy; they know how to sign up, and they continue to sign up to volunteer.”

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Volunteer Impact Ohio Homeless 91

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. 1) Set up and prioritize LinkedIn Pages in your social media strategy. Finally, prioritize your LinkedIn Page in your overall social media strategy and commit to posting regularly. LinkedIn Pages.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Elton John AIDS Foundation. Prism Foundation. Pride Foundation. PFund Foundation. Horizons Foundation. The Vermont Community Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Stonewall Community Foundation. New York Foundation. Maine Community Foundation. New Harvest Foundation.

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