NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In a previous article, I shared the first two things I learned during my 30 years of working on sustainer programs. Most of this is not rocket science, but it’s important to keep in mind when you’re looking to grow or retain your sustainers. Here are my next two lessons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

With a solid year of virtual fundraising under our collective belt, let’s take a look at seven key lessons learned in 2020 to help your nonprofit continue reaching those goals and fighting for its mission. That’s due in large part to the ability to pivot fundraising efforts from in-person to virtual. 2) Nonprofits Can Raise as Much (or More!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

What would motivate you to share it with your friends? Why does social sharing matter anyways? We’ll also look at the types of emotions that drive engagement and how you can leverage them to increase social sharing for your nonprofit’s videos. Which Emotions Increase Social Sharing? Arousing Emotions. Dominance Emotions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To reduce the burden on grantees to provide this data, this sector-wide initiative also empowers nonprofits to collect and share staff and board member demographics—one time—in a standardized, reusable, and freely accessible format on their Candid profiles. Allie VanHeast of KCF shared that 15% of their grantees are fiscally sponsored.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 4, 2023

Reserve your spot today and join us on Thursday, June 1st, at 2 pm ET, for this must-attend, highly interactive webinar, where we’ll be sharing insider exclusive insights, emerging trends, tips, and actionable strategies, from Professional Benefit Auctioneers and Auction, Gala, and Fundraising Event Experts, to maximize engagement and fundraising results. (..)

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. Do you have one in place? Or you’re stuck.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

Here’s what we’ve learned so far: Successful organizations have chief executives that work cooperatively with their Board. The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. What are some of the themes that are emerging?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today I’d like to address something practical: How we learn. If you don’t learn new things, you slowly wither. And with today’s rapid pace of change, confident learning has become critical to adapting, adopting, and feeling connected to the world we inhabit. When we were kids we instinctively knew the best learning mode.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By Guest Contributor, Amy Morrisey , Artisan E-Learning. Many nonprofits are interested in using e-learning to train staff members and volunteers. Why wouldn’t you just jump into e-learning as quickly as possible? And, you’ll likely need a learning management system to handle course delivery. These seem like no-brainers.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. i We anticipate a steady increase in organizations sharing demographic information as a result of our recently launched Demographics via Candid campaign.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 20, 2023

Listen to Julie Packard discuss and share the steps that are urgently needed to help save the oceans that are so integral to the future of our planet.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

At PEAK Grantmaking , these qualities and practices of emergent learning are an everyday endeavor that the team embraces in their work and advocates to members. A growth and learning mindset is not about skills and competencies. Make Room for New Ways of Learning Learning is a journey. It’s not about what you do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. Learn-It-All leaders are constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership. Part 2: Doing – examines what Learn-It-All leaders do differently.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A learning culture is an environment that demonstrates and encourages individual and organizational learning, and where both gaining and sharing knowledge is prioritized, valued, and rewarded.

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Big Duck

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Discover how strategic planning empowers nonprofits to define objectives and learn our three-phase approach for clear communication.

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

“Sometimes it’s hard to learn in front of people,” Jay-Z recently told Gayle King. When we put this principle into practice, we create a dynamic where organizations can learn from one another and see new possibilities to better partner with and support communities, and transform the social sector. We are the beacon on the hill.”

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve shared six of my top sustainer giving lessons so far. Today, I’ll get to the heart of sustainer giving, and probably the hardest lessons for nonprofit leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

“I’ve spent almost the last 15 years researching why we are so bad at learning and what we can do about it,” states Bradley R. And that’s primarily what prompted him to write his book, Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive. We can’t just be knowledge workers; we must also be learning workers.”

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 17, 2022

The power of sharing a personal story is well documented. In this post I want to give you a real life example of the power of sharing a personal story. Why Telling Personal Stories Can Be a Challenge It’s probably not a big surprise that I’m a fan of people sharing their personal stories. We love hearing stories. I know, I know.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 29, 2023

Let’s be honest: Learning your way around a piece of software takes a lot of time. When that piece of software has a ton of features—like donor management tools, fundraising features, events capabilities, membership management, email and website builders, and on and on—there’s even more to learn. It can feel daunting. What Is It?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Is there expertise we can share? This big little idea was simply to hold space for CDOs to talk about what’s stressing them out and share experiences, ideas, and lessons learned with others who are facing the same challenges and finding their way through. And things are still changing, day by day and moment by moment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. Learn-It-All leaders are constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership. Part 2: Doing – examines what Learn-It-All leaders do differently.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we collectively take stock of what we’ve learned from the pandemic so far, we need to take a look at the ways parents and teachers evolved school fundraising to meet today’s needs. Ready to learn how to use these lessons from the pandemic to raise more for your school? We learned to make conscious efforts to keep up in other ways.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Join Terri Burchell, Executive Director of North Platte Public Schools Foundation, as she shares how they exceeded their 2021 Back to School Bash Change Wars Team Fundraising goals, with eight schools participating, led by 84 team captains, generating hundreds of donations within a 5-day timeframe.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As fall approaches, I find myself thinking about everything I have always loved about Dreamforce: new product announcements, customer-focused sessions where we learn from and celebrate our community’s success, and of course, the featured bands are always awesome. Learn New Skills. Share Experiences. Come together.

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DonorPerfect

JANUARY 31, 2024

Balancing workforce dynamics in today’s job market is a shared challenge for nonprofits and for-profits alike, where competitive salaries, benefits, and flexibility are non-negotiables. Limited resources can present even more obstacles for nonprofits.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Join Terri Burchell, Executive Director of North Platte Public Schools Foundation, as she shares how they exceeded their 2021 Back to School Bash Change Wars Team Fundraising goals, with eight schools participating, led by 84 team captains, generating hundreds of donations within a 5-day timeframe.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

Scale is incredibly important to creating movements, and we are all still learning how we scale our work to a global level. In those conversations, we realized that we probably had some good examples to share and case studies to provide; but we also realized that there were many, many more people we wanted to be having the conversation with!

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

Here’s what we’ve learned so far: Successful organizations have chief executives that work cooperatively with their Board. The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. What are some of the themes that are emerging?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

private and community foundations to learn more about giving trends. i This year, we asked survey respondents to share how much of their total giving in fiscal year end 2021 and 2022 was awarded as general operating support. Here are four things we learned about GOS grantmaking trends among funders right now.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Prepare to be inspired by and to learn from the stories of more than 60 highly-successful female CEOs and leaders who are featured in Julia Boorstin ’s book, When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. Can you share your favorite piece of advice? What is the greatest commonality?

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

One client had a virtual bulletin board where they challenged attendees to share what attendees and their organizations are doing to address racism and health inequities. Have places where people can post, share and connect, not just virtually, but also in person! appeared first on The MatriX Files.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. While they confess that they still don’t know the ultimate answer to that question, they have learned a thing or two in their continued pursuit of that goal. How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today marks the launch of Candid Learning for Funders , your new destination for field guides, blogs, training, and tools designed to improve the practice of grantmaking. . The new site is designed to become an easy-to-find destination for all of our learning experiences for funders. increase calls for racial equity .

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Media Cause

AUGUST 19, 2023

Project retrospec tives play a pivotal role to capture lessons learned. Retrospectives provide a safe space for individuals to share their perspectives, leading to a deeper understanding of team dynamics, and better identifying effective strategies.

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