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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

NTEN

NTEN’s Membership Committee helps grow volunteering and engagement opportunities, increase NTEN membership retention, and engage new and returning members and connect them with each other as well as NTEN resources and programming. Lauren Hasey Maher, Program Manager, National Center for Family Philanthropy. Membership Committee.

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Use the Word “Profit” to Get Your Board’s Attention!

BoardAssist

Donor retention: Can better post-gift “customer service” increase donor retention? Investing in a donor communications program could increase retention significantly. If you could increase your donor retention by 10%, how much would that yield to your bottom line?

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Donor Retention: The Easiest Money You’ll Ever Raise

Connection Cafe

I once facilitated a focus group for the North Carolina Symphony, and the donors loved it! It’s a great way to introduce your board members to fundraising, and donors will give substantially more if they get a phone call thank-you! Ask your donors for their feedback. Bring donors together to share their experiences.

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Winning YMCA Fundraising Campaigns

Bloomerang

They may not have a culture of philanthropy As a membership organization that derives a significant portion of their operating budget from dues, many YMCAs lack a robust culture of philanthropy. The better a donor’s engagement, the higher their retention. Development staff may feel very siloed from program and operational staff.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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14LCS Idea Accelerator Pitches - Onward!

NTEN

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder.

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

Blue Avocado

1] These suits were brought by the (ironically named) Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, and they capitalized on a line of prior cases that had already begun to erode the practice. University of North Carolina) and private institutions that accept federal funds (i.e.

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