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How Your Nonprofit Can Benefit from Costco’s Key to Success

Pamela Grow

Costco is widely known in retailing for its better-than-decent pay and benefits. And now AI will magically “transform” your fundraising. An insider, who started as a teenage forklift operator. Employee retention is crucial for the long-term stability and success of any organization. Including your nonprofit. One year it’s Facebook.

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Design, Create, and Inspire with Adobe Creative Cloud

Tech Soup

TechSoup offers access to 60 percent off the retail rate on the first year of a Complete plan membership for one user. Adobe will then automatically bill you at 40 percent off the retail rate for every year after until you cancel. You can upload and sync PSD, AI, INDD, PDF, and other types of Adobe files to and from any device.

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5 Books I Read in 2017 That Made Me a Better Cause Marketer

Selfish Giving

Reengineering Retail: The Future of Selling in a Post-Digital World. This is a great book all about the changing landscape of retail, which is by far the #1 industry for us cause marketers. I love how this book is laid out with an emphasis on a different disruption or technology and how it's impacting retail. Must read!

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Start Off on the Right Foot: Preparing for 2024

GiveSmart

Leveraging generative AI Nearly every industry and profession can benefit from AI, including nonprofits. For example, with AI copy-generation tools, charities can create faster and more focused copy in their marketing campaigns. Integrating AI via chatbots is another excellent way for nonprofits to communicate with donors.

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Sometimes, the Same Old Thing Is a Good Thing

Planned Giving

and next thing you know, the nonprofit has a brand-new goal, or it’s rebranding; swapping out a slogan; or adopting the so-called latest and greatest thing ( like AI ). Someone on the team declares “It’s time for a change!” These changes usually come out of the blue, and almost always when there’s absolutely no need to change a thing.

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Newsletter: Selfish Giving + You: 2025 is Our Year! ; Retail Winners and Losers of 2024 ; How Jimmy Carter Made Habitat a Nonprofit Giant

Selfish Giving

There are two fewer retailers to partner with: Party City and Big Lots close 1,600 stores and declare bankruptcy. Read more on the retail winners and losers of 2024. Meet the newest generation: Generation Beta. How Gillette Children's Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, uses images as a communication tool. Cool Jobs in Cause 1.

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Top Cyber Threats to Educational Institutions in 2025

Blackbaud

According to the 2023 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report , education (+157%), finance (+86%), and retail (+50%) verticals were hit hardest by malware. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Although AI is not currently a top threat to the education industry, it will play an integral part in the future of education.