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5 Tips for Securing Appealing Nonprofit Auction Items

Greater Giving

For many nonprofits, a live or silent auction is the pinnacle of their fundraising event calendar. Auctions have the potential to generate significant revenue for your mission and keep supporters coming back year after year—if you take steps to engage participants effectively.

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Grant Writing Mistake Part 5: Constantly Changing Data

Millionaire Grant Lady

Common questions in a grant proposal ask about the demographics of the people you serve, how many people you serve, or the impact of your programs. Protip: Grant application data and goals should be based on fiscal years or calendar years (whichever is more appropriate for your organization).

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This Week in the Learning Center: Calendars for Your Website

Tech Soup

This week, we decided to revisit an older article, Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Website. Idealware's excellent report on the big four open-source CMSes (Drupal, Plone, Wordpress, and Joomla) noted that only Plone offers a calendar function out-of-the-box, but the other three support additional calendar modules.

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Why defining BIPOC-led is harder than you think

Candid

When organizations fill out Candid’s demographic form, we specifically ask for information about how people publicly identify. As for Candid, we believe that the best way we can support the thousands of organizations that rely on us for demographic data is to not impose a single definition on a diverse sector.

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What it takes to be more data driven

Candid

Candid and the Center collaborated to encourage Center members to update their profiles with enough information to earn a Gold Seal, which requires organizations to share demographic information about their leadership. They also received a downloadable file of all the demographic data available in GuideStar. .

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End-of-Year Giving Campaign: 13 Successful (Yet Underutilized) Strategies

CauseVox

Aside from the normal holiday hullabaloo, you’re also busy planning fundraisers and engagement opportunities to round out your organization’s calendar year. If you’re not sure how to segment your audience, consider using the following categories: New/recurring donors High/low donors Demographic or geographical location 5.

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Year End Giving: The Step-by-Step Guide For Nonprofits

GiveSmart

The end of the calendar year is around the corner—the single biggest fundraising opportunity of the year! This guide will show you how to create a year-end fundraising campaign that will effectively reach the hearts and wallets of donors during this spike in end-of-year donations.

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