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4 Nonprofit Strategies to Build Donor Trust & Lasting Relationships

Clairification

Trust is Built By What You Do In my last article, I wrote about why establishing and building trust should be part of your nonprofit and personal mission. Sadly, most nonprofits do a profoundly poor job of this. If you want to improve on these retention rates (and you definitely can!), Not just once, but consistently over time.

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10 Ways to Definitely Burn Out as a Nonprofit Employee

Wild Apricot

Employee burnout in the nonprofit sector is a real issue in the best of times, let alone in the midst of a pandemic. Here's are some things you might be doing that will inevitably lead to you burning out, and what to do instead.

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Does Your Nonprofit Think Too Small?

Clairification

I’m sure some will hate me for saying this, but after 30+ years in the nonprofit trenches and another 10+ as a coach and consultant, I’m still amazed at how small many of us think. What puzzles me is how much the nonprofit sector is itself to blame. The post Does Your Nonprofit Think Too Small? I’m going to guess “yes.”

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The 4 Core Nonprofit Financial Statements & Their Insights

Pamela Grow

Accountability is at the heart of nonprofit accounting. Because your organization cant turn a profit by definition, the goal of tracking your finances is to demonstrate to donors, funders, the government, and the community that youre using your funding responsibly to further your mission. Net assets.

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4 Tactics You Definitely Aren’t Using to Grow Your Nonprofit Email List

Wild Apricot

Having these 4 tactics under your sleeve will help grow your nonprofit email list in no time.

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10 Strategies to Celebrate Nonprofit Donors on Valentine’s Day

Clairification

Definitely a practice I’ll do every year. Yet too few nonprofits have serious, intentional donor stewardship programs in place. Because of that, on average, nonprofits lose roughly 8 out of 10 first-time donors and close to 6 out of 10 of all donors. And nothing is more worth celebrating than a holiday, and your donors!

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Leading Your Nonprofit with Hope, Not Optimism

Clairification

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. The post Leading Your Nonprofit with Hope, Not Optimism appeared first on Clairification. Whether it’s inequality, bigotry, hatred, injustice, partisan politics, social unrest, disease, climate change, … there are so, so many things it seems hard to avoid, outrun or control.

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