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What are your nonprofit’s priorities and goals for 2025?

Blue Avocado

We will empower our supporters to be champions of our cause through engagement and through our volunteer opportunities. We will demonstrate the real-world impact of donations and gifts to create trust and confidence among our community. We plan to improve board communications through an online document management program.

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How to Source Great Year-end Stories

Get Fully Funded

In fact, she was so busy that when it came time to put together her year-end donation letter she was stumped. That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values. But halfway through, they realize they don’t know enough about the story to write an effective donation letter. postal service.

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How to Start a Planned Giving Program: A Comprehensive Guide

Center for Major Gifts

If you’re ready to go beyond annual giving and unlock a more sustainable future through legacy gifts, read on. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the entire process of starting a planned giving program. Bequests A bequest is simply a term for a gift made through a will.

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Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Nonprofit Email Communications (with Examples)

CauseVox

This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. How to Use ChatGPT For Email Communications To get started, you can access ChatGPT through Open AI’s website. Ethics of ChatGPT Usage As you can see from these examples, ChatGPT is a powerful tool.

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Benefit Corporations: Back to Purpose

Tech Soup

Editor's Note: TechSoup offers donated and discounted services from B Corps such as BetterWorld Telecom , Azavea , and — coming soon — Dharma Merchant Services. This past October, California joined New Jersey, Virginia, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maryland in passing legislation to create this new type of legally recognized company.

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6 Things to Consider When Hiring a Grant Writer…Maybe a Grant Consultant is a Better Fit

Millionaire Grant Lady

This funding can come in the form of donations, federal dollars, private funders, gifts, fundraising events, and grants. Gone are the days when organizations could rely on private donations for consistent, sufficient funding. Hiring a grant writer is one of the most important decisions a nonprofit can make.

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NEW THINKING: Neither amateur nor professional but something in between – the ‘Corinthian’ nature of fundraising and the problems that causes

Critical Fundraising

What I mean by this is that you don’t have to ‘qualify’ as fundraiser by going through an entry pathway that equips you with the skills and competencies you need to perform the role, and then assesses your competence and signs you off as competent – a process that almost every other profession has.