Clairification

AUGUST 8, 2024

As you’re planning ahead, and readying your year-end fundraising initiatives, take a little time to think about your communication delivery mediums. Not to mention your message content. Are you reaching the right audiences, and making it easy for them? Are you sharing messaging that’s relevant to your constituents, and also authentically you? Take some inspiration from the inimitable Seth Godin: Little billboards On the West Side Highway in Manhattan, there’s currently a billboard for some sort

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

AUGUST 8, 2024

The project would help those who came to the United States as children. By Alex Daniels UndocuBlack Network The possibility of ramped-up deportations in a new administration has nonprofit leaders like Patrice Lawrence sprinting to counsel as many DACA recipients as possible. Lawrence founded the UndocuBlack Network to provide legal and wellness counseling.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 8, 2024

PHLYSense is a 24/7 property monitoring and alert solution. Organizations get real-time alerts if water is detected, or temperatures reach a hazardous level. The program includes sensors and 24/7 monitoring and support all at no-cost to policyholders with property coverage.

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GrantNews

AUGUST 8, 2024

August is National Back to School Month! To celebrate, GrantWatch is shining the spotlight on 10 education grants. The beginning of the school year brings excitement for students, parents, and teachers, but the expenses can be overwhelming. With learning back in the classroom, many families struggle to afford school supplies. Teachers often spend their own money on classroom essentials, and schools need funding to improve resources.

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This prompt guide for ChatGPT contains 20+ tested ChatGPT prompts, along with tips on how to use this tool the best way. Nonprofits can engage with ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, refine project plans, and craft compelling narratives for grant proposals.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Data degrades about 2% per month, meaning your database could become a frightening place filled with stale, duplicated and unusable data. Melissa can help you reconnect with lost donors, deduplicate your database, and reduce fraud by making sure your data is up to date and accurate. Just send us 50 contact records, and we can show you how we can cleanse, append and enrich your data.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 8, 2024

With millennials and Gen Z making up more of the population, it's critical to cultivate them into leaders at your nonprofit. Here's how.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

The summer is almost behind us, and fundraisers like yourself are spinning their wheels and starting to think ahead about the 2024 year-end campaign season. So don’t just burn rubber! It’s always great to be proactive. But you’ve got a lot on your mind, and it’s not always clear where you should focus your attention. After all, this isn’t your first time around the track.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

AUGUST 8, 2024

"Right now, political events seem to be working against us — those of us who believe in a multiracial democracy, in belonging and inclusion, in Martin Luther King's description of the beloved community. But we're very much on the right side of history," says Ross. By Stephanie Beasley Courtesy of The California Endowment Robert Ross, Center, is stepping down as the CEO of the California Endowment after nearly 25 years.

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Grant Writer Team

AUGUST 8, 2024

Creating a sense of urgency might just be the hack you need to make your grant application stand out! This approach works on several levels. It makes grantors sit up and notice your application by piquing interest in how funding will positively impact your project. In addition, it can also act as the first step you need to build a working relationship with your funding organization.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Richard C. Peck launched GiveTrust with the goal of connecting nonprofits with donors who want to fuel their vision.

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Future Fundraising Now

AUGUST 8, 2024

Here’s what fundraising and giving looks like to us fundraisers: We think we are leading an army of “our” donors in the great work that our organizations are doing. That’s not how it looks to our donors… Here’s what giving looks like to donors: In the donor’s world, she is not part of “your” army of donors.

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HSF House

AUGUST 8, 2024

Hi everyone! We have begun our second drying process for our Sargassum muticum specimens. We are using leftover specimens from a previous experiment that had been air dried for 1 week, although the algae needs to be further dried in order to be properly ground into the powder needed for refluxation. Cody O’Brien, Civil Engineering major, and the Robert and Mary Frappier Undergraduate Research Awardee The main objective of this month’s update is to cover the worldly impact of our research a

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 8, 2024

Capital campaigns are the lifeblood of many nonprofits. They can fund ambitious projects that can transform your community and advance your mission. But let's be real: they're not for the faint of heart. A successful capital campaign demands thoughtful planning, the “will” to do the work, and, most crucially, a well-organized board. Your board members can serve as champions, cheerleaders, and even as linchpins of your campaign.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2024

While many nonprofit CEOs and other executives are looking forward to higher paychecks this year, this isn’t true across the board. Women leaders and those at religious institutions, animal-related organizations, and arts groups continue to have lower salaries. These are just some of the findings from Candid’s newly released 2024 Nonprofit Compensation Report , the most comprehensive study on executive compensation in the social sector.

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Fluxx

AUGUST 8, 2024

Join Debby Bielak and Liz Jain on Untapped Philanthropy as they explore effective advocacy funding strategies and how funders can make a significant impact.

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 8, 2024

Ready to turn your campaign goals into reality? Don’t navigate the complexities alone. The Gail Perry Group offers free strategy calls with our experienced consultants. Reach out at capitalcampaigns@gailperry.com to schedule your call today! CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS are the lifeblood of many nonprofits.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 8, 2024

Overcoming Common Fundraising Challenges in Elementary and Middle Schools We at Greater Giving know the incredible work you do to support your schools. You wear many hats, and fundraising is often a crucial one. While your passion is undeniable, there are inevitably fundraising challenges and roadblocks on the path to achieving your fundraising goals.

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 8, 2024

Ready to turn your campaign goals into reality? Don’t navigate the complexities alone. The Gail Perry Group offers free strategy calls with our experienced consultants. Reach out at capitalcampaigns@gailperry.com to schedule your call today!

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 8, 2024

Social impact platform provider Submittable has acquired grants platform WizeHive, which recently scooped up Bright Funds and WeHero. The deal brings together four social impact brands for grants management and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. No information was immediately available regarding the blending of the firms.

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 8, 2024

Capital campaigns are the lifeblood of many nonprofits. They fund ambitious projects that can transform communities and advance missions. But let's be real: they're not for the faint of heart. A successful capital campaign demands thoughtful planning, the “will” to do the work, and, most crucially, a well-organized board. Your board members can serve as champions, cheerleaders, and even be linchpins of your campaign.

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HSF House

AUGUST 8, 2024

Within psychology, a lot of research has been done into the feeling of entrapment and how that relates to suicidal ideation, eventually leading to suicidal behavior. One of the two leading theories of suicide is the integrated motivational-volitional model of suicide (IMV; O’Connor et al., 2018) – the other leading theory of suicide is the interpersonal theory of suicide (Joiner et al., 2009), which belongs to my thesis director, Thomas Joiner.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 8, 2024

Corporate volunteerism refers to the practice of businesses encouraging employees to volunteer their time and skills to charitable causes. This can take a number of forms, including company-wide volunteer days, paid time off for volunteer activities, skills-based volunteering, and volunteer grant programs.

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HSF House

AUGUST 8, 2024

The goal of my IDEA Grant project is to discover new and/or confirm experimentally measured physics of nucleus Copper-65 produced by the nuclear reaction between Oxygen-18 and Titanium-50. Many people, including myself about a year ago, might read that sentence and think ok… and? What is the purpose of that? Reading these project titles used to make me think that these physicists use all of their intelligence and funding to study cool, obscure stuff that interests them instead of anything applic

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 8, 2024

By Paul Clolery Nonprofit employees with 403(b) retirement plans would be able to participate in collective investment trusts (CITs), if new federal legislation passes and is signed into law. A CIT is a tax-exempt investment vehicle that is similar to mutual funds that provides a diversified, pooled investments. Under current law, 401(k) holders, 403(b) plan sponsors are not able to use this stable, lower-cost investment option in their plans.

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Fundraising HayDay

AUGUST 8, 2024

Logic models: you either love them or hope you never have to create one. But the truth is, you should not be intimated by one. Simply put, it is a flowchart that highlights the important elements of your planned work and intended results related to a grant funding request. With a one-page diagram, you can easily outline the vital elements of a grant application and use it as a template to build your narrative.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 8, 2024

By Richard H. Levey Blackbaud, a software provider that specializes in fundraising and other offerings for the social sector, reported total second-quarter 2024 revenue of $287.3 million, up 6% from second-quarter 2023 revenue of $271 million. For the most recent quarter, which ended on June 30, the Charleston, South Carolina-based firm had operating income of $42.1 million, a turnaround from the $300,000 operating income reported for second-quarter 2023, and net income of $21.8 million, up from

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Library Grants

AUGUST 8, 2024

Deadline: October 18, 2024 The 2024–2025 PLA Digital Navigator Workshop Incentive is a pilot program supported by AT&T. This initiative is designed to support libraries that already have Digital Navigators in place, providing funding to enhance their efforts in teaching digital literacy skills using PLA's DigitalLearn course modules that are freely available to anyone.

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HSF House

AUGUST 8, 2024

My research this summer aims to uncover the genetic basis of venom variation in the Florida bark scorpion. While that may seem like a rather random thing to be trying to investigate, it all leads back to my primary goal of being able to understand venom variation as a whole. Venom composition can vary significantly between populations and even between sexes within the same species.

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