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How To Find Donors for Your Nonprofit: Why They Give and Tips to Grow Your Donor Base

Wild Apricot

Struggling to find donors for your nonprofit? Explore effective strategies and tips to attract and retain supporters. Learn how to build relationships, leverage online tools and craft compelling campaigns to boost your fundraising efforts.

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Podcast: How to Take a Positive Approach to Fighting Climate Change

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Instead of apocalyptic imagery, consider what feels good about a world with a healthy climate. Instead of apocalyptic imagery, consider what feels good about a world with a healthy climate, what makes people want to roll up their sleeves and work for that outcome, says climate scientist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.

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Empowering Nonprofits: Grants for Food Assistance Programs

GrantNews

With the high cost of living and inflation these days, many Americans are struggling to make ends meet. Managing a household budget has become a monumental task. Financial pressure is particularly hard on underserved communities, where meeting basic nutritional needs is already a significant challenge. Foodbanks and pantries offer access to nutritious food to help families overcome hunger.

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14 Ways To Thank Donors During Thanksgiving

CauseVox

Have you had trouble coming up with the perfect thanksgiving messages to donors this Thanksgiving? Of course, we want to use this season properly express our gratitude. This Thanksgiving, our CauseVox team has talked a lot about how important the end of the year is from a fundraising standpoint. After all, many nonprofits and charities raise upwards of 30% or more of their annual operating budget during these few short months.

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AI for Grant Writing: 20+ ChatGPT Prompts You Can Use

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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From Likes to Donations: The Currency of Nonprofit Marketing

Planned Giving

You’ve seen it before: a nonprofit posts about a successful event on its Facebook page (or LinkedIn, or Twitter, or Pinterest, or…) and racks up thousands of likes and shares. The team high-fives and takes a bow and … then what happens? Hint: You Can’t Spend ‘Likes’ Those gleaming little thumbs-up don’t pay the rent or fund your next project. You’ve got to get past the ‘like’ trap and turn social media engagement into real dollars and cents.

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Question of the Month: How do you overcome the fear of asking donors to give?

Veritus Group

In this Question of the Month video, Jeff shares one fundraiser’s story about moving past the fear of asking and how you can do this too. The post Question of the Month: How do you overcome the fear of asking donors to give? appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Report: Knowledge Spurs On ‘Spontaneous’ Giving

The NonProfit Times

Spontaneous donors, those who made a first-time gift to a nonprofit within the past 12 months and had not planned to give to the organization beforehand, is substantially more among younger and minority donors. The rate of spontaneous giving among Millennial, Gen Z and Black donors is 25% more than average with Gen Z most likely to spontaneously give (59% of their giving is spontaneous), according to fresh data from the Blackbaud Institute a new report First Impressions: Spontaneous Giving Insig

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National Park Foundation Names Next CEO

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By M.J. Prest National Park Foundation Jeff Reinbold will become president and CEO of the National Park Foundation next year. Reinbold has worked with the National Park Service for more than 30 years, most recently as superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, D.C. Also, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has appointed a new vice president of its international program, and Karen Knudsen will step down as CEO of the American Cancer Society next year.

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Report Reveals Nonprofits Are Adopting AI in CPaaS Faster Than Private Sector

NonProfit PRO

Twilio released its "State of Nonprofit Digital Engagement Report," revealing how nonprofits are embracing new tech to engage end users.

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Grant Writing to Stand Out from the Competition

Red Tape Busters

When it comes to writing grants, it is important that your proposal stands out from the rest. There are a few things you can do to ensure that your grant writing is of the highest quality and stands out from the competition. First, make sure you understand your audience and what they are looking for. Second, ensure you have a clear and realistic budget.

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How to Create a Donor Recognition Policy

Center for Major Gifts

Properly Thanking Donors Is the Stewardship Key that Unlocks More Gifts Have you thanked a donor today? Thanking your donors early and often is an essential part of stewardship. Even the smallest gifts deserve some form of recognition—and not just because it’s good manners. That small gift may be a seed for something larger, and if you don’t water it, it will never grow.

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How to Choose a Grants Management System

Fluxx

A robust system of grant management remains a critical aspect of virtually all public charities today. With the current fast pace of changes in the structure of the nonprofit sector, the use of DAFs recorded an i ncrease of 9 percent to $52.16 billion , the highest grant funding ever. A GMS automates the process of a grant's life cycle in such a way that it elicits transparency with efficiency in harnessing and spending resources.

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. senators during a hearing. Repressive regimes around the world have realized they can use legislation to give oppressing nonprofits and other NGOs the veneer of legality, the witnesses attested. Without protections, which can include sanctions, adjustments to vias policies and increasing personnel in key government agencies that support NGOs, nonp