Sat.Aug 27, 2022 - Fri.Sep 02, 2022

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Here’s Why Your Nonprofit Team Isn’t Hitting Its Goals

NonProfit PRO

Your nonprofit likely has many goals it wants to accomplish, ranging in priority and timeline. Some of these goals may be broad and worldly, while others are not. However, for you to lay a path to accomplish your goals, your nonprofit should follow a similar structure for writing each of your goals. .

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Everything You Need To Know About Hosting Your Membership Site On WordPress

Wild Apricot

How do I create a membership website through WordPress? Why should I use WordPress? These questions probably landed you on this page. Creating the best membership website for you can be a daunting task. There's lots to consider! Fortunately, you've.

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Nonprofit Radio for August 29, 2022: Your Tech Problem Is Actually A People Problem

Tony Martignetti

Ananda Robie & Sam Dorman: Your Tech Problem Is Actually A People Problem Wrapping up our #22NTC coverage, Ananda Robie and Sam Dorman sort out why your nonprofit’s technology problem is very likely a people problem. And they share their roadmap to better technology tomorrow. Ananda is with the Center for Action and Contemplation and … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for August 29, 2022: Your Tech Problem Is Actually A People Problem → Ananda Robie & Sam Dorman: Your Tech Prob

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[Webinar] Rockin’ Donor Relations at Year-End: Raise More & Generate Goodwill

CauseVox

For the vast majority of nonprofit organizations, your year-end campaign is, by far, the most important. In fact, 30+% of all annual giving occurs in December. With stakes that high, it’s no wonder that planning your year-end campaign can be stressful, even intimidating. And in the whirlwind of asking, many organizations often forget to plan what happens after the gift is made.

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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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The Case for Hiring Older Nonprofit Professionals

NonProfit PRO

Employees are an especially important ingredient to a successful organization. Unfortunately, employers overlook valuable applicants because of age. Reasons employers should employ older workers are their experience, both professionally and personally, reliability with a strong work ethic, and cost-effectiveness.

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Charitable Giving in a down economy: Performance strategies for any market

Qgiv

Lori Collins – SVP, Giving Sciences, One & All. Lori Collins leads One & All’s Giving Sciences group, which applies data science to charitable giving. Through extensive donor and market research, along with insights from supporters’ actual behaviors, she identifies ways fundraisers can leverage trends into enhanced programs and performance.

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[Webinar] How to use CauseVox for Fall Fundraising Events

CauseVox

Summer may be winding down, but your job as a fundraiser is ramping up! That’s because fall is a busy time of year for fundraising. Sure, there’s #GivingTuesday and the standard year-end push, but limiting yourself to just those two events equates to missed opportunities. Now is the time to take a good look at your plans for the final months of the year and find a fun, unique fall fundraiser that will help you move the needle on your fundraising goals for the year!

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Secrets to a Successful Remote or Hybrid Work Program For Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

As offices reopen, organizations need to decide how remote work will fit into their business strategy. Because remote work carries unique risks and challenges when it comes to tax and compliance issues, adopting a proactive approach can help nonprofits avoid these headaches.

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Automation Features to Scale Up Your Email Marketing

Tech Soup

Email marketing continues to be an important part of many nonprofits' outreach efforts. It is a way of delivering information and updates about your organization and nudging subscribers to support you. Constant Contact is an online marketing tool that helps you to scale and grow your outreach efforts using email and social media. It also includes some great automation features that can help you to win back some of the time you spend on email marketing and make better use of your engagement data.

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Five Strategies to Help Your Nonprofit Win General Operating Grants

Think and Ink Grants

Every nonprofit leader knows the value of deploying general operating funds to help grow and scale their nonprofit organization. General operating funds are mostly unrestricted dollars most commonly used to pay for things programming support generally won't pay for. These expenses include salaries, rent, utilities, fundraising, and other administrative expenses and overhead.

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Top 3 Tips for Increasing Positive Board Involvement for Grants and Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

I went down a TikTok rabbit hole recently. If I’m being honest, I was diving deep into mindless distraction every day before I disabled the app and addressed some life stressors, but that’s not the point. The point is that watching people sprint down a dark street carrying random things to a snippet of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” gave me a laugh when I needed it.

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Are You Tech-Ready for Year-End Fundraising?

NonProfit PRO

As you gear up for year-end appeals. You’re thinking about things like when you’ll get started, how many communications you’ll send and through what channels and what will be the focus of your messages. But here’s one thing you might have overlooked: How will you use technology to improve your year-end fundraising?

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Why you need a standard grant narrative

Grant Writing Made Easy

When we bring on new clients, one of the first things my team creates for them is a standard grant narrative. Even clients who’ve been in operation for several years, even clients who’ve had some success with grants in the past, I find, don’t have a standard grant narrative. I could go on about how this is a symptom of a mentality all too common in the nonprofit sector: the mentality that there’s just no time.

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12 of the Best Nonprofit Conferences in 2022 and Beyond

Double the Donation

Nonprofits are all about bringing people together to fight for positive societal change and make their communities better places to live. Nonprofit conferences aim to achieve the same goals by bringing together professionals from all types of organizations to learn from each other and identify ways to better work toward common and individual goals. Attending […].

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Bright Idea: Host a Network Fundraiser

Qgiv

Who they are: Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation (VBCF) is a statewide, Richmond-based nonprofit committed to the eradication of breast cancer through education and advocacy. Their goals are to establish the eradication of breast cancer as a state and national priority, advocate for the collective needs of people affected by breast cancer, and educate all Virginians on the facts about breast cancer.

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Use a Maturity Model to Set a Vision for Fundraising Growth

NonProfit PRO

Where do you see your fundraising organization in five years? To answer this important question, your organization should use this five-step maturity model. This tool helps to identify strategies to drive growth, build new and retain current supporter relationships, and ultimately increase mission impact.

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Measuring Gift Officer Activity

Annual Giving Network

Gift officers who think they can get by on luck or charm usually don’t make it very far. Sure, luck. The post Measuring Gift Officer Activity appeared first on AGN.

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Working with Your Board of Directors

Fundraising HayDay

If you work in the nonprofit profession, you will interact with your organization's board of directors. They are instrumental in your fundraising efforts, but that does not mean they are seasoned fundraisers and grant seekers themselves. So how do you best interact with your board towards building a flourishing collaboration? The Board Pro, Christal M.

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How to Host a Read-a-thon Fundraiser

Qgiv

Finding time to sit down and read isn’t always easy in people’s busy lives. And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading. However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories.

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PayPal Launches Grant Payments, Enabling Charities to Receive Funds from Grantmakers

NonProfit PRO

PayPal announced Grant Payments, a new product that enables donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsors, community foundations, and other grantmakers to deliver grants to charities quickly and electronically via PayPal.

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How to Run A Silent Auction

Greater Giving

Silent auctions are a fun way to raise money for your organization or event. They’re also easy to run, but there’s still a few things you’ll need to do in order to make sure it goes off without a hitch. We’ve got insights and best practices to share with you on the in’s and out’s of hosting a silent auction. We’ll also give tips on running the auction effectively and efficiently so you can get the most money possible out of every auction item.

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Get Your Board to Help With Major Giving

Get Fully Funded

One of the most important ways your Board can help your nonprofit is by helping you raise money, especially connecting you to potential resources and engaging in the work of major giving. But, if you’re like most, when you ask Board members for prospect names or to help you ask people for money, they’re suddenly busy that day. It’s a common problem.

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NEW THINKING: Blog digest – September 2022

Critical Fundraising

Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only that we thought they made a good argument. The ‘wildcard blog’ (there are two this month) is a blog that does not discuss ideas that are directly related to fundraising, but whose ideas we might be able to

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Every Fundraiser Needs a Coach

NonProfit PRO

Our culture celebrates self-reliance and admires the “self-made," yet, it’s a myth. I’m going to tell you right now to put away that lie and embrace the fact that all of us need a coach to help guide us in our work and in our lives.

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Newsletter: A Small Nonprofit Positions Itself for Big Partnerships ; How to Warm Up a Cold Call ; Why I’m Wearing White After Labor Day

Selfish Giving

Mark Bryant of the Gun Violence Archive (GVA). Last week I was teaching in the New Strategies Program at Georgetown University on what I call audience-centric fundraising. In a nutshell, I argued that to be successful with corporate partnerships your nonprofit needs to build an audience that knows, likes, and trusts you. Why is this important? Because companies look for audiences to tell them what is good, popular, and profitable in this world.

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Building Better Visuals with Genially

Tech Soup

Genially is an online content creation tool that can be used to produce presentations, videos, infographics, and more. The platform makes it possible for nonprofits to create interactive, animated, and dynamic content without any coding or graphic design expertise. It is a great solution for small or busy teams with a need for beautiful and functional visuals.

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6 Ways to Use Your CRM for Better Donor Retention

NonProfit PRO

The beauty of using a customer relationship management (CRM) tool is that it gives you a place to house your donor information and creates automated processes and background information to guide you in continuous engagement.

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What’s Love Got to Do With Fundraising?

NonProfit PRO

Turns out love has everything to do with fundraising. Relationship Fundraising 3.0 from the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy proves it.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 69: Why It’s Essential to Become a Digital-First Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

In this episode of The NonProfit Voice Tech Series, Mark Becker, founding partner of Cathexis Partners and editorial advisory board member of NonProfit PRO, is joined by Geoff DeLizzio, chief development officer at the Epilepsy Foundation, and Maria Clark, executive vice president of partnerships at GoodUnited, to discuss a digital-first fundraising strategy.

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Nominate Your 2022 Nonprofit Professionals of the Year

NonProfit PRO

NonProfit PRO will recognize those who are working or volunteering for nonprofits and are devoted to their mission through our annual Nonprofit Professional of the Year Awards. Select from the eight designated categories and tell us all about the deserving nonprofit professional in your life.

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Multi-Channel Fundraising Guide

NonProfit PRO

Multi-channel fundraising is a great way to keep your mission in front of supporters during the busy end-of-year giving season. This comprehensive guide covers how to launch a multi-channel fundraising campaign, important channels to consider, and examples of effective multi-channel campaigns. Download the guide now and get ready for a successful year-end push!

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Free Webinar: Designing Inclusive Decisions

NonProfit PRO

Led by inclusive decision-making facilitator, Mer Joyce, this FREE, 60-minute webinar offers a supportive place for organizations to learn how to co-design inclusive decisions and navigate their challenges. Save Your Free Spot!

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iDonate Releases 2.0 Version of Digital Fundraising Platform

NonProfit PRO

iDonate announced iDonate 2.0, a completely revamped and refreshed upgrade of its SaaS online giving platform. The newly updated 2.0 solution provides an upgraded management environment that streamlines launching multichannel fundraising campaigns, a template library of best practice forms and landing pages.