Not Your Father's Charity

MAY 25, 2022

The best place to start when it comes to fundraising from major donors is to begin with your database. Nonprofit major donors, such as endowments, foundations, and corporations, are often more complicated than individual donors. In short, they’re more challenging to reach and often require more time, education, and resources. However, like all donors, they can make a significant financial impact, and you should include them in your fundraising strategies.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 26, 2022

12 Best Nonprofit Website Builders & 3 Tips To Get Started Imagine this: Gabriella, a manager at a local boutique, hears about your nonprofit when her boss agrees to be an event sponsor for your upcoming gala. She’s inspired by your mission.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

To fully fund your nonprofit, you need a diversified fundraising stream. In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. Diversified fundraising revenue creates stability and keeps you from being dependent on one source of funding. If you get all your money from a single, wonderful donor, what happens when that donor turns their attention—and their dollars—elsewhere?

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 27, 2022

The Pew Research Center recently found that 70% of American adults view inflation as a major problem in the United States. Will the news of continuing increased inflation affect charitable giving?

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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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Candid

MAY 24, 2022

Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to increase awareness about the gender wage gap. Specifically, this day marks how far into the year a woman must work to receive the same wage that a man received the previous year. This year, U.S. Equal Pay Day landed on March 15, meaning that women in the U.S. had to work a 14-and-a-half-month year to earn the same amount that men made in 2021.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 27, 2022

Whether you run a club, church, professional association, chamber of commerce, or any other type of membership organization, your goal is likely the same — to retain your members and keep them happy and engaged. One thing that can help with this.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 25, 2022

When it comes to your fundraising, don’t be like Othello. He loved “not wisely.” You should do the opposite. Love your donors wisely. And you do that by mailing and emailing them not necessarily more but smarter. Here’s what to do.

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Candid

MAY 26, 2022

Writer’s Note: The following recommendations were originally shared in Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining two years of giving , a report published on May 25, 2022 by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Candid. They are based on the combined wisdom of CDP’s staff, advisory council, and board. They represent promising practices and important directions for philanthropy as we collectively continue to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. .

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Blue Avocado

MAY 23, 2022

For those who have spent the better part of their careers working on equity issues, recent events have been wrenching–and cause for hope: the Black Lives Matter movement is finally entering the mainstream. But just like those obligatory corporate environmental sustainability statements, it has become hard to tell what’s real and what’s just PR. There […].

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2022

Podcasts have become a regular part of our media diets — and for more and more nonprofits, a powerful channel for sharing stories. Nonprofit leaders considering producing their own shows often worry that it's too difficult to meet extremely high standards for production quality, fresh content, and engaging hosts. But you don't have to have a team of professionals to create shows that people love to listen to.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 23, 2022

The best advice I can offer is to think not just about your donors during this time, but, more importantly, your staff. How has your staff recently connected with your mission and strengthened their relationship with your cause?

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Fundamental Strategies to Maximize your Event Marketing ROI. Hosting and marketing a successful event can require a significant investment of time and resources. As a result, your nonprofit’s financial health often depends on your ability to recoup that investment through a successful marketing strategy that brings in ticket sales and donations. This guide will look at four transformational fundraising strategies for increasing your nonprofit’s ROI from its event marketing outreach.

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OneCause

MAY 23, 2022

The post OneCause – G2 Crowd Leader in Fundraising Software appeared first on OneCause.

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Qgiv

MAY 25, 2022

Over the course of the last two weeks, Americans have been rocked by two tragic, mass shootings. The first took place on May 14 in Buffalo, New York at a Tops Market, killing 10 people. The next shooting took place on May 24 th at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed. Our hearts break for the families that have lost children and loved ones in Uvalde, and for those that have lost their loved ones in the racially motivated attack in Buffalo.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 27, 2022

There are many fundraising fails. Staff frequently fail at cultivation, solicitation and stewardship, just to name a few, but let’s talk about board fundraising fails. Here are my top five.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 27, 2022

SPOILER ALERT: More grant funding is not the answer. Listen. I get it. I have been funding projects and programs with grants for the last 21 years, and I despise the sustainability question. If I were brutally honest, my answer to that question would sound like this: Look, dear funder, I appreciate that you are thinking ahead. It’s smart. But right now, I’m in the middle of developing three federal proposals, managing 15 open grants, writing my organization’s newsletter from cover to cover, and

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Selfish Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Did you miss me? I certainly missed you! Thanks to everyone who replied to my last newsletter congratulating my daughter, Cate, on her graduation from George Washington University. And, wow, there are a lot of fellow GW graduates out there! What a trip! The real surprise in DC was the weather. The forecast did not look good heading into the weekend, but the weather turned out to be nice for both ceremonies.

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Qgiv

MAY 23, 2022

Laura Kruisenga, President & CEO, Kennari Consulting – Laura works with clients to build their annual fundraising programs with a particular focus on events, communications, and staffing. She is regularly featured as a presenter at local workshops and seminars on fundraising. Laura graduated from Adrian College with a degree in business administration and has over 20 years of fund development experience and is certified in the use of several databases, including Raiser’s Edge and Giftw

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 24, 2022

The number of donor-advised fund accounts in the U.S. surpassed 1 million in 2020, and grants to charities from the 10 largest donor-advised fund sponsors totaled 22.41 billion. So, let's dive into how donor-advised funds can help you with your overall fundraising strategy.

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Peak Proposals

MAY 22, 2022

Writing a grant proposal has several stages. There’s the research stage when you are learning about the funder’s interests, studying the proposal requirements, and collecting background information related to your topic; the outline stage, when you are deciding the proposal’s structure, developing the outline, and determining which content goes where; the writing phase, when you are drafting text; and finally, the submission phase, when you are editing the proposal, completing the final reviews,

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2022

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in 2018, informs the many privacy regulations emerging globally and at the state level in the U.S. For many U.S.-based organizations, GDPR compliance has meant adding cookie notices to website footers, but it hasn't extended much past that. However, the steady stream of new data privacy regulations makes it important to understand what GDPR protections mean.

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Qgiv

MAY 23, 2022

It’s no secret that social media is one of the most important marketing tools a nonprofit can invest in. Almost three-quarters of all American internet users are on at least one social media platform and spend an average of two hours every day scrolling through social media feeds, liking, sharing, and commenting on posts. With such a massive presence in people’s everyday lives, social media makes connecting with your network of supporters easier than ever.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 25, 2022

Partnerships are like recipes. Every recipe has ingredients to make it work, replicable and memorable. Here is a recipe of six essential ingredients for corporate partnerships.

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Fundraising HayDay

MAY 26, 2022

It's the dreaded question most funders ask: how are you going to sustain this program when the grant is over? If we are being brutally honest, the answer is probably to write another grant. But we want to be funded, so a more comprehensive and multi-faceted answer is required. Learn all about the benefits of collaboration, fundraising, and more to create the best sustainability answer possible.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2022

The TechSoup team and our corporate partners are always working to provide better, more affordable solutions for our nonprofit members. To that end, we've streamlined our NortonLifeLock program to enable our members to protect more devices at their organizations.

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Qgiv

MAY 23, 2022

Every nonprofit has unique needs, which means the data you need readily available isn’t what another organization might need. That’s why we updated Qgiv’s dashboards to be customizable, with drag-and-drop insights to help you build a dashboard packed with data that tells a story about your campaigns, events, and donors! They’re every data-driven nonprofit’s dream.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 23, 2022

Your work as a fundraiser is to help donors experience the most possible joy through giving by enabling them to give to projects and programs that light them up and will help change the world. And it follows that it should be your goal to create an environment that makes this process easy and delightful for your donor.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 27, 2022

What gets measured, gets done. If you’re keeping track of something, then you’re probably doing it… right? But the process of identifying the right metrics and reports to measure and communicate is more complex… especially when it comes to finding metrics to drive grant performance. This free report is designed to help you establish the proper metrics for your organization, and then efficiently measure them, without negatively impacting the time available for grant writing and related fundraisin

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 26, 2022

Have you tried using QR codes yet in your appeals or on your postcards? They are also a terrific way to generate more monthly donors.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 26, 2022

Nonprofits are always looking for innovative ways to increase online donations, and that’s why crypto donations have caught their attention recently. But accepting crypto donations, which are not yet popular among donors, won’t move your needle. Then what? A frictionless donation experience. 99% of website visitors leave without donating, many due to a suboptimal donation experience.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 27, 2022

Play Like a Girl leverages the power of sports to expose young girls to careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). As the organization grew and its programs expanded, so did the need for paid, professional staff and increased funding. A golf tournament presented a unique opportunity to put the organization’s mission on display while raising dollars for the mission.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 26, 2022

The Forum, in collaboration with Accenture and Microsoft, is building a Global Collaboration Village as the virtual future of public-private cooperation. It will provide immersive spaces where stakeholders can convene, create and take action on the world’s most pressing challenges.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 26, 2022

It’s spring. Birds are chirping, flowers are growing, and television stations are airing more public service announcements (PSAs) than at any time in history.

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