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Fasten Your Seat Belts! 2025 Will Be a Bumpy Ride…Here’s Help!

Pamela Grow

of new donors are being retained year-to-date, and even repeat donor retention decreased by 4.6%. Donor communications provide the very engine behind your fundraising program. Staffing The National Council of Nonprofitsreports that nonprofits around the country are reporting significant challenges retaining staff and filling vacancies.

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Embracing Intrapreneurship: A Nonprofit Game Changer

Blackbaud

This approach, which champions the spirit of entrepreneurship within existing organizations, is not just beneficial; it is vital for recruiting and retaining the talent that will drive our missions forward. I first learned of this concept from Professor Arthur C. Brooks’ nonprofit management course at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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The Numbers Are in and They Ain’t Good. Will Nonprofits Continue to Turn a Blind Eye?

Pamela Grow

The struggle to retain donors is widespread, with the lowest recorded donor retention rate at 42.6%. Your donor comms are the engine behind your fundraising program. The decrease in 2022, however, is particularly alarming because it comes after some gains in the middle of the year, and year-end donations declined by 1.7%.

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Fasten Your Seat Belts! 2025 Will Be a Bumpy Ride…Here’s Help!

Pamela Grow

of new donors are being retained year-to-date, and even repeat donor retention decreased by 4.6%. Donor communications provide the engine behind your fundraising program. Staffing The National Council of Nonprofitsreports that nonprofits around the country are reporting significant challenges retaining staff and filling vacancies.

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3 Strategies to create an effective nonprofit homepage

Candid

Another tip for success: People retain 80% of what they see, so thinking visually is an easy way to get ahead. Following WCAG’s best practices can also help your organization’s website rank more competitively on search engines, allowing you to boost visibility all while creating an inclusive online experience.

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Creating Better Concrete

HSF House

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 area. The researchers used ice-templating and freeze-drying to assemble the aerogels, and then crosslinked the fibers to improve their durability.

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Top 5 Challenges for Nonprofits in 2023

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The organizations that can do the best job of retaining donors in 2023 will be most successful—not just in this year, but for years to come. Since then, the Fundraising Effectiveness Project has shown a slow yearly decrease in the percentage of donor retention, including a dramatic 7.1% drop in donor retention in Q3 of 2022.