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GivingTuesday: 5 Ways To Steward One-Time or First-Time Donors  

The NonProfit Times

How confident are you that the right strategy is in place to turn one-time donors into long-term supporters? GivingTuesday, and the days following, are a time for fundraisers to take a different approach to engaging with donors. Volunteering time and donating needed items are just as important. Have a thank you plan.

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The Power of Spend-Down Funds And Immediate Attention

The NonProfit Times

While endowments traditionally focus on perpetuity, a growing number of donors are opting for time-limited or spend-down funds. One of the main reasons to set up a spend-down fund is to address causes that require more immediate attention. It should be noted that spend-down funds are subject to timing risks.

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Timing Year-End Fundraising in an Election Year: A Survival Guide

Bloomerang

If you live in one of the seven swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, and the election noise is positively crushing, you may consider how you might schedule your appeals to maximize attention. Fortune favors the brave! Drop it in the comments.

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This guy has a quick fix for the crisis on Brooklyn’s busiest highway—and few are paying attention

Fast Company Tech

miles through the heart of the two boroughs to connect on either end with the interstate highway systema relic of midcentury car-oriented infrastructure, and a prime example of the dwindling lifespan of roads built during that time. Designed to accommodate around 47,000 vehicles per day, it now carries more than three times that amount.

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How to Improve Donor Retention: 3 Surprising Strategies from Top-performing Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They save you time. Pay attention to what they’re telling you, and let it guide your strategy. This is a major missed opportunity, especially when re-engaging with previous supporters can cost up to five times less than attracting new donors. Think about your daily habits. These actions feel intuitive.

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Your colleagues are crucial to your promotion. Here’s why

Fast Company Tech

And while you might attract attention with stellar performance, it’s not enough to secure your success as a leader. During executive coaching engagements, I often find leaders realize that they need to start paying attention to their cross-functional relationships. Thinking about a time when theyre highly engaged.

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AI advances mean we need to double down on this one skill

Fast Company Tech

As a high-performance coach and leadership expert, I spend my time consulting with leaders and their teams, challenging them to do better thinking and extract the value of their collective capacity. Modern-day workers are facing a triple threat from the joint epidemics of algorithms, attention theft, and burnout. Heres why: 1.