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Culture, Community, and Technology—A Successful 2022 Convergence

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Our Year in Review. The motivation to build stronger relationships, both remote and in-person, resonated across the association community. The motivation to build stronger relationships, both remote and in-person, resonated across the association community. But, before we welcome a new year, let’s toast 2022! Leadership.

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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

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Centering communities: Leaning into participatory grantmaking to increase equity 

Candid

Our community reviewers—primarily BIPOC nonprofit leaders, past and present grantees, and volunteers—receive stipends to acknowledgment their critical contributions and play a pivotal role in ensuring our processes are transparent and inclusive.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Philanthropy loves “new” things. Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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Advice for Starting A New Fundraising Job

Bloomerang

One of my favorite colleagues and co-host of our Eskin Fundraising Training Non-Profit Empowerment webinar series, Rhanda Luna, has been hired as Director of Corporate Giving and Special Events for SAFE, based in Austin, Texas. Review progress on these goals and objectives at least quarterly. Confirm work-life boundaries.

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Text donor love to boost your end-of-year giving

EveryAction

Renowned fundraising researcher Jen Shang PhD , the world’s first philanthropic psychologist, and co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy found that donors getting an email stewardship piece before the ask gave $45 more than those who did not. Twelve months later, they reviewed the results.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

sgEngage

In philanthropy, unlike democracy, there is often no way for people to participate–to share what they think or to influence decisions. A More Equitable Perspective : This kind of philanthropy is more just because communities have agency over decisions that affect their lives. Those at the top decide.