Tue.Feb 27, 2024

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Build a Board for the Digital Future

.orgSource

Are your board meetings caught in a frustrating time loop? The faces change, but the concepts are entrenched. Nobody seems to notice that the same initiatives dressed in different costumes are masquerading as something new. Tradition can be a dynamic legacy. But an inheritance of stale ideas sandbags growth and keeps value at bay. In the digital era, this repetitive thinking is even more toxic.

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6 Tactics for Successful Grant Management in 2024

NonProfit PRO

Managing grants can be daunting for organizations due to several factors, such as high turnover, errors in expenses, outdated technology, and compliance with state and federal regulations. How can nonprofits ensure they are managing their grant programs effectively? The answer can be found in these six simple strategies.

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How to gather high-quality nonprofit client feedback

Candid

Nonprofit organizations are always looking for ways to increase the impact of their work. One way to serve your clients more effectively is to gather feedback from participants, then use what you learn to improve services and support organizational change initiatives. At Listen4Good (L4G), we call this process a “client feedback loop.” This includes asking questions such as: “To what extent have we met your needs?

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6 Tips for Your Next Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Event

NonProfit PRO

Planning your next peer-to-peer fundraising event? Here are six tips from nonprofit professionals to get you started.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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From Lost To Loved: Turning Lapsed Donors Into Devoted Donors

Bloomerang

Every nonprofit worries about them. Laments them. Broods over them. They hang over us like a persistent shadow. The looming storm cloud in the far distance. A tangled web of worry and loss. Who am I talking about? Your lapsed donors. The ones who left you, and you don’t know why. Perhaps so much time has passed that you may be scared to reach out to them—or worse—ask why they left.

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See You at #24NTC in Portland!

Forum One

Excitement is building as we eagerly anticipate March 13-15, when we’ll be in Portland for #24NTC! The Forum One team is thrilled to return to the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in person this year at the Oregon Convention Center. We’re looking forward to connecting with you during this event. Here’s how you can locate us over the three-day conference: [Arcade] Booth 436 & 438 Join us for a chance to connect, learn about our work, and how we can amplify your o

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Make Your Charity Gala Event a Donor Cultivation Powerhouse

Greater Giving

Beyond the Ballroom: Make Your Charity Gala a Donor Cultivation Powerhouse Fundraising events offer more than just glitz and glamour; they’re a potent tool for cultivating relationships with potential donors and qualifying them for future giving. By strategically leveraging engagement during your event, you can lay the groundwork for long-term partnerships and unlock hidden fundraising potential.

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Spring into Action: Best Practices for Volunteer Recruitment and Retention

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Spring into Action: Best Practices for Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Spring is the season of growth and renewal—a perfect time to rejuvenate your organization’s volunteer force! Discover how to blossom your volunteer roster with our guide on the best practices for recruitment and retention. Unearth the secrets to planting seeds of interest in potential volunteers and nurturing them into dedicated members of your cause.

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How to Create A Holistic Nonprofit Digital Marketing Plan

Pamela Grow

Your nonprofit invests significant time, energy, and money into bettering the lives of those you serve. However, you can’t do it all on your own. Building relationships with donors, volunteers, and advocates ensures that you have a reliable source of support to power your mission year after year. Thanks to modern technology, the world is more interconnected than ever.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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How to Communicate Meaningfully with Nonprofit Supporters in an Election Year

Media Cause

For nonprofits in the U.S. and around the world, this coming November’s presidential election will be a stage on which events that impact society, economy, business, and philanthropy will play out. Understanding your nonprofit audiences—their hearts and minds, wallets and worlds—is critical to successfully communicating in an election year. It’s more important than ever to share your mission in a way that is real, relevant, and sensitive to what’s going on within your organization’s environment

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Maximizing Nonprofit Fundraising with Google Analytics 4

Allegiance Group

Your website is arguably the most important tool you have in your fundraising arsenal. But if it’s not set up correctly, you’re missing an opportunity to capture all the traffic (i.e., leads) it’s bringing in. It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Thankfully, Google Analytics makes it easy. This is the secret weapon that will help you meet your strategic plans in 2024.

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Biggest Sponsorship Industry Trends for 2024

The Sponsorship Collective

With the end of the year comes one of my favorite times. The time to reflect and predict what could be waiting around the corner in sponsorship.

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Solving the Challenges of Donor-Advised Funds

Allegiance Group

Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are one of the fastest-growing areas of charitable giving. In fact, $52 billion was granted to nonprofits out of DAFs in 2023, a number that has grown an average of 20% per year over the last five years. More than 3 million people use donor-advised fund accounts for their philanthropy. Such explosive growth is almost an anomaly in fundraising today, where we’re seeing a decline in both participation and giving.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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The Top Sponsorship Lessons for 2023 

The Sponsorship Collective

Whew, what a year it’s been! The Sponsorship Collective continues growing by leaps and bounds, as does the sponsorship market as a whole.

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Litigating a Path to Progress: Nonprofit Advocacy through the Courts

Blue Avocado

Three pieces of advice for nonprofits looking at litigation as advocacy. It is trite to start a discussion of advocating for change by mentioning the dysfunction in the US political systems, but here we are. As federal and state legislative bodies have stalled from political polarization, many nonprofits find that traditional advocacy pathways are no longer viable to create systemic change for their clients and communities.