May, 2022

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How to Demonstrate ROI to Your Nonprofit Board Members

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proving to your nonprofit’s stakeholders that your organization is “worthy” of their financial support is an ongoing responsibility for nonprofit management. . Those who commit to the organization’s mission – clients, donors, board members, and staff – all have opinions about the optimal spending levels to execute the mission. Fundraising expense is one place where this manifests.

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Where the Money Is? — and Why That Matters for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

Back in the 1950s, when a reporter asked the notorious Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, he supposedly responded, “That’s where the money is.” Proponents of the business of philanthropy should heed this simple wisdom and cultivate relationships with the wealthiest prospects — those with the most capacity to give.

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What Is Customer Data and How It Could Transform Your Marketing

Association TV

WorkerBee.TV ·. What Is Customer Data and How It Could Transform Your Marketing | Association TV Blog. Caution: This Article Contains Big Data Energy. Customer data is all the bits of information your customer leaves behind when they interact with you, your product or your service. These are things such as names, job titles, on-site behavior, social engagement and even product reviews.

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Build a Culture To Fit the New World of Work

.orgSource

Who on your team is spending the lunch hour scrolling the job sites? I can guarantee that someone is seriously searching for their next opportunity. And, the most likely candidate is probably one of your rising stars. If that thought gives you an uncomfortable shiver, read on. In a world where the office, as we […]. The post Build a Culture To Fit the New World of Work appeared first on.orgSource.

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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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Data Analytics Trivia!

Association Analytics

The post Data Analytics Trivia! appeared first on Association Analytics.

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7 Essentials for Your Nonprofit’s Branding Guidelines

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Strategic branding is critical for your nonprofit to build trust among your supporters and get the word out about your services. When your brand is consistent and strong, you can increase your organization’s visibility in your community and move your audience to action. What Are Brand Guidelines? Brand guidelines expand on the decisions you have made with the design of your logo.

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How Nonprofits Should Identify Their Best Fundraising Sources

NonProfit PRO

You need money. You’ve got staff, programs, services, rent and a seemingly endless list of costs associated with all the good work you’re doing for your community and our world. Here’s a roadmap you can use to find what methods of raising money are right for you.

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The Best Nonprofit Website Builders in 2022

Wild Apricot

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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Why You Need Diversified Fundraising For Your Small Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

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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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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The Essential Guide to Writing a Fundraising Plan

Bloomerang

Nonprofits with written fundraising plans consistently outperform organizations without them. However, many nonprofits lack these important guiding strategies. One study found that 37% of organizations with budgets under $1 million and 22% of organizations with budgets over $1 million don’t have a fundraising plan in place. A fundraising plan defines clear goals, keeps your team on track, provides accountability, and ultimately helps you raise more for your cause.

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How to successfully recruit and retain staff with innovative technology

Nimble AMS

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary, employment openings increased to record levels in March, reaching 11.549 million vacancies. The number of job openings has been on the rise since the pandemic and continues to outpace the rate of new hires. Job quit numbers also rose in March to 4.5 million, increasing in business and professional settings. .

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6 Benefits of Fund Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many nonprofits use an accounting approach called fund accounting. This method?focuses?on the use?of resources more than profitability,?with transparency and accountability at its core.? It?provides the framework for organizations to tell their stories and remain accountable to their stakeholders.???. Fund accounting also requires specific industry expertise, knowledge and experience to bridge the gap between tracking the use of funds and generating GAAP financial statements that focus on the ch

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How to Achieve Multicultural Marketing at Your Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

One of the significant benefits of multicultural marketing is that it’s simply the right thing to do. However, it can also help you increase brand awareness and help your nonprofit better fulfill its mission. People want to associate with brands and organizations that align with their societal values more than ever.

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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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Key takeaways from ABFE 2022 Harambee: Let’s All Pull Together

Candid

ABFE held their annual conference “Harambee: Let’s All Pull Together” recently with a mix of in-person and hybrid sessions. Several Candid team members attended, including director of research Grace Sato who presented at the session “Historic Partnerships, Historic Change: Using Philanthropy to Transform HBCUs and their Impact on the Black Community”; and senior director of research Cathleen Clerkin and senior research analyst Mantin Diomande who both spoke at “Black-led Nonprofit Organizations:

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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Starting a monthly giving program is a great use of your time because monthly donors are the lifeblood of a small nonprofit – bringing in sustainable revenue and creating a safety net of loyal supporters. . Imagine what you could do if you had hundreds or thousands of dollars steadily coming in your door each month…. Here are just a few really good, real life examples: Draft Gratitude relies on their Monthly Giving Team to cover about half of their monthly expenses for the horses.

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10 Ways to Find New Donors for Your Nonprofit Organization?

Bloomerang

Connecting with new donors is crucial to growing your nonprofit’s supporter base and ultimately raising more for your cause. New donors invigorate your nonprofit with a fresh wave of funding and engagement. And, when you properly steward and build relationships with these new donors, they can turn into lifelong supporters of your mission. But you have to find and connect with these individuals first.

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How to use innovative technology to attract members to your association

Nimble AMS

Technology is irrevocably integrated into our daily lives. According to research conducted by Hootsuite and We Are Social, there are a total of 4.95 billion internet users, with the average user spending nearly seven hours a day online. . Like it or not, in our digital-driven world, non-members will evaluate how your association leverages innovative technologies to determine whether your organization is worth joining.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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How to Use UTMs to Leverage Donor Acquisition for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How much time do you spend thinking about where your donors are coming from ? Or how they’re landing on your donation page? If you answered something along the lines of ‘not much’, ‘do I need to?’, then you might want to keep reading. It is super important to understand where your donors are coming from and how you could be acquiring more! With many ongoing marketing initiatives, whenever you see a boost in performance, it is fair to be wondering: was it that Facebook post that did really well,

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OKRs Offer Nonprofits a Better Approach to Goal-Setting Success

NonProfit PRO

The most successful organizations are able to collectively identify and engage around measurable goals. Many of them utilize objectives and key results (OKRs) to achieve these top priorities.

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7 significant HR documents most nonprofits are missing

Charity Village

We’ve tucked away a bonus policy inside the blog. Can you find it? Are you tempted to put off the task of reviewing and preparing your HR documents? Maybe it’s time to rethink that approach. You’ll likely have had more pressing things to take care of when you started running your nonprofit, and you might […]. The post 7 significant HR documents most nonprofits are missing appeared first on CharityVillage.

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What actually happened: Apple Mail Privacy Protection

M+R

Read time: 8 minutes. About this time last year, we all started talking about Apple’s new Mail Privacy Protection , a.k.a. Apple MPP, a.k.a. “that thing Apple is doing to email that’s going to change everything.” There was a lot of speculation about how it would affect email, ranging from laid back to predictions of doomsday. There were frenzied discussions about how to cope (wait and see?

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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The Growth Paradox for Nonprofit Organizations

Blue Avocado

We have been talking about the Overhead Myth and the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle for many years, but there has been only modest progress on donor demands that result in underinvestment in nonprofit infrastructure, and malnourished organizations. But if the Overhead Myth keeps us all hungry, the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle is not all the donors’ fault. […].

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Why your association should be using an AMS built on a CRM

Nimble AMS

An association management software (AMS) system built on a customer relationship management (CRM) platform offers associations unmatched functionality. . Read on to learn more about the unique advantages of using Nimble AMS, built on the Salesforce CRM platform, for your association. These days, many large membership-based organizations are choosing to use an association management software (AMS) system built on an enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

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3 Effective Tools for (Re)Branding Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Have you noticed, in the last year or so, how many nonprofits have rebranded? The pandemic has caused many mission-driven organizations to re-evaluate their mission, reconsider their strategic plan to accomplish it, and then engage donors and advocates from this new position. No doubt, change is always in the works in the nonprofit world, but the pandemic forced many organizations to change more than usual; to pivot and regroup.

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The Effect of Inflation on Charitable Giving

NonProfit PRO

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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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.