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The Ultimate Guide to Year-End Giving

Wild Apricot

Follow these steps to make your year-end giving campaign the best yet, as well as getting inspired by three great examples.

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A Few Thoughts From Our CEO, Chantal

Blue Fox

On: Doing the Best we Can in the Moment Last week I had the privilege to speak to nonprofiteers all over the country at Nonprofit Hub's Cause Camp 2020. After I acknowledged that 2020 is basically a dumpster fire, I took an informal poll of the audience to see how everyone was feeling. Interestingly, Cause Campers generally reported a mix of optimism and anxiety.

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Use This Email Template to Upgrade Donors from One-Time to Monthly

Network for Good

Attracting new donors is an essential part of every fundraising strategy. But it’s not enough. In 2019, only 19% of first-time donors gave a second time. You can’t sustain a nonprofit with that level of attrition — it will lead to burnout. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to convert one-time donors to monthly supporters. Besides serving as a vital source of reliable revenue, monthly donors also give more than their one-time counterparts, even one-time donors who give large gifts — an average of

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Tips for Communicating COVID-19 Precautions to Your Event Attendees

AccelEvents

Now that much of North America has entered Phase 2 of the reopening process, the events industry and event brands are more eager than ever to finally host a postponed event or switch from a virtual event back into an in-person or hybrid event. . With any event hosted during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers are required to follow coronavirus precautions to reduce the spread of the infectious disease. .

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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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4 Crucial Tips for Improving Your Association’s Website

Wild Apricot

Your association’s website is the main touchpoint for members and prospects. Make sure it’s providing the right experience with these easy-to-implement strategies.

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7 Year-End Appeal Strategies for Better Results

Network for Good

We’re well into the giving season and the clock is ticking to put together a successful year-end appeal. But there’s still time to make your message stand out. Focus on the essential elements of a year-end appeal to catch your donors’ attention during this season. A strong year-end appeal increases the odds that your supporters will pay attention and respond.

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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

If you’re getting people to your website, how are you getting them to make you a donation you can’t refuse? We’re asked this question a lot at Whole Whale. Here are our picks for the top donation platforms for nonprofits to help optimize your digital fundraising efforts. We have done our best to clearly map out the fees and strengths of each platform to help nonprofits find the best fit.

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[Webinar Series] Virtual Event Speaker Training

AccelEvents

Are you going to be speaker at an upcoming virtual event? Join us every Monday for our interactive virtual event speaker training on how to live stream with us using the Accelevents platform. What will we cover? Navigating the Accelevents studio controls. Broadcasting live to viewers. Interacting using polls and Q&A. The webinar will be free to attend & interactive, so please come with any questions you may have!

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How Recreation Software Can Save You 20+ Hours Weekly

Wild Apricot

Learn how you can spend more time out in nature and less time managing your organization with recreation software.

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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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3 Top Tips for Improving Your Nonprofit’s Digital Presence

Volunteer Hub

Your nonprofit’s digital presence is more important now than ever in order to reach donors and raise funds. Read our guide for the top tips to improve it. . It’s been a whirlwind of a year for the nonprofit sector. One thing we know for sure is that technology and digital marketing are more central than ever to nonprofits’ strategies. With social distancing guidelines and economic disruptions continuing to throw new challenges our way, engaging donors, and reaching new supporters ( and virtual v

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Is it Time to Incorporate My Side Hustle? Let’s Crunch Those Numbers!

Blue Fox

Blue Fox Specializes in Tax Services for Consultants and Independent Contractors Are you self-employed; earning 1099 income? Is your personal business generating more than $30k per year? Thinking about incorporating? [ Our CEO has a video message for you! ] It sounds like it’s time to analyze your tax position. Let’s compare the costs of incorporating against the tax savings you’d realize as an S-corp.

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How to Maintain Digital Safety at an Online Event

AccelEvents

Like most of the event industry, you have been forced to shift your once physical event to an online format or a hybrid event style due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While this move has allowed you to carry on hosting your event, it has also left you facing the complications that come with the digital landscape. . Protecting the digital safety of your attendees, exhibitors, presenters, and staff is paramount to the success of your online event. .

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Wave hello to winter with?a new release of Nimble AMS

Nimble AMS

Your winter forecast: Cold weather, but?hot new member engagement tools with Winter ‘21 release. The journey to greater member retention, loyalty and growth, starts with boosting member engagement. With consistent member engagement, you not only grow membership, but you also increase event attendance, celebrate more legislative wins and propel your industry forward.

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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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4 Best Professional Development Practices for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofit organizations are often pressed to do more with less. Your staff is expected to be more efficient, your organization more productive, and your mission more manageable all while your piggy bank is light. Actually, 18% of nonprofits cite having a small staff (or staff transitions) as the greatest challenge they encounter. . While it’s always important to expand your staff when necessary, there are also opportunities for you to help current employees become more efficient.

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How To Write Your Non Profit Annual Report

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their non profit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year.

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How to Maintain Digital Safety at an Online Event

AccelEvents

Like most of the event industry, you have been forced to shift your once physical event to an online format or a hybrid event style due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While this move has allowed you to carry on hosting your event, it has also left you facing the complications that come with the digital landscape. . Protecting the digital safety of your attendees, exhibitors, presenters, and staff is paramount to the success of your online event. .

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by Veera Tervola Morrison Spring 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change.

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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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Influencer Interview: Lisa Chimola

NonProfit Hub

This week, our very own Randy Hawthorne got to sit down with Lisa Chimola, a fab lanthropy expert, who specializes in working with nonprofits to hone their gift planning skills. Lisa is the chief fablanthropist for Fablanthropy, helping nonprofits reach the intersection of fabulous and philanthropy. As she talked with Randy, she discussed a few reservations donors might have to set up planned giving. .

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One-Minute Mentoring

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. And, I've have the honor and good fortune to be a mentor, both formally and informally, for various individuals the past few decades. Mentoring is powerful. Both being a mentor. And, being mentored. That's why I became an instant fan of the book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One.

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Tips for Communicating COVID-19 Precautions to Your Event Attendees

AccelEvents

Now that much of North America has entered Phase 2 of the reopening process, the events industry and event brands are more eager than ever to finally host a postponed event or switch from a virtual event back into an in-person or hybrid event. . With any event hosted during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers are required to follow coronavirus precautions to reduce the spread of the infectious disease. .

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Donor Segmentation: The Ultimate Guide for Nonprofits

DNL OmniMedia

Nonprofits, just like yours, are relying on technology for operations more than ever before. From your online fundraising software to your virtual event software, each of your solutions is generating extremely valuable data on how your supporters like to engage with your mission. Analyzing the data provided by nonprofit technology can help you optimize your fundraising and stewardship efforts over time to raise more money and build stronger relationships.

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Empower Your Nonprofit With Effective Payroll & HCM Services

Managing a nonprofit involves many challenges, but payroll and HR shouldn’t be among them. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps nonprofits choose the best provider. Efficient payroll services ensure timely, accurate payments, vital for maintaining staff and volunteer morale. Compliance support helps navigate complex labor laws and avoid costly fines.

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5 Steps to Creating Effective Community Health Initiatives

Connection Cafe

Hospitals around the country are leaning in to address patients’ social determinants of health. As they develop community benefit programs to address health disparities and elevate community well-being, co-investment with like-minded partners helps drive greater impact. But, perhaps what is still not clearly defined is how to go from idea to implementation.

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How To Create A People-First Culture At Your Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you want to create a heart culture and a people-first culture at your workplace, read the book, Advisory Leadership , by Greg Friedman. Although the book is authored by an award-winning financial advisor and primarily written for professionals in the financial services industry, this book is a must read for any leader who wants to create a nurturing heart culture that hinges on the human-centric values the next generation of employees hold in high regard.

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[Webinar Series] Virtual Event Speaker Training

AccelEvents

Are you going to be a speaker at an upcoming virtual event? Join us every Monday for our interactive virtual event speaker training on how to live stream with us using the Accelevents platform. What will we cover? Navigating the Accelevents studio controls. Broadcasting live to viewers. Interacting using polls and Q&A. The webinar will be free to attend & interactive, so please come with any questions you may have!

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How To Create Your Future

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Earlier this year brought the book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking , by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation.

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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.