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40 Nonprofit Trends for 2024

NonProfit PRO

NonProfit PRO has released its 2024 report, featuring insights directly from nonprofit professionals across multiple key areas, offering essential trends to navigate the unpredictable nonprofit landscape. Download the report to gain valuable perspectives on big ideas, fundraising strategies, donor engagement, technology impact, data analytics, leadership strategies, mission awareness and much more.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Are sharks circling your member base, eyeing bites for their next meal? Even if your association is trapped in a sea of competition, you can change course and sail toward possibility. Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our expert for guiding associations through tough markets. At.orgCommunity’s recent Innovation Summit, Sharon explored how Blue Ocean Strategy can help you bypass the sharks and find your way to offering unique and powerful member value.

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How can we have courageous conversations?

Big Duck

Discover how to have courageous conversations and shift narratives to create a racially just society.

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The Future of Funding: Nonprofit Grant Management Software Trends

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Stephanie Wallace , Marketing Specialist, Keela – a complete software solution for nonprofits looking to grow revenue, centralize and manage data, and deepen donor engagement. As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community. However, managing grants efficiently and effectively can often be a daunting task, requiring meticulous attention to detail, rigorous compliance measures, and streamlined processes.

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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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Maximize Holidays to Expand Your Nonprofit Audience

NonProfit PRO

Holidays evoke emotion, while nonprofit campaigns use emotion to drive action. Here's how to use holidays to connect with a broader audience.

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Boost Donor Engagement for your Nonprofit with Nurture Emails

DonorDock

Discover how nurture emails can elevate your nonprofit's donor engagement and retention, creating lasting relationships with personalized content.

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3 Ways to Boost Donor Retention with Nonprofit Tech Tools

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Abby Jarvise , writer, marketer, and speaker at Neon One – software built for small and midsize nonprofits to help them manage fundraising, communications, events, volunteers, and more. Donor retention is important. If you’ve been in the nonprofit space for more than a week or two, you’ve probably read all about it—how retaining donors is more cost-effective than acquiring new ones, how it’s an important part of building a sustainable fundraising program, and how focusing on retaining your do

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10 Ways That Have Elevated Boards to Increase Fundraising!

NonProfit PRO

Unlock Your Nonprofit's Full Potential! View the Board Fundraising & Engagement Guide: 10 Essentials for Success - your roadmap to building a powerful team of fundraisers and changemakers. Maximize your impact and create lasting change in your community with proven strategies to increase fundraising and engagement from your board. Download now to ignite the spark of transformation!

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Your 2024 New Year's Resolution Check-In

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Yikes. It's already March. Hopefully, you've mastered or are achieving good progress with your New Year's resolution(s) for 2024. If you need another resolution to tackle this year or haven't yet selected one, now is a good time to review this list below.

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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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Five considerations for creating an authentic ally-led DEI strategy which supports your fundraising efforts

Charity Village

Philanthropy has long been accused of lacking equitable investments in racialized communities, and in particular Indigenous and Black-led organizations. In addition, whereas women make up nearly 80% of the nonprofit workforce, many of the leadership positions are held by men. And these are just a few of the issues the sector faces in terms of […] The post Five considerations for creating an authentic ally-led DEI strategy which supports your fundraising efforts appeared first on CharityVil

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Nonprofits Navigating ChatGPT Quirks: Understanding the Mistakes it Can Make

John Kenyon

Is your nonprofit harnessing the power of AI like ChatGPT in your daily operations? Well, buckle up, because today we’re diving into a topic that’s as quirky as it is important: the mistakes ChatGPT can make. Did you know that if properly prompted, ChatGPT will claim that the word “mayonnaise” contains more than two letter “n”s?

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How to Present a Major Gift Offer That Can’t Be Refused

NonProfit PRO

As "The Godfather" showed, you're most persuasive when you give people what they want most. Here's how this can help with major gift offers.

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My 10 Favorite Quotes From The Book, The 5 Levels Of Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are some of my favorites quotes from John C. Maxwell 's book, The 5 Levels of Leadership that I believe should become a must-read book by any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

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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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Fewer restrictions, greater impact: How Candid shifted to unrestricted support 

Candid

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. This strategic pivot meant that we had to make the difficult choice to stop actively seeking programmatic support that had, until that point, made up a chunk of our contributed revenue.

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The AI Fix-It Fantasy: What Won’t Change in Your Nonprofit

John Kenyon

Hey there, fellow do-gooders! We all love the idea of technology swooping in to save the day, right? But let’s get real: not everything can be fixed with a fancy algorithm or a shiny new app. So, grab your popcorn and let’s chat about what AI won’t fix in your nonprofit. – Fundraising Fumbles: Imagine this: a robot knocking on doors, asking for donations.

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What to Know About Constituent Relationship Management System for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

Many nonprofits are considering new constituent relationship management software. Here's how to navigate the ever-evolving CRM landscape.

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Motorsport Sponsorship Trends and Statistics You Can’t Miss

The Sponsorship Collective

Before you dive in, if you are interested in motorsport sponsorship, check out these titles in our “sponsorship for motorsport” series: Resource Page for Motorsport Sponsorship Why You Should Avoid Tiered Sponsorship Levels and What To Do Instead What is the Difference Between Sponsorship and Advertising Motorsport Sponsorship: How To Get Racing Sponsors Are you […]

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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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Your Best “No BS” Nonprofit Resources

Pamela Grow

Every day you sit down to begin working on a project. Perhaps it’s your first donor newsletter. Or an invitation to your organization’s latest event. Or maybe you’ve finally decided to work on your email welcome series. Only to be interrupted by a notification on your phone for a new *free* webinar promising the latest in fundraising innovation (probably something AI-related).

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Reminder: SCOUT QUEST WEBINAR

M+R

Read time: 3 minutes This spring, we’re cooking up some exciting new updates for Scout Quest — M+R’s data co-op — and I hope you’ll join me at an upcoming webinar on Thursday, March 7 from 4–5pm ET to learn about those updates. But let’s back up for a sec — what is Scout Quest? It’s a different kind of data co-op! Participating organizations share their supporter email, action, donation, deliverability, engagement, and fundraising behavior.

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Report: Crypto Donations are a Multi-Billion-Dollar Revenue Stream for Charities

NonProfit PRO

The Giving Block's "2024 Annual Report on Crypto Philanthropy" revealed key insights into the fast-growing crypto donation movement.

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Share your experience with the 50 – 30 Challenge Program in a short survey

Charity Village

CharityVillage has been proud to partner with the Diversity Institute (DI) at Toronto Metropolitan University to advance equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada’s workforce, and share easy-to-apply best practices and tools for organizations like yours. Part of this work has been through the federal government’s 50 – 30 Challenge, in which DI is an ecosystem […] The post Share your experience with the 50 – 30 Challenge Program in a short survey appeared first on CharityVillage.

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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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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. It provides the ultimate tool to bring all your school software into one system and allows everything to talk to each other.

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Transform Your Nonprofit Annual Report Into A Powerful Fundraising Tool

Bloomerang

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. However, when approached with creativity and strategic thinking, it can serve as a powerful instrument for storytelling, showcasing impact, and inspiring donors and supporters to take action. This blog post delves into practical strategies for transforming your nonprofit’s annual report into a compelling narrative that highlights your achievements, tells stories of

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How to Ramp Up the Urgency in Appeals and Boost Response

NonProfit PRO

Donors may push off giving until later, but you want their support now. Here are four ways to add urgency to your appeal and boost response.

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Can we talk about donor care?

Hands on Fundraising

You know taking care of your donors is one of the most important things you can do I’ve recently written about thank you letters and donor retention. Yes, they’re very much connected. But it’s now that time of year… tax season. And your donors are likely going through the drudgery of pulling together their records, […] The post Can we talk about donor care?

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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.