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Will Alexa Be a Regular at Your Future Meetings? — AI is Winning a Seat at the Conference Table

.orgSource

Artificial intelligence has moved into customer service departments. Whether it’s Alexa, Watson, or Hal, you can’t visit a website without a super-friendly little bot popping up on the right side of your screen. We are accustomed to the convenience of getting questions answered immediately. Associations haven’t been so quick to jump on the AI bandwagon. […].

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Ease of Monthly Giving Key for Baby Boomers and Gen Xers

NonProfit PRO

Every nonprofit wants to attract younger donors. That’s why it’s very exciting that monthly giving is so appealing to these younger donors. Why? Because they can support those organizations, they care about in a very easy way with a small amount that absolutely fits their budget.

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Netflix-ing Your Association

Association Analytics

The post Netflix-ing Your Association appeared first on Association Analytics.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Give your remote participants a seat at the table. As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. A recent McKinsey survey suggests that 90% of organizations will adopt some version of the hybrid workplace. The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done.

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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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Google Tag Manager

Byte Technology

You might have heard that using Google Analytics can give you many essential insights you desire. This is true. However, when used alone, there are limitations. By using Google Tag Manager (GTM), tagging your website, and using Google Analytics, you will collect plenty of helpful information to understand what your customers are seeking on your website. .

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Netflix-ing Your Association – August 25, 2021

Association Analytics

The post Netflix-ing Your Association – August 25, 2021 appeared first on Association Analytics.

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Surveys: Collect and Act on Your Data in 2021 and Beyond

Nucleus

When association leaders and staff want to gather information and opinions from their members, often the first idea is to conduct a member survey. With the number of data collection tools available on the internet for little or no cost, it’s tempting to inundate members with surveys about everything from the color of the annual meeting theme to crucial issues like dues increases or social issues.

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Why Your Organization Needs Young Volunteers + How to Recruit and Motivate Them

Wild Apricot

Ever wonder why some nonprofit organizations keep growing and flourishing for decades, while others seem to dwindle as time passes?

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Is Your Nonprofit Truly Successful?

NonProfit PRO

For these organizations to truly succeed, these organizations must set concrete goals that can be achieved, be willing to constantly ask for money, take big risks and adapt to successes and failures, plus master organizational rules.

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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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5 Tips To Help Your Nonprofit Receive MacKenzie Scott Funds

Bloomerang

Much has been written about the extraordinary grant making of businesswomen, MacKenzie Scott. With a net worth of $65.3B, there are a lot of MacKenzie Scott funds available. . Scott is a member of the Giving Pledge. When she signed the pledge she said: “ I have a disproportionate amount of money to share. My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful.

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What do you have to offer?

Hands on Fundraising

I’ve been gobbling up a series Steven Screen has been writing about your fundraising offer. Go read everything he’s been writing! This is such a critical part of any appeal you will send. Yet, it’s often overlooked. And that’s a shame because when you can work out the offer the rest of the piece is […]. The post What do you have to offer? appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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We need to have a serious talk about character limits on grant applications

Nonprofit AF

Hi everyone, with the collapse of the Afghanistan government, the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and the worsening pandemic, you might.

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Don’t Skip Gen X: Why Believing Certain Myths May Cause Your Nonprofit To Miss Out

NonProfit PRO

When you think about the list of things Generation X has been excluded from, targeting them for nonprofit donations doesn’t usually come to mind. And yet the generation is being swept to the side by nonprofits more interested in courting their wealthier parents or their younger siblings — the Millennials.

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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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Turning the Summer Fundraising Slump into a Windfall for Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

For many of us, summer fundraising can be frustrating because often our donor communications during this season yield less-than-ideal results. . If that sounds like your nonprofit’s typical summer, here are some things you can do to offset that summer slump with an unexpected windfall: 1. Determine if a summer fundraising campaign would help your communications.

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8 Donor Outreach Ideas for Transformational Fundraisers

DonorPerfect

These days, people want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. How can you harness the power of this paradigm shift to strengthen your donor retention within your own donor community and get closer to your fundraising goals? It’s all about a shift of your own toward transformational fundraising. That means: Get an Read More ». The post 8 Donor Outreach Ideas for Transformational Fundraisers appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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How to Source Great Year-end Stories

Get Fully Funded

Once upon a time, a fundraiser was super busy. In fact, she was so busy that when it came time to put together her year-end donation letter she was stumped. What should she write? Time was short, so she settled on writing a factual summary of her nonprofit’s achievements. Then she asked donors to help her reach her year-end financial goal. Unfortunately, this appeal didn’t perform as well as it could have.

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The Brain Drain in the Nonprofit Sector

NonProfit PRO

We've known for years that there has been grumbling about the nonprofit sector. Among themselves, nonprofit professionals have confided in each other stories of abusive bosses, entitled and non-diverse boards, lack of vision, chaos, and dysfunction. Unfortunately, these rumblings are causing a brain drain in the industry.

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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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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

This is part five in a six-part series. Read part one , part two , part three , and part four. . In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering online user experience and messaging. Mastering relevant content marketing. Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value.

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Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

Cloud 4 Good

You know you are making a difference in your communities, but do you know how to showcase that impact to your grantmakers, board members, donors, and volunteers without spending countless hours building endless spreadsheets and reports? Tableau helps you visualize impact in an easy-to-digest manner, regardless of the size or maturity of your organization, allowing you to maximize your impact along the way.

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#RiskyBusiness: Don’t Let Internal Controls Slip at Your Nonprofit Organization!

Blue Avocado

Nonprofit organizations are more vulnerable than ever to fraud or errors in the organization’s financial statements. With employees, management, and board members focused on helping people in the communities the nonprofit serves, time and attention to key financial internal controls has more than likely been refocused to the organization’s mission and purpose.

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Private Equity Firm To Merge Three Nonprofit Software Platforms in Combined $2B Deal

NonProfit PRO

The combined transaction value for the three Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for the social good sector reached $2 billion, which Apax cited as the largest merger and acquisition deal ever in the social good software sector. NonProfit PRO spoke to EveryAction CEO Stu Trevelyan about the deal.

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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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A Beginner’s Guide to Throwing a Fundraising Auction: 5 Tips for Item Procurement

Bloomerang

This is part one in a fundraising auction two-part series. . When executed properly, a fundraising auction can be an incredibly effective way to raise money for your nonprofit. In this blog post, I’ll cover five tips for nonprofits looking to throw their first auctions and how you can start planning for one that will wow your guests and inspire them to take action and support your mission.

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Why Diversifying Your P2P Strategy is Critical to your Organization’s Health

sgEngage

It would be fair to say that the entire social good sector was shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic. Quickly moving from in-person meetings, events, and general office work to a completely virtual strategy forced organizations to make decisions faster than ever before. On the upside, it gave us freedom to try new ways of working towards our missions; on the downside, it exposed the lack of diversification in fundraising strategies.

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Getting started with AI-driven fundraising: crash course

Candid

If efficiency, technology, and smarter fundraising have been on your nonprofit’s radar, you’ve almost certainly encountered artificial intelligence (AI). . It’s been a big buzzword for years now, but AI has moved beyond buzzword status—it’s an accessible and increasingly common tool for nonprofits. AI can completely change how nonprofits engage donors and prepare for fundraising appeals.

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With What Tools Should Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Software Integrate?

NonProfit PRO

It's important to get an overall picture of how your constituents interact with your organization and vice versa, as well as gather and analyze data about past peer-to-peer campaigns and events. Your ability to accomplish these things depends heavily on your peer-to-peer fundraising software’s ability to integrate with other key systems.

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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.