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5 More-Important-Than-Ever Digital Marketing Metrics for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Josh Kashorek , Director of Marketing at Journity , and advocate for using data to create high-performance nonprofit marketing campaigns. Every nonprofit has the goal of extending their impact as far as they can by helping as many people as possible. They also have a responsibility to their donors to spend their resources wisely – especially when it comes to things like marketing and communications that often get put on the back burner.

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Resources to Help Your Organization Adapt During COVID-19

Wild Apricot

If you're facing unexpected challenges at the moment, here are some resources to support you and your organization as you adapt. You'll find information on running online events, working remotely, online fundraising, and more.

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9 Tips for Nonprofits To Boost Resilience During A Pandemic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our family with adopted senior rescue dog, “Tigger.” Greetings from shelter in place California! I have not left my house much in the last few weeks due to being in a higher risk category for COVID-19. If that wasn’t enough stress, I’m either living at work or working from home, along with my entire family. I realized after the first week, that I needed to gather every tool from my Happy Healthy Nonprofit toolkit to try to keep calm, focused, and positive.

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Introducing our Webinar On-Demand Series

The Nerdy NonProfit

Your digital presence is more crucial than ever before. That’s why we regularly host live and on-demand webinars. Since 2018, ArcStone has been committed to helping our nonprofit friends learn more about how to engage their audiences. We know it’s difficult to stay caught up with the latest trends and best practices. We can help! Our webinars take an important topic and show you the ins-and-outs, best practices, tips for getting started, and more.

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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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Planning a Golf Fundraiser in Uncertain Times: Technology Offers Time Savings & Flexibility

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Katie Casillas , director of marketing at GolfStatus.org , an event management platform specifically for golf fundraisers. The challenges fundraisers face in the months ahead present a complicated outlook—especially for those with budgets that rely heavily on event revenue. Will venues be open? Will supporters be willing and able to attend? Will it be socially responsible to host an event?

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Practical tips to prepare your association for virtual work

Nimble AMS

Now is an ideal time to assess your organization’s tools and approaches for working remotely. Transitioning to a remote workforce can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are some practical tips to get you started. It’s fairly common in today’s world for some or all of an organization’s staff to work from home. During times of crisis like the one the world faces today, working from home can become a requirement for many organizations.

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4 Tips to Get Your Nonprofit Ready For Tax Season

Achieve

With the end of the calendar year comes a new tax season. As a nonprofit, the last year has consisted of great fundraising campaigns, new projects, and new growth. Throughout it all, you probably weren’t thinking about where to categorize data and how new fundraising will impact your tax forms. . You’re not alone! Many nonprofits are so focused on the acquisition of funds during their fundraising campaigns that they forget there’s a step afterward – filing your 990 with the IRS. .

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How to Create the Perfect Email List

NonProfit Hub

Working in a nonprofit can be hard, and marketing yourself requires a bright eye. You’ll need to attract donors, show board members the numbers, get productive work done, and more. To market yourself in today’s world, you need to go digital and reach out to a broader audience. One of the best ways to do that is email marketing. . They’re easy to set up, easy to build, and your bank account will like them too.

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How to Manage Your Organization Virtually

Wild Apricot

Top six areas of your organization that can be done virtually, so you can stay on top of its needs even when you’re in the midst of social distancing.

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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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Everyone should get to play in the (Salesforce) sandbox

Nimble AMS

Don’t get caught without a full sandbox for your Salesforce-based AMS. Your Salesforce-based association management software system should include a full sandbox. Here’s why. Considering an association management software (AMS) system built on Salesforce ? Congratulations! Salesforce is the leading CRM and cloud development platform, and it has the potential to transform your organization.

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How Do You Select a Learning Management System for Your Training Needs?

Gyrus

Training and Development professionals must know the right way to select a Learning Management System (LMS) for training employees, customers or partners and achieving quality results. In this article, we explore how to select a Learning Management System (LMS) for your training needs.

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5 Online Fundraising Obstacles and How to Avoid Them

Elevation

New challenges arise as technological advancements have changed how nonprofits collect donations. For instance, nonprofits needed to adjust their strategies as new technology emerged around peer-to-peer fundraising, online giving, and crowdfunding. Changing technology adds a new obstacle on top of the traditional fundraising challenges that organizations have always faced.

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How to Celebrate National Volunteer Month in 2020

Wild Apricot

April is National Volunteer Month, but how do we celebrate amidst the COVID-19 crisis? Here are some ideas.

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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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How To Lead Your Boss

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Courage Solution , a book by Mindy Mackenzie , is all about the simple truth that the only thing you can reliably change or control is yourself. So, that is why Mackenzie wrote her book -- to teach you how to take actions that ultimately will improve your impact on the job and increase your happiness and fulfillment in your career. Mackenzie's quick-read strategies focus on these four key areas : Part 1: You First offers techniques to take ownership and accountability for creating a career a

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by Erin Larkins, Fall 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Professional development (PD) is the "process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training." PD is crucial to keeping the right people working for your organization. According to Guidestar, there are three reasons why PD is extremely important.

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Breaking down the CARES Act:  How the New Stimulus Bill Could Provide Relief for Social Good Organizations

Connection Cafe

On Friday, March 27, the House of Representatives and the President signed into law H.R. 748, the third relief package Congress has passed, and the President has signed into law to address the US response to COVID-19. The package, which was passed by the Senate on Wednesday, March 25, is the largest relief package in U.S. history and includes several provisions helpful to the social good sector.

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The Top 10 Alumni Management Software Options

Wild Apricot

Find out how alumni management software can help your organization and check out our list of top 10 options to find one that fits your needs.

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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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This Week's Three Tasks For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Be Decisive A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles, slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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Self-Care for Now and Thinking about What we Know Right Now

Museum 2.0

Written by: Seema Rao All, for the end of the month, I asked you what you're learning. I thought I'd share first, a bit of how I'm learning about myself. I went back to my roots this week, mapping out how I felt and was reacting. I made a little free brochure of my exercises , Self-Care for Now, and I'd love to hear if you have any you've enjoyed. Now, onto the question: (Blog research) what’s one thing about living in this phase of museum work you need to share?

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What Previous Crises Can Teach Us About Navigating the Current Fundraising Environment

Connection Cafe

Whether it be the tragedy of 9/11, a tsunami, an economic recession, an earthquake in Haiti, a country divided by an election or a devastating brushfire, there are many high-profile events of the past that have threatened to push the fundraising landscape to its limit. From each one of these events, a key fundraising lesson has emerged. By revisiting these lessons, we can assemble a valuable toolkit to aid social good organizations as they navigate this period of uncertainty.

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March Update: Resources to Help Your Organization Adapt During the Pandemic

Wild Apricot

In this month's newsletter, you'll find out about our online user summit, two new product enhancements, a podcast on improving your social media presence, and more.

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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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How To Be A Developing Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

One of my favorite lessons from the book, The DNA of Leadership , is the importance of being a developing leader. Developing leaders: Create the next generation of leaders Are great listeners Grow talent by challenging others to take on more than what they think they can do Are open, honest and direct Model the behavior they want to mentor for others If you haven't read Judith E.

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4 Steps to Making Planned Giving More Effective Than Ever, Right Now

Connection Cafe

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique challenge for nonprofit fundraisers: While most recessions can hurt people’s ability to give, this one can also affect our ability to ask. There are more than 10,000 planned and major giving officers in the United States, and almost all of them are trained primarily on using in-person events and 1-1 meetings. So what should you do when those are off the table for most of 2020?

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 141: Engaging & Retaining New Supporters with a Long-Haul Approach

Connection Cafe

Traditionally, arts and cultural organizations start fundraising after someone buys their first ticket. But is that the best approach for long-term success? What if organizations waited and took a more methodical approach? In today’s episode, Aubrey Bergauer, Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership and VP of Strategic Communications at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, joins the podcast to talk about developing a long-haul approach to fundraising, being customer-obsesse

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Community Foundations, Donor Advised Funds, and Cloud-based Technology – An Insider’s Look At This Winning Trifecta

Connection Cafe

Just a few months ago, in November 2019, I sat on my front porch and made my donor-advised fund (DAF) grant recommendations via a donor portal within an app on my iPhone while simultaneously sipping a nice glass of wine. I recommended six grants for my 2019 year-end distributions and the entire process required an investment of twenty minutes of my time; and what a wonderful feeling it brought me to know that my local food bank, animal society, homeless shelter, and others will have much-needed,

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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.