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A Few More Tips for Nonprofit Professionals To Avoid Getting Overwhelmed
Do you find yourself getting easily stressed with little productivity? Beth Kanter discusses tips for using your time wisely to handle demanding work flow.
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Sharing the MLK, Jr. Holiday in a Culturally Competent Way
Martin Luther King Jr.’s notorious holiday is approaching. Many people spend this time as a relaxation period, or another day off. Instead of letting a very relevant holiday go, learn how to share it in a culturally competent way in
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Shifting Philanthropy from Charity to Justice
Exploring a new framework for giving to address America’s economic, social and political inequalities.
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Millennials Want Skills-Based Involvement With Charities
Skill development is highly valued within millennials. More than 77% indicate they would volunteer if they were able to use a specific expertise to benefit a cause.
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Should Mergers be An Integral Part of Nonprofits Planning?
The study focuses on Chicago’s Metropolitan area and assess how nonprofits can use mergers as an effective tool to achieve their goals, advance their mission, and increase their impact.
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Major Gift End of the Year To-Do List
Major gift donors need special attention this time of year even if they are not planning to make a major gift. Here are five major gift end of the year to-dos to consider.
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How Will a Trump Presidency Impact Nonprofits
Gail Perry offers some practical advice, full of hope and the need to connect with donors in this uncertain environment.
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Increase Gifts From Your Online Advocates
How to use after-action popups (an image or video that floats on top of a web page, dimming out the rest of the content) to transform your advocate’s actions into money.
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Use Permission Marketing to Attract Volunteers
Set up a simple system to attract, inform, and build relationships with the people you’d love to have volunteer with your organization.
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The Millennial Way of Charity
Millennials want to connect to a cause they believe in and expect transparency, sophisticated storytelling and technical savvy from nonprofits. Many will also volunteer and lend the force of their own social networks to spread the word.
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Mobilize Everyday Influencers Around End-of-Year Giving
Your supporters are worth more than their own donations. They are agents of change who can promote your cause by leveraging their own social networks.
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Powerful Segmentation Ideas for Year-End Campaigns
Segmenting your email list to deliver the right message to the right audience will help you get – more new donors, more renewals, more monthly donors and higher average gifts.
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A Donor Relationship is Not a Trick
Reinier Spruit advocates listening to donors, and investing more in personal contact, because the long-term impact of doing this is valuable.
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Showcase the Best Tweets to Increase Impact
Twitter Moments are curated tweets collected into a story, and a great way to showcase the best tweets about your event or campaign.
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Alliance for Nonprofit Management Releases Largest National Study of Nonprofit Board Chairs
The study sought to answer two research questions: How do individuals prepare for their role as chair of a nonprofit board? And, what do board chairs perceive their leadership roles to be in relationship to the board, the community, and
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7 Rules for Successfully Soliciting Board Members
Smart work behind the scenes will make sure that soliciting board members goes smoothly and productively.
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