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Mindset: How Your Thinking Impacts Fundraising and Your Life
Gail Perry shares her insights on the connection between mindset and fundraising from her AFP International Fundraising Conference session.
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7 Ways to Keep Your Nonprofit Development Team Intact
Amy Einstein shares seven ways to help retain your development staff.
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3 Ways to Hire & Retain the Best Nonprofit Communicators
Expert Sarah Durham shares strategies for hiring and retaining top nonprofit communications talent.
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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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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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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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Linking Challenge to Opportunity to Strategy
Why it’s important to link your strategy to your supporters and create a challenging narrative.
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3 Most Boring Words in Fundraising Appeals
The most overused, most boring and least useful words that should not be used in fundraising appeals.
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Say Thank You Like You Mean It
Thanking donors often takes a back seat in fundraising campaigns. But you can rise above the mediocrity and thank your donors like you mean it.
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Why You Need to Lead Your CEO on Fundraising
CEOs are pulled in many directions that are not fundraising related, and majority of them want someone to lead them on major gifts and fundraising.
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Grantmakers and Nonprofits Should Collaborate for Success
Grantmakers and nonprofits can face today’s pressing social issues only if we break down the walls between us and see each other as partners on the same side.
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Updating the Nonprofit Work Ethic
How nonprofit leaders can protect themselves and their staff from burnout and achieve higher, more sustainable organizational performance.
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Eliminate Wordy Phrases from Your Writing
We’ve all read those fundraising appeals that seem to have smart ideas, but on closer look they just have a lot of words. Replace these wordy phrases with their concise alternatives.
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Hispanic America: A Fundraising Market 55-Million Strong
For nonprofits, these are astounding numbers—not just because of the enormous volume, but because Hispanic donors are generous. Research by Russ Reid indicates Hispanic giving closely matches that of Caucasians.
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Charities Urged to Tailor Data to Needs of Staff, Donors, and Others
Nonprofits need to put data into context. Donors want to know that your organization understands the answers to ‘Why are you doing what you’re doing, and what do you know about that progress?’
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The Secret to Building Empathy in Your Nonprofit Stories
The last thing you want to do is hit publish on a story you know is lacking in emotional power. Great storytellers will always pay attention to the emotional journey of their audience; not just the hero’s journey of their
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