The 2024 National Study on Donor Advised Funds
The 2024 National Study on Donor Advised Funds includes information about Donor Advised Funds from 2014 to 2022, covering aspects such as account size, age, type, succession plan, donor demographics, contributions, grants, payout rates, and grantmaking speed. The report represents the most extensive independent study on DAFs to date. Thanks to the collective efforts of 111 DAF programs that voluntarily provided anonymized data to the research team, the dataset covers nine years of activity from more than 50,000 accounts, with over 600,000 inbound contributions to DAFS and more than 2.25 million outbound grants from Donor Advised Funds.
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Cybersecurity Readiness for Nonprofits: Community IT Innovators Playbook
Cybersecurity Readiness for Nonprofits: Community IT Innovators Playbook is a publication of Community IT Innovators. This new edition has been completely revised, and it offers a variety of strategies for improving cybersecurity. Nonprofit organizations are challenged to develop an appropriate security plan that recognizes the difficulty in managing the security of their data assets, engages their staff with sensible practices as an important line of defense, and keeps costs effective.
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How Nonprofits Can Nurture Genuine Appreciation For Team Members
How Nonprofits Can Nurture Genuine Appreciation For Team Members is a March 2024 publication of the Forbes Nonprofit Council by Patricia McIlreavy. In this era of heightened competition for talent, remote work environments and increased burnout rates, nonprofit leaders must prioritize staff appreciation and recognition as a strategic imperative. This publication offers a number of strategies for nurturing appreciation.
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In Abundance: An Analysis of the Thriving Landscape of Collective Giving in the U.S.
In Abundance: An Analysis of the Thriving Landscape of Collective Giving in the U.S. is a 2024 national research report on various approaches to collective giving from the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, Colmena Consulting, and Philanthropy Together. Practiced in cultures all around the world, collective giving brings people together to pool their resources, including time, talent, treasure, testimony, and ties – often referred to as the 5 T’s. Groups like giving circles, Social Venture Partners chapters, giving projects, and fundraising circles have long served as democratic and philanthropic learning hubs – bringing historically marginalized voices into philanthropic decision-making spaces, challenging preconceived notions of who is considered a philanthropist, and elevating members as integral actors in the sector’s efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in giving.
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Nonprofit Power: Building an Inclusive Democracy
Nonprofit Power: Building an Inclusive Democracy is a 2024 report by Nonprofit VOTE (NV), an organization focused on providing resources to nonprofits to conduct nonpartisan voter engagement. It argues that nonprofits can and should do more to engage with voters—and that doing so has a measurable, and not-so-subtle positive effect on voter turnout. The report is based on a study conducted by NV concerned with measuring the impact of nonprofit voter engagement on voter turnout. Its outcome was a positive 10-point shift in voters who had been engaged by nonprofits in the 2022 midterm election, increasing their likelihood of voting from 46 percent to 56 percent—a figure that rivals and, in many cases, exceeds the turnout produced by conventional political campaigns.
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Should We Put Out a Statement?
Should We Put Out a Statement? is a 2024 thought paper by Seth Chalmer, examining approaches for thinking strategically about how nonprofits should respond to potentially polarizing world events. Since the October 7 massacres in Israel and subsequent war in Gaza, many nonprofits have struggled to decide whether and how to respond publicly. That decision is more difficult if there are passionate disagreements about the issue among professional teams, boards, funders, and community partners. It’s often impossible to talk about public advocacy without inflaming internal disagreements.
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2023 Nonprofit Organizations Salary and Benefits Report
This comprehensive report provides current salary information on 232 nonprofit positions from entry level to the executive office, and complete data on 94 employee benefit offerings including healthcare, retirement, executive perks, vacation, and much more. It also includes detailed salary and benefits trend data for 2023. The NonProfit Times has been producing this report for over 15 years.
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Five Signs Your Nonprofit is Ready to Reach a Bigger Community
Five Signs Your Nonprofit is Ready to Reach a Bigger Community highlights the different ways nonprofit leaders can improve and expand their organization’s reach and impact through marketing activities. This article for Blue Avocado by Danny Burke and Lauren Kobylarz describes five signs that a nonprofit is ready for a more intensive marketing effort (and also ways to begin brainstorming about how to do so) – it has inspirational stories, it has already developed some initial capacity for marketing, the nonprofit is attracting attention, marketing appears in the organization’s strategic plan, and there is some awareness of how such an effort can benefit the community a nonprofit serves.
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How to Persuade a New Generation to Join Your Nonprofit Board
Highlighting the different ways a nonprofit can persuade a new generation to join its board of directors, this article describes several different methods to keep younger people eager and interested in joining a nonprofit board.
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Raise More Funds by Building Trust Online
Raise More Funds by Building Trust Online is an article for TechSoup by Amy Hooper, who argues that it is easy to underestimate the importance of trust in fundraising. Not only do a nonprofit’s donors trust that a nonprofit will put their money in the right places, but they also rely on the nonprofit to process their donation securely and protect them from cyberthreats. By making small changes to the nonprofit’s online website and brand, you can show prospective donors that you are taking care of their personal and financial details.
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