7 Ideas for Pushing Your Board Forward in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
While nonprofits say they support improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) actually doing it requires getting the board to buy-in to the need for culture change. There are many reasons DEIB efforts fail including not being a part of the strategic plan, lack of board champions, and lack of budget. The solution starts with measuring outcomes and holding the executive director and board accountable.
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BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Report 2022
BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Report 2022 assesses the philanthropic landscape, levels of giving over the past five years and donor behavior to provide insights, context, and benchmarks. This report provides analytics and observations on the charitable gift annuity (CGA) and charitable remainder trust (CRT) activity during the calendar year 2021 for 101 nonprofit organizations and the BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund. It includes statistics related to life income or planned gifts. Organizations represented included education (56%); faith-based (20%); social services/other (14%); cultural (6%); and healthcare (4%). Data for the report is based on completed gift records in BNY Mellon’s database as of March 30, 2022.
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Candid’s 2022 Nonprofit Compensation Report
Candid’s 2022 Nonprofit Compensation Report captures the most authoritative and accurate executive compensation data from close to 88,000 nonprofits based on IRS data for fiscal year 2020. Published since 2001, this report continues to be the only large-scale analysis of its kind based entirely on IRS data, not surveys. With reliable and accurate information on compensation, organizations can support their recruiting activities while staying compliant with IRS requirements. The report not only shows differences in year-to-year compensation but also allows comparison of executive compensation by gender, organization budget size, cause area, and location (state and MSA). The report costs $449 for individuals and $1,199 for organizations.
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Four Essential Tips to Make Your Nonprofit Mobile Friendly
What does it mean to make a nonprofit organization mobile friendly? From the organization’s website and emails to landing and donation pages, turning a nonprofit into a mobile-friendly one requires focusing on all aspects of its work.
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How Nonprofits Can Unleash the Power of Data to Create a Better World for Women
For centuries, women have struggled to break free of oppression and second-class citizenship. While charitable giving to address this problem is on the rise, philanthropic support for women’s and girls’ organizations is still less than 2% of overall charitable giving, according to a report released by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute. So why has the concept of targeting philanthropy to elevate women been so slow to catch on? Lack of critical data—or in some cases, the failure to make use of critical data—that makes the strongest possible case for support.
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How to Create Customized Nonprofit Donor Experiences
Personalizing interactions with donors is one surefire way for a nonprofit organization to create lifelong supporters of their mission. Interactions that target a large audience do have their place, but tailoring them to appeal to individuals or groups of donors allows nonprofit leaders to build and maintain lasting donor relationships. This article discusses strategies for doing so.
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How to Run a Successful Nonprofit Without Grant Writing
Grant writing is a time and resource consuming activity that saps nonprofit productive capacity. Nonprofits rely on grants as the single revenue source to fully fund their operations. The solution is to build diverse funding streams by fully integrating all services offered into a closed loop nonprofit funding model, as described in this publication.
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Nine Creative Leadership Positions Every Nonprofit Needs
Whether a business is in the for-profit or nonprofit space, certain roles are needed to ensure that the organization continues to operate smoothly. However, business efficiency can be impacted if leaders don’t conduct regular internal audits to ensure that they have the right staff with needed skills onboard. This article discussed strategies for achieving this goal.
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Reproducing Reproducers: Creating a Legacy of Leadership Succession
Creating new nonprofit leaders is not an automatic process. Lack of leadership development will hamper the health and long-term sustainability of the organization. Nonprofit executives often do not cultivate the mindset necessary to reproduce leaders from within the organization. Leadership succession requires understanding the step-by-step cycle necessary to reproduce leaders.
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UHY 2022 Not-for-Profit Trends Report
In order for nonprofits to thrive in the current environment, it’s essential for organizations and their financial services providers to monitor trends and track emerging challenges in the industry. These are presented in the UHY 2022 trends report.
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