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Fundraising Event Sponsors: How to Find Them & Create a Win-Win
In this webinar, fundraising master trainer Chad Barger, CFRE will help you maximize sponsorship revenue at your next fundraising event.
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Funding for Programs Focused on Women and Girls Still Lags in US – Surprised?
There was great excitement this month when Melinda Gates announced she would spend $1 billion over the next ten years to help close the gender…
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How Engaged is Your Team, Really?
Knowing that engagement is tied to teams is critical for leaders looking to increase their output, since engagement is a known driver of productivity. But research we conducted on behalf of Oracle and…
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The ABC’s of Winning a Lapsed Donor Back
Imagine this scenario:
Your organization received a donation from a donor once or twice but have not received anything this year. Some nonprofit professionals may say well that donor is gone, time…
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The Power of Nonprofit News Collaborations: Shining a Light on Rural Hospitals
Attention is a hot commodity in the media market. That’s always been true of the industry, but like chic urban real estate, attention is harder and more…
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What Happens When Teams Fight Burnout Together
Earlier this year, Ernst & Young (EY) and The Energy Project set out to test a hypothesis: If all members of a client-serving team rallied together to build more rest and renewal…
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We all know that it’s important for social good organizations to connect and engage with stakeholders in order to achieve their missions. One of the most effective ways this can be done is through storytelling. But how…
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Systems Change Is All About Shifting Power
To change systems, power has to shift. And yet implementation of systems change often ignores this central aspect.
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UVA Study IDs People Most Likely to Donate
Many business schools are focused on the question of how to make greater profits, but at the University of Virginia two business schools have teamed up to help non-profits increase their…
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How to Review Executive Director/CEO Performance
Governance expert John Carver was famous for saying “organizational performance is synonymous with chief executive performance.” In other words, if an organization is performing well, the CEO must be good. And, if an organization…
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Nonprofit Storytelling with Financials
In this webinar, Stephanie Skryzowski will show you the foundation of financial management, why transparency in your financials is important, who should see your financials, how to present the financials, and specific reports and metrics…
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Can Philanthropy Become a True Partner in Indian Country?
A look into the potential for philanthropy to build communities within Indian Country, and how to actually do so.
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Filling the Gaps in Collective Impact
Nine supporting activities that can help make collective impact approaches to social change more nuanced and rigorous.
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Leadership in the Connected Office
What is leadership? Knowing that management is directive and leadership is connective is a great place to start, but social good leaders often struggle with understanding and balancing these two.
To explore what leadership really…
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Celebrate Latinx Heritage
It may come as a surprise to many, but Cinco de mayo is not Mexico’s version of the Fourth of July. September 16 is the day those of Mexican heritage celebrate the…
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The Board’s Role in Donor Relations: Four Ways to Improve
Helping create and sustain healthy donor relationships is one of the most important things your board team can do to support your organization. If you have strong donor relationships,…
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Giving With the Heart and the Mind – Achieving Impact Through an Intentional Empathetic Strategy
Many popular approaches to philanthropy prioritize measurement and maximizing charitable impact when making decisions about where monies should be invested. But, should all charitable decision-making…
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Meet a Member of Our Board
Each year, CNE invites two new Board Academy graduates to participate in the Board Fellows program. Board…
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5 CEOs of Wealthy Foundations Pledge to Do More to Help Charities Pay Overhead
In an unusual move, five of America’s wealthiest foundations have joined forces to do more to help grantees pay for rent, decent wages, technology, and…
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Can Nonprofit Marketing and Communications Advance Equity?
Creative concepts that highlight starving children, downtrodden veterans and hopeless people experiencing homelessness in an effort to “pull on the heartstrings of donors” have been utilized by nonprofits large and small for…
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For Back-to-School, We’d Like Forgiveness
In this episode, Kristina and Ben say goodbye to summer and August Recess, but not our student loans. They also discuss the latest nonprofit policy updates, including a recently passed federal budget law, political…
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Economy Remix: Can We Rebalance the Scales Between Capital and Labor
The Labor Day holiday has come and gone, but the debate over how to recalibrate the scales between labor and capital has barely begun.
Of course, the place held…
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A Change to CNE’s Job Board
As part of CNE’s ongoing Justice & Equity work, we are evaluating our own practices, programs, resources, and services, listening and being responsive to our members, and as always,…
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Unbalanced: A Map of Nonprofit Stakeholders
It goes without saying that nonprofits take many different shapes and forms, but all have a variety of stakeholders—that is, individuals and entities with a stake in their work, either because it can…
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Eight Myths of US Philanthropy
In their 2008 book, Understanding Philanthropy: Its Meaning and Mission, Robert Payton and Michael Moody define philanthropy as “voluntary action for the public good.” By this definition, almost everyone has engaged in philanthropy. But…
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