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Idealist
The world's largest nonprofit job board and volunteer matching platform, connecting mission-driven organizations with talent across paid roles, board seats, volunteer opportunities, and internships. A trusted hub since 1995, used by hundreds of thousands of nonprofits and millions of people looking to make a difference…
Nonprofit Tech for Good
A Digital Marketing and Fundraising Resource for Nonprofits
A digital marketing and fundraising resource for nonprofit professionals, offering webinars, research reports, guides, and low-cost certificate programs covering website marketing, email marketing, online fundraising, social media, and AI. Founded in 2005 and drawing over 50,000 monthly visitors.
Board Source
Building Effective Nonprofit Boards
BoardSource supports, trains, and educates more than 60,000 nonprofit board leaders from across the country each year. With more than 20 years of experience, BoardSource provides leaders with an extensive range of tools and resources — including Webinars, in-person training sessions, original publications, consulting services,…
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NextAfter
Helping nonprofits raise more through testing and optimization.
A nonprofit fundraising optimization agency and research organization that helps nonprofits increase online revenue through A/B testing and conversion rate optimization. Offers a large free library of experiments, ebooks, webinars, online courses, and tools covering donation page optimization, email fundraising, donor acquisition, landing pages, and…
Golden
Imagine What We Can Do Together
Volunteer management software for nonprofits, corporations, schools, healthcare systems, and government agencies that combines recruitment, scheduling, hour tracking, background checks, automated communications, and AI fundraising tools. Its AI identifies volunteers likely to become donors by spotting engagement patterns and supporting follow-up. Offers a free plan,…
Bloomerang Volunteer
Elevate Your Volunteer Management Experience
The volunteer management arm of Bloomerang's donor CRM, offering AI-assisted scheduling and mobile access to help nonprofits coordinate volunteers while tracking engagement alongside donor data in a single ecosystem. Includes shift management, attendance tracking, automated communications, and volunteer-to-donor conversion tools. Best suited for nonprofits already…
Recommended reading
Forces for Good
If you're running a mid-sized organization and wondering what the next phase of impact looks like, start here. This book is the result of…
Asking
A great read for those who struggle when asking others for donations. Panas spent fifty years as the elder statesman of professional fundraising. Asking…
Good to Great and the Social Sectors
Jim Collins’ answer to the question, “Can nonprofits be great?” This brief but powerful read challenges leaders to think differently about success, impact, and…
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How Community Leaders Can Keep Learning at Any Age
Whether you’re a religious leader, a coach, a teacher, or simply a concerned citizen involved with local political efforts, you know that other people in your community look to you for wisdom and guidance. As…
Diversify Your Board
Corporate boards around the world are clamoring for greater diversity. And while embracing diversity has long been lauded as the right thing to do, new data overwhelmingly shows that diversity is also good, really good,…
How to Survive a Micro-Managing Board
We see this issue over and over in our practice. Far more common than the hands-off, head in the sand, rubber stamp board, is the micro-managing board. The micro-managing board members show up to their…
From around the sector
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy Sector news and analysis
- Stanford Social Innovation Review Academic and practitioner research
- Nonprofit Quarterly Movement-oriented coverage
- Inside Philanthropy Funder behavior and trends
- Philanthropy News Digest Daily sector roundup
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