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by Blue and Co. CPAs In 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2018-08, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Clarifying the Scope and the Accounting Guidance for Contributions Received and Contributions Made. The effective date of this ASU corresponds to the implementation of ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606),…

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by Anya Samek Donors gave $380 million to nonprofits during 2018’s Giving Tuesday donation drive. Many of the groups getting donations like those follow up by calling donors to thank them, leaving a voicemail if nobody picks up the phone. I’m a behavioral economist, and I study the effectiveness of fundraising practices. I wanted to see if these calls made people…

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by Molly Brennan Ideally, the decision to hire someone is based on how well someone’s skill set aligns with your needs. But in the real world, hiring processes are often subjective and affected by some degree of bias…whether you know it or not. Bias-prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared…

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by F. Duke Haddad Statista shows statistics relating to the biggest challenges for nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada in 2019, as stated by nonprofits. Based upon frequency of respondents, the number one challenge was transitions in staff. Executive Search & Recruitment points out that fundraising personnel is one of your organization’s most valuable assets. For many…

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by Laurence Pagnoni There is no harm in making a hard choice to skip Giving Tuesday, especially if you have other parts of your year-end giving program designed and ready to launch – and if your social media platforms are not what they could be. Tuesday, December 3 is this year’s Giving Tuesday, the Tuesday…

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by Becky Falvey, SHRM-SCP, HR Elements, LLC Having trouble finding and securing the right talent? So is everyone else. This may be even truer for non-profits, where leaders are hiring for job requirements AND a connection to the organization’s mission. With turnover costly and disruptive, and recruiting more difficult than ever, employee retention is the…

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by Ray Schultz Almost three-fourths of nonprofit marketers assume that most people prefer to be contacted through Facebook. They’re wrong. In fact, 42% of donors like to hear from charities via email, versus 40% for Facebook, and 21% who say emails inspire them to give again, according to  the Data-Backed Guide to Nonprofit Marketing report, a study by Campaign Monitor, done…

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by The NonpProfit Times Programs that improve infrastructure, systems, processes, or laws are a great investment of grant funding. Like a renewable energy source, once the improvements are in place, we expect them to deliver results long after the grant funding ends. “A new ordinance prohibiting recyclables in the landfill will yield benefits well beyond the…

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by Michael Theis Nonprofits with annual budgets of $25 million to $50 million are making the greatest progress toward closing the gender pay gap for CEOs, according to the latest “GuideStar Nonprofit Compensation Report.” The median salary increased for female CEOs at those charities by 3.1 percent from 2016 to 2017, compared with 0.1% for…

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by Maynard Webb of Fast Company Q. I have someone on my team who’s working hard and doing well, but she has room for improvement. Whenever I try to give her feedback, she becomes defensive. We wind up putting a pin in the conversation, and I don’t get to move ahead with my intended agenda. What…

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from The NonProfit Times It is remarkable how much more money can be raised when everyone is emotionally tied to an organization. Studies show that employee engagement not only results in better performance but also helps to drive recruitment in a competitive market for competent staff. Yours is probably a great place to work and you…

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from The NonProfit Times There’s no denying that even the smallest organizations are global. Working across cities, states and nations is no longer just for multi-national corporations. Technology has brought us the Gig Economy where all you need is a phone and PayPal or a digital bank account to have a job. It’s the future of…

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from The NonProfit Times If we all trusted our gut when it comes to fundraising instead of making data-driven decisions, we’d all be wrong most of the time. There’s a three-pronged approach to using data and it isn’t that incredibly complicated. It was all uncovered in a session during the recent Bridge To Integrated Marketing and…

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