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Here's a guide to analyzing your role as a nonprofit board member.

The 4 key steps to buying Impact Management software

Coordinating social services
Nonprofits
Public agencies
Case Management
Human services

Doctor working on medical report with laptop and document file.

Reduce your regulatory risk with medical grants software

Medical affairs
Corporations
Life sciences
Corporate Social Responsibility

Four employees pick up trash at a volunteer event while participating in an employee giving program.

Employee giving guide for companies: How to get started

Employee giving
Philanthropists
Giving & Matching

A donor shakes hands with a nonprofit representative and agrees to give a matching gift on Giving Tuesday.

How grantmakers can build strategic charitable partnerships

Corporate social responsibility
Grant management & grant making
Corporations
Foundations & grantmakers
Corporate Social Responsibility

A woman in business attire shakes hands with a man and smiles, representing the donor acquisition process for nonprofits.

13 proven donor acquisition strategies for nonprofits

Nonprofits
Donor Engagement

A businesswoman wearing an orange sweater stands at the head of a conference room and reads donor retention rates and stats off of a piece of paper.

Data maturity model: how to measure organizational progress

Coordinating social services
Nonprofits
Program Management

As the adult female nonprofit smiles, she shakes hands with a donor before the park cleanup begins. Learn how to build donor relationships like this in this donor appreciation guide.

Donor retention guide: 7 strategies for fundraising success

Fundraising ideas
Nonprofits
Donor Engagement

Three women in an office look at a laptop as they implement tips from this nonprofit CRM guide.

Nonprofit CRM guide: 20 standout solutions in 2024

Fundraising ideas
Nonprofits
Fundraising

Improving the medical grantmaking process leads to more support for individuals like these medical practitioners discussing around a table.

3 key ways to improve the medical grantmaking process

Grant management & grant making
Medical affairs
Corporations
Life sciences
Grants Management
Healthcare

Two women look at nonprofit fundraising software on a laptop.

Top fundraising software: 15 best solutions for nonprofits

Digital communications & marketing
Fundraising ideas
Nonprofits
Guided Fundraising

Three nonprofit professionals sit in front of one monitor to determine how best to communicate monthly-first fundraising to donors.

Transforming basic case management into impact management

Coordinating social services
Nonprofits
Public agencies
Case Management
Human services

A woman holding a baby talks to a case worker, representing the definition of case management.

What is case management? Definition, principles, and process

Coordinating social services
Public agencies
Case Management
Healthcare
Human services

A group of three women and one man are sitting in folding chairs arranged in a circle. One of the women is speaking using hand gestures and has a binder in her lap.

Reduce manual grants work for better nonprofit relationships

Corporate social responsibility
Grant management & grant making
Corporations
Foundations & grantmakers
Corporate Social Responsibility

Delighted girls sitting around young tree and keeping smile on faces while looking at the process

Employee engagement basics: giving teams a sense of purpose

Employee volunteering
Corporations
Supporter Engagement

Put together a dedicated task force like this group of volunteers by enouraging CSR participation.

7 Powerful CSR Strategies that Drive Philanthropic Impact

Corporate social responsibility
Philanthropists
Corporate Social Responsibility

A young Black woman in a colorful sweater is seated at a wooden bar and smiling as she uses her smartphone to take a photo of a piece of paper. She might be using a QR code.

4 digital fundraising channels and tips to improve appeals

Digital communications & marketing
Fundraising ideas
Nonprofits
Fundraising