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4 Ways to Set Your Non-profit Apart From the Competition
Every business or non-profit generally has one USP (Unique Selling Proposition). This is the most compelling reason why the target audience should consider you over your competition. The most...
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HIPAA Compliance: What Your Non-Profit Needs to Know
HIPAA is meant to cover everything from health insurance fraud to taxes to preexisting conditions, but it’s most often discussed in the context of electronic data records. This is also the context...
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5 Ways to Simplify Membership Management
Membership is easy when you only have a handful of donors on a one-page spreadsheet, but what happens when you hit double digits? Furthermore, what happens when you hit triple or quadruple digits and...
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5 Ways to Listen to Your Members
Your members are the lifeblood of the organization. If they’re not happy, then they’re not going to come back. This often forces membership coordinators to guess what their donors want in an effort to...
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The Key to Motivating Non-profit Employees
It is no secret that non-profits have tight budgets so the hiring process can be challenging for people working in the HR department. Many non-profit organizations are able to hire great people;...
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Keeping Your Best: 5 Things to Give Nonprofit Employees to Get Them to Stay
Employee retention is an issue for any business but when you are trying to keep costs to a minimum, it can be even more of a challenge. Many non-profits count on their mission to bind employees to the...
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How to Seek Capital: A Guide For Nonprofits
Of course non-profits are accustomed to getting donations from individuals and many run annual fundraising campaigns to feed their financial needs. However, sometimes these avenues are not enough for...
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How to Organize a Giving Day for Your Non-profit
A giving day is a one-day fundraising campaign that your non-profit organizes to gain awareness and to raise money to support your efforts. Normally a giving day campaign requires full participation...
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4 Easy Ways to Thank Your Volunteers
It’s a busy world. Many of your volunteers are already over-scheduled, over-extended and are just doing their best to give back to an organization that matters. In this hectic world, how can your...
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Credit Card Security for Non-profits
Ecommerce is a way of life and that includes non-profits receiving donations. Unfortunately, email was not created with data privacy in mind so sending credit card information through email is...
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Trust in Charities Falling & What to Do About It
First the bad news: Canadian charities have fallen from 8th place to 12th place in just 6 months in the list of trusted public institutions (behind supermarkets and TV & Radio stations). Some other...
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From 3 Applications to 1: How a Hospice Streamlined Their Operations Using Sumac
Since 1979, the Hospice of Windsor and Essex County has been building a community of support for people who are affected by or caring for a person with a life-altering diagnosis. Five years ago,...
View ArticleHow to Start a Social Enterprise
What do you do if you are passionate about doing good in the world through the non-profit sector but you have an entrepreneurial spirit? Start a social enterprise of course! Social enterprises are...
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How a Social Services Organization Improved Their Ticket Sales and Contact...
Urban Padres is a social service organization in Quebec that assists individuals in the cityscape, who due to their mental illness, are having difficulty moving forward and recapturing their lives....
View Article30 Low to No-cost Resources For Your Non-profit
Today, there are all sorts of low and no-cost resources for nonprofits; Everything from social media and content to websites and email, as well as security, peer to peer fundraising, and even event...
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The Top 10 Volunteer Retention Techniques
Volunteers are invaluable to any nonprofit organization. From helping with administrative tasks to spreading the word about the cause, they are very much the backbone of non-profits. In fact, according...
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3 Simple Ways To Build a Positive Culture in Your Nonprofits
Creating and maintaining a positive culture in your nonprofit is extremely important. What do we mean by “culture”? To put it simply, it is what makes your nonprofit not only strong but also what makes...
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5 Critical Volunteer Management Challenges Non-Profits Must Overcome
Any non-profit organization which needs the time, energy and hard work of volunteers to accomplish its goals faces many ongoing challenges. To attract and retain the calibre of volunteers who can...
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Overcoming the Nonprofit Sector’s Biggest Challenge of 2019
Based on a study done in 2019 by Statista, the challenges nonprofits face in the US and Canada include donor acquisition and retention, the overall economy, tax laws, organization/local issues, and...
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The 4 Biggest Trends Nonprofits Can Expect in 2020
2019 was the year of innovation for nonprofits. The nonprofit sector had bigger and better fundraising ideas and took steps to become more sustainable. Nonprofits developed leadership strategies with...
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