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Curious about the latest trends in compensation for grants professionals? PEAK Grantmaking’s 2023 Grants Professionals Salary Report delivers comprehensive insights into compensation trends, benefits, and workplace practices, featuring data provided by grants management professionals from more than 1,000 organizations. PEAK's Kristen Craig explores the persisting pay inequities and shares how this valuable report can be used to drive change within philanthropic organizations and foundations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gimZ39HA

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Drawing on data from over 1,000 organizations, PEAK Grantmaking's 2023 Grants Professionals Salary Report provides valuable insights into compensation trends, benefits, and workplace practices in the grantmaking community. By leveraging this data, you can make informed decisions about your career, advocate for your professional growth, and contribute to a more equitable future for the sector. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gZPDrDCB

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Local actors have a lot to juggle and the options for equitable development programming can be overwhelming. So how can community leaders determine which strategies and programming to pursue? A toolkit we published this spring alongside Greater Ohio Policy Center offers a roadmap for identifying suitable equitable development programming that is driven by an evaluation of a community’s unique assets. By Casey Terry, AICP and Erica Spaid Patras: https://lnkd.in/eUkYuAbT

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Metrics in the Q4 2024 Fundraising Effectiveness Project report, a collaborative effort with the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP Global), highlight opportunities for nonprofits to grow in 2025.  By focusing on small donors and boosting retention, nonprofits will be better able to adapt to current trends and reposition efforts for a successful fundraising year in 2025.  Read the full report and find tips to support your work: https://lnkd.in/diSqayQs

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A recent The Chronicle of Philanthropy article offers strategies for engaging donors facing financial pressures—insights that align with WPI's research on economic factors affecting giving. Key recommendations include maintaining engagement through stewardship, shifting to recurring gifts, and adapting messaging to current realities. These relationship-focused approaches reflect our findings that women's philanthropy is resilient but vulnerable during financial stress, as observed during COVID when women who lost earnings were less likely to give. The emphasis on storytelling and community engagement also mirrors our research showing women donors value connection and prefer collaborative giving. For organizations serving women and girls—receiving just 1.9% of total philanthropy—these strategies may be particularly crucial during challenging economic periods. Find the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gUCQA28f  #FundraisingStrategy #PhilanthropyResearch #WomensPhilanthropy

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Are you missing key signals in your donor pipeline? When nonprofits power their moves management strategies with data, they unlock the ability to identify the right prospects at the right time, with the right messaging. Data-driven decision-making is a key differentiator for leading organizations. Level up your moves management approach with these expert tips - https://okt.to/f1iQyp

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Free data your board will actually use. Crowded just launched the Free Nonprofit Reports Hub, packed with benchmarks, compliance guides, and salary insights built for associations and federations. Smarter governance starts with better data, and now, it’s all in one place. 👉 Check out the report hub linked in the comments. #Nonprofits #Associations #Governance #Crowded #Reports #DataDriven

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👀 NEW #Massachusetts #earlychildhoodeducation Fact Sheet series! Another great #ece budget and policy research contribution from Victoria Bergeron of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF)! According to MTF, "EEC Funding Streams and How to Read the State Budget" is the first in a planned "series of EEC 101 Fact Sheets, each breaking down key parts of the early education space in the Commonwealth – from the impact of federal pandemic funding in the child care system to how provider reimbursement rates work. The Fact Sheets will provide relevant background and context to key programs that support early education like Child Care Financial Assistance and the Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) grant program – detailing program implementation and funding mechanics. . ." 🔖 Bookmark this link to MTF's EEC 101 Fact Sheets page, which they plan to update as they post additional Fact Sheets: https://lnkd.in/etpbDHVM Douglas Howgate, Meaghan Callahan, Debbie Carroll

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📰 🚨 💷 Localis responds to Spending Review 2025 💷🚨📰 https://lnkd.in/emZ6smxX Local government and the local state will take some initial heart from the central thrust of the spending review, especially the promised land of multi-year settlements, improved needs assessments and simplified funding landscape to return local government to a sustainable financial position. This will provide the sector with greater certainty in long-term financial planning it has been yearning for. Looking at the settlement itself, attention must focus on the implications of day-to-day revenue expenditure on frontline services, the promise of a £113bn uplift in capital expenditure for regional infrastructure projects and how changes to welfare provision through annual managed expenditure (AME) totals will impact localities. The review promises an increase in funding available for adult social care of over £4 billion in 2028-29 compared to this year, but until we have some fix on long-term funding of social care upon completion of Dame Louise Casey’s review, we will have to reserve judgment on the sustainability of local public services. Certainty is a virtue but does not in itself plug the funding gap local government finance directors must hope to close nor the expectation gap of residents paying more each year in council tax for fewer visible benefits. Indirectly, revenue limitations on other departmental areas such criminal justice and police, flood defences and transport, will also have a direct knock-on impact on place across the spending review period. Angela Rayner has secured a big win for affordable and social housing with a £39bn funding boost over the next decade. The quantum is not big enough on its own to make the sort of generational shift in housing provision we saw in the immediate post war era, but in the circumstances, and with an extra £10bn for financial investments through Homes England to crowd in private investment, it is a highly creditable bit of spending review negotiating by MHCLG. Beyond this, and as Localis’s recent report ‘New Stable’ suggested, there is a similar amount available from surpluses in the Local Government Pension Scheme, some of which could be safely directed to invest in critical local and regional infrastructure, which should by rights also include affordable housing. In respect of the new changes to the Treasury ‘Green Book’ and place-based investment cases, again we will have to pay attention to how many billions of projected capital expenditure escape from the pages and into the wild to help pump up and provide long-neglected regional infrastructure, energy and housing schemes. The revised ‘Green Book’ will favour investment in particular parts of the country rather than where it is easiest to secure return on investment, and is potentially bad news for place leaders in London and the greater South East.

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"Most nonprofit fundraising strategies still lean heavily on direct response. That’s not a criticism — transactional fundraising works. You acquire donors by casting a wide net, invite them in at a relatively low barrier, and then do everything possible to retain them efficiently over time. Good direct-response nonprofits understand this science well. There’s a formula to acquisition, cultivation, and retention. And when it’s done right, it performs. The challenge shows up when donors begin to give more — and give more often — but the strategy never changes." Read more via NonProfit PRO: https://lnkd.in/eNeUumtx #Fundraising #Philanthropy #Nonprofit #ProfessionalDevelopment #NonprofitLeadership

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Struggling to hire development talent? You’re not alone. 37% of nonprofits say recruiting fundraisers is one of their toughest challenges, and turnover rates make retention just as difficult. From high demand and unrealistic expectations to mission misalignment and compensation gaps, hiring for development roles is uniquely complex. On our blog, we break down five key recruitment challenges and what your organization can do to overcome them. Read it now to get actionable insights: https://lnkd.in/gUnkhr6A #FundraisingTalent #NonprofitLeadership #TalentManagement #DevelopmentProfessionals #ExecutiveSearch #NonprofitHR #OneDigital

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