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  • "The Nonprofit Jenni Show is a podcast for nonprofit professionals, board members, and community leaders. Every week, Jenni (a charitable marketing coach) invites nonprofit leaders to share their stories and advice for facing common management, marketing, and development challenges."

     

  • The Fundraising Talent Podcast has over 200 episodes "asking our profession's most difficult questions" and is hosted by Jason Lewis, CFRE & AFP Master Trainer. Some podcast episodes are also availalbe on the YouTube channel Responsive Fundraising.

  • In The Harvard 100's "How to Take Care and Feed Your Nonprofit's Donor/Investor Base," Matt Cronlund and Chuck ReCorr discuss donor networking ideas to sew the seeds for future fundraising, what major donors want to hear in appeals, and results donors/investors wish to see as an outcome of their charitable contributions.

     

  • Fiscal Sponsorship: An Overview is a video in the Nonprofit Accounting Basics educational webinar series, where D.C. attorney Benjamin Takis discusses nonprofit fiscal sponsorship arrangements, including best practices (e.g. the "Model C" or Pre-Approved Grant Relationship) and pitfalls to avoid (e.g. earmarking). (Nonprofit Accounting Basics, 2016-2020)

     

     

  • New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support makes the case that "multiyear general operating support (GOS) provides nonprofits with the flexibility to use funds to fulfill their missions and the ability to plan for the long-term sustainability of their organizations, programs, and services" and should become a standard grantmaking practice.

  • How the Board Can Support Legacy Giving is a free, one-hour webinar from January 2021 by the software company Boardable. It covers why legacy giving can be important to an organization, why board members are key to the program's sustainability, and how to engage your board in establishing a legacy giving program. 

  • The software company, Boardable, offers many free ebooks and webinars on board governance, recruitment, and engagement. Their selection of titles includes:

    Board Recruitment

  • Seeing is Believing: A Guide to Visual Storytelling Best Practices provides tips on harnessing the power of images and other visual mediums to tell your nonprofit's story.

  • Nonprofit gift acceptance policies set forth the what, who, when, how, and where for receiving different types of gifts. Creating and maintaining gift acceptance policies is not only good governance but also allows your organization to think through and outline the advantages and disadvantages of different donor scenarios.

  • “Internal controls” are financial management practices that serve as a "checks and balances" to avoid the misuse and misappropriation of assets. National Council of Nonprofit's Internal Controls for Nonprofits provides:

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