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2024 Blue Avocado Year in Review

Blue Avocado

Under the Skin 2024 was a year of growth and evolution for Blue Avocado. One nonprofit leader shared six lessons learned from a bad board experience organizational policies to help your nonprofit set expectations, prevent dysfunction, and avoid a laundry list of problems. And that’s where Ask the Blue Avocado Community was born.

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Pre- and Post-Award is like PB&J

RBW Strategy

You need to have a strong case statement and adequate responses to the narrative prompts in the application to ensure that you have justification for this funding. There needs to be a robust budget and budget justification that outlines how you will spend your funds, and that these funds comply with federal requirements.

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5 takeaways on individual giving from Blackbaud Institute’s 2024 Spotlight 

Candid

The Blackbaud Institutes 2024 Trends in Giving Spotlight report estimates that U.S. In fall 2023, 53% of surveyed fundraisers predicted fundraising revenue would increase in 2024, and it appears their optimism was warranted. in 2024, compared with 4.0% in 2024, compared with 4.0% nonprofits saw an average 1.9%

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How nonprofits can engage in policy advocacy now 

Candid

In June 2024, Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $32 million in state funding for nonprofit arts organizations. Discussing budgets and policy was uncomfortable for the partner—and not something her nonprofit typically does. But they don’t have to. Most nonprofits make the same choice.

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The NPT’s Dozen Top Stories of 2024

The NonProfit Times

Technology, regulation, fundraising and the people who power the nonprofit sector were the hottest topics online at The NonProfit Times during 2024. It was refreshing to see not one of the stories used the word Covid in the headline. 3URhZuU ** NPTs The Best Nonprofits To Work For bit.ly/3Q1bNOB

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The most read Candid insights articles in 2024: Fundraising, AI, and diversity 

Candid

As 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to share some of the most read articles we published this year. Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy by Astrid Vinje, Candid. Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy by Astrid Vinje, Candid. What can fundraisers do?

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“To see this all this year when others have declining donations, has been nothing short of amazing to me.”

Pamela Grow

Since taking your classes and listening to your feedback, we made some significant changes in 2023 and 2024. We have always had a policy to thank every donor no matter how big or small. That was a huge investment for us and it took many months but we have had that for all of 2024 now. That’s how I was feeling the other day.

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