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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. Providing your nonprofits volunteers with the same recruitment, training, mentoring, and appreciation as your employees can reduce turnover and create a better overall volunteer experience. This is a terrific example of nonprofits doing what they do best.

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Ever Wondered About the Value of Volunteer Time?

GrantNews

Independent Sector, with the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland, announced on April 23, 2024, that the estimate for the value of a volunteer hour was $33.49 Funding is intended for training, capital improvements, equipment acquisitions, and vehicle purchases. in 2023, a 5.3% increase from 2022.

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Practical Ways to Use AI in 2024

Grant Professionals Association

Here are three practical ways to leverage AI for fundraising and grant writing in 2024: #1 Written communications Are you spending too much time writing letters of inquiry to funders, thank you notes, or email communications with your staff, board or volunteers? Question: How do you use generative AI in your work?

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Is it a good time to start a nonprofit?

Candid

They rely more on smaller individual donors, whose numbers are dwindling: According to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , in the first quarter of 2024, the number of donors who gave less than $100 dropped 10.4%, more than any other donor category. For example, SCORE provides free mentoring services for any kind of business creation.

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NIDCR Dual Degree Dentist Scientist Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award (F99/K00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) - Deadline To Apply 01-07-2024

iGrantWriters

This phased award program will facilitate completion of predoctoral dual degree dentist scientist training (F99) and progression to mentored postdoctoral positions in dental, oral and craniofacial research (K00). Deadline To Apply Jan 07, 2024

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Cheers to Twenty Years by Megan Campbell, MPA, GPC

Assel Grant Services

When the email from the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) came at the beginning of 2024 congratulating me on twenty years of membership, I called one of my fellow Gen-X colleagues and joked, “I don’t know whether to feel exuberant about a career milestone or join the AARP.” She was the best mentor. I could be just like her.

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Planned Gifts: A Quick Guide To Help Nonprofits Raise More

The Fundraising Coach

According to Giving USA 2024 , planned giving bequests accounted for $42.6 Train staff and board members. This can be a building, a bench, a garden, or even something intangible like a fellowship or mentoring program. However, there’s a source of funding you may be overlooking—planned giving. Reflect their passion.

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