How to Use Donor Data to Boost Your Fundraising

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June 10, 2024

From: Philanthropy Today

Subject: How to Use Donor Data to Boost Your Fundraising

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Fundraising

10 Ways to Make the Most of Donor Data

By David L. Wheeler

Don’t assume the analytics that work for other nonprofits will work for yours, and more tips from a wide variety of experts.
Leadership

Want to Be a Better Nonprofit Leader? Start With Your Own Story

By Sara Herschander

An event at the Ford Foundation involving a partnership between the BUILD program and the storytelling nonprofit the Moth showcased nonprofit leaders’ personal journeys into advocacy.
Gifts Roundup

$100 Million Windfall for Cedars-Sinai From Randalls

By Maria Di Mento

Plus, Harvard gets $20 million after taking a fundraising beating when controversies around campus protests prompted several major donors to pull back.

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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

A jury in Minneapolis has convicted five people of stealing more than $40 million from a pandemic-era federal food program for children. Two other defendants were acquitted in what prosecutors say was part of a $250 million fraud scheme involving 70 people, with more trials to come. Last week, a juror was dismissed after officials said the juror received $120,000 in an apparent attempted bribe to vote for acquittal. (New York Times)

The Concord Fund, a conservative nonprofit affiliated with legal activist Leonard Leo, paid Leo’s consulting firm $6 million from July 2022 through June 2023, a new tax filing shows. The D.C. attorney general is investigating a network of nonprofits linked to Leo for possible violations of nonprofit tax law for self-enrichment. The fund’s president did not return a request for comment, but through its lawyer, the consulting firm, CRC Advisors, denied the payment amounted to self-enrichment. (Politico)

More News

Howard University Revokes Sean Combs’s Honorary Degree and Terminates $2 Million Gift and Pledge Agreement (CNN)
$2.7 Million Meant to Build Homeless Housing Ended Up With L.A. Nonprofit, Court Records Say (Los Angeles Times)
Early Venture Capitalist to Sell $26 Million San Francisco Mansion to Benefit Nonprofits (Mansion Global)

Immigration

Nonprofits and Local Organizations Rally to Help Migrants in Massachusetts (GBH)
Immigrants Have Long Used Community Crowdfunding. How Does It Work? (Washington Post)

Opinion

What Is the Sunrise Movement For? (New York)
One Theory About Detroit’s $40 Million Riverfront Conservancy Theft — Familiarity Breeds Indictment (Detroit Free Press)

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