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February 2025
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Tip of the Month: Fundraising
Our new Tip of the Month series shares simple, practical advice inspired by our Principles & Practices guide to help you strengthen your organization, connect with your community, and reach your mission.
Check out this month's actionable tips for adapting fundraising strategies to effectively navigate and sustain change.
You can also join The Blackbaud Giving Fund's Holly Ivel on March 11 for an inside look at corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs and workplace giving and volunteer programs and how they can become sustainable funding streams for your nonprofit.
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Your Voice Matters
Policies at the state and local levels directly impact nonprofit funding, operations, and the communities we serve. That’s why it’s critical to stay informed and help shape the conversation. Here are a few ways to tap in and stay tuned.
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Join a Nonprofit Policy Conversation in your area. These in-person gatherings bring together nonprofit leaders and local officials to discuss key policy issues that affect our sector and communities. Stay tuned for upcoming dates and locations.
Catch up on what’s happened since the Trump administration took office and the NC legislature convened last month. This nonprofit public policy preview also highlights legislative priorities for the year and nonprofit sector issues that are likely to be in play in 2025.
Stay current on presidential executive orders and how they affect nonprofits. Quick on the heels of the executive order to freeze federal grants, the National Council of Nonprofits developed this chart of executive orders that they continue to update as well as share nonprofits' stories of how EOs are impacting our work and the people we serve.
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Complete the Nonprofit Finance Fund's 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey. This annual survey gathers data about timely sector issues like federal funding, workforce and staffing, implications of political events, and the importance of racial equity in nonprofit finance. Responses help us and other nonprofit advocates make the case to policymakers, funders, and other decision makers for solutions and investments that benefit nonprofits and the communities we serve. Take the survey by March 7.
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The Center works closely with the National Council of Nonprofits and other state associations across the country to influence policy at all levels and across all branches of government. Your membership makes this work possible. Not a member? Join now. | | |
Health Insurance for NC Nonprofits
Health insurance is one of the more challenging benefits for nonprofits to offer their staff. Through our new partnership with Marsh McLennan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, nonprofits now have options to offer health insurance, among a menu of other benefits and coverage for their employees, through our Association Health Plan. Join the free information session on March 7 to get more details and answers to your questions. You can also fill out an interest form for more personal follow up.
| Member Benefit: Learn about various Center money-saving partnerships that provide Center members with additional options including retirement plans and healthcare to fortify your employee benefits packages. | |
Team Building & Deepening the Bench
Center President & CEO Ivan Canada was the kick-off guest on the new season of longtime partner Angel Oak Creative’s Nonprofit State of Minds podcast. With partnership and teamwork more important than ever, Ivan talks about North Carolina’s nonprofit sector and the Center’s role in bringing people together. He shares that our organizations, communities, and sector have faced challenges, but we’ve also collectively built a supportive ecosystem with diverse partners and a roadmap for change. Now is the time to continue this momentum to create a bigger space for collaboration, strategic thinking, and the shared responsibility of moving our sector forward. Listen in.
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Bolster your team spirit by developing your own leadership and management skills as part of the spring cohort of the Nonprofit Management Institute. Beginning April 15, nonprofit executives, managers, and board leaders will meet over six weeks to learn from expert facilitators and each other on best practices and better strategies for board governance, program design and evaluation, strategic planning, financial management, fundraising, and human resources. Join the roster!
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Leverage AI Effectively
Getting serious about AI? It can enhance so many areas and functions throughout your organization. However, it does come with concerns. Check out Apparo’s AI for Social Good Playbook for everything from what it is and why to use it to developing AI strategies, protecting your organization’s security, and popular AI tools and training. Then learn how to leverage AI to interpret your data, streamline your processes, and boost your strategic impact.
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Help us test a new website feature
Meet Al! If you have a question or need help finding anything on our website, open the conversation icon on the bottom right of any webpage and chat with our experimental artificial intelligence customer service agent. Then let us know how it goes!
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Thank You, Supporters!
We appreciate the support of these new businesses in Business Finder, our online directory of businesses and consultants that work specifically with nonprofits. Check them out or promote your services.
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Welcome, New Members!
We appreciate the members of our growing nonprofit network. Your support and partnership make it possible for us to educate, connect, and advocate for and with nonprofits across North Carolina.
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