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Watchman: Mike Johnsons Path to Speakership: Through Prayer, Not Politics’ [Video]

The new House speaker offered his prayers to those who were killed during the shooting, but stressed such incidents happenbecause of “the human heart” and not guns, noting more needs to be done in America to address the mental health crisis.

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Nonprofit Website and Event Management [Video]

The USA has more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations. The majority of the do-gooders are small – often purely volunteer-based with annual revenues below $100k. One of these organizations is the California Association for Play Therapy (CalAPT). Their mission is to help a community of therapists, psychiatrists, social workers, etc. with an understanding of play therapy and its effective practice through outreach, training and research. Special emphasis is to support the developmentally appropriate treatment of children’s mental health.CalAPT hosts frequent events and training classes for therapist’s accreditations. The organization struggled with a mix of applications, including a WordPress website as well as high hosting fees. The IT stack was hard to maintain and did not integrate well with the accounting tools. Finding volunteer resources to manage this complex environment was an ongoing challenge. Nonprofits have a mission to support the public good. Spending large amounts of money on systems and the IT staff to support the technology, reduces the ability to spend money on helping others.A few months ago the CalAPT team decided to consolidate their tools and move the Odoo Enterprise V16. Key objectives included:1) Consolidation of multiple disparate tools2) Allow for ease of setup and operations so non-expert volunteers could manage the tools3) Reduction in cost4) Quick access to organizational information for the board of directors and volunteers.The Results:Using Odoo, a new website and system was ready for testing within less than two weeks. Minor Studio modifications allowed the team to streamline their event ticketing process and tailor certificates based on accreditation rules.The system went into production in June 2023. One challenge was the domain DNS setup based on limitations with the existing registrar. The Odoo support team quickly resolved these issues within 48 hours with suggestions on better configurations.Mailchimp emails were quickly replaced with Odoo’s built-in email marketing tools. The new system is faster, and much easier to maintain than the old WordPress site. New events and associated website landing pages are created and maintained by volunteers. Ticket sales are handled via Stripe payments and reflect automatically on the accounting side. Ticket sales includes the ability to manage member and volunteer discounts as well as price reductions based on order volume.Course participants can log into the portal and manage their own registrations, courses, and certificates.Since the go-live in June the system was upgraded from 16.2 to 16.3. Due to changes to the certificate templates in 16.3, some minor effort was needed to modify the custom templates. The system is now running with the upgraded 16.3 user interface and the volunteers embraced the new look and feel immediately.In summary, the implementation was a success in terms of scope, maintainability and cost. The Odoo support team was highly responsive with a few issues encountered along the way. CalAPT is now able to scale at a better rate, manage events more effectively, and spend more money on their mission versus administrative cost.Try Odoo online at https://www.odoo.com

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Finding Deals on GoodwillFinds.com? [Video]

Goodwill Moves to Ecommerce with GoodwillFinds.comGoodwill is trying to grow its online sales in order to generate more revenue to fund its job training and employment assistance programs. The nonprofit is facing increasing competition from for-profit resale sites like ThredUp and Poshmark. Goodwill recently launched GoodwillFinds, an ecommerce site where 14 Goodwill locations sell donated items, but it has challenges in competing with other sites. Successfully growing online sales is crucial for Goodwill to continue its charitable mission of helping provide jobs for those in need.——-Listen to our podcast: Wholewhale.com/PodcastOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WholeWhaleTweet us: @WholeWhaleOur website: WholeWhale.com/

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Grant Writing for Non-Profits

Program promoting Period Power by making sure Guilford County students have access to sanitary products [Video]

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) A generous grant will help Guilford County students stay in class. The Diaper Bank of North Carolina and Guilford County Schools is launching a Period Power: Distributing Dignity, a project that will provide students with free menstrual products every month. The Diaper Bank created the program to help students who []

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Can a 100-Year-Old Charity Go Digital? [Video]

NonprofitNewsfeed.comGoodwill Moves to Ecommerce with GoodwillFindsGoodwill is trying to grow its online sales in order to generate more revenue to fund its job training and employment assistance programs. The nonprofit is facing increasing competition from for-profit resale sites like ThredUp and Poshmark. Goodwill recently launched GoodwillFinds, an ecommerce site where 14 Goodwill locations sell donated items, but it has challenges in competing with other sites. Successfully growing online sales is crucial for Goodwill to continue its charitable mission of helping provide jobs for those in need.Read more ➝ 👋 Did someone share this email with you? Consider subscribing for weekly updates. The News Feed is also a podcast: Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify ✅ Quick Summaries…Quick summaries written by CauseWriter.ai – custom-build AI tools for nonprofits.Blackbaud Pays $49.5M Over 2020 Data Breach | AP NewsThe software company Blackbaud will pay $49.5 million to settle a data breach case brought by 49 states, in which sensitive donor information was exposed in 2020. The breach contained health data, Social Security numbers, and financial information from Blackbaud’s nonprofit, university, and hospital clients. Blackbaud previously settled separate charges with the SEC for misleading investors about the breach. The large settlement demonstrates the serious legal risks nonprofits face regarding donor data security and notification procedures.Sham Nonprofits Ripped Off Kids’ Meal Funds in Shocking Pandemic Scheme | Twin Cities BusinessMinnesota’s top attorney dropped a bombshell this week, filing 23 lawsuits against fraudulent nonprofits accused of stealing from a federal program meant to feed needy children during the pandemic. An explosive investigation found these shady groups falsely claimed to open locations serving meals, when in reality, they had zero legitimate nonprofit activities. The attorney general is seeking to permanently dissolve the fake nonprofits in the wake of the jaw-dropping $250 million child nutrition fraud scandal involving a different Minnesota charity last year. This stunning development proves oversight of nonprofit pandemic aid remains critical to protect taxpayers and vulnerable youth.Elon Does Childish Elon Thing | The HillBillionaire Elon Musk offered Wikipedia $1 billion to change its name to “Dickipedia” for one year minimum, posting the proposal after criticizing the free online encyclopedia’s fundraising appeals. Musk’s offer came with the condition that Wikipedia cannot change the name back for at least a year, adding he is “not a fool.” Claiming the site does nothing – Wikipedia responded that it handles “over 25B page views per month and over 44M page edits a month, requiring substantial operating costs.”——-Listen to our podcast: Wholewhale.com/PodcastOn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WholeWhaleTweet us: @WholeWhaleOur website: WholeWhale.com/

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How to Raise Funds for Non-profit

🚀Get Ready for Giving Season 2023! [Video]

Online donations exceeded $1 billion for the first time on Giving Tuesday 2022! With this year’s predicted total set even higher, is your nonprofit ready to maximize every giving opportunity?Discover powerful tools, tips, and tactics on our special Giving Season webinars thatwill boost your GivingTuesday fundraising results—and feel the benefit throughout the Giving Season and into the New Year! Find out more here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKmtT4hz3Ih5ouGPnHcmuDT3oLZq3-UUc#donorbox #fundraisingsoftware #nonprofits #fundraising #donation #fundraisingtips #yearendgiving #fundraisingplatform