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How Important are Monthly Donors? – Erica Waasdorp

Erica Waasdorp - Direct Solutions - NANOE

How Important are Monthly Donors? – Erica Waasdorp

Erica Waasdorp, CEO of A Direct Solution says, “If you don’t have a monthly donor program yet, you’d be wise to make that part of your plan for next calendar year and perhaps even sooner than that.”

People often ask me why you should focus on this now? Well, if last year’s Harvey hurricane disaster is any indication: Monthly donors provide sustainable revenue, no matter what happens. Their gifts keep coming in, rain or shine! In essence, it’s an extra insurance policy for your organization’s operating budget. Continue reading →

January 21, 2018 0 Comments

Ideas / Leadership / Strategy

Gail Giarratano – The Tao of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – TEDxCharlotte

Gail Giarratano, Award Winning Nonprofit CEO and Tedx Talker, inspires leaders to consider “caring for one another” to be equivalent to the “care we extend to the earth.” Gail makes the case that we can heal the earth if we pursue this balance. Dr. Giarratano is the founder of Anchor Shred & Recycle Co. You can meet Gail Giarratano at NANOE’s 2019 Convention & Expo in Charleston, SC on March 26-27, 2019 where she will explore the fundamental role “caring” plays in driving charities to scale. Gail regards all people and the environment as created and loved by God and will prove that way we treat each other and the earth is the key to eradicating all the problems NANOE Governors have been tasked with solving. Continue reading →

December 29, 2017 0 Comments

Leadership

Michael Yurieff – Russian American Children’s Foundation – New York, NY

Michael Yurieff – Russian American Children’s Foundation

Michael Yurieff, and the Russian American Children’s Foundation (RACF) have spent the last five years assisting seriously ill children from Russia access medical care in the US; medical care that’s saved their lives. RACF assists children whom the Russian healthcare system is incapable of helping and whose parents do not have the means to pay for medical treatment in American hospitals themselves. Continue reading →

December 29, 2017 0 Comments

Capacity Building / Leadership

David Oaks, CNE – Jerusalem School Bethlehem – Israel

David Oaks, CEO - Jerusalem School Bethlehem Foundation

David Oaks, CNC – Jerusalem School Bethlehem Foundation: David Oaks, CEO of Jerusalem School Bethlehem Foundation (JSBF), has dedicated his life to educating Arab Children in the Nation of Israel for over twenty-years. He’s a capacity-builder who supplies funding to a variety of programs in the Middle-East with a special emphasis on growing programs at Jerusalem School of Bethlehem (JSB).

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December 18, 2017 0 Comments

Events / Ideas / Leadership

NANOE Nominations Governor’s Overview – Nominee’s Email

NANOE Nominations remain open for 2018’s Board of Governors. Charlotte Berry, NANOE Nominations Co-Chair, has announced that nominations can be made or accepted through 2018.

What are NANOE Governors?

The National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives has established a Board of Governors comprised of volunteers, donors, academicians, practitioners, and for-profit service providers who work in the human welfare, education, healthcare, arts, animals, environmental, ministry, and church sectors. Among other benefits, NANOE Governors will Continue reading →

December 9, 2017 0 Comments

Capacity Building / Ideas / Leadership / Strategy

NANOE Contrasts Values With National Council of Nonprofits

NANOE Contrasts Values Statement With National Council of Nonprofits Ethical Codes

The National Council of Nonprofits has taken a back seat to the ever expanding National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives (NANOE) who is fast becoming the Nation’s largest network of charitable organizations. NANOE, now in its eighteen month of service, has grown to 873 agencies making it twenty-times larger than the National Council of Nonprofits (NCP) whose 41 members are State Nonprofit Associations a majority of whom NANOE has also surpassed in size. (It should be noted that National Council of Nonprofits repeatedly violates their own ethical codes by inflating their membership count to include the nonprofits associated with their 41 paid organizations as actual NCP members even though when polled most have never heard of NCP.) Continue reading →

October 30, 2017 0 Comments

Ideas / Leadership / Strategy

Bishop Redfern II, NANOE Board Chair, a Lifetime of Advocacy & Leadership

Bishop Redfern II, Presiding Bishop of the Ecumenical Church of Christ, is the founding Board Chair of the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives. He has been named by the Association of Fundraising Professionals as its Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year has served as the Chief Executive Officer in a diverse array of companies worldwide. He is known for his innovative leadership and management skills. He has a demonstrated track record of providing companies with the leadership, organizational and operational tools for sustained profitable growth. Continue reading →

October 20, 2017 0 Comments

Events / Leadership

Diana Ruano, United Nations Refugee Agency, to Perform NANOE Governors Keynote Address in Charleston, SC

Diana Ruano of the United Nations Refugee Agency will Keynote at NANOE Governors 2019 Convention & Expo in Charleston, SC.

NANOE Governors will host Diana Ruano, of the United Nations Refugee Agency, as one of seven keynote addresses at their 2019 Board of Governors Convention & Expo in Charleston, SC. Ruano is an international fundraiser and will challenge audience members to abandon the failed “best practices” that keeps the Non-Profit Sector a Non-Growth Sector. NANOE members are known for taking on the establishment and have chosen “Money Is The Answer to Everything” from King Solomon’s Ecclesiastes (10:19) as the event theme for their biennial gathering March 26-27, 2019. Continue reading →

September 13, 2017 0 Comments

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