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Great reads from around the web on September 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. The assessment was conducted by Peter Levine, Peter Deitz and Cynthia Gibson. With nearly 5,000 applicants and more than 15,000 voters.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Brings a strategic focus on addressing the policies and systems that perpetuate global poverty . Nonprofit Leaders. Abby Maxman. President and CEO. Oxfam America.

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How your organization's IT department can help support your social media strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned from Matt more about how IT department's policies and challenges. He also talked about how they test new hardware and software so it works with the existing system and doesn't prevent people from getting their work done. As Matt explained it, "We have to get people across a river of scorpions without getting stung."

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Cultivate, Educate or Activate? Converting Subscribers to Donors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? So test, test and retest! The other thing we are going to begin testing this year is an ask for our monthly sustainer program--Partners.

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Biggest Bang for Your Buck - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The test took two cells of similar prospect groups and sent the control group their standard series of two self-mailers while soliciting the test group with a four-part email series. Like any fabulously interesting test, this one left me with a few burning questions: How were prospect names gathered for the test and control?

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Highlights from the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007. This is down from 19% in 2007 and 21% in 2006. The annual churn rate, or the rate at which an email list “goes bad” in a year, held steady at 19% between 2007 and 2008. This was lower than in 2007, when average gift size was $86.

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Best day to send an e-mail - is there a seasonality factor? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Individual organizations still should conduct their own testing to determine which day of the week works best for them, but any test should consider Friday and Sunday as viable challengers. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. food for thought. food for thought. All rights reserved.

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