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How Can My Nonprofit Get Started with Measurable Advocacy?

Connection Cafe

In my last post, I answered the age-old questions, “ Can my 501(c)(3) really engage in advocacy? ” With that settled, it’s time to move on to the benefits of advocacy. How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? All this being said, advocacy can be difficult to quantify. New advocates.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. It’s a community that takes a while to understand and adapt to.

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How to Get Beyond B-Minus: The State of Nonprofit Boards Today

BoardAssist

Leading with Intent found that if a board isn’t thoughtfully comprised as it relates to skill sets, leadership styles, and diversity of thought and background, it is less likely to excel in other areas of board performance. But unfortunately: Only 1 in 5 chief executives strongly agree that they have the right board members.

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Investing in the Infrastructure of Nonprofit Organizations

Tech Soup

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. And we need advocacy for new levels of excellence and for policies that support our work.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All rights reserved.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Information Coping Skills and Social Media Productivity Skills This is more personal use, but if you are a nonprofit professional tasked with social media strategy you will need skills in these areas.

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