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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Implementing more modern tools—especially major software, such as customer relationship management (CRM) or fundraising software—can provide your organization with new efficiencies and new capabilities to improve fundraising , marketing, volunteer management, and ultimately do even more to power your purpose. Update your database policies.

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13 of the Best Nonprofit Videos from the Last 13 Years

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Drug Policy Alliance. If you work at a NGO, nonprofit, or charity, please volunteer 4-7 minutes of your time to take the survey. The videos below are a snapshot of the history of nonprofits using video. You can also explore the winners of the DoGooder Video Awards back to 2010. The War on Drugs: From Prohibition to Gold Rush.

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions? I really liked this idea so thought I'd post my own: 1.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. I worked for the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, and I got my doctoral degree from the University of Southern California. Currently I am working on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and related policies in the U.S.,

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Social Media and Governance: Reflections from BoardSource

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What surprised me though, was the share pair report out exercise, “What are the conversation starters about concerns that your organization needs to have to build a social media policy?&# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions. Are phone volunteers trained and certified? What did you learn?