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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

The MatrixFiles

If you want to read about the first 10 years at Matrix Group, here’s a blog post I wrote back in 2009 ! I’m proud of the active and intentional culture that we’ve created at Matrix Group. So directors and managers actively reach out to staff via Slack and email, and we devote the start of every meeting to socializing and sharing.

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Matching Gifts Best Practices 2009

Robert Weiner

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey. The findings included: 96% of respondents accept matching gifts (down from 99% in 2008), but only 60% actively ask individual donors to request matching gifts.

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How Baby Boomers Use The Internet

TechImpact

According to a new study published September 2 by Xtraordinary Fundraising and Forster Communication revealed nonprofits are searching too hard for ways to engage younger people, and not spending enough time engaging with the Baby Boomers and Civics generations. The stigma against older generations not spending their time online is a farce.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Location : Global, country, region, state and city.

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Leveraging Engagement to Sustain Our Organizations

VQ Strategies

In fact, while 36% of individuals participated in volunteer activities in the past year, according to Points of Light’s report , 73% now believe that volunteering will be more important than ever after the Coronavirus. They did after 9/11, during the financial crisis in 2009, after local disasters, and they are doing so again.

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Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and MySpace Accounts

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). Another reason to sync your MySpace and Twitter accounts is that MySpace profiles more often that not still show up in the Top 10 search results on Google. That said, MySpace is not dead.

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