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New Survey: America’s Nonprofits in Danger

Robert Weiner

The Nonprofit Finance Fund just published a survey on how the economic downturn is affecting nonprofits’ current and long-term finances. According to the executive summary, Only 12% expect to operate above break-even this year. Just 16% anticipate being able to cover their operating expenses in both 2009 and 2010.

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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. I’m in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources. A simple audience survey to learn: How is your target audience using their mobile phones? Maybe that first step is research.

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Great reads from around the web on December 9th

Amy Sample Ward

This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Pew Internet Project had asked internet users whether they "used Twitter or another service to share updates about yourself or to see updates about others?

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Research Friday: So, where is Bob?

ASU Lodestar Center

This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. First of all, for this survey 79% of American adults said they used the internet, and 59% of these use at least one SNS. In 2010, over half of all adult SNS users are over 35 years of age, and 56% of them are female.

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. Nancy Roach, our founder, casually surveyed some of us early stakeholders to decide on a name. They sent out surveys. Overall, the experience has been positive.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter. According to our survey, 41 percent of respondents said they “like” GiveMN or their favorite nonprofit or school on Facebook. Experimented with a Facebook promoted post.

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Software to Build and Grow Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Office suites include: Word 2010: Create professional documents with this -processing program. Excel 2010: Develop spreadsheets and keeping track of data. Outlook 2010: Manage your time and tasks with this program. PowerPoint 2010: Build slideshows and presentations with text effects, sound, and animation.