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Guest Post: What Good Could Come After a No?

Twenty Hats

It is during that development time when you need to speak up with your need and strategy. “ She began as a VF Board member, and temporarily joined the staff for a 5-week assignment temporary assignment in 2011. in Consumer-Community Services from Michigan State University. My boss keeps telling me no.” Susan holds a B.S.

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Cause Camp: From Humble Roots to Must-Attend Conference

NonProfit Hub

” This change sought to clear up some confusion surrounding the meaning of the event, according to the creative brief: “At this time, there is much confusion as to what Brand Camp is, when seeing the name alone. The agenda included speakers from the region as well as some outside the state of Nebraska for the first time.

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Cause Camp: From Humble Roots to Must-Attend Conference

NonProfit Hub

” This change sought to clear up some confusion surrounding the meaning of the event, according to the creative brief: “At this time, there is much confusion as to what Brand Camp is, when seeing the name alone. The agenda included speakers from the region as well as some outside the state of Nebraska for the first time.

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Voices from the Community: Accessibility

Tech Soup

While some web developers may feel that meeting accessibility standards and offering assistive technologies to their staff or users is too large an effort , Rush holds that the time is right to take that very effort on. Sharron Rush weighs in again, this time with some of the best resources for learning about web accessibility methods.

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To those of you who just aren't getting it right

Connection Cafe

Guest blog alert: In my past life as a staffer for a Girl Scout of the USA affiliate, I met Suneil Singh, the then Chief Communications Officer for Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan (for those of you with limited Michigan geography like me, think Detroit). At that time, there were more than 300 separate Girl Scout pages on Facebook.

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Case Study: NPower Michigan and Board Collaboration Tools

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a case study that first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. By Chris Bernard, Idealware When [NTEN Member] Andy Wolber worked for NPower Michigan—first as a consultant, then later as executive director—the organization had a geographically spread-out board of 10-15 members.

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How-to: Manage Your E-mail Campaigns (and Be a Good Guest)

NTEN

With inbox competition increasing and recipient patience dwindling, the nonprofits that succeed this holiday season and into 2011 will remember one thing: email is about the needs and wants of the recipients, NOT those of the organization. . Many nonprofits treat their email program as simply a digital version of their postal mail efforts.

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