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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

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Quiet phase - 6-24 months: During this phase, you’ll secure the bulk of your fundraising goal (at least 75%) through major gifts from lead donors and board members without broadcasting the campaign to the broader public. You can make adjustments as needed up until the public phase to ensure your campaign’s success.

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National Day of Civic Hacking: How to Get Involved

Tech Soup

Get your world-changing ideas together and warm up your programming fingers because the National Day of Civic Hacking is happening across America on June 1 and 2, 2013. If you're unable to attend, TechSoup will be on the scene covering events in the Bay Area and broadcasting via Twitter ( @TechSoup ) and other social media channels.

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Key Takeaways From The 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report: Sustainers Going Strong!

Connection Cafe

Throwing back to the 2013 Benchmark Study , we witnessed an explosion of growth of sustainer giving – a 27% increase over the previous year. Have you downloaded the 2014 Luminate Online Benchmark Report yet? It’s full of online engagement nuggets worth chewing on as you evaluate this year’s performance and plan for the future.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You don’t have to get testimonials from celebrities (although each day it seems that more and more celebrities are publicizing their devotion to social causes ); start by collecting short statements from your most loyal donors (both individuals and companies or foundations, if possible) and put them on your website. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Safer Internet Day. SkyDrive has become OneDrive.

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Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It would be easy for community foundations to back away from giving days in the wake of the Kimbia disaster and similar problems that plagued Minnesota’s popular Give to the Max Day in 2013. Every public event — even virtual ones — should have a strategy for handling glitches. In Columbia, S.C., Communicate clearly and regularly.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s. Mobile should be able engagement, not just broadcasting. Jim Canales (@jcanales) April 5, 2013. Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community. Ultimately, Ms.