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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

sgEngage

This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. Change management can be a long and uncomfortable process, but the introspection and analysis help you find ways to improve and more closely align with your mission.

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A Closer Look at Giving Contests: Free White Paper Examines "Give to the Max DC"

NTEN

In a new white paper, " How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ", long-time NTEN Member Geoff Livingston takes a look at the next level: coordinated integration. Conversely, only 23 percent of those that spent less than 10 hours netted $2,500 or more." You know about integrated fundraising campaigns.

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3 Ways Causes Can Use Data Like For-Profits

Achieve

Set goals in Google Analytics to maximize your conversions. Setting goals that align with your nonprofit’s digital strategy allows you to measure effectiveness and adapt tactics to improve conversions. Events: An action on your site, such as signing up for a newsletter or downloading a white paper.

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Thinking About Networks and Social Media and Online Collaborations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sanjeev Khagram , iScale, took us through a draft white paper on Network Life Cycle. The paper will be published later next month, but it stimulated an incredible conversation. It made me think of Nancy White, Etienne Wenger, and John Smith's work with online communities of practice.

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Strategic Grantmaking to Improve Community Health

Connection Cafe

Download the new white paper “ Moving Upstream: Hospitals’ Strategic Shifts to Advance Community Health” Hospitals have recently made significant moves to address upstream issues and meet the needs of patients—and community members—outside the four walls of their institutions. Lessons Apply To Independent Foundations, Payers.

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Can you use social media to spread thought leadership? Yes you can!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conversations about what constitutes an effective nonprofit social media strategy have been thought provoking. In the last few weeks, I've an opportunity to present and participate in conversations about social media, nonprofits, and foundations with those who work in philanthropy.

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Timing is Everything… Proposals in the Prospect Tab of The Raiser’s Edge®

Connection Cafe

This can come from an internal database analysis, wealth screening, predictive modeling project, a peer/board review, or just plain discovery of a prospective donor from a staff or volunteer member. Identification. Pre-qualification. Basically this is the latest stage at which I would create a proposal. Qualification/Disqualification.