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5 Ways to Make LinkedIn Board Connect Work for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about the launch of LinkedIn’s Board Connect tool that helps nonprofit identify potential board candidates through searching the networks of their board members on LinkedIn. Geri Stengel who has written guest posts about LinkedIn on this blog offered to share some tips.

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How To Increase Board Fundraising Without Having To Ask for Money

Bloomerang

For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level. Board members can start by joining online communities where people discuss fundraising best practices and share successes.

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Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy

Bloomerang

I may want to help end homelessness, but not have a clue how to make a difference on a scale that moves the needle. NOTE: Each of these programs bears its own discussion, so feel free to click on the links offered above. They want to do unto others as they would have others do unto them. They want to share their blessings.

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NetSquared October Event Preview

Tech Soup

Surrey, Canada: LinkedIn for Nonprofits. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Wednesday, October 9. Minneapolis, MN: October #NPtech Social Club. Vancouver, Canada: How to Create Great Campaign Films For Your Nonprofit. Thursday, October 10. Tuesday, October 15.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. San Francisco, California: Social Impact in Tech: Panel Discussion with LinkedIn, Lyft, and Salesforce. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I’m not saying you skip the tactical discussions, just don’t jump right there as step #1. Provide your social media ambassadors with your brand and messaging standards – not as a document attached to an email – but as a discussion of how and why your organization communicates the way it does. But, take it offline, too. .

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." " Go answer on the LinkedIn page here. Good discussion in the comments too.

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