Fri.May 11, 2012

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Friday Food for Thought: Watching the Game Film (for Nonprofits)

Amy Sample Ward

This guest post is from Jacob Smith , the co-author of The Nimble Nonprofit. I’m really excited about this new comprehensive, honest resource for nonprofit leaders, and hope you’ll check it out ! I asked Jacob to write a guest post here to get us all thinking, and hopefully talking. Would love to hear your thoughts! —– For professional football players, the six days between games are jammed with practice, gym workouts, and travel.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. , Professor and Director. of Academic Programs. ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Creating a Membership Website in Wild Apricot - My Experience

Wild Apricot

Here's the first in my series on my experience creating a membership website in Wild Apricot.

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5 Questions Your Employees Would Love To Hear During Their Performance Reviews

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are five important questions you , as a manager and leader, should ask during employee performance reviews: What have I done to help - or hinder - your job performance? What can I do in the next review period to help you achieve/improve? What conditions here enable you - or make it hard - to do your best work? What do you want most from your job?

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Engaging Volunteers in Technical Roles

NTEN

Would you trust a volunteer to help maintain your organization's servers? Okay, probably not, but what about taking out an iPad to collect constituent data? Or setting up wi-fi hot spots after a disaster. Volunteers are the lifeblood of many a nonprofit, and there are many ways you can engage them in technical roles – but it requires a special skill set to manage them.

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Crowdfunding raised $1.5 billion worldwide last year

AFP Blog

Crowdfunding raised $1.5 billion worldwide last year : Almost US$1.5 billion was raised in 2011 by crowdfunding platforms around the world, according to an industry report released Tuesday by Massolution, the research group of industry body Crowdsourcing. There were almost 350 crowdfunding platforms, or online fundraising platforms that generally accept small donations, at the end of 2011, the report found, up by more than 50 percent from the beginning of the year.

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A Facebook Promotion Connects a Charity With a Loyal Donor - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

AFP Blog

A Facebook Promotion Connects a Charity With a Loyal Donor - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

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Member Round Up: Change and Opportunities!

NTEN

Flickr:Markusram We can feel it - the season is changing! How do we know? NTEN members are providing more educational opportunities, asking for more help on amazing projects, and announcing even more technology tools than ever before. With all the change going on, make sure you learn about all the ways NTEN members are making a difference in the world.

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Goodbye QR Codes, Hello Near Field Communication? ? Engage365

AFP Blog

Goodbye QR Codes, Hello Near Field Communication?  Engage365 : nother day, another technology being called “THE” thing to have this year. Discussion around Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in smartphones has been bubbling for months if not years, coming to a head recently with Google’s official support of NFC and their dropping of QR code support in the Google Places service.

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Charities fear new EU rules on website cookies will deter users | Third Sector

AFP Blog

Charities fear new EU rules on website cookies will deter users | Third Sector : Website operators will have to get permission from users before putting cookies on computer systems Charities are concerned about what new EU cookie laws will mean in practice and how they should comply. From 26 May, all website operators must gain the consent of web users before putting cookies on their computer systems.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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MediaPost Publications Mobile To Become Top Email Platform 05/02/2012

AFP Blog

MediaPost Publications Mobile To Become Top Email Platform 05/02/2012 : Return Path projects that mobile will overtake Webmail and the desktop PC to become the leading platform for e-mail by year’s end.