TechImpact

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Social media serves is a tool for not only updating your status, or posting picture of your lunch. Nonprofits of all kinds are using it to disseminate information about their cause and help marginalized groups that need more awareness get the attention of the masses. LGBT organizations, for example, are using channels like Facebook, Twitter […].

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Wendy Marinaccio Husman. Senior Account Executive. Mal Warwick | Donordigital. How to turn that one-time donation into a gift that keeps on coming, and makes your donors happy, too! Monthly giving programs are essential to a nonprofit’s ability to plan projects and budgets. Sustainers make it possible for organizations to rely on a broad base of monthly support.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

'One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. In that spirit, here are some leading open-source solutions in three categories relevant to nonprofits: CRM. CiviCRM is an open-source nonprofit-focused CRM system with powerful features for campaigns, fundraising, event planning, contact management, and cas

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 26, 2015

'At the beginning of this year, 47% of Americans made a New Year’s resolution. Only 8% of us will keep it. But maybe that isn’t a bad thing as long as we: Take the time to reflect on why we didn’t keep it. Look at it as one “experiment” in a long process. Last weekend, I saw two movies, Birdman and Particle Fever , that portrayed very different attitudes towards success and failure.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

'There's still time to share your story! Tell us how resources or donations from TechSoup have helped your staff or volunteers work remotely or collaborate from home better. Maybe you can now easily share files and calendars with Office 365, or you use web conferencing software to collaborate across multiple locations. Whatever it is, we want to know about it!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

'One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things. The spectrum of influence ranges from manipulation to persuasion to coercion.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Hello blogosphere! I know it’s been awhile since you’ve heard from me. It appears that so far I’m not doing great with my New Year’s resolution to blog more. Eek! Well, you can’t go back; you can only move forward, and I look forward to sharing creative fundraising ideas with throughout 2015. Speaking of looking forward to new fundraising ideas in 2015.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Colleges Mine Social Media for Clues on Likely Donors – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "A handful of tech start-ups are making tools that harness data and interactions from widely used social networks to help colleges and universities identify alumni with the greatest propensity to donate, writes The New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2015

'You’ve heard the mantra: Learn from failure. But no one likes to screw up and you can’t learn when people are feeling shame and pointing fingers at each other. Dosomething.org knows that mistakes happen, but also knows how as an organization to transform mistakes into organizational learning that leads to better results in a program. This how you create a “ culture of impact.” Earlier this month the Chronicle of Philanthropy wrote about how the organization corrected a mistake w

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Why Journalism Students Need a Baseline Understanding of Coding | Mediashift | PBS : ". If we don’t expose our students to this — students we want to lead the next generation of journalism and communication — we are doing them a disservice. In fact, it would be smart for universities to add a general coding class to the core curriculum required of students in all fields.

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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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