Thu.Jan 22, 2015

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4 Strategies To Help Your Nonprofit Communicate Its Finances

TechImpact

'Talking about money is hard for anyone. However, communicating financial information is an often necessary task for non-profit executive directors to perform. Financial information can seem uninteresting or boring, and often times there’s a certain level of transparency that you can’t cross. But it is critical that your staffers have some idea of your organization’s […].

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Talking Shop with Network Designers and Weavers for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'We learn so much about professional practice from having honest and candid conversations. Not only do we learn something new, but it feels great to connect with other people who are asking the sames types of questions about their work. A part of my practice is around network design and facilitation and one of my most respected colleagues in this area is Eugene Eric Kim.

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Submit your nomination for the Care2 Impact Prize!

NTEN

'We invite you to submit nominations for the sixth annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes a campaign or initiative in the nonprofit sector that has made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising, or both. The winning organization will receive a cash donation of $1,000 from Care2. The runners up will each receive the Care2 Innovation Award, and Care2 will make a $200 donation to each of these organizations.

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Open Source for Nonprofits: What to Know (Part 1)

Tech Soup

'Many nonprofits exert most of their energy in pursuance of their mission. Success and survival require constant courtship of donors, vigilant monitoring of costs, and effective management of projects and stakeholders. So it should come as no surprise that buying an expensive software product isn't always high on the agenda. Some nonprofits fashion homemade, composite solutions with the tools they have — however dated or inefficient — to avoid the large expenditure that new softw

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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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Things We Like (January 2015)

NTEN

'A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. We start Things We Like in the cloud ( technology ebook, in.pdf ), complete with special Amy cameo. Returning to earth, specifically the Galapagos, this "last year in review" has everything: webcams, drones, and a shipwreck. Pure paradise! Last year was so … last year. Here are Kickstarter''s tech predictions for 2015.

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How To Lead Breakthrough Change Against All Odds

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'David S. Pottruck ''s new book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change.

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Discovering Donors: Prospect Research Basics

NonProfit Hub

'Kim Becker Cooper is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the Marketing Director at DonorSearch, a prospect research and wealth screening company that focuses on philanthropy. She has ten years of experience serving as a frontline fundraiser, prospect researcher and consultant for nonprofits. _. Finding major gift donors without prospect research is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

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The Giving Days Model: Collaboration, Federation, or Unification? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

AFP Blog

'The Giving Days Model: Collaboration, Federation, or Unification? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : "Charities are always seeking a new way to increase the size of the donor base. Conventional wisdom holds that getting large numbers of donors in—even at small levels—can begin a conversation about the value a nonprofit brings to its mission. A relationship that begins with a gift can evolve into ongoing financial and community support.

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