December, 2016

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Free Webinar on February 7! How NGOs Worldwide Use Online Technology and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, February 7. Time: 1pm EDT (New York). Cost: Free. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Over the last two decades the global NGO sector has embraced online technology, but economic and political factors and the quality of Internet infrastructure regionally often affects how well NGOs worldwide can use new technology. Not surprisingly, there is a gap between the utilization of online fundraising tools and social media by NGOs in high-income nations and those in developing nations.

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6 Insights The Sharing Economy Tells Us About The Future Of Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising. The term “Sharing Economy” came to my attention two years ago after attending the SHARE conference in San Francisco and there were some implications for philanthropy. If you want a good overview of the Sharing Economy from a nonprofit perspective, read these two posts from TechSoup, Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Share Economy and Nonprofits Imagine A Better

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Best to Test: Tools for Gauging your WordPress Site’s Speed and Performance

Byte Technology

It’s an all-to-common scenario: a new user to WordPress builds their site, goes live and starts blogging or selling or raising funds without giving much thought into how their site’s performing. Are visitors getting a good user experience? Are your pages loading quickly? Are they rendering correctly across mobile platforms? Are you losing customers because your server response is slow?

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EveryAction's 8 Most Useful Nonprofit Resources of 2016

EveryAction

No matter how you slice it, 2016 was a year to remember. With just a couple of weeks left, take stock of the most useful content from our blog and nonprofit content library and get a jumpstart on making 2017 the best year for your organization yet! 1. The 2016 Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide. This fundraising deep-dive was the most visited post on our blog this year - perhaps that had something to do with the free templates ?

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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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Take The Quiz: Are You Managing Your Membership Database Like The Top Nonprofits?

Wild Apricot

To find out how your database management processes stack up against the top nonprofits, take this short quiz that Wes Trochlil (Founder of Effective Database Management) helped us put together. This quiz is designed to help you identify areas to improve, and give you expert tips. At the bottom of the quiz, compare your score against others.

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5 Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising Trends for 2017

Care2

In just a few hours we will ring in 2017. Now is a good time for nonprofits to not only reflect on the impact and lessons learned from your 2016 marketing and fundraising strategies, but to also begin preparing for the year to come. With the rapid evolution of tech and increasing noise on social media networks, organizations need to be able to adapt to new technology and figure out ways to break through the clutter.

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The Happy Healthy Data Nerd: Using Your Personal Health Data to Support Your Wellbeing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, that fervor helps us to keep going in the face of difficult challenges, like analyzing a huge data set.

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Safe by Design: How to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Byte Technology

For anyone who designs, owns or runs a website, the threat of getting hacked is a constant reality whether you’re a mega-corporation dealing with millions of users or just a one-person blog shop promoting products or services. And while a hack is rarely fatal—WordPress thrives on the fact that it’s easy to backup your data and information, so getting up and running after an attack isn’t too painful—it is a gigantic hassle that costs you time and, occasionally, money.

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Nonprofits! You Are Not the (Only) Gatekeeper for Your Issue!

Achieve

The following blog first appeared on. Philanthropy News Digest. Last month my mother called to tell me about a neighbor who had just been diagnosed with cancer. She talked about how sad the news made her, and told me the town was really coming together to do something for one of its own. In fact, local town leaders had already decided to organize a fundraiser for our friend.

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The Biggest List of Tips For Smooth Succession Planning

Wild Apricot

Over the years, we’ve gathered tips from hundreds of board members who have all been through succession planning themselves. Right now, his is the biggest list of tips for succession planning on the internet!

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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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Gyrus Systems Earns “Top 5” Award for “Best Compliance LMS” by Talented Learning

Gyrus

Richmond, VA, December 8, 2016, Gyrus Systems , a leader in the Learning Management Systems (LMS) industry, proudly announced that Talented Learning named the GyrusAim® Le arning Management System as a "Top 5" Finisher in the " Best Compliance LMS " category. Talented Learning is a news, research and consulting organization dedicated to the advancement of all aspects of extended enterprise learning technology solutions.

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What Your NGO Needs to Know about.NGO and.ONG

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The launch of the.NGO and.ONG domains will change how nonprofits, charities, NGOs, and ONGs worldwide use the Internet for branding for decades to come. To help NGOs understand how and why, the webinar below was presented by Heather Mansfield on December 13, 2016 to 230 NGO staff. The webinar highlighted how how the.NGO and.ONG domains and their functionality differ from the.ORG domain and featured OnGood – the new global directory of verified NGOs and ONGs.

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results.

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Pipe Up: How to Get More Comments on Your WordPress Posts

Byte Technology

One of the hallmarks of the WordPress content management system is the ability to engage a user audience and create a back-and-forth conversation of sorts in the virtual world. And while WordPress has some terrific plugins available that can help you create and manage a comment section on your site, too often unforeseen problems and lapses exist that stymie the commenting process.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Why You Need to Prepare for Google’s Mobile-Index

Achieve

In October 2016 Garry Illyes, a webmaster trends analyst with Google[1], announced that the number one search engine was going to rollout a separate mobile-index. Google had previously announced it was experimenting with a mobile-index in 2015, but with the growing number of internet users accessing the web via mobile devices (53 percent globally[2]) they decided it was time to implement this new algorithm.

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23 Free Nonprofit Webinars for January 2017

Wild Apricot

Start 2017 with a boost to your professional skill set with some free education. Each month we compile a list of the best free nonprofit webinars for you to attend. This month's webinars feature online fundraising best practices, software training, and how to find new donors this year.

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Seven Ways To Be A Collaborative Leader Of A Team

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Edward M. Marshall's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team's needs.

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How Twitter Donations Work: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter is experimenting with allowing certain nonprofits to accept donations directly through tweets. Like how only a select few nonprofits had access to Facebook’s early launch of their Facebook Fundraising Tools , only a select few nonprofits currently have access to Twitter Donations. It is unclear if Twitter has plans to provide access to more nonprofits in the near future, but doing so would be a smart move.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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The Spirit of @GivingTuesday Continues: #MyGivingStory Grant Opportunity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join me for a Twitter Chat about #MyGivingStory at 1pmPST/4pmEST on Tuesday, December 13 th , 2016. During the chat, @GivingTues will start with welcomes, and then lead a discussion about storytelling best practices. Participants include @GivingTues, @magusgalmarini (Agus Galmarini of the Gates Foundation) @ArielAzoff (Social Impact at Medium), @ meansandrew (Head of Philanthropy & Civic Innovation @Uptake ) and me.

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Save the Day: Knowing Which WordPress Files to Always Back Up

Byte Technology

Ask any WordPress designer or seasoned administrator what is one of the most important aspects of keeping a website safe and secure and you’ll no doubt get a vehement answer: back up! From targeted hack attempts to denial of service attacks to unexpected—and all too common—server failures, not having the correct data backed up can cause headaches and even total ruin for a site owner.

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10 Website Design and Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

BoardAssist

As 2016 comes to an end, it seemed a great idea to review all the terrific advice we’ve received this year on nonprofit communications best practices. Thanks a million to all the amazing nonprofit blogs that kept us up to date on all the latest and greatest ways to get our message out. The below post comes from Nonprofit Tech for Good ‘s blog. . 10 Website Design and Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits. 5 Must-Know Stats for Nonprofits. 1. 43% of the adult global populati

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Take The Quiz: Are You Managing Your Membership Database Like The Top Nonprofits?

Wild Apricot

To find out how your database management processes stack up against the top nonprofits, take this short quiz that Wes Trochlil (Founder of Effective Database Management) helped us put together. This quiz is designed to help you identify areas to improve, and give you expert tips. At the bottom of the quiz, compare your score against others.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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New Year's Resolutions For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

With only one one day left of 2016, it's time to identify your New Year's Resolutions for 2017. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and tomorrow, think about which couple you want to work on during 2017. Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all

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From Call Reluctance to Call Enthusiasm: A 7-Step Approach

Donor Search

Prospect research is useless if nobody makes the call. Development professionals have it so easy in the twenty-first century! Or so you’d think. They’ve got access to technology nobody even dreamed of last century, like social media, specialized donor-management platforms, and the coolest, most insightful prospect research services ever.

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How to Build a Culture that Leaves Behind a Legacy

NonProfit Hub

“We’re not like the other nonprofits, we’re a cool nonprofit.”. “We’ll throw in casual Fridays! Done. Our nonprofit’s culture ROCKS.”. “Yeah, let’s give them the day after #GivingTuesday off to show them we care. Back to work on Thursday, folks!”. These statements shouldn’t be the norm, but I guarantee they’ve come out of some of your mouths at some point.

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The Magnificent Seven: Great WordPress Features Worth Checking Out

Byte Technology

WordPress is an incredibly rich and multi-layered content management system, one packed with options and features that help it clearly stand head and shoulders above other platforms. But with all that incredible and intuitive diversity, it’s no great surprise that many website owners and administrators aren’t using it to its full potential. In truth, for the vast majority of users—bloggers, small e-commerce ventures and the like—just utilizing the most basic aspects of the program are more than

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Happy Holidays from TechSoup! See You Soon

Tech Soup

Wishing you a happy and peaceful holiday. We'll be taking some holiday downtime ourselves. TechSoup Customer Service will be closed from Friday, December 23, at 12 p.m. Pacific time through Monday, January 2, 2017. We will resume regular service hours on Tuesday, January 3, 2017. You can still place donation requests during this time, but your requests will not be processed until December 30, 2016.

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How an Uncashed Check Led to This Association Tripling Membership

Wild Apricot

In 2012, Kim Elliot discovered that a check she’d written never got cashed. This discovery would inspire her to take over an association that was struggling and turn it around, tripling its membership within the first two years.

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Most Popular Post From 2016: How To Lead By Using The 10 Essential Elements Of Dignity

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In their book, Millennials Who Manage , authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart , quote Donna Hicks 's explanation about how dignity is different from respect. Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth. Therefore, Espinoza and Schwarzbart recommend that leaders treat those they are leading with dignity and follow Hick's 10 Essential Elements of Dignity : Accept

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Picking a Fundraising Consultant for Major Gift Fundraising

Donor Search

If you’ve decided to go with a fundraising consultant firm to improve your major gift fundraising, that’s great news! They can give you assistance so that you don’t have to hire someone full-time or do the research yourself.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.