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VisionLink

'Sadly, this week marked the loss of one of the disaster response world’s strongest leaders and advocates. Joann Hale was one of the most influential, hard-working, and caring people we have ever had the pleasure of working with here at VisionLInk. Joann''s love for her community and for her fellow New Yorkers was vast and the many people she helped will feel her loss.

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8 Nonprofit Lessons Learned from the 2014 FUSE Conference

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'Thanks to a partnership with Salsa Labs , Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good was able to report live from the FUSE Conference on August 6-7 in Annandale, VA. Over 250 nonprofits were in attendance represented by staff mostly from the Millennial Generation who actively contributed to the conference hashtag: #FUSEcon2014. Heather also presented two general sessions during which she invited attendees to share via Instagram the most useful piece of advice they gained from attending the

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Why Continued Training Is Necessary For CRM Success

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Waiting for the Elevator. A CRM, or constituent relationship management system, robust piece of software that helps nonprofits track every interaction they have with individuals. Whether it be a phone call, email, or direct mail sent out, through a CRM, your nonprofit can track how a person responds to a certain type of communication method, know whether or not they’ve donated, how they’ve donated, and almost anything else you want to track.

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10 Donor Data Migration Decisions: Q&A with Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

'Third Sector Labs recently presented a data migration webinar with host Bloomerang. The topic – “10 Decisions You Will Face with Any Donor Data Migration” – focused on preparing for your next CRM or data migration while addressing 10 tough decisions nonprofits encounter along the way. You may download a copy of the presentation from the Resources section of our website.

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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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Why Your Nonprofit Should Invest in Video As Part Its Communications Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Photo Credit: Tristan Hanson. Why Your Nonprofit Should Invest in Video As Part Its Communications Strategy – Guest Post by Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3. It’s obvious to anyone who spends time online that video is taking over the internet. It is the dominant form of content we all engage with – on our desktops, our tablets and now our phones.

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Everything You Need to Know To Recruit Younger Members

Wild Apricot

'Are you having trouble recruiting and engaging Gen Y or Millennials? Here''s a look at our compendium of 10 resources – our Ultimate Guide to Connecting With & Recruiting Younger Members.

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14LCS: Idea Accelerator Coaches & Judges Announced

NTEN

'The Leading Change Summit is just 12 days away. We''re packing, preparing, designing, and more just to make sure this first Summit lives up to the NTEN community standards. This required us to start playing with some of the 14LCS thinking toys – we couldn''t resist! Unlike the NTC, there''s no live stream for this event. It''s really important to have our attendees there in person – ideally from start to finish.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'As a trainer and now adjunct professor, I’m constantly working on and honing these skills sets: assessment, instructional design, curriculum/materials development, presenting, facilitation, and evaluation. There is a lot of learn and refine in each of these areas. And that’s why I love teaching and training because it is all about the learning for both you and the participants.

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Ice Bucket Lightning, Happy Meetings and More

Wild Apricot

'Here''s a link round-up offering insight into the Ice Bucket Challenge; how to have happier meetings; letting your "givers grow"; learning lessons from failure; and hosting successful roundtables.

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What Your Nonprofit Can Learn From The #IceBucketChallenge

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Montreal Gazette. You’ve definitely seen it pop up on your social media feed. And chances are, you’ve been challenged to it. With over 150,000 new donors so far this year, and over $10M raised for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, the #IceBucketChallenge took the Internet by storm a few weeks ago and is showing no signs of slowing down.

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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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Crowdfunding: From Threat to Friend

NTEN

'Andy Hamflett. Co-Founder and Director. AAM Associates. Crowdfunding, how much do we love thee? Let us count the ways (that nonprofits are using and leveraging crowdfunding as a fundraising tool). There are a growing number of ways for nonprofits to take advantage of crowdfunding, to add an extra layer of resilience alongside more traditional fundraising.

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Summer School: Test Drive: Using #GivingTuesday to Experiment with New Fundraising Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'How many of you who work for nonprofits are getting asked to “ come up with an icebucket challenge ” for your annual fundraising campaign? Or maybe it’s caught your attention and you are more realistically asking, “What can we learn from the icebucket challenge apply to our year-end giving and integrating social media in fundraising?

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Advisory Community Registrations Are Open

Wild Apricot

'Want to join our Small Membership Advisory Community? Here are details on our conference call series and community forum.

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Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Content Marketing

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Web Business Agenda. Bill Gates famously wrote in 1996 that content will be king on the Internet one day. Despite his prophecy, Microsoft today still does not have a juggernaut content department, and is still focused on creating software. Whether his vision for what Internet content would be in 1996 was, we may never know. What we do know, is that marketers around the world, in the for profit and nonprofit world alike, are turning to storytelling, content marketing, and socia

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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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3 Tips to Make Video Work for Your Organization

See3

'How do you make video work for your organization? See3 has been doing awesome impact video for a decade now, and there are a few things we've learned that may surprise you. We recently did a guest both on Beth Kanter's blog with some of our best tips for how to make your investment in video a success. […].

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How to Choose an Email Service Provider: Key Findings

NTEN

'Kirsten Kippen. Marketing Manager. Idealist Consulting. "How is an organization to go about evaluating email service providers?" and other questions answered with key findings from a new report. Although email is one of the oldest forms of digital communication, even highly technical users (looking at you, NTEN community!) continue to discuss the best tools for mass distribution and database integration.

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How the American Childhood Cancer Organization Used Crowdfunding to Raise Over $43,000!

Tech Soup

'Last year we shared how the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) used Teespring to exceed their fundraising goals with a few clicks of a button. Since then ACCO has continued to be wildly successful through a total of 7 Teespring campaigns, raising over $27,000! But they aren’t done: they continue to launch new successful campaigns. Their current September campaign has been the most successful ever, having raised over $15,600 with still a week left in the campaign.

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Make It A Habit To Ask Your Employees These 6 Questions

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'As explained in John Baldoni''s, book, Lead With Purpose , Marshall Goldsmith suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these six questions : Where do you think we should be going? Where do you think you and your part of the business should be going? What do you think you''re doing well? If you were the leader, what ideas would you have for you?

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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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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

'New memes get started everyday. Some stick and go “viral” while others just get shared with a small community of friends, and some go nowhere. Remember the FB meme challenge that asked women to post what color bra they were wearing that day? Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it.

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Raiders of the Lost Archives, or How I Made Volunteer Data Entry Fun

NTEN

'Lillian Karabaic. Zine Librarian. Independent Publishing Resource Center. Is it possible to create an app that gets volunteers traveling across the country to enter data for a nonprofit? The Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) supports Portland’s arts and writing community and curates North America’s largest zine library, a circulating archive of self-published and otherwise underground and rare publications.

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Turning to Strategy after the Audit: A Calendar of Activities

BoardAssist

'When should I be engaging the audit firm for next year? When should senior management see a draft budget? When is my Form 990 due? For answers to these financial management questions, we turned to guest blogger Andrew Schwalm of FMA, a leading provider of fiscal consulting, outsourcing and professional development training to nonprofits and their staff nationwide.

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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

'TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. This year we renamed it Storymakers and it starts on August 26, 2014. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes.

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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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Classical Wisdom For Modern Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Mark your calendars now to check out the November 2014 release of, The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders. You''ll step back in time to learn philosophies of the past and how to apply them today. Authors M. A. Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas offer a fresh approach to becoming a great leader by learning from antiquity''s great thinkers, such as Aristotle, Hesiod, Sophocles, Heraclitus, and others.

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Stay (Mission) Focused: A Simple Tool to Help You Save Time and Speed Up Your Organization

NTEN

'Jesse Flores. Founder. Startup Lansing. Here's a simple and elegant way to cut out the cut-and-paste parts of your work life. Most of us are both time- and budget-strapped. We want to stay focused on our mission, but, try as we may, it seems there is always more to do than there is time to do it. Yet, the people we serve and the funders who underwrite our efforts expect us to produce results.

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Who Engages in Professional Associations?

ASU Lodestar Center

'posted by Mark A. Hager Associate Professor ASU School of Community Resources and Development If you are a working professional, there’s a good chance that you are (or could be) a member of an association of people in your field. Could be local, statewide, national, or international. You pay dues to a central nonprofit that probably has annual meetings, probably educates on the ethics and standards of the field, and maybe even helps people find jobs.

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Storytelling for Success: A Look at Three Crowdfunding Campaigns

Tech Soup

'What draws you to one crowdfunding campaign over another? Is it an inspiring video? Cool photos? A great story? Perhaps it is a combination of a few different storytelling elements. Our Storymakers 2014 challenge kicks off August 26, so to get you inspired, I've compiled some great examples of digital storytelling in crowdfunding campaigns. The Blue Whale Campaign (CauseVox).

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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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7 Ways To Achieve Business Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'When you start reading Mark Thompson’s and Brian Tracy’s latest book called, Now…Build a Great Business! , you may feel like you are reading 200 pages of Blog posts, but the bite-sized approach to providing tools, practical steps and ideas, rather than theory, is precisely the authors’ intended approach. The book thoroughly explains the seven keys for how to achieve business success : 1.

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The Six Simple Stages to Successful Campaign Planning

NTEN

'Michael Khoo. SVP and Director of Digital Strategies. Your concise guide to building a winnable campaign. Are you looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or get a corporation or government body to change its policies? Follow this roadmap to put successful campaign strategies in place.

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Helping Hands: Why You Should Be a Nonprofit Mentor

NonProfit Hub

'When you were starting your nonprofit or starting on your journey in the nonprofit world, you probably had someone you could rely on for advice and a boost every now and then. And even if you didn’t have a specific mentor or group of people you could call upon, you probably wish that you did. You’ve heard about the perks of having a mentor before. But we’re here to tell you (as a nonprofit professional) why you should be out in the community mentoring others.

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(Re)Introducing NetSquared

Tech Soup

'You probably already know about TechSoup’s amazing donation program , our informative blog and our free webinars. These are just three of our services dedicated to ensuring that nonprofits and NGOs have the technology resources and knowledge they need to operate at their full potential. But did you also know that TechSoup’s NetSquared project supports nonprofit technology events and workshops happening in 50 cities across the globe?

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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.