NetWits
JUNE 20, 2011
Subscribe to the RSS feed ›. This is a guest post by the one and only Nonprofit Facebook Guy – John Haydon (also a good buddy of mine). Make sure to check out his blog [link]. — Facebook Pages include a reporting module called “Insights&# which enables Page admins to understand how to better use their Page to market their cause and organization.
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 22, 2011
Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. This panel discussion focuses on the generational divide, with the following panelists: Wendy Harman and Suzy DeFrancis, American Red Cross. David Smith and Michael Weiser, National Conference on Citizenship. Moderated by Kari Dunn, Case Foundation. Intro from Kari: When the Case Foundation was first discussing with partners what they wanted to get out of the Summit, they talked about how to bridge the generational di
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 20, 2011
Email is still queen. No doubt about it. The vast majority of online donations come from a click in an e-newsletter, as do most new Facebook Fans, Twitter Followers, and text alert subscribers. It’s even the number one activity on the Mobile Web. E-newsletters will likely be eulogized at some point, but for now and in the near future, nonprofits that do not publish e-newsletters are definitely at a disadvantage.
Robert Weiner
JUNE 21, 2011
Sender : I love McDonalds (helping@mcdonalds.com). Subject : We are fond of you and thus invite you for free helpings. Attachment : Invitation_Card_37021.zip. Hello. McDonalds invites you to The Free Dinner Day which will take place on 25 June, 2011, in every cafe of ours. Free Day’s menu! - Angus Chipotle BBQ Bacon. - Chicken McNuggets. - Premium Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken. - Strawberry Triple Thick Shake. - McCafe Iced Mocha.
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.
NetWits
JUNE 23, 2011
Special thanks to Brian Winters at Adcieo for authoring this guest post. We’re looking forward to the webinar Brian! — When creating any fundraising campaign there are two items that should always be on your short list list. In fact, without the two we’ll cover in this post you’re guaranteed to finish your campaign, review the results, and be left wanting.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 19, 2011
Welcome – Synergy. tags: toblog kvm software opensource. 5 Innovative Ways to Teach Your Skills Online. tags: teaching tools toblog. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Nonprofit Technology brings together the best content for nonprofit technical enthusiasts from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 20, 2011
Your non-profit website is supposed to help new people – prospective donors, members, and advocates – find your organization online. But what if it’s not showing up in the search engines? ( read more ).
NetWits
JUNE 22, 2011
Register for our Event Fundraising Newsletter to receive monthly content and resources specifically for event fundraising professionals. Join Today. As the busy summer event season continues, eventually your boss or committee will ask, “How can we increase participation next year?” It’s a pretty common goal for most organizations who run fundraising events.
VisionLink
JUNE 24, 2011
'As the economy remains tight, state and federal, and even foundation grant programs are requiring more in return for the use of their funds. What is the "more" defined as? It comes in the form of more specific requirements, procedural steps, outcome measures, and other ways that the funder is (naturally) trying to ensure effective use of the funds that are available.
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 22, 2011
Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. This session focuses on how to successfully get started with mobile technology, with Tonia Zampieri from Smart Online presenting. Millennial Distinctions. about 85 Million. 1st generation raised on mobiles. 95% own mobile devices. 83% sleep with mobile at bedside. 62% connect to internet wirelessly. more likely than any other generation to post a video of themselves online.
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.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 24, 2011
Can word clouds help you create more effective grant applications? Focusing on the words that appear more frequently in grant requirements, might help your application get noticed.( read more ).
NetWits
JUNE 20, 2011
42% of the American population is active on Facebook, but most struggle to successfully raise significant amounts of money. Twitter has over 14 million users, but does anyone actually pay attention to you there? Social fundraising continues to drive millions of fundraising dollars each years, but can it work if you’re not a large healthcare organization.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 20, 2011
On June 29, I’ll be participating at conference in San Francisco called Social Media for Nonprofits that launches a seven-city conference event focusing on answering the question: “How can resource-strapped community-based organizations seize the opportunities presented by this new landscape?&#. The full-day conference is all about practical tips and tools for fundraising, marketing and advocacy.
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 21, 2011
James Shelton, US Department of Education: Education is probably the area where we have failed to innovate the most. This morning we talked about creating clusters of innovation, bringing in various communities, etc. But before we got there, we talked abit about the problem. I want to frame first the opportunity: we often talk about the competitiveness frame in education, that the US used to be number one, and now we are “falling behind.&# The trust is that other countries are passing us b
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Wild Apricot
JUNE 22, 2011
Two new research reports - Heart of the Donor (Grey Matter/Russ Reid) and 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Report (Target Analytics)- offer interesting insight into donor behavior.( read more ).
NetWits
JUNE 24, 2011
I spend a couple of days a month on the road, mostly presenting at conferences and user forums on email best practices. Often, I am the only presenter on good old email in a conference packed with sessions about social media and mobile. At these times I can really relate to direct mail specialists, who’ve dealt with their channel being out of vogue for a decade.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 24, 2011
Flickr Photo by Beth Kanter. I’ve been experimenting with posting different types of content and engagement techniques on my Facebook Page this past month based on what the research says about increasing engagement. This week, the post that got the most conversation was a playful and visual one. Using the photo above, I asked people to share their best social media advice as a fortune in a fortune cookie.
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 23, 2011
posted by. Katie Hawkes , Volunteer Services Coordinator. St. Vincent de Paul. Fact: In the Political Views section of my Facebook profile, it says, "Idealist. Group Hugs. Love.". Other fact: It's very, very true. There's no way around it — I, Katie Elizabeth Hawkes, am an idealist through and through. I have a hard time assuming the worst about anyone, and I have difficulty comprehending why there isn't a political party I can subscribe to called "Sharing and Caring" or "Everyone Just Hold Hand
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Get Fully Funded
JUNE 20, 2011
We all procrastinate from time to time, don’t we? There are lots of reasons why we do it – fear, perfectionism, doubt – the list goes on. We really need to just dig in and get the thing done. Here’s a great little video to help you get your stuff done.
NTEN
JUNE 20, 2011
By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! Epic Change is no different. The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 22, 2011
Millennials – We know they are young, tech savvy and well-educated-but they are also some of the most active when it comes to donating and volunteering. So what’s the secret to engaging Millennials in your nonprofit organization’s work? The Millennial Donor Summit explored this question and others while engaging participants in a virtual setting.
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 24, 2011
posted by. Mary McGillicuddy , Nonprofit Leadership. & Management Student, Arizona State University. Welcome to Research Friday ! This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. I've heard that the ASU Lodestar Center gets a ton of calls from nonprofit organizations looking to partner with other organizations.
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sgEngage
JUNE 20, 2011
The Giving USA Foundation and its research partner, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , has released Giving USA 2011: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the year 2010. Below are some key findings and information from the 56th annual report. Key Findings: Total estimated charitable giving in the United States rose 3.8% in 2010. Total charitable giving by donor source for 2010 is estimated to be $290.89 billion.
Care2
JUNE 18, 2011
A new study by ComScore says that US Internet users spend 1 out of every 6 minutes online engaging with social networks. This is a significant increase from 2007 when ComScore reported that Internet users spent 1 out of every 12 minutes online using social networks. As savvy marketers and nonprofit campaigners know, numbers can be sliced and diced. Unfortunately many of these studies never tell the entire story.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 22, 2011
A simple online survey. There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. We’ve become addicted to generating pretty charts and graphs, while taking any opportunity to play with any new (and especially free) social media measurement tool that we read about on blogs.
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 21, 2011
posted by. B. J. Tatro, Ph.D. , ASU Lodestar Center. NMI Instructor /. B. J. Tatro Consulting. You meticulously record what you do. You report on exactly how many people you served, where, when, and how. In the past, this might have been adequate, but no more. Today, nonprofit organizations need to be able to show the results of their efforts. And the demand for accountability isn't just coming from funders either.
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sgEngage
JUNE 22, 2011
The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. I’ve pulled out five interesting facts that might get overlooked in all the fuss about the high level findings. 1. Total charitable giving has increased in current dollars in every year since tracking began in 1954 with the exception of three: 1987, 2008, and 2009. 2.
NTEN
JUNE 21, 2011
How much are nonprofits spending on IT, and what are they choosing to spend it on? In our annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey , we asked respondents to describe the components of their organizations’ IT budgets—everything from Overall Expenditures to what proportion they allocate for Staffing, Capital, Consulting Contracts and Other Discretionary Expenditures.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 23, 2011
In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. Some describe this as “try it and fix it.&# It might seem like changing a flat tire while the car is still moving but for many Networked Nonprofits it is a secret to their success.
Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 22, 2011
One of the first Juicy Blogging E-Course assignments I give to my students is to write a blog post that has more images than words. In my book, making your blog posts visually appealing is one of the eight qualities of a juicy blog , which is why I'm excited nonprofits are starting to use the micro-blogging platform, Tumblr, to share photos, slideshows, videos, links, quotes, and news.
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