Sat.Oct 18, 2014 - Fri.Oct 24, 2014

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10 Facebook Page Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'With more than 1 billion active users, Facebook is the largest social network in the world. More than two-thirds of its users log in every day and three-fourths do so on a mobile device. Without a doubt your nonprofit’s supporters use Facebook on a regular basis. Therefore, Facebook Pages should be your first priority and entry into social networking. but to stand out from the other 50 million pages regularly active and all vying for likes, comments, and shares, you must excel at Facebook in or

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Mark your calendar: best conferences for nonprofits in 2015

EveryAction

'Believe it or not, it''s already time to start planning for the wealth of marketing, education, and networking opportunities for nonprofits in 2015.

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Infographic: The Right Crowdfunding Platform For Your Nonprofit

TechImpact

'With #GivingTuesday only a few weeks away, chances are good your nonprofit is thinking about one thing, and one thing only. Fundraising. It’s true, the holiday season is the season of giving and that holds true in the nonprofit sector. The month of December alone comprised 19.5% of the overall charitable giving in 2013, and that number is only expected to increase in 2014.

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23 Free Non-profit Webinars for November 2014

Wild Apricot

'This month''s free non-profit webinar round-up offers 23+ topics, including: Mission-Driven Volunteering (our first Expert Webinar); online campaigns; donor databases; do-it-yourself PR and much more!

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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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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.

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This is what's wrong with your nonprofit digital strategy

EveryAction

'I’ve read and written hundreds of nonprofit digital strategy documents. As a former consultant for the nonprofit space, “I need to create a digital strategy” was something that I heard almost daily. The problem is that you don’t need a digital strategy. You need a strategy.

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Kick-start Your Membership Content Marketing

Wild Apricot

'Here are some tips and insight on content marketing based on a recent Small Membership Advisory Community session.

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#IFC2014 International Fundraising Congress: Inspire, Connect, Transform

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Source: Pamela Sutton-Legaud. I’m just back from a trip to Europe where I was part of the opening plenary at this year’s International Fundraising Congress outside of Amsterdam. (I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). The IFC is amazing global community of fundraising professionals, representing nonprofits working in every continent of the globe.

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Shock Value: Great Use of Surprise in Video

See3

'All nonprofit communications professionals have been here before: you have a big campaign launching or a new report coming out, and you need to find a way to get your audience interested without rehashing the same old information or messaging. One way to capture your audience’s attention is to use the element of surprise. Surprise […]. The post Shock Value: Great Use of Surprise in Video appeared first on See3 Advice for Do-Gooders.

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Tech For Fundraising: What You Need To Know

TechImpact

'Whether bringing clean drinking water to a third world country, or making it easier for other nonprofits to utilize technology, there is nothing more central to a nonprofit than its mission. It’s the reason we all wake up in the morning. To us, there’s nothing more important than making sure this problem, whatever it is, is being addressed by someone who cares.

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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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1-On-1 With Nicole Walters: Relevance Rules In Engaging Members and Sponsors

Wild Apricot

'This is the first of two posts offering highlights of our interview with Nicole Walters of the San Diego Venture Group.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice. It was a great learning experience from both a process and content perspective.

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Solving the Catch-22 of Volunteer Programs with Measurement

NTEN

'Shari Tishman. Director of Engagement. VolunteerMatch. Volunteer programs: more than a "nice to have" and worthy of your evaluation efforts. Among the things that we, as nonprofit professionals, have to cram into our day, tracking and measurement generally sit pretty close to the top of the “I know it’s important but I never have time for it” pile.

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Awesome Video, Awful Sound? Record Audio Like a Pro

Tech Soup

'Video is one of the best ways to tell your nonprofit's story. It's four times more inspiring than static content, and by 2016, online video users will likely double to 1.5 billion. Ready to jump in? TechSoup has put together some great tips for how to make a good video, including pointers on how to optimize composition , lighting , and sound.

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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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Grossman Offers Dozens Of eBooks About Leadership And Communication

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'When I seek advice about leadership and how to effectively communicate in the workplace, I often turn to David Grossman. Grossman helps leaders drive productivity and get the results they want through authentic and courageous leadership and communication. Grossman’s work solves three business problems : Minimize the downside of change where business could be stopped, slowed or interrupted Maximize the upside of change to accelerate business results Turn employee confusion, skepticism or apathy

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5 Marketing Trends for 2015 That You Can’t Ignore

NonProfit Hub

'Is your marketing strategy so last season? Update your marketing plan and maximize the impact that your dollars make in 2015 with these five significant trends. 1. Mobile is hot. Still. We’re almost starting to sound like a broken record, but if mobile has not been a priority for you, now’s the time to embrace it. Responsive website design is a must-have functionality that provides optimal user experience whether your website is accessed via mobile, tablet or desktop, plus it tells people that

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On Transparency, Data, and Trust

NTEN

'Kord Davis. Co-Founder. Signal Workshop. "What kind of relationship would donors and other stakeholders have with you if they knew your data handling practices?" Transparency in data handling practices is becoming a clear and valuable trend as organizations begin to realize the competitive advantage available to them as a result of developing that capability.

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Kickstarter’s Founder Launches Nonprofit “Dollar A Day”

Care2

'Kickstarter’s founder Perry Chen, who resigned from his position at the crowdfunding platform, recently launched the nonprofit Dollar A Day to raise money for charities. Chen helped spark a movement that raised over $1 billion dollars for individuals, startups, and charities via Kickstarter. Can he replicate this for nonprofits? Chen told the media that one of the inspirations behind Dollar A Day was to make it easy for people to discover nonprofits that they might not be familiar with.

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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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Compliance And Risk Management In Today's Business World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Dave Yarin is a compliance and risk management consultant to senior management and directors of large and mid-size companies, and author of the soon to be published book, Fair Warning – The Information Within. Yarin follows and researches news stories regarding ignored warnings that lead to bad business outcomes, along with the social psychology theories that explain why these warnings were ignored.

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Be open to Big Vision photobombs

Have Fun - Do Good

'While visiting New Mexico this summer, I raised my phone to take a photo of some pink flowers against a blue sky when this happened: This hummingbird flew right into my frame and posed for a long time (at least by hummingbird standards). It was a magical moment, especially because hummingbirds have always been an "auspicious symbol" for me. Sometimes when we''re working on our big vision : noticing what sparkles , letting go of old visions to be open to the new, and running towards what excites

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Evaluating Evaluation: Behind the scenes of NTEN's new worksheets

NTEN

'Amy Sample Ward. CEO. NTEN. "Check your assumptions at the meeting room door" and other lessons learned from NTEN's meta-evaluation process. Evaluating our evaluation. I hear you, it sounds pretty meta. In creating the newly launched series of worksheets supporting data-informed nonprofits, that''s exactly what we did. And in evaluating our evaluation process, we found that it was the people and not the data that needed to be addressed further.

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Collaborative BRIDGE Project Makes Big Progress Toward Sharing Crucial Information Worldwide

Tech Soup

'This article was authored by Chad McEvoy; it is a cross-post of an article originally published on the BRIDGE blog. The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector.

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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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Seven Ways To Delight Your Customers

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'If you want to delight your customers, then the book by Steve Curtin, Delight Your Customers -- 7 Simple Ways to Raise Your Customer Service from Ordinary to Extraordinary , is a must-read for you and your employees. The book explains the seven ways for you and your employees to demonstrate exceptional customer service : Express genuine interest Offer sincere and specific compliments Share unique knowledge Convey authentic enthusiasm Use appropriate humor Provide pleasant surprises Delivery ser

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How to Pick Yourself Up When You Feel Like You’re Not Making a Difference

NonProfit Hub

'Josh is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and is a thought leader at VolunteerMark , where they’re dedicated to maximizing the volunteer experience for nonprofits and for-profits alike. Josh writes on all things volunteer, corporate social responsibility and other purposeful musings. In his spare time, he loves traveling, reading, hanging with friends and is a wannabe triathlete. _.

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Things We Like (October 2014)

NTEN

'A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. Read more posts on our blog. In honor of this month’s Evaluation theme and the people who made it happen, here is what evaluators are thinking when they shop. What people in various countries are thinking when they think of corporations. Everyday sexism made visible: What we wish editors of tabloid headlines would think of when they report about women.

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How to avoid being solely an ATM machine on the nonprofit board on which you serve

BoardAssist

'Talking about money is a conversation that most nonprofits and board candidates would rather avoid and hence, often do. Many nonprofit leaders feel uncomfortable talking about money. It seems impolite. But nonprofits need money, we all know that. What you should know before you join a board is exactly how much money your particular potential board expects from you so there are no unexpected surprises when the basket is passed around year-end.

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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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Community Tools Based on Community Listening

Tech Soup

'A big part of our work with Caravan Studios is understanding a particular community's needs. What this means broadly is the tools we develop are informed by someone outside our team. What this means in practice is we listen. A lot. We hold events, we convene, and we leave our office to understand better how people operate and function. Listening to Organizations' Needs.

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Are You Spinning Your Employees In Circles?

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'A manager who can''t make a decision or who can''t make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager''s team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles , slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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Weekly Event Round-Up (Oct. 20-Oct. 26)

NTEN

'There''s a lot happening at NTEN, and we want you to get involved! In this weekly roundup, you''ll find the full list of NTEN events, opportunities, and deadlines for participation. Whether it''s in-person events, such as NTEN Labs or 501 Tech Clubs , online Communities of Practice or webinars , or deadlines for contributing content or applications - this weekly round-up has you covered.

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How to Get (and Keep) Major Donors

NonProfit Hub

'Over the past few months, I’ve been working to generate interest among potential major donors in our community for a new Nonprofit Hub initiative. We’re planning to relocate our Nonprofit Hub staff to a new location where we’ll also create a co-working spot for nonprofits that need a physical workspace. This will be a win/win—we’ll be furthering our mission to give back to our community while providing organizations with a workspace to help them promote their causes.

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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.