NetWits
MAY 17, 2011
Register for our Social Fundraising Newsletter and immediately get access to the full reports used to construct this INFOGRAPHIC. Over the past five years peer-to-peer fundraising (aka social fundraising, event fundraising or friendraising) revenue has more than doubled online – reaching close to the billion-dollar mark. It’s been amazing to watch.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 18, 2011
Last week I presented for my second time with Nonprofit Webinars. The first time I focused on DIY Community Engagement Metrics and shared lots of templates and examples. This time around, my topic was Crowdsourcing vs Community-Sourcing, answering questions about the difference is and what the opportunities are for organizations looking to get connected outside their organization.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 19, 2011
While writing Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , I visited over 500 nonprofit homepages looking primarily for links to their social networking communities. A rough guesstimate would be that less than 30% of those homepages included links or icons to their Facebook Page, Twitter Profile, YouTube Channel, etc., and of those, many placed them along the bottom of the page or on secondary “Connect with Us&# pages that were often not easily to find.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 17, 2011
I have a confession to make. I have social media ennui. I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. As you know, I’m a bit of a technology curmudgeon, but I’m far from a luddite – I’m an early adopter, for the most part.
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
MAY 19, 2011
Whether it’s your first fundraising event, or tenth, helping supporters be great peer-to-peer fundraisers is always on the mind of successful event fundraising organizations. Giving them the tools they need to be successful fundraisers is important, but beyond that there’s so much more that can be done. That said, here are 5 tips to help ensure your participants are as successful as possible. 1) Engage.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 17, 2011
Last week, I visited Omaha, Nebraska, and had a great time presenting to the PRSA Nebraska chapter. I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails! Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 19, 2011
Benetech brainstorms are always a treat: it's a chance for all of us to step back and imagine how much more and better we could be doing for our users. Today, Captain Patrick (Ball, not Stewart), our VP Human Rights, led a brainstorm on the next major upgrade of our Martus secure human rights database software with our human rights program team as well as key technical leaders.
NetWits
MAY 18, 2011
There is a fantastic tool that I’ve been using for a while now. I refer to it in my email marketing workshops, and I want to get the word out about it! Have you… Ever stood back and taken a look at how many times your website talks about your organisation, rather than to your supporters? When most of us sit down to write our web copy, we tend to start every sentence with ‘At organisation X…’ or ‘Organisation X…’ It’s a natural way of writing
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 17, 2011
Mark your calendars for next month’s 2011 Millennial Donoar Summit and rejoice in the fact that you don’t have to book a flight or hotel! MDS11 is “a virtual summit providing a day of speakers, thought leaders, and provocateurs challenging the traditional modes of fundraising and engagement.&# That’s right, June 22, 2011, you can join in the sessions, discussions and more all from the comfort of your own computer.
Wild Apricot
MAY 19, 2011
How can you keep track of all the usernames and passwords for all the online sites you use? As social media and web-based or mobile applications become ever-more central to the daily operation of our non-profit organizations, it’s a growing issue from both a security and a time-management perspective. Logins are basically made up of two pieces of information: your username and your password.
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 14, 2011
[Note: this is part one of seven posts on the Benetech Truths.] The world has big problems. We need fresh, original solutions that are better than the status quo. Technology has revolutionized business, but bringing those breakthrough developments to government, education and the nonprofit sectors can take 5, 10, even 15 years. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 19, 2011
Yesterday, Holly Ross at NTEN , mentioned that a common question she gets after talking about Social Media with nonprofits is from organizations that work with students or young people and are concerned about liability issues surrounding what students who “like&# their page may post on their page, or on their own walls. I’ve also gotten similar questions, particularly about whether or not it is “safe&# for the organization (and the young people) to post photos on Facebook.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 16, 2011
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 16th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).
Wild Apricot
MAY 16, 2011
Guest blogger Howard Levy offers 10 ways your nonprofit can wake up your brand to strengthen your appeal to attract donors and ensure its long-term success.( read more ).
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NTEN
MAY 17, 2011
By Brett Meyer, Communications Director, NTEN As part of our effort to build the subscriber base for NTEN:Change , our quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders , we purchased advertising space – on Facebook, LinkedIn, and in GrantStation 's weekly newsletter. Being new to this, we also had to determine how to measure the return on investment (ROI) of our ad buys, to help guide our efforts in the future.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 17, 2011
If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. It has been over six years since I designed and delivered my first webinar/conference call, “ Designing Effective Technology Training Workshops for Nonprofits &# with NTEN.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 18, 2011
This is my guest post on Care2′s Frogloop blog. You can visit the original post and comment there, or see the repost in full below. —– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. Unfortunately, there are times when we lose focus on our ultimate goals for change and instead fixate on the campaign itself or let a concept for engagement overshadow o
Wild Apricot
MAY 18, 2011
Here's a great Summer Marketing Internship opportunity for a new marketing professional in Toronto’s growing technology sector! Wild Apricot is web-based membership software for small associations and nonprofits. Our marketing philosophy revolves around the idea of bringing customers to us by being approachable rather than going for a traditional “hard sell.
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Have Fun - Do Good
MAY 18, 2011
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Last week, I shared these 20 juicy blogging tips during a talk at the Breakfast Blogging Club of the East Bay. I thought that all of you who are bloggers, or who want to start a blog, might find them useful too.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 16, 2011
Geoff Livingston, Author of Welcome to the Fifth Estate. There’s been a nice crop of social media books published this spring! So Mondays have become book review days as part of the discipline to keep up with reading. My Zoetica colleague, Geoff Livingston , shared a preview copy of his forthcoming book Welcome to the Fifth Estate and it is a great read!
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 19, 2011
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 19th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).
Wild Apricot
MAY 18, 2011
Wild Apricot 4.2 launched today. Like all of our updates, this one happens "auto-magically" so you don’t have to do anything to take advantage of the new and improved features. Here's an overview of what's new.( read more ).
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See3
MAY 20, 2011
Change the world, one video at a time.Welcome to Shelbyville Trailer | 3:28 BeCause Foundation. This timely documentary, broadcast on PBS on 5/24 at 10pm EDT (Check local listings), captures a small town in America¹s post-9/11 Bible Belt at a time when its demographics are rapidly changing with an influx of Latino [.].
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 18, 2011
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA and Independent Sector launched “ Charting Impact ,” a standard framework to easily and clearly understand the objectives, benchmarks for progress, and impact of nonprofits and foundations. Charting Impact uses five deceptively simple questions that require reflection and discussion about what really matters – results.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 17, 2011
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 17th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).
Have Fun - Do Good
MAY 15, 2011
Last week, I shared the 12 vegetarian and vegan cookbooks I cook with the most , and asked for your recommendations. The response on the blog, Facebook, and Twitter was awesome! Here are your favorites: Cafe Flora Cookbook by Catherine Geier and Carol Brown Caribbean Vegan by Taymer Mason Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker by Robin Robertson Hollyhock Cooks by Linda Solomon, Moreka Jolar, and Maria Robledo How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian by
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ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 20, 2011
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 17, 2011
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Care2
MAY 18, 2011
Whether it's political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. Unfortunately, there are times when we lose focus on our ultimate goals for change and instead fixate on the campaign itself or let a concept for engagement overshadow our real calls to action.
See3
MAY 16, 2011
Change the world, one video at a time. Cultural Video Foundation Today kicks off Bike to Work Week, part of National Bike Month. Wafalme, a talented group of kids from the slums of Nairobi, convey their simple, eco-friendly message of “going green, and keeping it clean” in this fun, [.].
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