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From 2005 to 2015: The Radical Effect of Social Media on Nonprofit Web Design

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The average person worldwide has five social media accounts and spends an average of 1 hour and 40 minutes browsing these networks every day. In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online.

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VisionLink Welcomes Our Newest Customer, Nevada 2-1-1!

VisionLink

Nevada 2-1-1 is a program of the Financial Guidance Center (FGC) and is committed to helping Nevada citizens connect with the services they need. FGC is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) HUD approved housing counseling agency and has been serving all Nevadans since 1972. With offices throughout the state, FGC can provide face-to-face service in addition to an interactive website for those unable to access in-person service due to distance, as Nevada is predominantly a rural and frontier state.

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Version 5.5 Released: Includes New Event Registration Features

Wild Apricot

We’re glad to announce the release of Version 5.5! It brings new events module features that will help you grow your organization!

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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Paul Smith Paul Smith's book, Lead with a Story , is one of the top 10 books I recommend every leader should read. In his book, Paul demonstrates how storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between mediocre results and phenomenal success. Since the book was published about three years ago, my admiration for Paul's passion for storytelling and helping to teach people how to effectively tell stories has only but grown.

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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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Four Steps to Selecting the Right CMS for Your Nonprofit Website

See3

When your nonprofit decides that it is time to upgrade your website’s content management system (CMS), it may be tempting to jump headfirst into whatever platform you’re most familiar with, or start using a shiny new tool your vendor recommends. At See3, we’re all about impact. And we think it’s important that the nonprofits and […].

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7 Things Nonprofits Should Know As Millennials Take Over the World

Tech Soup

In my recent summer reading recommendations post, NTEN's Megan Keane recommended the book When Millennials Take Over. We'd like to go further and recommend the free 2015 Millennial Impact Report on what drives this all-important group of people to support your cause. The report is mainly oriented to workplace-sponsored giving, but it does identify what seems to be motivating our new majority toward wider charitable giving and service.

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Q&A With Fauzia Burke, President Of FSB Associates

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Fauzia Burke Many of the leadership books I read and sometimes review on my blog I first learn about from FSB Associates , a digital publicity and marketing firm specializing in creating awareness for books and authors. Fauzia Burke is the Founder and President of FSB Associates , and because she's marketed leadership books for 20 years, she was a natural for me to ask her the following questions about: trends in leadership books the leadership books that excite her the most why books in print a

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Meet the See3ples: Elyse Kort, Project Director

See3

Elyse Kort joins the See3ples team as project director, bringing to this position an appreciation for exploration, experimenting, and giving back. The post Meet the See3ples: Elyse Kort, Project Director appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Office 2016 for Mac Now Available

Tech Soup

The newest version of Office for Mac is now available as a donation through TechSoup! Eligible organizations can request the full Office for Mac suite or the individual Outlook or PowerPoint applications. New Features for All Applications in Office for Mac. User interface: The Office for Mac applications now have the familiar look and feel of Office for Windows.

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Save Time By Planning Your Next Event Now

NonProfit Hub

You plan, prepare, promote and pull off an amazing fundraising event, and then what? Naturally, you breathe a sigh of relief and go home—that is, if you’re like most event planners. And, of course, that makes sense: Planning and pulling off a successful event is a Herculean task. You deserve some rest. But what if you tried something different that could get you miles farther than a sigh of relief and en evening on your couch?

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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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25 Ways To Be A Better Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you don't have time to read a book about how to improve your leadership skills, tackle a handful of these tips, complied from the works of many authors: 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 times Conduct annual risk reviews Talk about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance Constantly challenge your tea

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What Your Nonprofit Should Know About Drupal 8

See3

Drupal has spent the past two years working with contributors and developers to make Drupal 8 a more “stable” software. Stable software doesn't just mean fixed bugs and closed issues. It means testing the software in real life situations, making sure that it can deliver strong performance, and that popular hosting companies support it. The post What Your Nonprofit Should Know About Drupal 8 appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Powerful Recertified Dell Computers Now Available

Tech Soup

The Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) at TechSoup now offers three premium recertified Dell computers from our refurbisher partner CDI. Dell has recertified these computers by cleaning and inspecting them to ensure that they perform according to their high standards. Below are the most powerful computers in our catalog, all featuring three-year warranties from both CDI and Dell, Windows 8.1 Pro, and Office 2010 Home and Business.

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Prospect Research: Importance and Impact

Donor Search

With more information publicly available than ever before, prospect research is becoming an increasingly popular tool for nonprofit organizations to increase their fundraising capabilities. Sophisticated analysis now makes it possible to identify an organization’s best prospective donors, as well as better understand how to approach each one and what size donation to request.

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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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What It Means To Be A Manager With Class

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AMACOM's (of the American Management Association) sixth edition of the best-selling book, The First-Time Manager -- originally published in 1981 is a must-read for new managers and leaders in business. One of my favorite sections of the book is the one about class in a manager : Class is treating people with dignity. Class does not have to be the center of attention.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 2: Content vs. Form

Museum 2.0

In pop culture-land, relevance is all about now. Who's hot. What's trending. If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. This is the least useful form of relevance for the arts. "Now" is not an easy business model to chase--especially for institutions rooted in permanence. "Now" requires major changes to how we work and what we offer.

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Upcoming Webinar August 13: Request Donated Tech Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

New to using TechSoup to access donated and discounted software, hardware, and services for your nonprofit, library, or foundation? Maybe you're not new, but would just like a quick refresher on requesting donations? Either way, this is the webinar for you ! Join us next Thursday, August 13 at 11 a.m. Pacific time/2 p.m. Eastern to spend an hour (or less!

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Tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina: Is Slacktivism Really a Bad Thing?

Connection Cafe

I had only lived in Charleston, SC three short weeks before the city I was coming to know and love was turned upside down. Tragedy struck this town when Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on a quiet Wednesday night and took nine innocent lives. But what happened next was truly inspiring—the way the people of this city came together.

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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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How To Access Your Organization's Risks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Within the first 100 days as a new leader in an organization, you'll want to assess your organization's risk. Authors George Bradt, Jayme A. Clark and Jorge Pedraza, in their book, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (third edition), recommend you do your assessment using the 5Cs : Customers : First line, customer chain, end users, influencers Collaborators : Suppliers, allies, government/community leaders Capabilities : Human, operational, financial, technical, key assets Competitors : Direct,

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Charity online transactions least likely to be abandoned, research suggests » Charity Digital News

AFP Blog

Charity online transactions least likely to be abandoned, research suggests » Charity Digital News : "Online transactions on charity websites are the least likely to be abandoned in comparison to other commercial sectors, according to research by the ecommerce platform provider Ve.

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Sage BlueBook — The New Free Online Tool for Calculating the Value of Donated Electronics

Tech Soup

Wouldn't it be nice if you could donate some of those used electronic devices cluttering up your home or office and know exactly what they are worth for your tax deduction? Until now that would have been hard information to get, but a new, free online service called Sage BlueBook has just launched that does exactly that. Finding the Real-World Value for All Your Old Devices.

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Enhancing Your Major Gift Fundraising Strategy with Analytics

Connection Cafe

As a fundraising analytics consultant, I see a variety of development program structures and fundraising strategies. The results of a predictive modeling and/or wealth screening endeavor can improve programs and strategies of all types – Well… that is if you smartly utilize the results of your data. The role of these projects with all your programs and initiatives is to help you identify and strategize the right individuals and target audience for specific types of gifts , as well as how much t

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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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Save Time By Planning Your Next Event Now

NonProfit Hub

You plan, prepare, promote and pull off an amazing fundraising event, and then what? Naturally, you breathe a sigh of relief and go home—that is, if you’re like most event planners. And, of course, that makes sense: Planning and pulling off a successful event is a Herculean task. You deserve some rest. But what if you tried something different that could get you miles farther than a sigh of relief and en evening on your couch?

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Infographic: The leap to mobile. - DonorDrive

AFP Blog

Infographic: The leap to mobile. - DonorDrive : "The mobile dollar grows ten fold. For every mobile dollar raised in 2012 in DonorDrive, $10.42 in mobile dollars is being raised over the same timeframe in 2015. Smartphones donor dollars are up 942% since 2012. Giving by mobile is outpacing buying by mobile by over 600%." 'via Blog this'.

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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

So you work at Nonprofit XYZ and increasingly you hear about other organizations' success in utilizing Google Analytics to increase impact. Worried about being left behind, you bring it up at your next staff meeting, and you're surprised! You hear lots of your colleagues agree about how great it would be to have this information. So, what next?

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Foundation Revenue Grows 4.7 Percent

Connection Cafe

Overall giving to 96 foundations representing over $414.6 million in annual revenue grew 4.7 percent in the three months ending in June 2015, compared to the same period in 2014, according to a Foundation Index introduced this month by Blackbaud. Giving to those foundations grew 7.6 percent in the six months ending in June 2015, compared to the same period a year earlier.

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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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Report: Rural-Based Organizations Receive Fewer Grants than Urban NPOs

NonProfit Hub

A popular online dating service likes to say that city folks just don’t get it. What the city slickers do get is grants—and they get them at a much higher rate than rural folks. According to a report issued by the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, rural-based organizations received just 5.5 percent of the real value of domestic grants from 2005 to 2010.

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Chatting About Planned Giving With Timothy Logan, FAHP, ACFRE - Resource Center - AFP

AFP Blog

Chatting About Planned Giving With Timothy Logan, FAHP, ACFRE - Resource Center - AFP : "5. If you could design an app for Planned Giving newbies what would it do? There's a lot a PG app could do so let's stick with what would be helpful to have right at your fingertips: PG Definitions – key terms defined. PG Gift Concepts – a listing of each type of gift and an explanation of the four core characteristics of each: target age, target wealth, donor’s charitable goal, donor’s financial goal.

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Cisco Strengthens Three Square Food Bank's Network

Tech Soup

TechSoup's popular donor partner, Cisco , is best known for supplying the switches, security appliances, access points, and other products that charities need to run their wired and wireless networks. One of Cisco's less-known good works is its signature Global Hunger Relief Campaign each year. Even in the United States, nearly 15 percent of households have uncertain access to food.

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From an Event Manager | Focus on the End Goal: Donor Engagement + Retention

Connection Cafe

Focusing on the end goal was a difficult concept for me to grasp when I began my career in fundraising at Children’s Home + Aid , specifically when it came to special events and board relations. My day-to-day was consumed with discussing board dynamics with auxiliary members, researching vendors and creating timelines for event logistics. Initially, it was difficult to carve out time to take a step back and think about the bigger picture when it came to donor engagement and retention.

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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.