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How to Report Live from Nonprofit Events Using Periscope

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good experimented with Periscope for live streaming for the first time during the 2015 Independent Sector Conference. Like all new tools there is a learning curve, but for nonprofit social media managers that spend a good portion of the their time on social and mobile media, Periscope is intuitive, easy to use, and a welcome break from the daily routine of posting, tweeting, sharing – repeat.

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3 Ways Prospect Research Can Help Nonprofits Raise More Money at Events

EveryAction

Do you have events planned as part of your end-of-year fundraising push? If so, you may be missing out on some key pieces of information about your attendees that may make all the difference in your fundraising goals. Read on for tips from DonorSearch 's Ryan Woroneicki on how to make prospect research part of your event planning.

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What’s in a Name? Whether or Not to Purchase a New Domain

Byte Technology

In the age of online living, it can sometimes be difficult to determine hoax from truth, safety from scam, fact from fiction. And so it goes with the rise in new, themed domain extensions that are the talk of tech boards, blog posts and the virtual world in general. Indeed, many people are finding themselves lured by the idea of jumping on a new domain such.bike,lawyer,coffee and so on with the idea that, when someone searches for a bike store, lawyer’s office or coffee house a particular busine

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, in addition to giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab for the Arts Brain Trust at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference , I was a participant in a pre conference convening expertly facilitated by Jennifer Edwards who is an organizational development consultant, dancer, and teacher. As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft.

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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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Free Expert Webinar: Leading Great Board Meetings

Wild Apricot

Board Meeting Expert, Dr. Richard Lent shows how you can revitalize your board meetings to be perfectly productive, super structured, and extremely engaging.

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Virtual Reality as Empathy Engine in Nonprofit Causes

See3

The New York Times sent virtual reality goggles (Google Cardboard) to every Sunday, print subscriber, a move that signals a change in the way journalism and nonprofits can tell stories. The post Virtual Reality as Empathy Engine in Nonprofit Causes appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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#mygivingstory: Resources and Best Practices for @GivingTuesday Nonprofit Storytelling

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Storytelling is an essential fundraising skill for nonprofits. One of the most amazing nonprofit storytellers I ever heard in my life is Alberto Cairo (International Committee of the Red Cross) who delivered a truly inspirational speech during the International Fundraising Congress closing plenary. He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan.

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Leading Great Board Meetings: How to Structure Yours for Success

Wild Apricot

Board Meeting Expert, Dr. Richard Lent shows how you can revitalize your board meetings to be perfectly productive, super structured, and extremely engaging.

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Five Tips to Crowdfunding from Indiegogo’s Social Cause Community, Generosity

See3

After seven years of watching do-gooders learn the ins and outs of running successful campaigns, Indiegogo birthed, Generosity, as a destination site for very easy social impact fundraising. Here are five tips you need to know for successful crowdfunding on Generosity. The post Five Tips to Crowdfunding from Indiegogo’s Social Cause Community, Generosity appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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11 Major Donor Fundraising Strategies

Donor Search

This post was written by Ryan Woroniecki, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at DonorSearch. Did you know that most of your fundraising total comes from a small selection of your donors? It’s true. Many of your funds are provided by a select few donors: your major donors. They give the largest gifts…the potential game-changers.

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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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What I learned from Jad Abumrad About the Secrets of Creative Risk Taking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference. Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference.

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How To Design A Purposeful Organization

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. "The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success." Wilson's book is packed with case studies and activities that help you put to practice in your organization the learnings from the book.

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Using Virtual Reality to Showcase Nonprofit Impact

Tech Soup

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. Being only a small recurring donor to the Clinton Foundation, I was excited to find myself sitting across the desk of the former president at his New York office and hearing firsthand about the impact of the foundation's work in East Africa.

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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest on Social Media

BoardAssist

We all know it’s super important for nonprofits to engage with social media to get their important message out, but how much time does your nonprofit really need to invest here? Does posting 1-3 times a week generate the same results as posting over 10 times a week? This week’s terrific guest post by our friends at Tapp Network has surprising news: you may have to invest a lot less time than you thought on social media to get great results!

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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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Why is Skills Management Important?

Gyrus

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills. ” Perhaps last week I put the cart before the horse though because I didn’t define “skill.” Again going to Wikipedia, here’s how it defi

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Leadership Quotes From, The 5 Levels Of Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are some of my favorites quotes from John C. Maxwell's book, The 5 Levels of Leadership -- a book I believe should become a must-read for any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

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Church Website Options for Your Digital Front Door

Tech Soup

Our thanks to Lauren Hunter of ChurchTechToday for permission to reprint this piece. This article originally appeared on ChurchTechToday's website. For years, the worship service was the front door of your church. The best way to connect people was to have them attend on a Sunday, then hope they liked the experience and want to know more. The growth of a tech-conscious, research-minded population has changed that.

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Top Eight Tips for Finding a Perfect Junior Board Seat

BoardAssist

Ready to dive in and join a nonprofit junior board of directors but no idea where to start? BoardAssist is pleased to offer our help finding the perfect junior board for you, but for those navigating this process on their own, we offer our: Top Eight Tips for Finding a Perfect Junior Board Seat. 1. Find a nonprofit whose mission truly resonates with 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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How to Use Holiday-Season Volunteering to Start a Long-Term Relationship

NonProfit Hub

The holiday season is nothing without its traditions. For many people, the holidays mean gathering together with family to consume meals, exchange gifts, watch football and take turkey-induced naps. For others, when the holiday season begins this year on Thanksgiving, traditions include giving back to their community and volunteering for local nonprofits.

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5 Ways to Determine if a Prospect Has Significant Real Estate Holdings

Donor Search

This post was written by Bill Tedesco, CEO of DonorSearch Real estate holdings are the wealth marker extraordinaire. They are the cream of the crop. Why? Significant real estate ownership can act as more than a wealth marker. It has philanthropic predictive capabilities as well.

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Customer Service Tip No. 3 — Use a Common Organization Email Address

Tech Soup

How Multiple People at Your Organization Can See What Everyone Requests from TechSoup. Does more than one person in your organization request products for your organization? Since all product fulfillments are sent to the one "organization email address" listed on your organization's account, you can set this fulfillment email to an account that more than one person can access.

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Amplify Your Voice with Facebook Ads

Connection Cafe

Nonprofits have a significant advantage on Facebook. I am not just talking about the fact that Facebook has teamed up with Blackbaud integration partner ActionSprout to give away $2M in Facebook ad credits. The nonprofit advantage comes from the fact that content that people engage with on Facebook (like, share, comment on, etc.) gets far more reach and visibility than content that people see but don’t engage with.

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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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How to Find the Right People You Should Be Asking to Donate

NonProfit Hub

This article originally appeared in our November/December 2015 issue of Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine. You can reserve your free copy today. Finding a diamond in the rough is just that—rough. It’s a difficult process when you’ve been sending emails and direct mail pieces to your list, waiting for the donations to roll in and… crickets.

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Tweets ahead: the top charity chief executives on social media | Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian

AFP Blog

Tweets ahead: the top charity chief executives on social media | Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian : "To recognise the efforts of those that are, in 2013 I set up, along with digital consultant Matt Collins, the Top 30 Charity CEOs on Social Media Awards. This year the nominations rose by 50% – which alone shows how charity leaders are increasingly growing in confidence with digital.

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Customer Service Tip No. 2 — Resetting Your Password

Tech Soup

Having Trouble Logging In to TechSoup? Here's How to Reset Your Password. Your username is the email address you registered yourself with on TechSoup.org. If you can't find the correct password to successfully log in, click on Forgot your password? from our login page. To reset your password, you will be asked to answer your security question.

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How Managers Can Better Support And Retain Their Millennial Colleagues

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Millennial turnover is a huge problem for leaders. Millennials account for nearly 40 percent of the American workforce, and by 2025, that number balloons to 75 percent of the global workplace. “Over 60 percent of millennials leave their company in under three years,” explains Elizabeth McLeod , a Millennial and cum laude grad of Boston University. “And, there are four reasons why Millennials dump their middle-aged managers,” adds McLeod.

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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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5 Tips to Maximize Crowdfunding Results

NonProfit Hub

Gretchen Barry is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. Gretchen has been a leader in corporate communications and marketing for 20+ years. She has published numerous articles related to charitable giving and is a passionate advocate for public schools. Gretchen has donated her time to numerous causes including Relay for Life, Girls on the Run, Rebuilding Together and just recently became involved with the local land trust.

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Six Super Simple Segmentation Secrets

Connection Cafe

Have you ever been shopping and run across a piece of clothing that reads “One Size Fits All”? My first reaction is always: false ! Specifically when it comes to hats—my head is definitely larger than “all” (Believe me – I’ve tried). Or have you ever tried to replicate a celebrity hairstyle? I have. Apparently what works for Jennifer Aniston doesn’t quite work for me.

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10 Tips to Improve Your Year-end Donation Pages

Tech Soup

As the year-end giving season approaches, nonprofits can benefit by improving their website donation pages. Whether clicking through on email appeals, visiting your website after getting an appeal in the mail, or doing a web search, a lot of prospective donors will end up on your donation page. But don't take it for granted that all your visitors will make a gift once there.

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How to Create the Perfect Questionnaire (AND Get Responses)

NonProfit Hub

Survey, study, research, questionnaire — whatever you choose to call it, it’s a great way to gain some in-depth information on your target audience. There are several types of marketing research that organizations can implement to gain some insight into their targeted customers. Big corporations may opt for fancy databases and software, but don’t let this intimidate you if you are a small organization.

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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.