Sat.Mar 19, 2016 - Fri.Mar 25, 2016

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Day 5: Membership Growth Online Summit - Membership Models

Wild Apricot

You have success with attracting new members, it’s the retaining them bit that needs some work. Wait a minute… you already have some super-members who’re extremely passionate about your organization. They’re loyal and willing. So what’s the problem exactly? Well, do you have a killer onboarding process?

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Why Nonprofit Stories are the Secret to Success

NonProfit Hub

Marc Pitman is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. helps leaders, especially in nonprofits, lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. The author of “ Ask Without Fear! ®,” he is the founder of The Concord Leadership Group and FundraisingCoach.com. He’s also the executive director of TheNonprofitAcademy.com and an Advisory Panel member of Rogare , a prestigious international fundraising think tank. _.

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[Guest Post] Avoid the Rabbit Hole! When to Stop Searching

Donor Search

This blog focuses on the world of prospect research and various related fundraising topics. To diversify our subject matter, we like to feature the work of our friends and colleagues in the community. Join me in welcoming Jennifer Filla, the CEO of the Prospect Research Institute and President of Aspire Research Group LLC.

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The See3 Team Talks Tech at 16NTEN in San Jose, CA

See3

This week, we’re talking video and strategy at the Nonprofit Technology Network’s 16NTEN Conference. If you can't make it, be sure to join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag: #16NTC. The post The See3 Team Talks Tech at 16NTEN in San Jose, CA appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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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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Day 4: Membership Growth Online Summit - Reach Millennials

Wild Apricot

The 4th day of our Membership Growth Online Summit is all about Millennials! Join Sarah Sladek as she talks about how to reach this demographic. How to Turn Millennials into Members You know there’s a lot of opportunity with attracting a younger.

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Leadership Quotes From John C. Maxwell's Book, Everyone Communicates Few Connect

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The real gems in John C. Maxwell's book, Everyone Communicates Few Connect , are the abundant leadership and communication quotes, such as these: To add value to others, one must first value others. People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. All good communicators get to the point before their listeners start asking, "What's the point?

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Five Trends Shaping a New Reality for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Jay Wilkinson is a guest contributor and speaker at Cause Camp 2016. Wilkinson currently serves as the CEO of Firespring—a Nebraska-based company that provides fundraising campaigns, comprehensive website packages, donor management tools and IT help desk support to thousands of organizations worldwide. Firespring tools help nonprofits raise money and manage events while presenting a professional online presence.

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Earn 6 CAE Credits in 5 Days

Wild Apricot

Attend the Membership Growth Online Summit and earn 6 CAE credits towards your designation, or renewal.

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The Seven Elements That Make A Good Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

You'll learn a lot about marketing from the book, Does it Work? , by Shane Atchison and Jason Burby. Most important, you'll discover their 10 principles for getting digital marketing right. What also really caught my attention was the book's discussion about the elements of good culture. Culture created from as high up in the organization as possible.

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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!

Tech Soup

Ladies and gentlemen, Storymakers 2016 is here. For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. We also have a contest in which we're giving away $7,000 in prizes. Civil Society, Advocacy, and Fundraising. Good stories power fundraising and marketing.

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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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How to Know When a Social Network is Worth Your Time

NonProfit Hub

Only a few short months ago, Peach, a new social networking app was launched. Billed as “The New Snapchat,” infused with parts of Facebook and Twitter, it took the online world by storm. It took only a week to break into iOS’s top 10 list of networking apps. Headlines like “Why the Peach app is suddenly the hottest thing in social media” and “Peach Is So Hot Right Now” could be found littered across newsstands and the internet.

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When It Hits the Fan—Turning OMG into Opportunity

Connection Cafe

You know what I’m talking about. Something happens and it’s huuuuge. The email starts flying fast and furious, people are abuzz in the kitchen and at each others’ cubes, the instant messenger keeps chiming and the Slack channels are filling up with “OMG DID YOU HEAR?!”. In an election year (and I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re in one right now) this “Oh, $%*!

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How To Create Sustainable Inclusion In Your Organization

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Published in 2013, the book has become a must-read for business leaders who want to learn how investing in diversity and inclusion will pay dividends in: greater innovation higher productivity stronger client relationships a more engaged workforce Today, Donovan explains in his guest post below that there are four areas of competency that

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4 Cornerstone Campaigns That Drive Fundraising Success

Tech Soup

Online fundraising cornerstone campaigns are critical elements for a successful integrated fundraising program. A cornerstone campaign is one that's repeated year over year, and that can be refined and tested to drive success and constituent engagement. Common examples of cornerstone campaigns are yearly renewal and membership drives, monthly giving recruitment efforts, matching gift campaigns, and the ubiquitous year-end appeal.

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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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Opt-in a bigger issue than the Fundraising Preference Service, says Etherington

AFP Blog

Opt-in a bigger issue than the Fundraising Preference Service, says Etherington : "EU rules which will require donors to opt in to fundraising communications are “a bigger issue” for charities than the Fundraising Preference Service, Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of NCVO, has said in an interview published today. Etherington, who was interviewed at length for the relaunched Governance and Leadership magazine, also said that the fundraising crisis was inevitable due to “crude” and “indu

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Using the Power of Story to Run a Successful Peer-to-Peer Campaign

Connection Cafe

When it comes to successful peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns , the more support your non-profit can give your fundraisers, the better. Sometimes this means providing participating fundraisers with stock language to use in emails, sample social media posts, reminders to send asks to friends and family and more. But the one thing that is not often provided is a tool to help fundraisers tell their personal story.

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How To Be A Strong Career Mentor And Coach

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Paul Falcone offers the following great advice for how to become a stronger career mentor and coach by helping your subordinates grow and develop in their own careers. Encourage others to engage in random acts of kindness. Find creative ways of surprising your customers. Focus on making bad relationships good and good relationships better. Look for new ways of reinventing the workflow in light of your company's changing needs.

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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!

Tech Soup

Ladies and gentlemen, Storymakers 2016 is here. For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. Learn more. Civil Society, Advocacy, and Fundraising.

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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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Opinion: A Decade In, Twitter Is the Real-­Time Pulse of Nonprofit Advocacy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

AFP Blog

Opinion: A Decade In, Twitter Is the Real-­Time Pulse of Nonprofit Advocacy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "So Twitter is 10 years old. But a decade after co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet, what does the nearly ubiquitous short-message social network mean for nonprofits, citizens’ movements, and philanthropy? Here’s my view: In the billions of messages of fewer than 140 characters that have swirled through Twitter’s servers over the last decade, a distinct vein of social action, act

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Even More Benefits to Tracking Outcomes

Connection Cafe

In the fall 2015 issue of npENGAGE Magazine , my colleague Annie Rhodes wrote about our extensive outreach to the market to discover how measuring outcomes and impact are becoming essential to the philanthropic sector. And our resident outcomes expert Michelle DiSabato has helped us understand the benefits of outcomes measurement, tracking and reporting and the role outcomes play in driving collaboration between funders and grantees.

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10 Ways To Maximize Employee Engagement

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are 10 tips for how to maximize employee involvement: Have active ways to listen to your employees. Check often with employees to see if the information you are sharing with them is what they need and what they want. Share information about customer satisfaction with employees. Discuss financial performance with your employees and be sure everyone understands the importance of profitability and how they can contribute to profitability.

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The Top Data Obstacles and How to Overcome Them

NonProfit Hub

Data is essential for every single organization out there. Fortunately, in today’s vast world of technology, data has become easier than ever to access. It provides a helpful way for organizations to track numbers, insights and trends. In turn, those results can pave the way for more efficient operations. But it doesn’t stop there—simply accessing data isn’t enough.

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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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The One: 5 Benefits of Committing to a Single, Centralized Database - Target Marketing

AFP Blog

The One: 5 Benefits of Committing to a Single, Centralized Database - Target Marketing : 'via Blog this'

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The #16NTC Session Guide: 14 Sessions You Absolutely Can’t Miss

Connection Cafe

I’m headed to NTC again and want to give you the run down of the sessions I’m excited about and plan to attend. This is my big professional development conference of the year and I can’t wait to get new ideas, reinforce things I know and be inspired. Hopefully you’re planning your own ME moment in 2016, tell me about it in the comments below. Wednesday. 10:30-12:00 pm.

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How To Achieve The Cycle Of Winning

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Cycle of Winning has five parts: Decide, Overdo, Adjust, Finish, Keep Improving. These are the five actions that winners take to get on track and to help stay on tract. Theses actions create Serial Winners, explains Larry Weidel in his book, Serial Winner. "Serial Winners leverage a cycle of winning action to make progress," says Weidel. "They do something every day that puts them on a course for the things they want in life.

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Mobile Beacon Returns to TechSoup with 4G LTE Mobile Hotspots

Tech Soup

Broadband Internet service for 10 people for $10 a month. Sound good? It's returning to TechSoup after several months' absence. We're talking about Mobile Beacon, of course, provider of wireless broadband service to nonprofits and public libraries. What Mobile Beacon is actually donating is a wireless LTE mobile hotspot with each one-year account you sign up for.

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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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A more seamless log-in experience | Twitter Blogs

AFP Blog

A more seamless log-in experience | Twitter Blogs : 'via Blog this'

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Teaching with Tech: The Incredible—and Inevitable—Evolution of the Digital Classroom

Byte Technology

There was a time in the very recent past that having a room of electric typewriters, a handful of televisions or even (gasp!) a single computer running basic DOS for an entire school was considered the very cutting edge of the tech-enhanced learning environment. Institutions of teaching still wholly relied on the skill and effectiveness of the individual standing in front of a chalkboard to impart information to a hopefully wide-eyed audience—no matter if they were first graders learning their m

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