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27 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Retail Federation estimates that online sales will grow 6 to 8 percent this holiday season. That translates into billions of dollars in consumer spending that can empower philanthropy and social good. By shopping at any of the 27 online stores listed below, conscious consumers can channel some of their spending power into the nonprofit sector.

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12 Free Nonprofit Webinars and Training Videos You’ll Love

EveryAction

If you’re a nonprofit professional, then you probably know what it’s like to be short on time. Maintaining a work-life balance is hard enough without having to hunt down the resources you and need to develop your skills. That’s why we’re giving you a shortcut.

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Time Well Spent: How Much Effort a Non-Profit Should Devote to Social Media Fundraising

Byte Technology

As the old saying goes, time is money. And for non-profits struggling with a small staff and persistent budgetary concerns, that old adage holds special meaning. After all, in the increasingly online world in which cause-related organizations prosper or fail it can be difficult to understand how to allocate limited resources, especially towards a solid social media presence that translates to dollars and cents.

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Two Opportunities for Nonprofits to Power their #GivingTuesday Campaigns — Facebook Ad Credits & #MyGivingStory

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m just back from two weeks of inspiring work where I participated in a training for women organizations in the Ukraine and the International Fundraising Congress in Holland. So, expect more some posts this week from about what I learned. But despite jet lag and an over flowing email in box, I wanted to write up two opportunities for nonprofits that could help them power up their year end and Giving Tuesday Campaigns.

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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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10 Holiday Tribute Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For environmentally friendly and socially conscious holiday shoppers that prefer to give donations to nonprofits as holiday gifts, the 10 holiday tribute gift programs listed below are a good starting point for your holiday shopping. Ranging from wildlife conservation to refugee relief, tribute gifts make excellent holiday gifts for friends, family, and work colleagues.

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This is How One Organization Grew Membership by Over 300%

Wild Apricot

Is your membership growth as stagnant as a pond? Wouldn't you love a proven recipe for successful? In an interactive case study, we reveal the strategies of how one organization grew over 300%.

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Meet Dr. James A. Levine: The 1st “You can walk and work!”Evangelist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On my 12 hour plane ride back from Ukraine, I read Dr. James A. Levine’s book “ Get Up: Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do About It.” (Yes, I see the irony) He is the Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic/Arizona State University Solutions Initiative and the inventor of the treadmill desk. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and worked on dozens of corporate programs to bring movement into work.

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How to Create Valuable Audience Personas for Your Nonprofit

See3

Thousands of volunteers, donors, and supports are, or have the potential be to be, involved in your nonprofit’s mission. In order to adequately address all of your donors and supporters, you must first determine their individual traits, values and perceptions. This is the fundamental basis of audience personas. The post How to Create Valuable Audience Personas for Your Nonprofit appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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How To Create A Cycle Of Success

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 new 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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3 OneNote 2016 Tips to Keep You Organized

Tech Soup

In part three of our deep dive into the new Microsoft Office, we show you step by step how to use three of the best new features in OneNote 2016. Don't have Microsoft Office 2016? Get it now through the TechSoup Microsoft donation program! — ( read more ).

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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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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment.

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Optimizing Your Nonprofit’s Video for YouTube Search

See3

YouTube engagement surpasses other social media platforms with billions of views and millions of hours of video watched daily. If your nonprofit wants to make the most of its next video upload, here’s what you need to know about optimization for YouTube search. The post Optimizing Your Nonprofit’s Video for YouTube Search appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Ten Essential Questions Business Leaders Must Ask

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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Customer Service Tip No. 1 — How to Check Your Eligibility

Tech Soup

How to Check your Organization's Eligibility for Particular Product Donations on TechSoup. Check to see which products your organization qualifies for! We regularly add new programs, products, and updates to our catalog. You can check your eligibility (also available from the Get Products and Services tab in the upper left corner of our home page ) periodically to see which products your organization can receive.

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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 is Skills Management?

Gyrus

In several recent postings I’ve blogged (a lot) about skills and skill management. So what IS skills management? It being 2015 the first place I looked is Wikipedia (of course) and found this: Skills Management. Terrific, a Wiki about skills management! This means other people are interested in the subject as well. The Wiki really does sum up many important elements of skills management: Definition: The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills.

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University Fundraising: 3 Ways to Increase Millennial Alumni Giving

Achieve

Looking to make some extra cash in college, I joined a small but relentless army of student workers calling alumni and asking them to donate to the university. If you’ve graduated from a four-year university in the past century, chances are you’ve received a call like this. Mostly, I enjoyed talking with older alumni. For one thing, they didn’t hang up as soon as I told them why I was calling.

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How To Achieve Executive Presence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material.

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Love to Learn Tech Tips in Person? NetSquared Is for You!

Tech Soup

Every month TechSoup's NetSquared community organizers volunteer to bring free and low-cost nonprofit technology events and workshops to more than 50 cities. If you want to network with your peers or love to learn at live, in-person events, NetSquared is the place for you! Our chapter leaders believe that we can bridge the digital divide by giving every NGO the tools and skills to accomplish its mission efficiently and effectively.

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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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DonorSearch’s Charitable Giving Database

Donor Search

The strongest indicator of future giving is past giving. Curious how we know? We know past giving’s role in predicting future giving because we have back tested our predictive models against $5 billion in known giving. That $5 billion came from 2 million donors to 400 fundraising organizations.

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Fear Not: There’s Still Time to Put Together a Year-End Ask

NonProfit Hub

Time has fallen back. The days are shorter. Winter is coming. Believe it or not, it’s November. In the nonprofit world, that means one thing—it’s End of Year Ask season. Usually this season elicits two emotions: excitement to put into action the fundraising plan to cap off a great year or “CRAP! YEAR-END ASK?”. If you fall into the latter group, fear not; you still have time.

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Today's Leadership Thought

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I ran across this awhile back and found it so compelling and powerful: Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become you values, Your values become your destiny - MAHATMA GANDHI.

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Get Email on Your Domain with Hands-On Office 365 Workshops

Tech Soup

Are you still using a Gmail, Yahoo!, or similar email address for your organization? Our free Office 365 workshops are designed to help nonprofits that want to use their domain name for their email service. Using a you@YourOrganization.org email address will make you look more professional and established, which will help when you apply for grants or recruit volunteers.

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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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Women of Color Leading Essential, Activist Work in Cultural Institutions

Museum 2.0

A new poster from the National Park Service, based on Rich Black's 2009 image. Over the past few months, I've been doing research for a forthcoming book on relevance. One of the best parts of developing a book is learning new stories. For me, the early stage of writing a book is a treasure hunt--an excuse to seek out new examples and ideas that strengthen the story.

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3 Donor Acquisition Strategies to Implement for Your Year-End Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

Jack Karako is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. Jack has 30 years’ experience within the charitable and philanthropic industry that he brings to the forefront with IMPACTism. Jack has been a major gifts fundraiser and senior organizational executive working with or consulting to nonprofit and advocacy organizations. __. It won’t be long until people are watching the ball drop and making the New Year’s resolutions that they inevitably won’t keep.

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How Baltimore Became the Most Generous City in America on Giving Tuesday

Connection Cafe

What does it take to really commit to a goal—one bigger than you’ve ever set for yourself before? For Jamie McDonald and her team at GiveCorps, it took a willingness to fail. You see, Jamie is one of those people who heard about Giving Tuesday early on, and from the beginning it resonated with her. She realized it wasn’t just a day for giving; it was a day of individual reflection and a focus on how each of us can matter in the world —an opportunity to ask yourself “how can I contribute m

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Donor Development and the Marriage of Quantitative and Qualitative Data | Nonprofit Quarterly

AFP Blog

Donor Development and the Marriage of Quantitative and Qualitative Data | Nonprofit Quarterly : "How do qualitative and quantitative data help in your fundraising? Here are some thoughts that are less about tools and more about how information can be used to help us communicate more effectively. From data about nonprofits themselves to the data that nonprofits use to woo donors, we have no dearth of information about the nonprofit relationship with, well, information.

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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 Pro Tips to Help Make This Your Best #GivingTuesday Yet

EveryAction

More than ever, nonprofits are expending a huge amount of resources on this single biggest fundraising day of the year - but that doesn't mean they can't make it easier on themselves and their donors! Recently, I talked about some not so obvious ways to maximize #GivingTuesday fundraising at EveryAction Thursday , our monthly gathering of nonprofit professionals.

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Social Media at a Glance: October Edition

NonProfit Hub

Social media has a constantly changing landscape and it can be hard to stay current with all of the rapid updates. That’s why Nonprofit Hub is rolling out a brand new monthly series where we’ll review the most important changes to the top social media platforms that occurred each month. Social Media at a Glance will publish each month so that readers can keep up on the constantly changing social trends from the previous month.

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Outcomes & Social Investing: Key Themes for Funders

Connection Cafe

I’m completely energized. Being around my peers in giving just does that to me. And that’s the experience I had last week in Austin, TX, attending the MicroEdge Solutions Conference. I do admit to being pulled in a few directions. With MicroEdge now a part of Blackbaud, there were two conferences going on at the same time. This was my 16 th bbcon, and as the person who helps everyone at Blackbaud make sure we do good in the world every day, I wanted to soak up as much of that event as possibl

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15 Australian charities trial text giving — Third Sector

AFP Blog

15 Australian charities trial text giving — Third Sector : "A 12 month text giving trial will involve 15 charities, with UNICEF Australia and World Vision the first to launch text giving campaigns. The campaigns will allow anyone to donate to a cause by simply sending an SMS.

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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.