Sat.Nov 14, 2015 - Fri.Nov 20, 2015

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10 (Totally Awesome) Email Newsletters for Nonprofit Professionals

EveryAction

You know that person in the office who seems to hear about everything first? The one who’s always reading something interesting, always has the best links to send, and knows about all the new trends before you’ve even made sense of the old ones? We know their secret - and we’re going to let you in on it.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About LinkedIn, But Were Too Afraid to Ask.

VisionLink

How Do You and Your Organization Use LinkedIn? For some, LinkedIn is a necessary evil. But why not use LinkedIn to your advantage? Do you know how LinkedIn content can drastically increase your company's SEO ranking? Improve your social media marketing? Improve your brand visibility and employee satisfaction? If you are not using these suggestions, you are hindering your own professional online presence, as well as your company's.

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Optimizing an Email Campaign for Fundraising Effectiveness

Byte Technology

Today’s non-profit organizations have much at their disposal to connect and engage with supporters. Social media efforts, specialized events, crowdfunding … it’s never been easier to stay in touch with dedicated volunteers and financial donors. And yet, many non-profits aren’t leveraging one of the most tried-and-true methods of communication: an effective and well-planned email campaign.

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How Can Nonprofits Switch From Scarcity to Abundance Mindsets When It Comes To Self-Care?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?

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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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Everything You Need to Know About the New Facebook Nonprofit Tool

EveryAction

Hopefully you've heard the great news:along with improvements to the recently introduced "Donate" button , Facebook announced a new fundraising feature to help nonprofits collect donations right on its platform.

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VisionLink’s Strategic Advantage Consulting is Proud to support the Complete College America Strategic Planning Academy

VisionLink

VisionLink’s unique Strategic Advantage consulting department is proud to be supporting the Complete College America Strategic Planning Academy (CCA). This is the 15th CCA-affiliated Academy that Lois Ann Porter, Visionlink’s Sr. Vice President, has helped design and implement. The Academy format is based on Lois Ann’s Institute design. The CCA’s “Scaling Corequisite” initiative is a 3-year effort funded primarily by the Lumina Foundation and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation , and with su

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A Simple Practice to Shift from Scarcity to Abundance: One-Sentence Journal

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival theme is how can nonprofits move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. Yesterday, I wrote a post thinking about how this relates to self-care from an organizational culture perspective. But from an individual perspective, it is about creating a new “good” habit around self-care and starting with some small steps or what BJ Fogg calls “ Tiny Habits.” So, I decided to sign up and give it a try with a tiny habit I have

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12 Nonprofit Donation Pages That Don’t Suck

EveryAction

Is your donation page holding you back? No? Are you sure? Too many nonprofit donation pages are suffering from common donation page problems like unresponsiveness, length, general clutter, and even security issues that put potential donors off and sap resources away from causes that matter. The time to improve and optimize your donation page is now.

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Meet the See3ples: Briana Kerensky

See3

Our newest See3ple Briana talks to us about what inspired her to work with nonprofits, her love of digital marketing, and her number one piece of advice for promoting social causes. The post Meet the See3ples: Briana Kerensky appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Our Journey to Support Every Nonprofit on the Planet

Tech Soup

Twenty years ago, TechSoup was a very different place. "The space resembled a bunker filled with boxes of software piled up to the ceiling. And we had to be careful because if anyone used the toaster oven, we would lose power," says Mary Duffy, an early TechSoup employee. Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup's founder, adds that, "We were worried about what seemed like a very big ask of $2,500 to buy wood for shelves.

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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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#IFC2015: Viral Fundraising Campaigns One Year Later: What Can We Learn?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Prepping for our Big Room Session at IFC. After keynoting during a plenary session 2014 , I was thrilled to be invited back to the IFC ( International Fundraising Congress ), a conference for fundraisers from around the world to facilitate a Master Class on leadership on social media, Workshops on using design thinking for crowd funded campaigns, and moderate a Big Room session on viral fundraisers.

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How Not To Be Sidelined When You're Over 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"It doesn't matter how old you are. Everyone has the same fundamental needs: to enjoy themselves, to be part of something larger than themselves, to confirm their own sense of their abilities, and to demonstrate to others that they've got what it takes," explains author Robert L. Dilenschneider. "And yet, there comes a moment, generally after one turns fifty.when it becomes hard not to worry about being sidelined.

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How Research Creates Solutions

Achieve

I have always been curious. When I see a problem, I’m curious as to how it can be solved. In fact, when people are interested in knowing “my best quality,” I often say it’s my curiosity. This natural curiosity. is why I became a researcher. When people learn what my job is, I’m usually met with, “Oh, that sounds awful.” Folks tend to be kind enough to follow-up with, “What kind of research do you conduct?

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Unlocking Video SEO with Captions and Translations

See3

From language barriers to stronger search engine optimization, here’s why it is important for nonprofits to incorporate video translations on YouTube, starting now. The post Unlocking Video SEO with Captions and Translations appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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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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Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Nonprofit #SocialCEOs Awards

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zoe Amar and Matt Collins of Platypus Digital created the #SocialCEO Awards in 2013 with the goal to celebrate charity leaders who are using social media in support of their organization’s missions. This year’s winners were announced earlier this week. They have also released a briefing on “ Digital Leadership: How To Survive and Thrive As A Social CEO ” in partnership with Just Giving.

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A Goal Must Have These Five Elements

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"The more specific you can be about your goal, the greater your level of success will be," explain authors Tom Pandola and James W. Bird , in their book, Light A Fire Under Your Business. "This is because once we have visualized something that doesn't yet exist, it causes our subconscious mind to make the decisions necessary to make that visualized goal a reality.

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The Story of TechSoup: In the Beginning, There Were Boxes

Tech Soup

And Bruce Ackley was the man moving all those boxes. He remembers: "When I came to TechSoup in early 1990, my job was to answer phones, help with bulk mailing our newsletter, and … organize our software 'inventory.' Our software donation program then consisted of a few dozen boxes of software stored in a closet." Bruce is a professional jazz musician, and TechSoup was just a part-time gig back then.

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ActionSprout and Facebook to Give Away $2M in Facebook Ads

Care2

ActionSprout is teaming up with Facebook, and giving away $2M in Facebook advertising credits to 2,000 nonprofits. About a year ago, Beth Kanter, myself, and a few others in the nonprofit community discussed ways we could lobby Facebook to better support the nonprofit community by offering a Facebook ad grants program similar to Google. Could this new experiment between ActionSprout and Facebook lead to a longer term Facebook ad grants program?

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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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[Guest Post] The Shocking Truth about Major Gifts: It’s Not About the Money

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 Claire Axelrad of Clairification and please enjoy her post on major gifts.

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New Book Announcement: Becoming Agile

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The new book, Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability illustrates the process of becoming an agile organization. Readers are taken on a real-world journey of transformation and change. This short-format case study of the French company Brioche Pasquier highlights how one organization successfully implemented the principles of agility using the socio-economic approach to management, detailing each step of the process and describing how every decision brought the go

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TechSoup, Part 2: Out of the Basement

Tech Soup

It was 1995 and TechSoup was just a tiny nonprofit called CompuMentor. Our donation program ran out of a box-filled basement. Product donations were picked up and distributed by a jazz musician in a pickup truck. But things were about to change. "On my old appointment book, I have a note that on May 4, 1995, Daniel and I had a breakfast meeting with Microsoft.

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The Art of Closing the Fundraising Ask

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. In the world of fundraising, making the ask is one thing; sealing the deal is another. Even if you’ve grown entirely comfortable with the process of approaching people for money (and if you have, kudos to you), closing an ask can still be a challenge.

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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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[Guest Post] Major Gift Study Shows Prospect Research Matters

Donor Search

This blog focuses on the world of prospect research and various related fundraising topics. Today, we’re happy to welcome a contribution from Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE, regarding the recent report, Mastering Major Gifts. Please enjoy! Major Gift Study Shows Prospect Research Matters Did you ever stop to ask yourself, “Does prospect research really matter?

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Tips to Prepare for Effective Grant Seeking

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Stacey Romanotto Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. The art aspect refers to how well an inspired writer describes a project and the grant-seeking organization. The science aspect refers to the comprehension of the technical structure upon which those words are arranged” (Blanchard & Bullock, 2010).

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve At-Risk Youth

Tech Soup

"By Youth, For Youth" is the motto of Business in the Streets (BITS), a Toronto-based Canadian Registered Charity that focuses on peer mentorship for at-risk and low-income youth with a business idea. BITS believes that peer mentorship is an essential education component. Whether building a business or pursuing higher education, BITS maintains that all participants greatly benefit from skills acquired through their peer mentorship, such as research, writing, problem solving, concept de

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How to Turn Making the Ask from Excruciating to Exciting

NonProfit Hub

Shanon Doolittle was a wreck. Going into her first major donor ask, she was nervous, hadn’t slept well in days and had no idea what to expect. The meeting with the potential donor didn’t go much better. She talked too much, fumbled the ask and tried to give the prospect a folder with paper documents, but they didn’t want paper. “Everything that I thought I was doing right, I didn’t because I was so inexperienced,” said Doolittle, who now works as a fundraising coach.

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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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The Truth About Nonprofit Storytelling

Connection Cafe

I’ve been working as a fundraiser long enough to see some “next great things” come and go. Others stuck around for several years, or even became a mainstay of fundraising. So forgive me, but I just don’t get this “new” idea being proclaimed from the rooftops about storytelling. Don’t misunderstand—I believe storytelling is absolutely critical for fundraising success.

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OdysseyWorks: An Empathy-Based Approach to Making Art

Museum 2.0

The quest for relevance begins with knowing your audience. Who are the people with whom you want to connect? What are their dreams, their impressions, their turn-offs, their fears? Ultimately, any approach to answering these questions is limited at some point by the size of the audience involved. When you are dealing with an audience of hundreds or thousands of people, you have to make assumptions.

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What I Learned About Crime by Mapping It with Tableau

Tech Soup

Recently, a headline read: "Robber busted in S.F. Muni bus robberies while trying to transfer." While you might think that it came from the satirical The Onion , it was actually a real headline from our local newspaper here in San Francisco. I'm not a criminologist, but being a curious data person, I wondered which bus stops historically recorded the most crimes.

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How to Decide if Your Organization Should Participate in #GivingTuesday

NonProfit Hub

#GivingTuesday is a day that nonprofits will hear about for months before it occurs. It’s the Tuesday that follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and it encourages donors to give back after taking in a weekend full of great shopping deals. On one hand, there is skepticism about the effectiveness of #GivingTuesday, especially for small nonprofit organizations.

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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.