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Dressed to Impress: our Favorite Nonprofit Halloween Costumes

EveryAction

For the second year running, we asked our team to forego the typical, boring Halloween costumes and dress up as some of their favorite nonprofit organizations. Here are some great examples you can still throw together in time for trick-or-treating.

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October 2015 Update: Introducing Wild Apricot Academy

Wild Apricot

October was a big month! We launched our new Wild Apricot Membership Academy + Rolled out new features with Version 5.6. Have a read and learn more about all that we've been up to.

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How Make-A-Wish is Telling New Stories with Audience Personas

See3

Make-A-Wish has told great stories for 35 years. With a lot of hard work from their team and a little help from See3, they are about to get even better. The post How Make-A-Wish is Telling New Stories with Audience Personas appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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10 Nonprofits to Follow on Instagram

Care2

One of the greatest assets that nonprofits have at their disposal is stories. Stories about their movement, stories about the people they are serving, and stories about their volunteers and staff on the ground to support the organization’s mission. One of the best ways to support your stories is through photography and imagery, especially as social platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and even Twitter to some extent prioritize visual content, including videos.

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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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Leadership Lessons From TouchPoints

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Some of my favorite parts of Douglas Conant's and Mette Norgaards' 2011 book, TouchPoints , are these lessons for leaders: You need to have dual vision. You need to be able to address the most pressing need and do it in a way that makes your employees more capable and ready to take on the next issue. No leader can succeed by being only tough-minded or only tender-hearted.

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Take a Hike Through Our New Themes

Wild Apricot

For our new themes, Terra and Firma, we wanted to mimic the serenity of calm, natural environments like, blue misty mountains, grey pebbly beaches, and flowing fields of golden wheat. So, grab your gear and take a hike!

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10 Tips for Protecting Your Online Privacy and Identity

Tech Soup

Editor's note: the Internet Society's tips are useful for all of us as individual consumers. If your organization offers tech or other basic skills training, these are also great tips to share with the communities you serve. For a lot of us, shopping season is just around the corner. And for those of us who can't be bothered with crowded malls or lines at the register — it's online shopping season.

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Build These Skills To Effectively Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham a few years ago. He's the author of three best-selling books, including, Re-engage and The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leav e. When asked what are the most important skills a leader should have to effectively lead, he offered this good advice: Vision Integrity Courage Authenticity In addition, he suggests that to be effective a leader should have: the ability to face and address unpleasant realities the willingness to

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5 Killer Mistakes Nonprofits Make in Crowdfunding Campaigns

Care2

Today, crowdfunding is a viable fundraising method that can be successfully utilized by nonprofit organizations as well as individuals. Put simply, crowdfunding relies on an online software platform that allows individuals, organizations and companies to make donations with a simple click of the mouse. When crowdfunding campaigns are run correctly, nonprofits see their fundraising results catapult far beyond old-school techniques.

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The Five Nonprofit Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2016

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. __. As a nonprofit professional, it is in your best interest to take advantage of all of the resources at your disposal.

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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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3 New Word 2016 Features to Try Today

Tech Soup

In part two 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 Word 2016. Don't have Microsoft Office 2016? Get it now through the TechSoup Microsoft donation program ! — Editor. 1. Collaborate in Real Time. Whenever you save a Word document to OneDrive or SharePoint, it can be shared with your co-workers.

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How To Achieve Change-Friendly Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Because Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan delivers so much timely, straight-forward and relevant wisdom in his book, Change-friendly Leadership , reading it is like talking with your trusted best friend. Or, listening to your favorite teacher. Or, soaking in the thoughts from your respected mentor. That's why you'll want to spend plenty of time reading the book.

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[Guest Post] The Top 3 Biggest Donor Management Mistakes

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 Timi Paccioretti of Little Green Light and please enjoy her post on donor management.

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Seven Ways a Board Member Can Support Their Executive Director and Organization

BoardAssist

What do nonprofit Executive Directors really want from their board members? We know nonprofit leaders rely on their boards for financial support, but they also need so much more from them in non-financial ways. What are those ways to help that mean the most to nonprofit leaders? Who better to ask than this week’s guest blogger, Ellen Simon, the former head of Union Settlement Association, one of Harlem’s largest nonprofits for over 100 years.

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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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7 Ways to Make Your Year-End Fundraising Really Count

Tech Soup

It's the most wonderful time of the year! It's when a majority of people are inspired (or habituated) to think about giving. Not a time your nonprofit wants to miss out on. If you want to leverage people's feelings of generosity during the holiday season, you need to start planning now. If you've already begun (yay!), you need to make sure you're not missing any tricks that could help you raise more money.

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How To Write Your Nonprofit Annual Report

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their nonprofit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year.

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Build Your Nonprofit Budget like a Boss in 7 Easy Steps

NonProfit Hub

The days are getting shorter, you’ve just finished the next email in your year-end campaign and you’ve finally finished putting together your amazing Kylo Ren halloween costume. In the midst of the end-of-year preparation, don’t neglect one simple task that can set up your organization for a successful year—developing a budget. Putting together a budget will help guide your spending and also plan for where your income will come from.

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5 Reasons the Public Is Losing Interest in Your Cause

Achieve

This post originally appeared on. Philantopic. , a blog from The Foundation Center. What can you do when interest in your cause begins to wane? It’s a scary question, and one that many fundraisers and nonprofit marketers will face at some point. Perhaps you’re already familiar with this scenario: Your fundraising results are okay, but the number of individual donors making gifts to your organization is beginning to decline.

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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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Save on Even More with TechSoup Boost

Tech Soup

The best way to save on technology at your nonprofit or library just got better! Our TechSoup Boost subscription offer has just grown to include four new donor partners. Get TechSoup Boost Now. New Offers. Boost now includes the following products with no admin fee. Connect2give Complete Plan 1-Year Subscription – Mobile Website and Access to Discounted Rates – New User.

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How To Be A Better Listener

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Being a good listener is absolutely essential to being an effective leader. When you really listen, you : Remember names and facts correctly. Hear "between the lines." Show respect. Learn more about what's going on within your workplace. Here are 10 tips on how to be a better listener : Look at the person who's speaking to you. Maintain eye contact.

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Benefits of a Skill-Centric Learning Management System (LMS)

Gyrus

In the 10/23/15 blog I mentioned, “Skills allow people to succeed at their job, not training.” Expanding on that thought, employees can attend training class after training class after training class, and even pass tests that show they’ve “learned,” however that does not truly mean that they can leverage the information presented in the class in the real world as skills.

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Grateful Patient Program Basics

Donor Search

Grateful patient programs are fundraising initiatives that allow hospitals and other healthcare organizations to find more major gift prospects among their patients. They raise money from present and former hospital patients and aim to increase gifts from past donors.

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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 Make-A-Wish is Telling New Stories with Audience Personas

See3

Many nonprofits fall into the trap of believing that their audience is the general public, when the truth is that your supporters are much more nuanced than that. A great way to narrow in on your organization’s audience is to develop audience personas. Audience personas are fictional people that you create who represent your audience, based on real aggregate audience data.

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What We Can Learn About Leadership From Dogs

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I never really thought much about the parallels between canine and human leadership needs , but Lesley Hunter, the author of, Who Put You in Charge? , has convinced me the parallels are compellingly strong. In her book, Hunter explains: Like dogs, humans need training, leadership, respect and reward. And most importantly, a sense of belonging. In every pack a dog has its role.

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13 Tips For a Nonprofit to Effectively Manage Volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Tyson Downs Owner, Titan Web Agency. Nonprofit organizations rely on a strong base of volunteers. Getting people behind a cause is not particularly difficult, but learning to harness the energy of your nonprofit’s mission can take some work. The following tips will help you gain, manage and inspire volunteers for any nonprofit. 1. Follow-Through: When someone expresses interest in volunteering for your organization, make sure that it is followed-through with immediately by you or a mem

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[Guest Post] 3 Ways Prospect Research can Help Acquire Donors

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 Jack Karako of IMPACTism and please enjoy his post on the relationship between prospect research and donor acquisition.

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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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#bbcon Just Took Over Austin, TX| Day 1 Recap

Connection Cafe

It started off with a bang, literally. The John H Reagan Soul Train Drumline replaced our espresso shots with beats – How else should you set the tone for a conference dedicated to world-changers and philanthropic visionaries? But that was only the beginning… From major keynotes and Big Idea Sessions to deep-dive learn labs and new product announcements, it’s safe to say that the first day of #bbcon did not disappoint.

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Not Your Mama's Charity Telethon: How Livestream Fundraising Will Dominate The World Of Giving - Forbes

AFP Blog

Not Your Mama's Charity Telethon: How Livestream Fundraising Will Dominate The World Of Giving - Forbes : "Not Your Mama's Charity Telethon: How Livestream Fundraising Will Dominate The World Of Giving " 'via Blog this'

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Cut Out Your Nonprofit’s Communication Clutter

NonProfit Hub

Sometimes a post comes along that makes you smile and shake your head in agreement. That’s exactly what happened when I read this post by Kristina Leroux about ‘reply all’ emails. Ah, the loathed and sometimes loved reply all button. Sometimes reply all isn’t the necessary action, even if you’re convinced it is. Seriously.

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Seeking Smart Design: The Best Practices for Non-Profit Blogs

Byte Technology

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when a non-profit’s online presence was viewed as secondary to live-and-in-person efforts. Perhaps an organization would have an e-newsletter or email campaign, or a simple website with sparse details about goals and missions and some streamlined contact information, but anything more considerable than that just wasn’t considered vital.

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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.