Sat.Dec 17, 2011 - Fri.Dec 23, 2011

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Year-end donation processing

Robert Weiner

As the calendar year draws to an end, charities (and ideally, donors) are focused on year-end donations and tax deductions. Here are a few scenarios for U.S. charities to keep in mind. ( Note: I am not a lawyer. When in doubt, contact an attorney who specializes in nonprofit law or contact the IRS for a ruling. ). Let's say the following donations will be processed by different nonprofits in the United States on Jan. 2, 2012: A check mailed (and postmarked) on December 29th that arrived in the o

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Early first impressions of Salesforce Spring ’12

Judi Sohn

Disclaimer: I am a Salesforce MVP and a soon-to-be employee of Convio, a Salesforce partner. Even though I have some insider knowledge through the Salesforce MVP program, I am not using any of that information in this post. The critical opinions and speculation I express below are entirely my own based solely on own experience. It’s not even winter yet and we can poke around and see what’s coming in Salesforce’s next release, Spring ’12.

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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

Amy Sample Ward

[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success. The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine.

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A Slice of the Joy of Being at Benetech

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My job is so much fun! I get to spend most of my time talking to people about social good: what we're doing with technology, what our partners are doing and what the many cool people we get to meet are doing along the way. I realize that it's rare that I can share some of these meetings with our team and with the blogosphere, so here are few tidbits just from last week!

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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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Top Ten for 2011

NCE Social Media

It would be the end of the year without another Top Ten list. NCE Social Media is no exception. Here are the top 10 posts from the past year. 10. Google+. 9. Social Media Etiquette. 8. 10 Commandments of Posting Online. 7. Facebook’s EdgeRank. 6. Megaphones. 5. Social Media as a Fundraising Tool for 2011. 4. Setting Up Facebook Fan Pages. 3. New Facebook Groups. 2.

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My last word on Android

Judi Sohn

Well, probably not my last word ever , but at least the last on this chapter. I now have an iPhone 4S and my Infuse is being used by a family member who will better appreciate it. It’s a long story, but I managed to do some switcheroo’ing with the phones on my family plan in such a way that I was able to upgrade. Lesson learned. Won’t let it happen again.

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Lame spam of the day: I’m in trouble!

Robert Weiner

Don't people know not to click links in weird emails from strangers? Probably not. This site says the link leads to malware. Sender: Svetlana@rlweiner.com (My domain -- no Svetlanas work at my company). Subject: Fwd: I'm in trouble! Text: I was at a party, got drunk, couldn't drive the car, somebody gave me a lift on my car, and crossed on the red light!

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Free Non-profit Webinars for January 2012

Wild Apricot

This month's free non-profit webinar round-up includes 24+ sessions on topics such as events, fundraising, volunteer engagement, social media and much more.

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How To Use Facebook Timeline Covers To Spread Your Organization’s Brand

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, Facebook rolled out the Facebook Timeline to all users. While the timeline has the potential to embarrass some users who might have inappropriate photos buried along their timeline, the cover image is a great opportunity for nonprofits to engage their champions to help spread the word about the organization. The Ocean Conservancy has done just that!

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Case Study: Providing Event Attendees with Wireless Internet via Mobile Broadband

NTEN

By Jason Samuels, Manager of Information Technology, National Council on Family Relations. How important is it for your conference attendees to have access to the internet? We asked this question recently on our post-conference survey and the results were overwhelming: 95.9% of NCFR Conference attendees said that having internet access is at least somewhat important.

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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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A Holiday Season without Mr. Scrooge

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Travis Butterfield , Project Coordinator, Marketing/Communications. ASU Lodestar Center. "At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.". — Charles Dickens , A Christmas Carol.

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Wild Apricot Software News December 2011

Wild Apricot

A quick note to say Happy Holidays! Our Version 4.3 has been released, Version 4.4 is on its way, and if you're looking for Wild Apricot support over the next few weeks -- don't worry, we'll still be around to answer the phones and help you out!

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Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

[link]. If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills.

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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success. The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine.

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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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Fundraising isn’t for Fraidy Cats

Get Fully Funded

“All you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, and I promise you something great will come of it.” This is a line from a new movie called “We Bought a Zoo.” I saw the preview weeks ago and I can’t get that phrase out of my head. Maybe because I’m wretling with a few fears right now and I keep thinking about what difference 20 seconds of insane courage would make.

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Need Help With Event Planning?

Wild Apricot

If you are new to events and need some help with next year's planning, here are some resources to help you get started.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo By h.koppdelaney. Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. I admit that I mostly read non-fiction, but if I only read social media or geeky books that would be too narrow. It is less about the tools and more about the new mindsets you need to be successful.

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Daily DoGooder: What Would Jesus Buy? Trailer

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.What Would Jesus Buy? Trailer | 2:02 revbilly.com/work/what-would-jesus-buy Preceding the controversy of Morgan Spurlock’s corporate sponsor funded POM Wonderful Presents: the Greatest Movie Ever Sold, What Would Jesus Buy? gives us Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir lifting their voices in favor of cutting [.].

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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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Five Social Media Books you Should Read

Care2

I love to read non-fiction books and try to review them regularly on my blog ! A couple of nonprofit and social media books that I reviewed on my blog include Twitter for Good by Claire Diaz Ortiz and Welcome to the Fifth Estate by Geoff Livingston. There are also a few terrific books that are not specifically targeted to nonprofits, but still worth reading.

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Happy Holidays From Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot

Here's a holiday greeting and video from the gang at Wild Apricot.

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Putting Your Twitter Followers on the Map, Literally

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. It analyzes the percentage of total followers from countries, states, and cities. (here’s more about how it works) While you can check out the profiles of your followers and find out where they’re from (if they filled out the location information), you can’t really get a snapshot.

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Fundraising isn’t for Fraidy Cats

Get Fully Funded

“All you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, and I promise you something great will come of it.” This is a line from a new movie called “We Bought a Zoo.” I saw the preview weeks ago and I can’t get that phrase out of my head. Maybe because I’m wrestling with a few fears right now and I keep thinking about what difference 20 seconds of insane courage would make.

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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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A Voice for the Voiceless: An Innovative Facebook Advocacy Campaign

Care2

There are more than 6 million ”untouchables”, Dalits, living in Nepal today. Branded worthless from the day they are born, they are shunned by society, treated inhumanely and allowed to carry out only the most lowly of jobs, such as the cleaning of human waste and digging of graves. Because they are deemed polluting, people even avoid their shadow.

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Year-end Advice For Leaders From Lynn Flinn

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Last year, Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in her business' newsletter. It's so powerful I wanted to bring it back again this year as 2011 comes to a close. So, here goes.Lynn's year-end advice for leaders: • Do something that you are afraid to do. Run through the fear rather than running away from it. • Take a personal risk.

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Project for Awesome Pays It Forward

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Project Awesome is pretty, well, awesome. The best video makers on YouTube rally and create videos for their favorite charities. Then they ask their networks to vote the best. The voting is over, so now we wait. The video above was created by Karen Kavett to promote charity:water and how awesome they are, including their new fundraiser, Waterforward , that is a brilliant networked approach to fundraising and incorporate game mechanics.

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Daily DoGooder: A Number of Thanks

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.A Number of Thanks | 1:39 Earthjustice This thank you video from Earthjustice is an impressive tally of the organization’s work, accompanied by imagery reminding us of the ‘natural’ cause for environmental concern—the natural world itself. Nonprofits also need supporters and benefactors who share their reasoning and concern.

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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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Do Celebrity Driven Campaigns in Social Media Score or Fall Short?

Care2

Celebrities helping nonprofits to bring in donations is a tactic as old as fundraising itself – who doesn’t know St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital has long been an important cause for Marlo Thomas, and her father Danny before her? As nonprofit fundraising increasingly moves online and into social media, it seems natural to look to celebrities and “weblebrities” with significant reach who will donate their names and clout to the cause.

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The Roles Of A Coach And A Mentor

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Kristi Hedges , in her new book, The Power of Presence , provides these explanations of the roles of a coach and of a mentor and how they differ from each other: The Coach shows empathy through a mixture of tough love and strong support. The coach is not afraid to push you because she sees the best in you. This leader has a good sense of what's going on in the rest of your life and isn't afraid to mention it as it relates to your performance and potential.

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Addressing Arabic: The Web Gets More Local Thanks to the Qatar Domains Registry

Forum One

No doubt you’ve experienced the web’s evolution toward a more social and mobile space. We share and consume content in more ways and across a greater variety of devices than ever before. You may have heard less about localization – another way the web is evolving. This trend is about making the web more targeted and meaningful to local audiences, primarily in terms of language and culture.

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Daily DoGooder: “Hallelujah!” Random Act of Culture

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.“Hallelujah!” Random Act of Culture | 5:59 Opera Company of Philadelphia The joy of the holidays is beautifully captured in this soaring flash mob perfomance of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah”, amid the hubbub of the shopping season. The Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 [.].

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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.