My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. It was also my duty to organize four fundraising events each year and manage an average six volunteers in any given week. Here are five reasons why: 1. can produce significant ROI is a myth. Seriously. MORE >>

The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I pulled together a curated summary of the tweets and resources on Storify that you can view here. I promised folks that I would share a summary blog post with links, questions, and resources. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email. Content MORE >>

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. Probably an issue that we should all be looking at. So with some background, I’ve got some questions. MORE >>

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. Frogloop has you covered. Here’s our wrap-up of new, updated, and helpful apps for doing good. This week we’ve found apps from museums. Historic St. MORE >>

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit. The MORE >>