EveryAction

JANUARY 4, 2016

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. But it isn’t enough to have a rough idea of messaging, an incomplete timeline, some scheduled tweets, and an arbitrary fundraising goal.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 7, 2016

CASE has just published the third edition of its guide to Advancement Services. The title of this edition is " Advancement Services: Enhancing Fundraising Success." The book was a labor of love for over 2 years by 25 of advancement services professionals, led and edited by the esteemed John Taylor. I'm honored to have written two chapters. You can buy a copy from CASE by clicking here.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

2-1-1 Colorado , which provides information and referrals to immigrants and refugees on resources such as citizenship classes, English as a second language programs, legal services and others, are supporting the expansion of the program. Read more about the expansion of this program by clicking the link.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 5, 2016

Love it or hate it, social media is a critical element of any successful non-profit’s overall marketing strategy. Having a profound and clear presence in the virtual world is one of the best ways to ensure your message and mission are being communicated to the widest audience possible and that the message is translating into time, talent and dollars for your group.

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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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EveryAction

JANUARY 6, 2016

You made it! The first week of 2016 is halfway over and you're finally getting back into the swing of things, but it's hardly business as usual. Hopefully, you've taken all of the insightful nonprofit knowledge from 2015 and started applying it to your work in the new year. right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. How about you? Last year, I decided that I didn’t need to wait until New Year’s to establish happy, healthy habits in my life. For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 8, 2016

Learning Management Systems (LMS) must evolve as the dynamic learning environment of its users change. If an LMS isn’t continuously improved then these users cannot benefit from better pedagogic techniques and methodologies. For example, learning no longer only takes place in classrooms, it happens online, in social settings, and on mobile devices: virtually everywhere.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

Picture Flavio Martins ' new book, Win The Customer , teaches you 70 simple rules for sensational service. "These can be used as a top-down resource in organizations looking to develop or enhance a service culture," explains Martins. "They can also be used as a resource for individuals who want to transform the way service is handled from the ground up, even when lacking the full commitment and support from organization-wide training and change efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2016

Register for Free! . Aliza Sherman and I have been very busy these last few months working on our new book “The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.” We’ve been researching, interviewing, and writing, plus testing out a lot of our ideas. Since New Year’s is a great time to establish better habits that make you happy and healthy, we’re doing a one-hour free webinar hosted by Wild Apricot on January 14th at 3 pm EST to share some of what we’re learning, get feedback, an

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 5, 2016

We all have guilty pleasures. Whether it's a favorite show on Bravo, the tabloid magazine we read in the check-out line at the grocery store, or that box of Girl Scouts cookies hidden in a desk drawer, there are certain things we become attached to and will not give up, on pain of death. In fundraising, many of us share a guilty pleasure: social media fundraising.

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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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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 4, 2016

Tammy Moloy is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. Tammy has been a leader in the nonprofit sector for 25+ years, currently working as a Senior Consultant for nonprofit consulting firm, Ashley|Rountree and Associates. Follow on her on Twitter @TammyMoloy. _. With the new year comes a sense of looking forward and leaving the past behind. You’ve just finished the year-end appeal and will now gear up for the next fundraising project.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Take some quality time to read the book by C. Elliott Haverlack , Unbunde It , because it explores the issues you face as a leader with a twist that is different from many other leadership books. Throughout, the book offers suggestions on how to overcome the burden that complexity creates in our lives and businesses. Most intriguing for me is Haverlack's straight-forward, unbundled insights on teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2016

Being a Happy, Healthy Nonprofit isn’t just about your physical health, it is also about enriching your knowledge and professional development. What better way than to read a book that gives you the best practical information about an important nonprofit area – fundraising. My colleague, Darian Heyman , will publish his second book, Nonprofit Fundraising 101: A Practical Guide with Easy to Implement Tips and Ideas from Industry Experts , next week.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

Now, I'm no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year's resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like "find a mentor" or "learn a new skill every month." But following through on these plans can be difficult because life is unpredictable and complicated. Luckily for you, NetSquared is here to keep you on track. NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people who want to use technology for good.

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Advertiser: Digital Ocean

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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

2016 will be a year of great opportunity for the philanthropic sector. The same trends that are changing the world around us at a rapidly accelerating rate are impacting the fundraising profession in new and exciting ways. In the midst of all these developments, it’s more important than ever to keep your goals clear and focus on what matters. Here are insights from five industry leaders—from Blackbaud’s Chief Scientist to its Chief Technology Officer—sharing five resolutions you can make in 2016

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2016

Everybody says that year-end giving is never over, and that we should be doing it year-round. But has anybody actually outlined it? What does that even mean? That’s why this year, we’re bringing you a series that outlines exactly what you should be planning each month to make your year-end giving a success. January should be focused on building those relationships from last year and beginning to develop a game plan for the coming year.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Top Social Media Predictions For 2016 | PC Tech Magazine : "This time last year, we published our 2015 social media predictions. It seems those predictions were proven accurate, so we thought we’d do the same for 2016. Not to blow our own trumpet, but our main 2015 social media predictions we’re spot on. We predicted huge growth in video and paid posts.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2016

Biblica is a worldwide publisher and translator of the New International Version Bible, the most read English Bible in the world. The organization produces both written and audio translations in more than 100 major languages around the world and focuses.( read more ).

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Advertiser: Syncrony

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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

The best thing you can do for your sustainer program, hands down, is to subscribe to a credit card updater service. Why? Because it will update your donors’ credit cards if they expire, or if the bank changes the credit card number, by mapping the old card numbers to the new card numbers. I know what you’re thinking.“Really? Is that even legal?”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish. The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Why Your Nonprofit Website Needs a Privacy Policy (And What to Include) : "If you’re a typical nonprofit, you probably collect a significant amount of sensitive information from your users—even if it’s simply the IP addresses gathered by your site statistics package. And after last year’s Target debacle and frightening data breach, millions of users are more skittish than ever about providing personal information to both businesses and organizations.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2016

Discover the latest in laptops from refurbisher partner PCRR. Dell Latitude E6420. This rugged laptop computer is ready for the toughest jobs with its durable MIL-STD 810G Tri-Metal case, anodized aluminum display back, and tough power-coated base. Whatever your mission throws at you, the Dell Latitude E6420 is ready. Plus, its Intel Core i5 processor and 320-GB hard disk drive mean what's inside is just as powerful as what's outside.

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Advertiser: DonorDock

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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

It’s a new year, so that must mean it’s time for reflection. I guess it makes sense how endings, followed by beginnings, naturally push us to hit rewind and replay what went well…and what we actively seek to leave behind. Alas, with all that happened in the world in 2015, all that left us bruised but resilient, I can’t say I am sad to embrace this new beginning, this opportunity to start afresh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2016

Last year, I read Marie Kondo’s “ The life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organization ” and just read her book, Spark Joy , both of which, of course, share techniques and the psychology of de-cluttering your closet and home, but the principles work for your professional life – clearing your calendar, to do list, and especially your online social network connections.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

2016 Top Trend in Association Marketing: Embrace Digital Disruption : 'via Blog this'

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2016

We all ask ourselves these questions: Who will fund my organization? What is a reasonable level of funding to expect for my organization? Does my budget, location, or mission affect my organization's ability to be awarded grants? Get the Answers in the "State of Grantseeking" Report. There are many sea changes in the world of grants and funding, and we at GrantStation are here to assist you in navigating the increasingly bumpy waters of grantseeking.

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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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2016

When I was growing up in Chicago, my dad used a variation on the parental cliché: “Just because everybody else is jumping into Lake Michigan doesn’t mean you should, too.” But as just about every kid knows, following the crowd is often the easiest path, so yeah. I did want to jump in Lake Michigan, so to speak. As fundraisers, it’s often tempting to do what everyone else—in both the for-profit and the not-for-profit world—is doing.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 5, 2016

With nearly two million nonprofit board seats opening up in this country every year, the need for new agents of change for nonprofit boards is insatiable. One way to address this need: start thinking about millenials for your board. For more on this topic, we turned to the Board Coach, Michael Davidson, who had lots of great advice and insights in his terrific guest post this week. .

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

ASAE Tech Gifts That Keep on Giving | Forward Together : 'via Blog this'

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2016

Does your nonprofit have a newsletter? Or are you thinking about starting one for the New Year? An effective email newsletter can help you promote events, fundraising campaigns, and your content. TechSoup sends out a few newsletters, including two written by me ( By the Cup and TechSoup for Libraries ). We're constantly figuring out new ways to package our newsletter content.

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