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2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to craft and launch online fundraising campaigns. The real-time, in-the-moment nature of cause awareness and giving days often inspire donors to give provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote the days effectively. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2017 and 2018 editorial calendars.

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Know Your Audience: How to Use Google Analytics With Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

Successful website owners and administrators all have one thing in common: they know their audience. They know what products and services they want. They know what sorts of content they want to read and explore. They know what aspects of their sites are the most popular and which ones are tripping up visitors. In short, they’re keeping a close eye on what’s working and what isn’t, and adjusting their pages and offerings accordingly.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would like to wish all my readers, colleagues, and friends a happy new year! I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. How about you? But before jumping into the daily grind, during the first week of January I use the quiet time to engage in several New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas.

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Rethinking Revenue Diversity

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Jonathan Short Executive Director, Grand Canyon Performing Arts. As nonprofit leaders, we’re paranoid that our funding will suddenly dissipate. We obsess about the grants that won’t fund and the donors that will move away. The bread-and-butter funding that enables our work may dissipate due to any number of external factors. An election cycle, a bad day for the stock market, a poorly attended gala, and even an extended vacation by a wealthy donor can raise our blood pressure and force

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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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5 Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising Trends for 2017

Care2

In just a few hours we will ring in 2017. Now is a good time for nonprofits to not only reflect on the impact and lessons learned from your 2016 marketing and fundraising strategies, but to also begin preparing for the year to come. With the rapid evolution of tech and increasing noise on social media networks, organizations need to be able to adapt to new technology and figure out ways to break through the clutter.

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How to Choose the Best WordPress Host for Your Needs

Byte Technology

When it comes to designing, launching and running a WordPress site, there are so many critical elements to consider for achieving success, from stellar content to an easy-to-navigate theme and templates to keeping track of updates to plugins. Indeed, making a mistake or ignoring any one of these elements can mean the difference between a site that bears social or monetary fruit and one that withers away.

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New Year, New Free Webinars

Tech Soup

Kick off 2017 with new tech and fundraising skills! Our free webinars will help you improve your grantseeking, connect you with local tech experts, and show you what Windows Server and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC can do for your nonprofit or library. Introduction to Windows Server for Nonprofits and Public Libraries. Learn about the features and functionality of Microsoft's Windows Server.

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Best New Leadership Book Of 2016

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. James Dallas. Technically, the book came out in the fall of 2015, but gained its popularity and momentum in 2016, hence my selection as my 2016 pick. Virtually every business is undergoing change.

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Choosing Nonprofit CRM Software (Expert Advice)

Donor Search

Any nonprofit who’s been through buying new CRM software can attest to the fact that it can be a long and overwhelming process. With so many choices and features to consider, finding the right software for your organization can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.

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[PODCAST] Building a Nonprofit Brand | Ft. Farra Trompeter

NonProfit Hub

A good nonprofit brand means a clear-cut and consistent nonprofit brand experience. Whether you’ve been part of determining your organization’s brand or not, each nonprofit does have a brand – or at least the elements of a brand – and every employee plays a part in further establishing that brand. Elements of a brand include a name, logo and maybe even a catchy tagline.

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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 2017 Outlook on Corporate Responsibility

Connection Cafe

When it comes to the social sector, philanthropy, giving back, helping others, improving our communities and our planet—however it’s defined—we are seeing clear and positive trends. Last year, charitable donations hit a record for a second year in a row at an estimated $373.25 billion, corporate giving reached $18.45 billion, an increase of 3.9 percent year-over-year (YoY), and employee participation in their companies’ community efforts has continued to rise, and last year reached 33 percent.

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How To Learn The Art Of Change Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Art of Change Leadership demystifies the psychology behind our reactions to change and offers a powerful collection of tools to inspire individual and collective transformation quickly and more effectively, explains author of the book, Cheryl Cran. The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation.

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

Tech Soup

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. That's why we do an annual survey of our members — because our local volunteers are always striving to figure out how they can help your nonprofit use technology to do more good.

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Top Tips from 2016 to Get You Ready for Cause Camp 2017

NonProfit Hub

As we near Cause Camp 2017 , we thought it necessary to take a look back at all the awesome content that was bestowed upon us – in tweet form – at last year’s conference. Cause Camp is a two-day nonprofit conference, taking place in Lincoln, Nebraska on March 27 & 28, 2017. We will cover topics from storytelling and email marketing to donor-centricity and everything in between.

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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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The Secret to Raising $1M During Your First-Year Fundraising Event

Connection Cafe

You’ve probably heard it said that the first million is the hardest. And if you’re in the peer to peer event space , you know this to be especially true. I recently returned to Blackbaud after a 3-year stint working for a large cancer hospital where I established a brand new institutional P2P fundraising event—The Boot Walk to End Cancer. The event took place in November and I’m super exited to share that it attracted 6,000+ participants and raised over $1M in personal fundraising and spon

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This Is What Makes A High Performing Team

Eric Jacobsen Blog

According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese , authors of the book, The Collaboration Imperative , high-performing teams have the following characteristics: People have solid and deep trust in each other and in the team's purpose--they feel free to express feelings and ideas. Everybody is working toward the same goals. Team members are clear on how to work together and how to accomplish tasks.

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Adobe Absolute Beginners Courses: Go from Design Doldrums to Design Delights!

Tech Soup

Do you wake up in a cold tech sweat when you know you'll have to adjust an image of your executive director for an annual report, post photos on your website from an event, or create an invitation to your organization's gala affair? If you answered yes to any (or all) of these, you are in the design doldrums. In the nonprofit and library world, it's not uncommon for staff — from management to service delivery team to volunteers — to be tasked with designing handouts, boar

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From tinsel town to slums:These celebrities are dedicated volunteers

VolunteerMark

No matter how satisfactory our careers or lives, all of us seek a higher calling to satiate an inner part of us, that demands we do something beyond ourselves, something that will leave a larger impact on the society and the world, long after we’re gone.

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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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Solving the Nonprofit Data Paradox

Connection Cafe

When you have have something valuable, the more you have of it, the richer you become. This applies to gems, precious metals, and any number of valuable resources. The same is true for more intangible assets—having more time or talent increases the overall value of those treasures, too. In the Age of Big Data, countless companies are turning their wealth of data into an extremely valuable asset.

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How To Apologize

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The following great advice about how to apologize is from the new book, The Courage Solution , by Mindy Mackenzie. I'll be posting a full review of the book in a few days. In the meantime, Mackenzie recommends you include these three elements when you apologize: Actually say "I'm sorry" out loud, while making eye contact, if possible. Acknowledging your error by adding the phrase "I was wrong.but more importantly, you were right.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 vs. Adobe Photoshop CC

Tech Soup

Trying to decide if you need the streamlined simplicity of Photoshop Elements or the comprehensive collection of Photoshop CC? This guide can help you decide, What's in Common. Both Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CC allow you to manipulate photos in all the basic ways. Manipulate color. Crop images. Fix flaws (red eye, dust on the lens, and so forth).

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New Year's Resolutions For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

With only one one day left of 2016, it's time to identify your New Year's Resolutions for 2017. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and tomorrow, think about which couple you want to work on during 2017. Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all

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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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Adobe Premiere Elements 15 vs. Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Tech Soup

You're ready to tell your organization's story in video, but which software is best for you to put it all together? Do you need the simplicity of Premiere Elements or the full range of features in Premiere Pro? What's in Common. Both Premiere Elements and Premiere Pro CC allow you to sequence clips, add audio (like narration and natural sound), include transitions, manipulate color, and add titles.

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How Citizen Powered Movements Will Lead Social Change in 2017 

Connection Cafe

People want to go big in 2017! Your supporters are inspired to make an impact and bring their social networks, stories and ideas to the table. However, with the growing democratization of social change, the digital tactics we’ve come to know and rely on may not continue to gain the same traction. The days of nonprofits having control of all aspects of their campaigns are over.

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