Sat.Aug 30, 2014 - Fri.Sep 05, 2014

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Infographic: Optimizing Your Nonprofit Donation Page

TechImpact

'With online donations to nonprofit organizations on the rise, the onus is on the nonprofit to make the donation process as simple as possible. The point is to make donating through your nonprofit secure website simple, easy, and fast. The best way to do this is by optimizing your website, and more specifically, your online donation form. If your nonprofit has not taken a look at its online donation form within the last year, it might be time to fire up a web browser and try using it yourself.

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Master Class on Creating Startup Tech Social Enterprises

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

'I''m looking forward to teaching a Master Class at San Francisco''s Presidio Graduate School on September 18th. Current Presidio MBA student and Benetech team member Julie Noblitt wrote a generous blog post about the master class last week. Julie is not our only connection to Presidio: alum Kristina Pappas runs International Bookshare for Benetech.

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It’s that time of year: your 8-step fundraising data checklist

3rd Sector Labs

'September has arrived. Kids are headed back to school. Fall will be here before you know it … and so will your big year-end fundraising appeal. Are you ready? Have you completed your fundraising data checklist? What are we talking about – a fundraising DATA checklist? This is the time of year when fundraising teams are pouring their available time, energy and talents into perhaps the most important task of the year.

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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

VisionLink

'VisionLink is honored to welcome yet another resident specialist to our ever-growing VisionLink team. As the new Disaster Product Manager for VisionLink, Aaron comes from an extensive and distinguished background. As a former member of the New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NJ VOAD), Aaron coordinated Hurricane Sandy and Irene response efforts for Mormon Helping Hands.

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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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Infographic: The Brief History Of Caps Lock

TechImpact

'Ever feel like screaming at someone over email, so you write the email in all caps? Then, think better of it, and write it in a normal tone. When did all caps lock statements, or words within statements, get started? What words and phrases are caps locked the most in tweets? Happy Labor Day! Enjoy this fun infographic! Image courtesy of SocialFish.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

'At Benetech, we advance technology applications that empower and protect underprivileged populations, and that also have the potential to become financially self-sustaining enterprises. This keeps us focused on projects that offer the greatest social impact for the resources invested. Benetech Labs is where the Benetech team and our social impact partners incubate new software-for-good applications.

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Social Media Advice from Superheroes

See3

'Some of the best advice I've ever gotten has come from masked avengers, caped crusaders, and friendly neighborhood supermutants. Turns out this advice applies pretty nicely to our work as digital do-gooders as well. After all, aren't we out saving our own corners of the world every day? Here are some of my favorite quotes from […].

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Select The Right CRM For Your Nonprofit

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of LornaWestonSmyth.com. Choosing the CRM that best serves your nonprofit’s needs is one of the most important technology decisions your nonprofit can make. Your CRM, or constituent relationship management system, is a digital catalog that works for your nonprofit when correctly utilized. It stores your volunteer’s information, your donor’s information, your past and future opportunities, and helps your nonprofit more effectively forecast future investment and donation opportunit

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The Future of Data

NTEN

'Bo Crader. Principal Consultant. Blackbaud. Is your organization data-driven or "HiPPO-driven?" Where is technology going in the next few years, and how will it impact my nonprofit and our constituents?

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Ice Bucket Challenge Round-up

Wild Apricot

'Are you tired of hearing about the Ice Bucket Challenge? There is a lot we can learn from this viral campaign – so here is a round-up of 7 blog posts and articles to help you understand how you might apply lessons learned to your organization.

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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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How To Help Your Employees "Click" To Drive Their Career Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Research from universities around the country show that employees who "click" with each other at work have more career success. And, those who "click" well get to the core of the office network within 18 months, while it can take years for those who don''t "click" well. As a leader, there are things you can do and things you can encourage your employees to do to promote better clicking.

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3 Ways To Create Better Content Marketing

TechImpact

'The premise seems simple enough. Create content that your target audience cares about, and can use in their every day life. Nonprofits everywhere understand the importance of content marketing, but content marketing can be harder than it seems. Whether struggling to find your niche in the online community, or not having the capacity to fill an editorial calendar, nonprofits are often caught struggling to execute an effective strategy.

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Coming soon: NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board

NTEN

'“Where can I post a job?” That’s one of the most common questions we get at NTEN, and we’ve repeatedly heard from many of you in the NTEN community that you’d like to see a job board on NTEN.org. Well, we take your requests seriously; and we are excited to announce that a job board is underway! In just a few weeks, we’ll be unveiling NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board, a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities.

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1-On-1 With Greg Damron – Part 1: “If You Build It, They May Not Come”

Wild Apricot

'This is the first in a 3-part blog series offering highlights of our 1-On-1 interview with Greg Damron, President, of ATD St. Louis.

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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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How To Assess Your Business' Risks Using The 5Cs

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Within the first 100 days as a new leader in an organization, you''ll want to assess your organization''s risk. Authors George Bradt, Jayme A. Clark and Jorge Pedraza, in their book, The New Leader''s 100-Day Action Plan (third edition), recommend you do your assessment using the 5Cs : Customers : First line, customer chain, end users, influencers Collaborators : Suppliers, allies, government/community leaders Capabilities : Human, operational, financial, technical, key assets Competitors : Dir

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Sam Chenkin On Upcoming California Office 365 Conferences

TechImpact

'Tech Impact has teamed up with Tech Soup to put on a series of conferences for nonprofits in the California area about Office 365, its benefits to organizations of all sizes, and dispelling fears many nonprofits might have regarding cloud technology. We caught up with Sam Chenkin, Director of Solution Development, at Tech Impact to talk about the upcoming conferences, and what nonprofits can expect to learn from attending.

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Best Times to Post on Social Media

Care2

'If you are like most organizations, your staff wears many hats. If you are juggling several tasks including managing social media accounts, check out this data about the best times to post updates. However, before you dive into it, it''s important that you remember to look at your own engagement and what the best times are to post for your own organization.

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Why Social Movements Need Stories

Tech Soup

'Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good. Harvard lecturer and activist Marshall Ganz says people are rooted in their values and interests, rather than particular issues. Shared underlying values can be unifying, unlike issues, which can be divisive. We understand other people when we can relate to them, and the best way to relate is to know how we are similar, how our deep-seated personal values align.

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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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4 Ways To Create Customer Satisfacation

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Here are four great customer service tips from author Micah Solomon''s book, High-tech, High-touch Customer Service : You provide value when you deliver the four components that reliably create customer satisfaction : A perfect product or service Delivered in a caring, friendly manner On time (as defined by the customer) With the backing of an effective problem-resolution process.

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Where have all the interns gone?

ASU Lodestar Center

'posted by Lyn McDonough , Program Coordinator Sr. , Nonprofit Leadership Alliance ASU Lodestar Center The origin of the word “intern” goes back to the Latin and French meaning: to restrict or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country. Currently an intern is thought to be an individual gaining practical supervised training in a hospital or an assistant or trainee working to gain practical experience in an occupation

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How to Go From ‘Wish List’ to ‘Donation List’

NonProfit Hub

'Crowdfunding is a great way to raise money from the masses to help underwrite projects for your nonprofit. But if you know what you need to buy with that money, then there might be a different method of crowdfunding that could be a better way to ask for support. Over at Community Organizer 2.0 , they featured a campaign by the Center for Great Apes.

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Using Super-Short Videos to Reach New Audiences

Tech Soup

'Super-short videos have become one of the coolest (and easiest!) ways to tell stories in just a few seconds. Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. In our recent webinar on super-short videos , we heard from digital storytelling experts about how nonprofits and libraries can use these tools to easily make their own super-short videos.

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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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Tell A Story To Share Your Vision

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'"Most leaders'' visions fail, not due to a leader''s inadequacies, but due to the leader''s lack of communication," said Margaret Reynolds of Reynolds Consulting, LLC in Lee''s Summit, MO. Reynolds shared her expertise with me awhile back during an interview. She added that it''s not that leaders don''t communicate, but that they don''t beat the drum regularly enough.

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What Humans of New York Can Teach You About End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

'It’s the beginning of September and, as if you haven’t already heard this about a thousand times, the end of year is really almost here. That means that in 115 days, the biggest giving day of the year will be upon us. (Download this awesome new eBook to make sure you’re prepared!). As I ponder the ways in which nonprofits can really stand out this December, I’m inspired by the work of Brandon Stanton.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Rewards-Based Crowdfunding

NonProfit Hub

'Tatyana Kapkan is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and an Online Marketing Strategist for FundRazr, Canada’s largest crowdfunding platform with deep social media integration. She is passionate about crowdfunding and coaching customers to help their fundraising campaigns succeed. Tatyana contributes her knowledge and experience by writing content to FundRazr’s blog and guest blogging. _.

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News by the Spoonful: Smart Garbage, Give App, and More

Tech Soup

'Four quick bits of news: a new life for New York City pay phones, a more "conversational" way to search for information, the recently-launched Give app, and smart garbage. You read that right: Smart. Garbage. Useless Pay Phones to Become Free WiFi Hot Spots in New York City. New York City has solicited bids from companies interested in converting the nearly 10,000 graffiti-scarred pay phones throughout the city to free WiFi hot spots.

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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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10 Best Quotes From The 5 Levels Of Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Here are some of my favorites quotes from John C. Maxwell''s book, The 5 Levels of Leadership -- a book I believe should become a must-read for any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn''t about advancing yourself. It''s about advancing your team. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

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Are You Ready to Say No?|Crowdfunding’s Ethical Boundaries

Connection Cafe

'For weeks we’ve watched the ALS #IceBucketChallenge grow exponentially and as fundraisers, we dream of a campaign like this going viral and a windfall of unexpected resources dropping into our coffers. But what happens when the money being raised is coming from an unethical place? Over the weekend, several female celebrities had their personal devices hacked, photos stolen, and illegally posted on the internet.

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50 Simple Steps to Find a Job that Will Help You Do Good

NonProfit Hub

'Looking for a job can be a draining experience. It can test your mental fortitude, physical stamina and emotional stability. Especially when you want your job to be about more than just collecting a paycheck. Help has arrived. The team at DreamNow put together a visually-stunning website that provides 50 Ways to Get a Job that Makes Good. Once you get past the amazing design, you’ll discover the site is also chock full of great, insightful information.

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Storing Up Support for Kids with Cancer: ACCO's Shopify Store Experience

Tech Soup

'We recently shared how the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) used Teespring to raise over $43,000 through Teespring campaigns. In addition to Teespring, ACCO also uses Shopify to manage its online store. It's raised around $30,000 to date, up $10,000 from its previous online store. When asked about ACCO's Shopify experience, Liz Dicus, administrative coordinator at ACCO, said: "We produce our materials to give them away to families in need, so the store is less about re

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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.