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What Your NGO Needs to Know about.NGO and.ONG

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The launch of the.NGO and.ONG domains will change how nonprofits, charities, NGOs, and ONGs worldwide use the Internet for branding for decades to come. To help NGOs understand how and why, the webinar below was presented by Heather Mansfield on December 13, 2016 to 230 NGO staff. The webinar highlighted how how the.NGO and.ONG domains and their functionality differ from the.ORG domain and featured OnGood – the new global directory of verified NGOs and ONGs.

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How This Mother Grew her Nonprofit 300%

Wild Apricot

A few years ago, Sarah Rintamaki noticed her two-year-old struggling to speak. Sarah’s long and lonely search for help inspired her to found Connecting for Kids, an organization devoted to helping mothers like her quickly find the education and support they need. Although Sarah had no experience building a nonprofit, she did have one thing that helped her grow Connecting for Kids over 300% from 2012 to 2015.

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The Happy Healthy Data Nerd: Using Your Personal Health Data to Support Your Wellbeing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, that fervor helps us to keep going in the face of difficult challenges, like analyzing a huge data set.

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The Magnificent Seven: Great WordPress Features Worth Checking Out

Byte Technology

WordPress is an incredibly rich and multi-layered content management system, one packed with options and features that help it clearly stand head and shoulders above other platforms. But with all that incredible and intuitive diversity, it’s no great surprise that many website owners and administrators aren’t using it to its full potential. In truth, for the vast majority of users—bloggers, small e-commerce ventures and the like—just utilizing the most basic aspects of the program are more than

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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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Picking a Fundraising Consultant for Major Gift Fundraising

Donor Search

If you’ve decided to go with a fundraising consultant firm to improve your major gift fundraising, that’s great news! They can give you assistance so that you don’t have to hire someone full-time or do the research yourself.

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How an Uncashed Check Led to This Association Tripling Membership

Wild Apricot

In 2012, Kim Elliot discovered that a check she’d written never got cashed. This discovery would inspire her to take over an association that was struggling and turn it around, tripling its membership within the first two years.

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Don’t Panic: Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them (Part Two)

Byte Technology

In part one of this series we looked at some of the most common errors that occur with sites using the WordPress-based Content Management System (CMS). And while the first set of errors were among the most experienced, it turns out there’s a lot of simple things that can go wrong with websites operating on the platform. Of course that isn’t to say that the WordPress program isn’t safe, secure, easy to manage and very intuitive: it’s all those things and more, which is no doubt why it captures ma

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From Call Reluctance to Call Enthusiasm: A 7-Step Approach

Donor Search

Prospect research is useless if nobody makes the call. Development professionals have it so easy in the twenty-first century! Or so you’d think. They’ve got access to technology nobody even dreamed of last century, like social media, specialized donor-management platforms, and the coolest, most insightful prospect research services ever.

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7 Can’t-Miss Nonprofit Conferences for 2017

NonProfit Hub

In our roll-up-my-sleeves and get-r-done , scrappy nature, we tend to take advantage of any and all resources at our fingertips in the nonprofit sector. We do everything we can to save money, achieve our mission and learn as much as possible at home or from our office. The problem is that we can only get so far by teaching ourselves through YouTube videos and endlessly searching Google.

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Four Ways To Be A Humble Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

From John Blakey 's new book, The Trusted Executive , published just a couple weeks ago, here are these four tips from Jim Collins for how to be a humble leader : Demonstrate a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation and never be boastful. Act with quiet, calm determination and motivate others through inspired standards, not inspiring charisma.

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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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#GivingTuesday Results Show a 20% Increase in Donations

Care2

The trend with #GivingTuesday continues as we see increasing numbers in donations every year. According to data from Blackbaud , there was a 20% increase in online donations this year as compared to 2016 and a whopping increase of 317% since the movement’s inception in 2012. Blackbaud alone processed $47.7 million in donations to more than 6,700 organizations.

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3 Peer-to-Peer Giving Tips (Plus 2 Ways to Maximize Donations!)

Donor Search

You may have heard that peer-to-peer fundraising is one of the best ways for nonprofits to: Raise more money. Acquire more donors. Strengthen existing supporter relationships. The rumors are true! Peer-to-peer fundraising is one of the most cost-effective ways to raise money from your supporters while involving them in the fundraising process.

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How the Autism Society of North Carolina Gets The Message Out with Email Marketing

NonProfit Hub

Sponsored by iContact . . For a nonprofit organization, email marketing is one of the most effective ways to spread the word about a cause, promote a call to action, and inspire philanthropy. It can be a key factor in staying connected with volunteers, donors, and even staff. At iContact, we are lucky to have the opportunity to work with some outstanding nonprofit organizations.

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How To Lead Through The Language Of Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Communication expert Bart Egnal reveals why jargon is so prevalent in the workplace, and why it usually undermines those who use it, in his new book, Leading Through Language. Step by step, Egnal demonstrates how effective leaders reject fuzzy terminology in favor of the language of leadership. And, by language of leadership, he means using language that clearly and powerfully brings ideas to life for the audience.

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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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5 Important Tips for Writing Donor-Focused Emails

Connection Cafe

Your constituents receive A LOT of emails. A recent report estimated that a person receives over 200 emails every day. So how do you make your email stand out, especially during the email surge that happens during end of year? Well, design is part of the equation. Making sure that your email has a nice, branded header and that it’s responsive for any screen size is a good place to start.

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8 Reasons to Volunteer this Giving season

VolunteerMark

Delectable feasts, 4-day weekends, gifts, football games, floats, family reunions… are we missing out anything else in our “Holiday Giving” celebration list?

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The 10 Elements of an Effective Fundraising Email Appeal

NonProfit Hub

The only way to truly know what works to raise more money through your email appeals is to test. In order to start testing, we have to have an understanding of the fundamental elements that make up an effective email appeal. There are 10 main elements of an email appeal that we can test , and there’s insight to be gleaned from each one. Element 1 – The Sender.

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Three Leadership Skills Building Tips

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Be Decisive A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles, slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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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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How Independent Fundraising Momentum is Reshaping Traditional P2P

Connection Cafe

The peer-to-peer fundraising marketplace has undergone a transformation with momentum rapidly shifting toward individually directed fundraising and “DIY” or independent campaigns. This doesn’t mean traditional event-driven peer-to-peer events run by nonprofits are passé, just that our industry is undergoing a shift we cannot ignore. First, technology propels this move.

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Five Key Interview Questions

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you are leading an organization and are the last person to interview a candidate, focus your questions more on trying to see if the person is a cultural fit. Here are a few questions to pose to potential new hires (from the book, Advisory Leadership : What motivates you? What are you passionate about? (Finding out what people are passionate about and why is a great window into someone's personality.

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Hold Getting-To-Know You Conversations With Your Direct Reports

Eric Jacobsen Blog

To help you bring out the best in your team, you need to get close and understand their skills, abilities, and motivations. So, the authors of the book, Your First Leadership Job , recommend you hold getting-to-know-you conversations with each of your direct reports. Ask these open-ended questions. Let each team member know the purpose of the meeting in advance.

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How To Create A Cycle Of Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Cycle of Winning has five parts: Decide, Overdo, Adjust, Finish, Keep Improving. These are the five actions that winners take to get on track and to help stay on tract. Theses actions create Serial Winners, explains Larry Weidel in his book, Serial Winner. "Serial Winners leverage a cycle of winning action to make progress," says Weidel. "They do something every day that puts them on a course for the things they want in life.

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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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3 Key Changes in Single Audit for Grant Managers

Connection Cafe

This is part 2 of 3 in the Single Audit and the Uniform Guidance Blog Series. Make sure to check out the final installment, What to Expect When You’re Anticipating an Auditor. The bar has been raised for grant recipients receiving federal awards. With the advent of the new Uniform Guidance, non-federal entities are expected to meet performance measurements, assess risk, and effectively manage their grants to a whole new set of regulations.

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What to Expect When You’re Anticipating an Auditor

Connection Cafe

Are you expecting an audit? If the answer is ‘yes,’ then perhaps you’re experiencing a queasy feeling deep in your gut as you come to the end of your first year of grant spending. Or maybe you’re a seasoned grant professional nervous about how things have changed with the new grant regulations in 2 CFR Part 200 (aka the Uniform Guidance ) and wondering how the death of the A-133 audit guidance will affect you.

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Five Years Later: How #GivingTuesday Reached Ubiquity

Connection Cafe

#GivingTuesday, a global grassroots movement that started out as a mere napkin brainstorm, has reached ubiquity. And for once in my life, I was lucky enough to be in the “room where it happened”—or at least the moment the founders decided to start sharing their vision. That room was in Rio de Janeiro at the 2012 Rio+20 Conference, where I was representing clients at an event with 92Y’s then deputy executive director, Henry Timms, and the UN Foundation’s VP of Communications, Aaron Sherinian.