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How to Decide Which Fundraising Software Your Nonprofit Should Use

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many nonprofit professionals will tell you that the answer is “time” and/or “resources.” Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. An instructor travels to your place of business to teach you how to apply your new features to your existing processes, one-on-one.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Professional development (PD) is the "process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training." While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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How To Fix The 12 Most Common Presentation Mistakes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Her specialty is blending communications theory, field research, and practical sales experience to help professionals and non-professionals become more polished and persuasive presenters. This book is formulated for the busy professional,” explains Sjodin. Sjodin , one of America’s leading experts on persuasive presentations.

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The Art of Tidying of Your Online Professional Network Connections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. These principles are still true today, but a lot of changed with the adoption of online professional social networking sites such as LinkedIn.

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How To Show The Value Of Your Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J.

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Refreshing your peer-to-peer fundraising strategy

Candid

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re continually looking for new ways to maximize fundraising for your mission, expand your organization’s network, and bring in new supporters. Getting creative and re-evaluating old peer-to-peer fundraising methods has become especially important in recent years due to declines in household giving.

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Why And How to Manage Your Volunteer Program Professionally

Connection Cafe

All this makes their contribution invaluable, but just like with employees, they need to be managed professionally. Although it might seem strange, because they participate freely and out of their own time, organizations should recruit, delegate, evaluate and show appreciation like they would with any employee. Volunteer Evaluation.