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16 free nonprofit books for your summer reading list

Candid

It’s the perfect time to relax, get away, and kick back to enjoy some good books from Candid’s free nonprofit eBook collection. We have several quick reads that will give your skills a boost—with minimal time and effort: Nonprofit Quick Guides by Joanne Oppelt and Linda Lysakowski. Don’t have time to read a book cover to cover?

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. Emotional reactions captured in real-time. By Doug Scott , the founder of Tectonic Video , a leading video agency for nonprofits.

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A View of the Future: Telework Month

Tech Soup

I've come across a few hints at the brave new world of teleworking. It's looking like the office of the future may well look like the New York Stock Exchange trading floor of today: nobody is there. The rather unimpressive term for this huge shift is Unified Communications. February is Telework Month here at TechSoup.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Hint: Donor behavior is consumer behavior.). Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising are now new. Back in 1914, fundraising pioneers Charles Ward and Lyman Pierce had a crowdfunding campaign that raised $4 million in a week in New York City. Time is up. of total sales.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. local time). Media isn't just happening to kids.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

M+R

Read time: Kind of a while, tbh, but there’s a shortcut! Pay was lousy, and there was constant pressure from publishers to produce more work in less time. Here comes Wally Wood, and he sees himself and his colleagues trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again. That’s okay.

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Why You Need Diversified Fundraising For Your Small Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

The state went through budget cuts, which happens all the time, and reduced its grant funding – rendering this organization ineligible under new guidelines. Time was not on their side, and it was heartbreaking. Here’s a hint…you have something to fall back on.]. Cue the sad music. Moral of the story? Get 10 grants.

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