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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Then tie your user-generated stories together using hashtags and encourage them to tag your organization and share it with their social networks. Most of the videos feature a homeless person sharing their life story, struggles, and success. Tap into shared experiences.

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How Technology Can Automate Nonprofit Operations: 3 Benefits

Nonprofits Source

Tech-savvy nonprofits have already begun to experience the benefits of modern nonprofit software, saving their teams time, resources, and stress. To determine if your nonprofit should upgrade its software and what you can gain from doing so, this guide will explore three major benefits of nonprofit technology. Reporting templates.

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Accounting for Development Gifts

Tech Soup

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to "meals for homeless children," just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. In many cases, the roles required new technology to be feasible — new software to streamline a process, new hardware to loan to a volunteer. Other participants created virtual roles with expenses attached, too.

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Accounting for Development Gifts

Connection Cafe

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to “Meals for Homeless Children”, just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

Get Fully Funded

Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer. Phone or In Person?

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness.