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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Their donors, staff, and board members have extensive knowledge of local needs and organizations, and they also have relationships with local leaders in business, government, and education.

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This trend is the same for both our non-disaster projects, ($5.3M between our Sierra Leone Mudslides appeal in August and our Harvey, Irma, and Mexico earthquake appeals in September. 2: Overall donation totals have actually increased year-over-year on GlobalGiving. YTD in 2016 compared to $9.2M in 2017) and disaster projects ($1.7M

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Telling Your Story: NetSquared #Storymakers2017 Workshops for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

TechSoup's NetSquared meetups will bring local nonprofits free digital storytelling workshops in more than 40 cities between August and October. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group/Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Sweet Briar, Virginia: Website Trends and Best Practices. Thursday, September 21, 2017.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Sweet Briar, Virginia: Website Trends and Best Practices.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. Mexico / SOLD OUT. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Each winter hundreds of peer-to-peer fundraising professionals and industry experts gather to share new ideas, hear about industry trends and learn what’s happening in peer-to-peer fundraising. Mexico / Less than $4,000. Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum / Orlando, FL / $945.

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