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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

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Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. Next, you need a site map. This is a map that lays out the pages your site needs. When you think about your site map, think about your audience. Work on your voice.

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From Lost To Loved: Turning Lapsed Donors Into Devoted Donors

Bloomerang

This timeline offers a clear road map to prevent lapsed donors: What makes donors lapse? Here’s a sample: Dear [donor first name], I’ve been thinking about you and wondering how you are. You can find me at (insert email address) or [insert phone here] (when I’m not (description of some awesome mission activity), of course!

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World Water Day: The key to sustainability is data

Amy Sample Ward

FLOW is an on-site technology that broadcasts data instantaneously to the Water for People website/FLOW map providing important information about the operating status of WFP projects. I’m really excited to see what corollary projects or data sets can be incorporated into the FLOW system and map, too! ” Accountability.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing. Examples from Haiti.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

NetWits

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 4) Activate.

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Grab This Fundraising Plan Template for New Nonprofits

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Start by mapping out what programs and services you plan to offer during the year. This includes rent/facility costs, payroll, admin, fundraising, phones, and any other expenses you need to keep the organization’s doors open. So start mapping it out and you won’t let these things fall through the cracks! How many will you serve?

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