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Net Smart: How To Thrive Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully?

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Why You Should Do A Cost-Benefit Analysis Before Throwing Your Next Nonprofit Fundraising Event

Bloomerang

Because the anticipated ROI at this point is modest, smart awareness-building strategies are broad brush and relatively inexpensive. But on the other hand, the net income at 4 to 1 is $3 million; while at a cost ratio of 5 to 1 net income is $2.4 Spend more if you’ll net more. raised ratio? Otherwise, Cut Back.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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If you’re wondering whether there are gaps in your safety net, ask your colleagues to share their documents to evaluate what you might be missing. Smart innovators, like King, begin with a prototype, a product with just enough features to be attractive, allowing customer response to guide the final design.

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Maximize Monthly Giving with Nonprofit Data Analytics

Pamela Grow

When laying out your goal, consider following the SMART model for goal setting. Here’s how you might apply the SMART model to this objective: Specific: Lay out a specific goal you want to accomplish, like attracting a certain number of donors.

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Why Major Gifts Should Drive Your 2023 Development Plan

sgEngage

Work with the finance team and other stakeholders to ensure that your goals are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bound). The S&P 500 is the strongest indicator of wealth and, therefore, a direct correlation to high-net-worth giving. Step 2: Identify specific, realistic goals.

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Building A Nonprofit Board That Understands Financial Stewardship

Kindful

One way to do this is to distribute a financial glossary to explain terms like audits, liquidity, unrestricted net assets, internal controls, operating reserve , and risk assessment and liability. A simple search on Google will net lots of ideas and options. Teach them about fundraising. Prepare for year-end giving and Giving Tuesday.

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Looking Forward: What 2016 Promises for All Things Tech

Byte Technology

Mobile devices, wearable tech, smart homes and automobiles, GPS sensors galore—these are all part of the network and back-end systems. Tech engineers across the globe have been crafting deep neural nets that move well beyond the concept of traditional computing and into the realm of systems that can autonomously learn quasi-human perception.

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