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Threads for Nonprofits: 5 Tips for the Early Adoption Phase

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good launched in 2005 as a Myspace page and in the 18 years since we’ve been through multiple early adoption phases of new social media — first Facebook and Twitter and then on to LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Let’s get the hard part out of the way first.

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Market Your Capital Campaign During the Public Phase: 5 Tips

Nonprofits Source

Even if you are a capital campaign beginner, you probably know that these campaigns have a quiet phase and a public phase. Research shows that during the quiet phase, you’ll raise around 70% or more of your campaign goal from your top donors and those people who are closest to your organization.

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The Phases of Service Design

Forum One

There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project! For Phase 1, we aligned in this project by talking with key stakeholders to learn how they operate, what members need, and where they hoped to see improvements.

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Is your nonprofit organization ‘grant-ready’? 

Candid

Candid offers many resources to support organizations in searching for funding opportunities, writing grant proposals, and standing out among applicants. From the first phase of writing a proposal to actually receiving a check could take six to nine months. Here are a few: Are you a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the IRS?

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The Phases of Service Design

Forum One

In our Service Design: Where Social Impact Meets Innovation webinar, we defined service design, described how service design fits into the social sector, and broke down how mission-driven organizations can apply it to their work. . There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align.

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What Past Disasters Tell Us About What Maui Needs Now

VisionLink

Our hearts ache for those in Maui; we wanted to share some insights as Maui enters the next phase of response. Most importantly, the more comprehensive the information is in the early phases of recovery, the more the local community knows about its own needs, and the more it can better direct its own recovery.

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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Implementing more modern tools—especially major software, such as customer relationship management (CRM) or fundraising software—can provide your organization with new efficiencies and new capabilities to improve fundraising , marketing, volunteer management, and ultimately do even more to power your purpose. Locate your data.

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