Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

Everyone is talking about alumni engagement. How do you engage with former students beyond asking them for money? Alumni engagement is particularly important right now as advancement offices accommodate the effects student debt has on alumni philanthropic capacity. What kinds of data should be tracked from these interactions?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

The contestants on The Great British Baking Show manage to get it right with impressive frequency. If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork. Engage your Board.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

And don’t forget about renewals. For example, using Nimble Create, you can automatically pull member data and other details straight from your Nimble AMS system into an email template to deliver personalized, relevant member communications. Also, learn as much as you can about your members.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. Forms will also probably come in handy in the beginning for volunteer sign-up, client enrollment in programs, and many other tasks. Some tools are free, at least to start.

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Tools Nonprofit Doc Google 105

Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A deeper dive shows that members are most interested in targeted recommendations on continuing education and specific programs that align with their interests. As you think about your members, consider what they’re doing and what value your association can provide them in each phase of their careers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2021

During the COP26 meetings, the Malala Fund presented its Gender-Equal Green Learning Agenda , which recommends leaders use education as a powerful tool to address the climate crisis by adding climate issues to all school curriculums and vocational training. Now, we wait to see what will happen as emerging ideas turn into action.

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Maryland United Kingdom Classroom Instruction 52

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition. Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity. The first Presidential Debate of 2016 occurred this week, and people on both sides are fired up about it.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. students at Stanford University. So, what changed? Technology Goes Mainstream.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 22, 2020

Check out their video below on sunburn, what it is and why it is dangerous, to get a better idea of why their educational videos work (and learn something important). You’re pretty much guaranteed to learn something watching anyone of the RSA’s wide range of videos. Top 5 Nonprofit Youtube Channels. by Olivia Warnes.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GiveCampus is a fundraising and volunteer management platform designed to help educational institutions to raise more money from more donors. GiveCampus specializes in giving forms, volunteer management, and educational peer-to-peer fundraising, an approach that can be 300x more effective than institutional asks. GiveCampus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

How about you? During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. One of the programs developed by Benetech is a digital library called Bookshare.org. I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

The game is simple: you say two facts about yourself and one lie, and your colleagues have to guess which is which. If your organization does any work with computer-aided design (CAD), then you were probably as excited as we were about this new offering. It's been a really busy year, with nine new vendors in the TechSoup catalog.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We are here to talk about capital campaigns, specifically counting the costs where capital campaigns often miss the mark. We do these webinars just about every Thursday. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars we are first and foremost a provider of donor management software. Brian: Let’s go. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

I had the opportunity to chat with executive director Lisa Hoitsma and marketing and development manager Carly McCoy about their recent website redesign. I had the opportunity to chat with executive director Lisa Hoitsma and marketing and development manager Carly McCoy about their recent website redesign.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 30, 2023

While net tuition revenue makes up the majority of a private or independent school’s revenue—typically 70 to 80%—most don’t charge what it actually costs to educate a student. This includes recruiting more middle- and lower-income students who require financial aid, which increases fundraising dependency.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 11, 2023

A learning management system—or an “LMS” for short—is a software resource or application that provides communication tools, academic course management, and a user interface for students, educators, and administrators in K–12 schools and higher education institutions.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

Cloud for Good provides Salesforce implementation services for institutions looking to modernize their platform to meet the ever-changing needs of students, staff, and faculty. We hear a lot about how Salesforce’s Clouds can help businesses sell, market, and service, but what can they do for educational institutions?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2023

In private K–12 schools, foreign cybercriminals, school vendors, employees, and even students have perpetrated recent cyberattacks. Your school may have the best firewalls and technical protections in place, but attackers can get into your system if one employee makes one mistake. Most Common Threats to K–12 Cybersecurity.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. But don’t do that right now because I’m excited about this one.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Growing a Strong Volunteer Culture Every year, thousands of new librarians and archivists graduate from MLS programs. This combination of technical ability, neutrality, and fierce belief in freedom of expression is undervalued in society and by many existing library systems. We’re not even talking about “radical librarians.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. We work with about 60,000 refugees from across the continent.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Riley Hospital is recognized as one of the best children’s hospitals in the US and donations to the Foundation help sustain critical programs at the hospital, including Pediatric Research and Patient Care, Maternity and Newborn Health, Family Support Programs, such as Child Life and Social Work, and so much more.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hard to believe, but we are really going to kick things off on a high note here because we’re going to talk about how to raise 25% more from the right funders. But if you haven’t ever heard of Bloomerang besides our webinar series, we are a provider of donor management software. So excited that you’re all here.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

We are here to talk about major donor stewardship. We do about 50 sessions a year. We got a great slate of webinars queued up for this year I’m really excited about. We got a great slate of webinars queued up for this year I’m really excited about. Thanks for joining us. Like I said, I’m Steven.

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Relationship Donor Build Video 84

Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

Hard to believe, but we are really going to kick things off on a high note here because we’re going to talk about how to raise 25% more from the right funders. But if you haven’t ever heard of Bloomerang besides our webinar series, we are a provider of donor management software. She’s got a really cool training program.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2023

In private K–12 schools, foreign cybercriminals, school vendors, employees, and even students have perpetrated recent cyberattacks. Your school may have the best firewalls and technical protections in place, but attackers can get into your system if one employee makes one mistake. Review software vendor agreements carefully.

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Practice Policy Phone Industry 52

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We’re going to talk about strategic planning, one of our favorite topics particularly your first steps to strategic planning. We do these webinars just about every Thursday. Renee and I were talking about how last year in 2020, we were doing like two or three sessions a week. Steven: All right, cool. So don’t be shy.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

A: We saw urgency around three key areas in 2020: 1) work related to the pandemic—research, support of healthcare training, and delivery 2) direct support of students in need as a result of the pandemic, and 3) support for activities that involve direct service delivery to communities.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We are here to talk about strategic planning, specifically how to involve the community and how the community will be a driver of that. We do these webinars just about every single week, usually on Thursday but tomorrow is Yom Kippur so we’re keeping that day free. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Julie. That’s awesome.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

She then went on to explain the library program she used to work with at Target and how rewarding it was for her to get to support libraries in schools around the country. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. I want to start, first, with a story….

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 30, 2021

A CRM is customer relationship management technology that helps nonprofits, educational institutions, and businesses manage their relationships with current and prospective constituents, students, and customers. Unifying student communications. Who is a CRM for? How Does a CRM Work. Identifying prospective donors.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The best event for your nonprofit is one that serves your mission, delights your community, and doesn’t totally burn out your staff. With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. We’ve broken them down into six major categories.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 3, 2016

Why We Need Learning Management Systems. Have you found yourself fighting your way through the learning and development market without a guide? As to not shroud this document with bias, I have taken the liberty of pulling the dictionary.com definition of a Learning Management System, which appears below: noun.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

And if you’re watching this as a recording, I hope you’re having a good day no matter when and where you’re from because we are here to talk about how to love your donors in the philanthropic psychology way. So don’t worry about that at all. We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And if you’re watching this recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter when and where you are because we are here to talk about the four-step plan to get more donations and greater fundraising results. We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. Who doesn’t want that?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

to support programs and exhibits. A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. Today, an interview with Shelley Bernstein , the Manager of Information Systems at the Brooklyn Museum, and the engine behind that museum’s fabulous forays into Web 2.0.

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