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Connection Cafe
JUNE 21, 2017
Today’s healthcare market is consumer driven. Forward thinking facilities must find ways to attract, keep, and nurture patients. Engaging grateful patients in philanthropy is an ideal way to do just that.
SocialFish
JUNE 21, 2017
Here are some cool jobs, hand-picked by me, that you can find via the SocialFish job board ! We focus on jobs in social media , marketing , communications , PR , advocacy , and digital. .
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 9, 2017
Almost four years ago, I wrote my experience as a participant n a design-thinking lab to give input on a digital strategy for a philanthropy. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 10, 2017
The inaugural edition of the Global Trends in Giving Report will be released on September 4,2017. The report is groundbreaking in that it is the only annual research project dedicated to studying how and why donors worldwide give to their favorite causes and charitable organizations.
Frogloop
JUNE 19, 2017
List size. Open rates. Page views. Click-through rates. Dollars donated. These are often the key metrics a nonprofit uses to determine the success of their digital program. However, it’s not the most important one
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 9, 2017
Sponsored by Animoto. Nonprofits have a unique advantage on Facebook. Facebook is an environment where billions of people go to check in on what matters most to them and this includes the causes they’re most passionate about.
BoardAssist
JUNE 6, 2017
How much money do people really give on nonprofit boards? We know you want to know! That’s why BoardAssist compiles this data every year from the hundreds of nonprofits we serve and shares it with the nonprofit community.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 15, 2017
In the second installment of the Blackbaud Institute’s Sustainers in Focus series —research-backed best practices for marketing, promoting, soliciting, and fulfilling a sustained giving program— Best Practice # 1 was to ask new donors to give on a monthly basis.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 13, 2017
My conversation with the Albert Einstein Bot.
SocialFish
JUNE 19, 2017
Message for SocialFish readers from my friend Shira Harrington – please share if you know anyone who might be interested!
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 6, 2017
I am continually amazed by what our Nonprofit Hub team can accomplish as lean as we operate. This summer, we took a different approach by hiring a new wave of interns. It had been a while since I was able to hire and train a number of people at once.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 20, 2017
TechSoup is proud celebrate World Refugee Day by announcing a new humanitarian project that that we're doing in Europe and the Middle East. It's called Refugee Response , and it's a project in cooperation with Microsoft to respond to the refugee crisis.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 22, 2017
Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) is the political voice for kids. We’re fiercely bipartisan because we believe that kids’ issues shouldn’t be a Republican or Democratic issue.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 14, 2017
My colleague, Julia Campbell, has just published a book, “ Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits ” and was kind enough to share an advanced copy.
Wild Apricot Blog
JUNE 8, 2017
Your nonprofit website can make or break your organization. That’s the unfortunate reality these days when so much happens online. To help other nonprofits create websites that bring in massive support, I’ve compiled the 22 features every top nonprofit website has. website nonprofit-website
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 12, 2017
I sit on a couple of different boards for nonprofits and I’ve learned that sometimes, organizations run into snags. And often, these snags come from communication mishaps…” who was supposed to do what and when were they supposed to do it?”.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 13, 2017
A recent study published in May 2017 by digital tool provider EveryAction reported that over 18 percent of nonprofit fundraising emails ended up in junk folders in 2016.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 13, 2017
At the Lupus Foundation of America , we’ve been active on Instagram since 2013, though until recently, it was not a central part of our organization’s social media strategy. By mid-2016 however, Instagram’s growth in popularity was having upside effects that we couldn’t ignore.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 20, 2017
Last week I facilitated a workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Linking Nonprofit High Performance to Wellbeing in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. Part of the workshop includes an assessment and reflection about the causes of stress in the nonprofit workplace.
Wild Apricot Blog
JUNE 14, 2017
Like any company, your nonprofit needs software to increase productivity. Here are 49 of the most popular nonprofit software tools perfect for that. technology nonprofit-software
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 13, 2017
Online fundraising is one of the most effective, low-cost ways to raise funds for your organization. Online fundraising tools can elevate your fundraising goals, since donors can give at anytime, anywhere, with a mobile device.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 2, 2017
While focusing on your organization's fiscal year-end planning, it might be a good time to revisit your fundraising strategy. We've put together a list of fundraising and also financial accounting resources and product donations.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 14, 2017
In my last blog, I talked about how the audit is often viewed as a chore. I introduced the idea of taking a step back—way back—and starting with a partnership with Program in which Finance brings our expertise in targeting risks and measuring performance and compliance.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 21, 2017
ETR Associates Staff Walking Group. Note from Beth: I recently facilitated a Happy Healthy Nonprofit workshop on bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. We discussed the importance of leadership modeling and supporting a culture of wellbeing.
Wild Apricot Blog
JUNE 13, 2017
I asked Shawna, and a dozen other seasoned nonprofit pros what they wish they knew before signing on to work for a nonprofit. Here are the 22 things that they hammered home. working-at-a-nonprofit
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 7, 2017
Cultivating donations is not the only way to fund your nonprofit, but it’s certainly one tried and true strategy to keeping your impact. Perfecting donor relations is key to cultivating and keeping donors. Donors are one of the great forms of engagement in a cause.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 7, 2017
The days where selling online meant owning a huge warehouse, holding lots of stock, and dealing with endless product manufacturers are over. Of course, it works in some instances, but there is no longer a need to go about e-commerce in this way if it doesn't work for your needs.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 7, 2017
A few years ago, something hit those of us in the nonprofit sector right between the eyes. It had been there all along but no one had quite put their finger on it. We acknowledged that we were running on fumes based on an ideological mindset that scarcity somehow made us nobler practitioners.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 7, 2017
It’s not secret to nonprofits that fundraising is critical to the success of your mission. But, does your entire organization treat it this way? Is culture of philanthropy embedded in the way that everyone does their work?
Wild Apricot Blog
JUNE 21, 2017
If you’d like help making your virtual meetings more productive, here is a six-step formula along with the templates and examples that can make your virtual meetings super productive. Nancy-Settle-Murphy meetings virtual-meetings
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 2, 2017
“If we’re able to focus our light, we’re going to be able to do more good.” – Julie Hirshey.
Tech Soup Blog
JUNE 9, 2017
A couple months back, we surveyed TechSoup members on their views of the cloud. We wanted to know whether you use cloud services, how you used them, and what concerns you have about the cloud. Just under 2,000 people took the survey.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 12, 2017
Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 22, 2017
Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.
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